Careers and life trajectories are changing. Most of us will have many roles during our careers after residency. We may not want to wait until retirement to have a flexible or remote schedules. Instead of retiring, we may reinvent ourselves and use our skills and knowledge outside of an exam room or hospital. These aren’t weaknesses, but evolution. With coaching, we can address problems we have today, see options we didn’t know exist and design the next phase of life.

Each session is a focused, 45-minute conversation. We work on whatever is most pressing for you that week, whether that’s a specific decision, a recurring pattern or a goal you’d like to achieve inside or outside of medicine. You leave with clarity and a concrete next step.

A coach listens closely and uses a range of techniques grounded in psychology to look at your goals and obstacles from angles you haven’t seen and find next steps that feel right to you. We’ll find where you have agency and control in your life, even when you do not control all of the circumstances of daily life and work. A coach will not tell you what to do. It’s likely you’ve already tried hacks, read articles and heard stories of how others have solved similar problems. If the problem you’re bringing to a session were easy to solve, you probably would’ve solved it already.

Therapy typically looks backward, understanding where a pattern came from, processing past experience, treating diagnosable conditions. Coaching looks forward. We start from where you are now and build a concrete path toward the life and career you want, with accountability along the way. If something comes up that is better suited to therapy, I’ll say so directly.

No. If your first reaction to the concept of a physician coach or life coach is a raised eyebrow, that’s understandable. However, there is growing evidence to prove benefit in physicians. (See section on What’s the data)

Coaching isn’t therapy, and it isn’t a wellness trend. It’s a structured, action-oriented process which has roots in the psychology literature of the late 20th and early 21st century. It’s on par with executive coaching, a mainstay of C-suite executives to support growth and success.

Collaborative, honest, and straightforward. We're here to guide the process, bring ideas to the table, and keep things moving.