Work With Me
My clients do higher quality work with less time and effort, change careers, finally write that screenplay, make more money, cultivate deeper friendships, and improve their marriages.
And, even more importantly, they feel: clearer about their paths and their values, more confident, more satisfied, and like they have more energy, calm, meaning, and joy.
1:1 life coaching is the only thing I offer, and it’s my passion. I’m a skillful, experienced coach, and there is nothing that I love more than blowing my clients minds about what’s possible for them. (I know that’s cheesy, but it’s true.)
I sometimes say that having a life coach is like having a secret weapon in your back pocket. People will wonder: Wait, how did they do that?
Believe me: You really, really want this secret weapon.
”As someone who has stayed far away from any kind of emotionally-driven work (even certain types of meditative yoga are too hokey for me), I was finally too burned out and needed a new way to address my fatigue and the unsatisfactory feeling of "having everything" without feeling like it.
”Through Katie, I've developed the skills—not to mention a comprehensive toolkit I refer to daily—on how to work through issues that come up for me. I've entirely restructured my outlook and approach to work and "life," but I've also tapped into high-quality productivity that I didn't foresee at all--which was only made possible by Katie's inquisitiveness, razor-sharp focus, generosity, and patience.”
— Sunny
What you’ll gain from working together
I help clients with almost any challenge or yearning you could imagine (try me!) — but here are a few of the most common outcomes of my coaching engagements:
Know what you want
I call this “compass work” — and it might mean clarity about your next steps in your career or relationship. Or it might be something much bigger: a sense of what is needed to have your life feel more satisfying or more meaningful. All of my clients leave our time together with a stronger “compass.”Actually get what you want.
Working with me is kind of like putting “bumpers” on the bowling alley of life…plus a big, loving nudge in the right direction. Once my clients stop getting stuck in the gutter + actually get some momentum, it’s remarkable how much they can get done — at work, in creative pursuits, in their relationships, and more.Be more effective + confident at work.
I frequently help my clients work fewer hours, while increasing effectiveness. You’ll also work more effectively with others + lead more confidently — even in very tricky situations.Feel happier, less exhausted or anxious.
You’ll figure out what actually brings satisfaction, and re-shape your life — step by step — to focus on that. Plus, heal from burnout + make sure it doesn’t happen again, reduce people-pleasing, and learn how to make confident decisions.Stop getting in your own way.
If you want to, you will use your phone or social media less compulsively, reduce emotional eating, and attend to your health, your sleep, and your fitness in a way that you’re proud of.
“I have seen hundreds of coaches at work through my professional practice, and the only one I've ever felt moved to hire to coach me personally is Katie -- and I would make the same choice again. I would trust her with any life issue you're grappling with, knowing that you'll be in the best of hands.
“Katie is the smartest person in the room but would never make you feel that way; instead, she makes you feel like she is your friend, your confidant, your listener, and the person who's there to give you the push you need. She worked with me on a variety of issues around my personal life, my health, my work, and my relationship to myself, and in all areas challenged me to reimagine the questions I could ask myself and the experiments I could try.
“As a coach myself and Katie's two-time client, I can say with complete confidence that Katie is an extraordinary coach who goes above and beyond to help you unlock key insights, expand your thinking, and create new patterns that serve you better.”
— Kara
The coaching engagement
I currently offer two options for my coaching engagements:
4-month coaching engagement
$8k, or 4 monthly payments of $2,1606-month coaching engagement
$10k, or 6 monthly payments of $1,800
Making a more substantial time commitment allows my clients to relax into the process — so we can go deep and really move the furniture around.
I’ve offered many different types of coaching engagements over the years, but this is now all I offer, because I’ve found it to be the most helpful for my clients.
Working with me also includes a thorough intake process, a coaching roadmap, books snail-mailed to you as you need them, and other surprises.
Have more questions?
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Based on hearing what my clients tell me — and my own experiences being coached — it tends to feel amazing :)
It’s a rare experience in life, to have someone who is profoundly on your side, and who is also able to see you — what’s getting in your way, your opportunities for growth, the actions you might take — more clearly than you could see yourself.
If you want more specifics, I’d recommend listening to interviews I’ve done with past clients. They each talk about what coaching felt like, to them. Here’s a few:
You also might enjoy this episode: “What actually happens in a life coaching engagement?” I talk about what individual sessions feel like, and what happens during the overall arc of our time together.
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Of course! My coaching integrates logic and reason with emotional, somatic, and relational intelligence.
I’m focused on you as a whole person.
