You’re functioning.
But it’s taking too much effort.

Many of us have done the work.

We’ve been to therapy.
We’ve read the books.
We’ve sat on meditation cushions, rolled out yoga mats, taken long walks, written in journals, talked things through with trusted friends.

We understand our patterns.
We know why we do what we do.
We often even know what we “should” do instead.
And yet our lives don’t always change.


Not really.


Because insight alone does not transform a life.
Insight has to be integrated.


This is where coaching comes in.

This is for you if…

You’re holding it together, but it’s taking too much out of you

Life is technically functioning, but it feels heavier, harder, or more fragmented than it needs to.

You’re self-aware, but still circling the same patterns

You understand a lot about yourself, but insight alone hasn’t created the kind of change you’re actually longing for.

Something in your life is shifting

A role, a relationship, a belief system, a way of coping—something old is no longer fitting the way it used to.

You’re ready for change that is realistic, not performative

You’re less interested in reinvention and more interested in building a life that feels steadier, clearer, and more your own.

Does any of this Resonate?

Curious whether this kind of work might be useful?

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The Gap Between Knowing and Living

Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable, and deeply self-aware. Many have diagnoses like anxiety, depression, ADHD, or mood disorders. Many are in therapy or have been in therapy for years. Some use medication that helps manage symptoms.


From the outside, their lives look good. They have friendships, work they care about, relationships with family or partners.


But internally something still feels… off.


They often say things like:


“I know what I need to do.”
“I know why I keep doing this.”
“I’ve done so much work on myself—why is this still hard?”


What they’re describing is the distance between knowing in the mind and knowing in the heart.


The mind understands first.
But transformation happens when that understanding becomes embodied—when it moves into the heart, into the nervous system, into daily life.


Integration is the bridge between insight and lived change.

  • Michelle has a beautiful ability to draw out ones inner truth. She has walked with me in some of the darkest corners of my heart and she always brings a flashlight! 
    Cat K.
    Client
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    Reader
  • I’ve been following That I Would Be Free since its beginning. Her writing allows me to see healing as it unfolds. Her coaching has gives me the ability to make actual, meaningful change in my life.
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    Client

Let’s Get Into the Details

Here’s what sets me apart from other coaches, clinicians and healers.

For more than 14 years I’ve worked as a behavioral health physician assistant specializing in psychiatry, often with some of the most treatment-resistant cases.

In that work I’ve seen something surprising again and again.

Many of the struggles we label as mental illness are also profoundly human problems.

Problems of attention.
Problems of avoidance.
Problems of fear, longing, meaning, belonging.

These struggles exist on a spectrum we all share.

Over the years I’ve also explored my own path through therapy, spiritual practice, Kundalini yoga, exercise, nature, writing, and study. All of it valuable. All of it meaningful.

But none of it changes a life unless it becomes woven into the structure of everyday living.

My work as a coach is about helping that weaving happen.

Coaching with me is not therapy and not medical treatment.

Instead, it’s a space to integrate the work you’ve already done.

Together we focus on:

  • translating insight into sustainable behavior
  • grounding awareness in the body and present experience
  • identifying the small structural changes that allow life to flow differently
  • building practices that actually live in your day—not just in theory

When this integration begins to happen, something shifts.

The mind stops feeling like a chaotic jungle that must be managed or subdued.

Instead, it becomes what it was meant to be:
a curious, sometimes eccentric, but ultimately beautiful tool—an extension of the deeper part of you.

Call it soul.
Call it spirit.
Call it the truest version of yourself.

This work is particularly well suited for people who:

  • have done significant therapy or personal growth work
  • may carry a diagnosis such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, or mood disorder
  • are managing symptoms reasonably well but still feel stuck in daily functioning
  • sense that something essential hasn’t yet clicked into place
  • want their inner work to translate into real, lived change

You don’t need more insight.

You need integration.

Coaching is offered as a 12-week container designed to create enough continuity for meaningful change.

Package Includes

  • 10 one-on-one coaching sessions
  • Sessions completed within a 12-week period
  • Virtual meetings

Pricing

$160 per session

Two payment options are available:

Pay in Full (Recommended)
10 sessions paid upfront with a 10% package discount

Monthly Payment Plan
Paid monthly across the 12-week period, charged to card on file.

About Me

I am a Wayfinder Certified Life Coach and a psychiatric PA with more than 14 years of behavioral health experience.
My career has been spent working with individuals navigating complex psychiatric conditions and the deeper questions that often accompany them: identity, meaning, purpose, and belonging.
Coaching allows me to bring that clinical experience together with a broader understanding of human development, embodiment, and spiritual growth.
This work is not about fixing you.
It’s about helping you live from the wisdom you already carry.

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A Quiet Reorientation

Sometimes the work is not about becoming someone new.


Sometimes it is simply about becoming aligned. Mind and heart.


Insight and action.


Understanding and lived experience.


When those begin to move together, life has a way of reorganizing itself.

See If It’s a Fit