Coaching & Consultation · California · Remote
Attention is the instrument.
Change is the practice.
Mindfulness-grounded coaching and consultation for leaders, professionals, and teams who want to think more clearly, act more deliberately, and stop repeating the patterns that no longer serve them.
Three ways to work together
Executive & Leadership Coaching
For founders and leaders navigating growth, conflict, and the weight of decisions. Sharpen judgment under pressure; lead without losing yourself.
Learn more →Individual Coaching
For professionals in transition or at a plateau. Life design, wellness, focus, and the durable skills of attention — built one practice at a time.
Learn more →Team & Organizational Consultation
For groups whose communication is the bottleneck. Structured consultation on dynamics, trust, and social-emotional skill inside working teams.
Learn more →Why this works
Not advice. A discipline.
Most coaching hands you someone else's answers. This work builds your own capacity to see clearly — a trained attention, applied to the exact patterns of thought and behavior that shape your decisions. It draws on decades of practice in mindfulness-based cognitive methods, translated for the demands of working life.
From the writing
The meeting after the meeting
Why the real decision often happens in the conversation you have with yourself afterward — and how to be present for it.
- The headline is a placeholder thesis. It should eventually be your framework's language — one line a stranger remembers.
- "Working now with a Silicon Valley startup" — only if the engagement can be referenced. Naming the company is even stronger; remove if not.
- The three service lines are my inference from your discussion. Correct the carve-up and the names.
About
Trained to listen for the pattern beneath the problem.
Placeholder biography — the real one should read like a story, not a CV.
For more than [X] years I have worked with people at decision points — leaders under pressure, professionals in transition, couples and teams whose communication had quietly become the obstacle. The through-line of that work has always been the same: the problems people bring are rarely the pattern that produces them, and lasting change comes from learning to see the pattern itself.
My training is in clinical psychology — a doctorate and decades of practice in mindfulness-based cognitive methods. That background is the depth beneath this work, not its subject: coaching and consultation with me are not therapy, and don't pretend to be. What the training provides is a disciplined way of paying attention — to thought, to emotion, to the small habitual moves that decide outcomes long before any "decision" is made.
I work with clients across California, remotely, by design: the work fits into real schedules and real lives.
- Everything here is scaffolding: it needs your actual story — Stanford, the years in practice, what pulled you toward coaching, the startup work.
- Note the deliberate positioning: "trained in clinical psychology" appears once, mid-page, as background — never as the sales hook. This follows the strategy from your Claude discussion.
- A good photograph matters more on this page than any paragraph.
Approach
The framework
This page is the differentiator — the reason someone in Sacramento picks you over the coach on their own street. The three movements below are placeholders shaped from your mindfulness-based CBT background; replace them with the real framework.
See clearly
Attention is trainable. Before anything can change, you have to observe the pattern as it happens — the thought, the reaction, the story — without flinching and without editing. Most people have never been taught how.
Loosen the pattern
Seen clearly, a pattern loses its automatic quality. Here the work borrows from decades of cognitive and acceptance-based practice: not fighting the thought, but changing your relationship to it until it stops making your decisions for you.
Act deliberately
Clarity without action is just insight. The final movement turns what you've seen into concrete, values-aligned behavior — practiced, reviewed, and refined until it holds under pressure.
- This is the page your discussion called the engine of differentiation. It deserves the most of your voice — ideally named ("The ___ Method / Framework").
- The "movements" device is one option; a diagram, a set of principles, or a long-form essay could carry it instead.
Services
Three service lines
Each line will become its own page (its own search entry point) once the carve-up is confirmed. For now, one page, three sections.
Executive & Leadership Coaching
One-to-one work with founders, executives, and rising leaders. Typical themes: decision quality under uncertainty, difficult conversations, managing your own reactivity, sustainable intensity. Currently engaged with a Silicon Valley startup.
Individual Coaching
Life design, wellness, and focus for professionals. Structured engagements with real practices between sessions — attention training, behavioral experiments, honest review.
Team & Organizational Consultation
Consultation to teams and organizations on communication, trust, and social-emotional skills — the human infrastructure that determines whether the org chart actually works.
All engagements are remote, statewide across California, and fee-for-service. No insurance involvement, no diagnosis, no treatment — this is coaching and consultation, distinct from Dr. Strong's clinical practice.
- The three-line carve-up is my inference; your discussion explicitly asked you to correct it. Rename, merge, or split freely.
- Pricing: decide whether fees appear here or are discussed in the initial conversation. Both are defensible; showing a starting range filters better.
Writing
Ideas worth sitting with
The engine of the whole site — this is what earns search presence and gives people a reason to seek you out by name. Placeholder pieces below show the shape.
The meeting after the meeting
Why the real decision often happens in the conversation you have with yourself afterward — and how to be present for it.
Reactivity is a tax
Every unexamined reaction costs you twice: once in the moment, and again in the correction. On the economics of a trained attention.
What mindfulness is not
It is not relaxation, not positivity, and not a productivity hack. A working definition for people who are suspicious of the word.
[Steve's book title]
A short page about the book — what it argues, who it's for, where to get it.
- Titles above are invented — but this is the cadence to aim for: one idea per piece, plain language, your voice.
- Even two real essays at launch beat ten "coming soon" stubs. We can migrate anything you've already written.
Work With Me
Start with a conversation.
Every engagement begins the same way: a brief, no-obligation call to find out whether the fit is right — for both of us.
1 · Reach out
Send a short note about what you're working on and what you'd want to be different in six months.
2 · Initial call
A 25-minute conversation. You'll leave with at least one useful reframe, whether or not we work together.
3 · Engagement
Typically [N] sessions over [N] months, remote, with practices between sessions. Reviewed and renewed deliberately, never by inertia.
Schedule an initial call → hands off to external scheduling (placeholder)
- The site itself takes no bookings (per your discussion) — the button will link to whatever scheduler you choose (Calendly, SimplePractice's non-clinical option, etc.).
- Engagement shape ([N] sessions / months) needs your real numbers.