College, early adulthood, first jobs, new cities. Each one reshapes your relationships in ways that are hard to predict and harder to talk about. Coaching creates a structured space to figure it out.
Students and young adults often don't need therapy, but they do need someone outside their immediate circle who can help them think through what's happening and what they want to do about it.
That might mean working through a shift in your relationship with your parents. Or learning how to actually communicate across the distance that college creates. Or figuring out who you want to be in the relationships you're building as an adult, not just the ones you inherited.
Sessions are direct and goal-oriented. We're not here to process your childhood. We're here to figure out what's getting in the way right now, and build the skills to change it.
I work with students and young adults 18 and older.
Student coaching is about transitions, independence, and goals. It isn't for managing a mental health condition. If that's what's going on, your campus counseling center or a licensed therapist where you go to school is the right place.
Yes, and this is one of the most common things students bring to coaching. The credits already invested make it feel like the decision was made years ago, but that's a sunk-cost trap, not a real constraint. We'd start by separating the actual question, whether to stay in the major, switch, or find a way to make the current path more livable, from the dread itself, which is often about something more specific: a mismatch with the coursework, burnout, or a sense that the major was chosen for reasons that don't fit who you are anymore. Coaching doesn't hand you an answer. It gives you a structured way to work through the decision instead of just enduring another semester.
No. Sessions are yours. I don't report back to parents, and nothing is shared without your agreement, beyond the legal limits explained on the FAQ page.
That's a normal starting point. The intro call is where we sort out whether it's a coaching question or a reason to see a therapist first. If it's a coaching question, the first few sessions are about naming the pattern clearly enough to work on it.
Yes. An academic advisor focuses on degree requirements and course planning. A school counseling center is typically short-term and campus-bound, and can be hard to get consistent time with. Coaching is ongoing, private, and focused on the whole picture, including the relationship and identity questions that a purely academic conversation won't touch, not just which classes to take next semester. If it's about your mental health, start with the counseling center.
Many parents reach out first. That's fine, and it can be a good way to start the conversation, but the adult student is the client. Sessions are theirs, and I won't share what a student tells me with their parents unless the student agrees. The limits are the ones on the FAQ page: mandated reporting and duty to warn apply, and coaching isn't confidential the way therapy is.
What I can do for you: a joint session if your student wants one, or work on your side of it, how to support a young adult without managing them. That lives on the family coaching page.
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