This Is Not Your Typical Coaching

If you have ever worked with a coach and left feeling like you were handed someone else's roadmap, you are not alone. A lot of coaching is built around productivity frameworks, tidy goal-setting systems, and the idea that if you just optimize hard enough, everything will fall into place.

That has never been my approach.

What I bring to coaching is something harder to put in a box. Years of formal training, yes. But also something that no certification can fully capture — the kind of rich, lived wisdom that comes from having actually navigated life. The messy, nonlinear, beautifully imperfect version of it.

Someone once told me I remind them of a favorite kooky aunt. The one who tells you the truth with love, makes you laugh when you need it most, lights a little incense, hands you a cup of something warm, and somehow helps you find your own way back to yourself. I have decided to take that as the highest compliment.

That is the energy I bring to coaching. And it looks quite different from what you might expect.

My Background

I hold a Master's Degree in Metaphysics from the University of Metaphysics in Sedona, Arizona, and am a certified Sacred Depths Coach through the Applied Depth Institute. This work sits alongside my clinical herbalism training from the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine, the North American Institute of Medicinal Herbalism, and the Acorn School of Herbal Medicine.

What that means in practice is that I bring both depth and breadth to coaching conversations. I am not just working with the surface level of what is not going well. I am interested in the deeper patterns, the old stories, the places where you have been dimming yourself down or running on empty, and what it might look like to live differently.

What Holding Space Actually Means

Holding space is one of those phrases that gets used a lot without much explanation. For me, it means showing up to our conversations without an agenda for who you should become. It means listening to what you are actually saying, not just waiting to offer a solution. It means trusting that you already have the wisdom inside you and that my job is to help you hear it more clearly.

It also means being genuinely present. Not running through a coaching script or a predetermined process. Just being with you, in whatever is alive for you that day, and helping you find your own way through it.

Goals That Come From You, Not for You

One of the things I feel most strongly about is that coaching goals should come from the person being coached, not from the coach. I am not here to tell you what you should want or to push you toward a version of success that does not fit your actual life. I am here to help you get clear on what matters to you, what you are ready to tend to, and what small, honest steps might move you in that direction.

These are not productivity goals. They are not about doing more or becoming more efficient. They are about living in greater alignment with who you are and what you genuinely value.

Where Plants Come In

Plants are woven through my coaching work, though perhaps not in the way you might expect. Sometimes that looks like a cup of tea at the start of a session, something grounding and warming to mark the transition from the busyness of the day into a more reflective space. Sometimes it is a flower essence, chosen for its energetic resonance with what a client is moving through emotionally. Sometimes it is simply the suggestion to spend time with a particular plant, to sit with it, observe it, and let it teach something.

Plants are not the point of the coaching. But they are always present, because they have a way of softening the edges and reminding us that we are part of something larger and slower and more rooted than the pace of our daily lives.

Who This Work Is For

Holistic coaching with me tends to be a good fit for women who feel like something is off but cannot quite name it. Women who are capable and accomplished and still somehow exhausted by their own lives. Women who have tried the productivity apps and the morning routines and the self-help books and are ready for something that goes a little deeper.

If you are looking for someone to hold you accountable to a hustle-culture version of success, I am probably not your person. But if you are ready to get honest about what you actually want and start building a life that feels genuinely yours, I would love to talk.

Sessions are available via video nationwide and in person in Waco, Texas. Take a look at the ways we can work together and see what feels like the right fit.