My Approach | Study Yourself® Practice 

I help you recognize your patterns and trust yourself. 

The Study Yourself® practice is for high-achieving women who are thoughtful, capable, and accomplished, yet find it harder to trust their own judgment at work or in life. This is not about fixing yourself or finding better strategies. It is about clarity. It is about creating space to see clearly, understand what is shaping your decisions, and choose self-trust over external pressure.

1. The answer isn't out there. It's in you.

You do not need more advice, frameworks, or opinions. You need a safe space to notice what is already present. Through reflective writing and coaching, we slow things down enough for you to understand where you are, what matters to you now, and what is asking for your attention. Clarity becomes more accessible when you stop overriding yourself.

2. Study yourself to trust yourself.

Self-trust isn't something you find outside of yourself. It's something you rebuild. By studying your values and internal responses, you begin to understand how you make decisions, where you abandon yourself, and which voices you listen to and why. As self-trust strengthens, career moves become clearer, leadership becomes authentic, and options become possible.

3. You can make changes without abandoning your ambition.

Through the Study Yourself® practice, you learn to align ambition with values so your decisions are grounded rather than reactive. Change becomes intentional, not impulsive.

Inside the Study Yourself® Practice

Where You Are Now

You may feel stuck, uncertain, or misaligned in your career, leadership role, or life.

Often, this shows up as:

  • Overthinking decisions

  • Second-guessing yourself

  • Staying in roles longer than feels right

  • Knowing something needs to change, but not what or how

Together, we begin by noticing the patterns shaping how you work, lead, and choose.

Study Yourself

Through reflective writing and coaching, I help you:

  • Recognize the patterns influencing how you work, lead, and make decisions
  • Separate what you want from what you think you should want
  • Understand the internal voices shaping your choices and where they come from
  • Rebuild self-trust so your decisions align with your values and who you're becoming

Clients often say the writing helps them hear themselves again.

Trust Yourself

Over time, you begin to trust your judgment, boundaries, and decisions.

You:

  • Make career moves with greater clarity and self-trust
  • Lead from authenticity
  • Navigate workplace dynamics with confidence and without abandoning yourself 
  • Choose what aligns with your values while staying connected to your ambition.

This is about realigning with agency. 

Why Reflective Writing?

Reflective writing is a thinking tool that builds self-trust.

High-achievers often move through the world in two ways: some live primarily in their heads, planning and problem-solving; others live through action, creating, exploring, and always moving toward what’s next.

It reveals:

  • Patterns you have normalized

  • Internal conflicts you have not named

  • The cost of staying disconnected from yourself

As James Baldwin wrote:

"When you're writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." 

Writing slows the mind enough to surface what has been overlooked, avoided, or abandoned.

What Clients Say About Their Experience

"Strong, competent, and high achieving and can't always be high achieving has been a revelation." — A.E.

"Learning to trust myself more." — R.K. 

"Understanding where the negative voice comes from." — M.M.

"Not assuming I know what I want and checking in with myself." — A.E.

The Methodology I Use

I blend the Hudson Coaching Methodology with the Study Yourself® practice to honor you as a whole person navigating complexity, not a set of goals to optimize. Through reflective writing, coaching, and experiential learning, I partner with you to rebuild self-trust so you can make decisions and lead from clarity, not external validation.

My Training & Credentials

I'm an ACC-certified coach through the International Coaching Federation and a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching. The ACC credential requires rigorous training (60+ hours), mentor-supervised coaching experience (100+ hours), and adherence to ICF's ethical standards. This ensures that our work together is grounded in professional coaching competencies, confidentiality, and a commitment to your growth and autonomy.