I’m interested in all parts of you, leaving nothing out. If you are struggling with a specific problem at work, for example, we will likely also discuss your relationships in general, your environment, your self-care habits, your sources of anxiety and pleasure, and more. Often, if we’re struggling with something, it will show up across more than one part of our lives.My approach is practical.
We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can:1. Make sure that we are using strategies that are as effective as possible, and
2. Make sure that we are acting in a way that is in alignment with what we truly value.
Acting effectively and in alignment with our values can have a significant — if not radically significant — effect on our lives.
My approach is developmental.
Many of us think that we're "done" developing once we hit our twenties, but nothing could be further from the truth. As we face new opportunities and difficulties in our personal and professional lives, we need to continue growing and learning. That means that we will be focused on helping you develop skills that will help you meet both your current challenges, and also challenges that arise after our time together is over.My approach is kind and playful.
My goal is to meet you where you are and for coaching to be a fun experience, as much as it is a deep and powerful one. There’s sometimes intense feelings in a coaching session, but typically, there’s also a lot of laughter.My approach is focused on fostering agency.
At the end of the day, this is your life. What do you want out of it? What are you committed to? I am here to point out blind spots, offer new ideas + models, suggest actions, and more — but coaching will only work to the extent that you do the work. -
This is such an important question, I recorded an entire podcast addressing it:
Episode 22: Coaching vs Therapy
In the episode, I talk more about the origins of the fields, differences in training, and also how it can feel different when you are actually in the sessions themselves. I also share one difference between coaching and therapy that I often hear, but don’t totally agree with.
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Great question! I'm a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), the only independent licensing organization for coaches. I completed my coach training and Integral Coach certification with New Ventures West, one of the oldest coaching schools in the profession.
My undergraduate degree is from Princeton University, Magna Cum Laude.
I also share more about what credentials actually mean in the world of coaching here.
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I have had clients across a wide range of age, race, ethnicity, gender, and academic or professional backgrounds.
Some of them have been quite similar to me.
Many more have been quite different.I’ve found that the most important factor is whether a potential client wants to be coached by me. If they resonate with my approach and my way-of-being, then I am typically able to coach them effectively whether or not we share any similarities of background or circumstances.
It is my coaching skills + toolkit — not my expertise in their life circumstances — which allows me to be helpful.
Of course, there are times when I might be missing important context, or misinterpreting something, and my goal is also for us to have enough trust and intimacy that my clients feel comfortable correcting me.
And also: please know that you can always ask me about it! I’ve had many clients ask me in consults about whether I can relate to them considering we are of different races or genders, for example. I welcome that question — and we should totally discuss whether working together makes sense.
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I’ve coached clients in their twenties, clients in their seventies, and everyone in between. And I’d be happy to coach you if you’re in your eighties, too! I have found that my coaching skills + toolkit are still quite relevant and useful to my clients in every age group.
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I do sometimes describe my clients as “professionals.” But I use the word quite broadly — my “professional” clients include:
People who are between jobs
People who are taking time off of working, to care for kids or contribute to their family more at home
Creative professionals — I’ve had clients who are movie composers, novelists, and screenwriters
People in grad school
People who are working at jobs that they do not want to be in for the long term (like being an assistant in Hollywood)
People who love their non-white collar professional jobs - I recently finished working with a client who works as a barista at Starbucks.
People who are retired
I like using the word “professional” because I think it evokes who many of my clients are, as people - they tend to be fairly “together” folks (even if it doesn’t always feel that way on the inside). But don’t let that word scare you away! -
Of course! You can read a bit more about me on my “About” page.
Or if you want the really juicy story of my struggles, biggest lessons, and what led me to become a coach, you can check out this two-part podcast:
“Working with Katie was one of the best decisions I've made in the past few years. She was an amazing partner through some really difficult decisions I wanted to make, and I feel equipped with very tangible new tools to continue practicing and growing with into the future.
“She's extremely warm, supportive, fun, yet challenging and was very focused on achieving the outcomes we laid out together. I loved making my roadmap together, my weekly 'homework', and having Katie as a sounding board whenever I needed one.
I can point to many ways my mindset has changed and patterns I've broken over the past year and I expect to continue to see how our work has enriched the way I experience my life and make decisions moving forward.”
— Julie
What past clients say
Sometimes it’s helpful to hear from other real people — just like you.
“I would recommend Katie to anyone hesitant about life coaching.
