Desire Lines

Imagine you are in a built space (a city park, a college campus, a forest trail, a strip mall parking lot) where everything is laid out just so. It’s very clear where you’re supposed to walk, drive, explore. And yet, there’s a diagonal path worn into the grass between two buildings, a line of cars cutting across the spaces in an empty parking lot, a deer track off to side. These are desire lines. Paths of preference and defiance, swathes we cut through when we can’t otherwise find our way. Sometimes our desire matches the paths laid out before us. Sometimes we have to build the way ourselves. Usually, it’s a combination of both. Whatever your desire, I want to help you take the next step on the path that’s right for you.

Modalities

Along with training in Whole Person Coaching and a CORE certificate from Coach Training World, I bring my expertise in empathetic listening, experience as an educator, skills of artistic practice, and tools I’ve gathered from my own engagement with therapeutic and embodiment techniques.

I offer my clients a variety of options for exploring and achieving their goals including but not limited to: structured worksheets, mediation and visualizations, role play, arts-based processing activities, game-based progress tracking, and opportunities to bring the body in through dance, song, movement, and activating the five senses.

(I have not and will never use or offer AI as a tool of this practice).

Based on my own experiences and identities I’m especially excited to work with…

-Folks exploring non-traditional relationship structures (e.g. non-monogamy).

-LGBTQIA* community members and folks in relationship to/seeking better understanding of LGBTQIA* family, friends, coworkers, community, etc.

-Folks struggling with/seeking support for executive dysfunction.

-Higher education professionals.

-Folks undergoing/undertaking a career transition.

-Folks living with disability or managing disability in interpersonal and caregiving relationships.

-Folks working abroad/in international contexts

This is not an exhaustive list. If you feel drawn to or curious about working with me and don’t see your experiences reflected here, reach out and book a free consultation.

For more information on categories of coaching I offer see Offerings.