FAQs
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Below are the most common questions people tend to have about one on one coaching.
The Coaching Process
Therapy is considered medically necessary care. It’s designed to diagnose and treat mental health disorders and often involves addressing more severe or persistent emotional and psychological symptoms. It is always provided by a licensed mental health professional and is regulated by state laws.
Coaching, on the other hand, is not therapy and is not considered medically necessary. Coaching is best suited for people who are functioning well in daily life but want focused support around a specific area — like religious harm recovery, nervous system resilience, or identity development.
While I bring years of experience as a psychotherapist into my coaching work, my services do not include diagnosis, treatment of mental health disorders, or traditional psychotherapy.
Some clients meet with me weekly while others meet with me only once or twice a month.
Although I may make a recommendation regarding frequency, we will discuss what makes most sense for you, recognizing that working with me will require a significant investment on your end of time, emotional energy, and finances.
I do require that we meet at least 1x per month while we’re working towards specific goals in order for you to maintain momentum.
This will vary from person to person. When our work is laser-focused on one topic, clients may experience the results they are looking for in just a few sessions.
However, it’s more common for folks to see me over a longer period of time due to the complex nature of religious harm recovery work.
As long as you feel you’re making progress towards your goals and the sessions are helpful to you, we can continue.
However, you may also choose to discontinue coaching at any time and are not required to provide a reason should you choose to stop.
While attachment theory informs my work, I draw from coaching‑adapted principles that pull from the following modalities:
- EMDR
- Cognitive processing
- Somatic Experiencing
- IFS (“parts work”)
- Brainspotting
These tools help us focus on personal growth and nervous system resilience while deprogramming from religious indoctrination.
Sessions are either 75 minutes or 45 minutes.
I provide 75 minute sessions for clients seeking focused, nervous system recovery work because this time frame allows us to really go deep, during each session, something that is essential when working to address trauma at a nervous system level.
45 minute sessions are for clients who want to talk through their experiences with high control religion or relational dynamics.
Usually I start off each session by asking how your day has been. Next, I’ll check in about how you were after our last session. And then I’ll help set the agenda for the current session by asking if there’s anything that’s “top of mind” you would like to process.
If nothing feels especially pressing, I can guide us through topics related to your previously identified goals.
An important part of our very first session will be identifying what results you’re hoping to achieve by engaging in religious harm recovery coaching, and our goal from the outset will be to help you achieve those results {though I cannot guarantee a specific outcome}.
I’ve found that clearly identifying goals in the beginning of our work together has enabled many of my clients to experience favorable results.
I’ll also periodically check in with you to see how you feel things are going, and whether you think we’re “on track” with your goals.
Absolutely! Many of my clients have already worked with a therapist in the past or are currently working with a therapist when they starting coaching with me.
If you’re currently working with a therapist, I’ll gather additional information from you about what you’ve been working on with them, so we can make sure we’re complimenting this work rather than duplicating efforts.
I welcome my clients to communicate with me via email between sessions.
Although I cannot provide individualized coaching support via email, clients sometimes find it helpful to provide updates about what’s been going on in between sessions, so that we can use our time more efficiently when we do meet.
You can also email me to “bookmark” a topic for further discussion during an upcoming session.
Finances
Because our work together is classified as coaching and not psychotherapy, it is not covered by insurance.
You also won’t be able to use “out-of-network” benefits for coaching because out-of-network claims require a psychotherapy procedure code and that you be assigned a mental health diagnosis by the mental health provider you’re currently working with.
- 75-Minute Intake Session ($325): Comprehensive intake to explore your background with religious harm and to set goals for ongoing work
- 75-Minute Session ($295): Extended time for deep nervous system recovery, especially for clients working with trauma responses, dissociation, or emotional flooding.
I do not offer sliding scale rates. While many helping professionals offer sliding scale rates as a way of making their services more accessible to folks who may not be able to otherwise afford it, I have chosen not to make this a part of my practice.
Instead, I have chosen to support folks in their religious harm recovery journey by investing a significant amount of time and energy each week into developing free educational content in the form of blog posts, weekly emails, and social media posts.
I also offer free access the the Religious Harm Recovery membership community: Learn More
The payment process is streamlined through my HIPAA-compliant online client portal, which uses Stripe.
When we begin working together, you will place a credit card on file, which will be automatically charged following each session.
Invoices and receipts are always readily accessible in the client-portal.
Technical Details
I use Simple Practice which is a HIPAA compliant electronic health record system. They provide their own video conferencing software.
Yes, for the most part, as long as you’re in a private location that’s free from distractions.
I cannot meet with you while you’re operating a vehicle or if there’s significant background noise.
Yes, because this is coaching and not psychotherapy, I can work with clients residing anywhere inside or outside of the U.S. as long as we can make the time difference work!
I use a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record which has a secure client portal. This particular platform meets the privacy standards that doctors and other health care providers are required to adhere to.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons (EST).
General Questions
Though my religious harm recovery work is provided in a coaching capacity, I am a licensed psychotherapist with 13+ years of experience working with complex trauma and mental health concerns.
I have also completed advanced training in cult dynamics, mind control, and religious trauma recovery, which informs the specialized coaching I offer.
You can find out more details HERE.
The biggest difference is the lens and focus we use to approach your experiences.
While general therapy often addresses a wide range of mental health concerns, religious harm recovery coaching is specialized support for people disentangling from high‑control religion and its lasting effects.
Rather than broadly treating symptoms, we work together to identify how religious indoctrination and coercive dynamics have shaped your beliefs, behaviors, and nervous system responses — giving you a clearer path forward toward healing and growth.
No, I do not consider myself to be a Christian or even a “person of faith,” and if I had to choose a label, I would probably classify myself as agnostic-atheist.
While I have been separated from formal religion for many years, I do still consider myself to be spiritual. However, rather than seeking guidance from an external deity as I once did, I now tune in to my own inner wisdom.
I am open to working with someone who wants to retain their faith, but I’m very up front about the fact that I am no longer a person of faith.
I do not challenge people around theology or their deeply held personal beliefs, and I do not have an agenda around what I think someone ought to think or believe.
No, my approach to nervous system recovery is an individual process.
Not typically, however, you may submit an inquiry using the form below to briefly describe your situation and see if a one time consultation might be a good fit for you.
I offer a 15 minute introductory video call after your application has been completed and accepted.
This intro call is to give us the opportunity to meet and for you to ask any additional questions you might have prior to commiting to coaching.
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