”I would have considered myself already highly organized, planned, and analytical, but the benefits of having someone like Katie - someone extremely qualified, empathetic, and unrelated - provide fresh, personalized, and grounded support cannot be understated. I was doing great on paper, but I was miserable. I am not someone who lacks initiative, but I was in a challenging catch-22: I knew what needed to change but was also far too drained to make meaningful, lasting changes to the same behaviors draining me. I had already heard all the rote pieces of well-meaning advice (for example, "you just need to do it," "if it's important, you will make time" or "just don't take it so seriously"). I was not interested in or attracted to the idea of meditation, spiritual retreats, or TED talk motivational speakers.
”Katie takes the time to understand how to meet where you are, as you are: she is great at prompting, listening, and understanding when and how to highlight or challenge your thought patterns, to encourage a partnership and discussion in what and how you want to change. This practice is results-driven, but also in ways I did not expect. I have achieved tangible objectives, but when I compare myself to who I was before I started working with Katie, I am far more at peace and confident with how I make decisions and how I react to who I am and the world around me.
”These are lessons that I could potentially have learned "on my own" after another 1-2 decades of life experience, but the fact I have made such progress in 12 months means that working with Katie has easily been the best investment I've made in myself in my adulthood.”
— Olivia
“When I started my coaching with Katie in March 2021 I wasn't sure if life coaching was for me.
“My partner and I were both experiencing low points in our lives: couldn't remember the last time we were happy, had trouble defining what we even wanted in our lives, were defining our lives around other peoples expectations. Out of curiosity, and a little desperation, we started looking up mental health resources and trying to find out what life coaching was, when we found Katie's website. So much of what she had on her site resonated with what we were feeling! We decided to reach out to her to see if this process was a good fit for us.
"I can say confidently after completing the process that what Katie does is invaluable! Before the process I defined myself by others wants and needs, was insecure about who I was, and afraid of doing things for myself. Now I understand who I am, what I am feeling, and what makes me happy. My life is not perfect, I still have insecure feelings and anxiety, but now I am able to work through those feelings with the tools Katie has taught me.
”I cannot recommend Katie's service enough. If her website in any way resonates with you, I'd highly recommend reaching out to her to find out for yourself!”
— Crista
“I worked with Katie over the course of 2021. It has taken me some time to write this review as it's so hard to put into words what she did for me. After a difficult post-partum time in 2019, rolling right into the pandemic of 2020, I had found myself feeling incredibly lost, confused, angry and resentful, and taking out frustrations on loved ones (which added guilt to the list of emotions I was struggling with).
“I found Katie's website and was first struck by her writing - it was sincere in a way I hadn't seen much on the internet, and she didn't seem to use the same old "here's how I did it and how you can do it too" marketing style that many others use. So I reached out to her for an initial call for more info, partly out of curiosity, and partly out of desperation.
“We ended up working together for almost a year, and it was truly life-changing. In a very short time, Katie was able to truly see me, probably better than anyone ever has, and more importantly she helped me be able to see myself - which I realized I had never actually done before. She really has a knack for reading the moment and knowing what is needed in that moment, while also knowing how that moment relates to the bigger picture.
“There were multiple sessions that I doubted my progress, worried that we were derailing to solve "today's problem" and veering off course. She assured me over and over again (and sometimes gave me the slap of reality I needed!) that we would get there, and amazingly, when we came to our end and I looked back at our roadmap, we were there.
“The work that she does is so subtle that it's hard to give specifics in a review, but Katie did both help me through a(nother) very difficult year AND gave me some very clear and tangible tools to make further progress on my own. Now, about 4 months after we completed our time together, her influence continues to help me grow in a positive direction.
“I can't recommend Katie enough. I know if I get "stuck" again I'll be talking to her again, and I highly recommend anyone feeling this way now to give her a call.”
— Celia
“How do I even get started? During the 6+ months of working with Katie I have transformed in a way that is so subtle yet so powerful.
“I'm able to deal with fear head on and challenge my critical thoughts. I'm able to affirm myself and believe in my worth without needing validation from anyone. I'm able to manage my social anxiety and move the focus away from being liked to paying attention to the other person and asking, do I like them? I have so much more time now to make art and to focus on my passions rather than feeling frazzled at work.
“I feel like the work I did in the past 6 months with Katie have catapulted me forward and I made progress in my own personal goals (weird eating habits, tech habits, personal art goals) that would have taken years if I had not worked with Katie.
“If you're thinking about it, I highly recommend working with Katie. Warning: be prepared for your life to change in the most beautiful and subtle ways. A real and lasting change that can upgrade your life and your thinking in ways you never would have believed was possible.”
— Jackie