FAQ · LIFE COACHING
If you’re asking this question, that’s usually the first sign the answer might be yes. People who are fine don’t go looking for a coach. The very fact that you’re here — searching, reading, weighing it — says something’s stirring.
But let me give you a real answer, not a sales pitch. Here’s how to tell whether coaching fits where you are right now.
You’re at a threshold, not in a crisis
Coaching is built for the space between chapters — the role that’s ending, the career that’s shifting, the next thing that hasn’t taken shape yet. It’s for the person who’s stuck, burned out, or standing at a decision and can’t see the move.
It is not a substitute for care when something deeper is going on. If what you’re facing needs a licensed professional, coaching isn’t the right tool, and I’ll say so. But if you’re fundamentally okay and just… stuck, that’s exactly the territory.
You want forward motion, not just someone to talk to
A coach isn’t a sounding board you rent. The work is practical: what do you actually want, what’s standing between you and it, and what’s the next step you’ll actually take. If you’re ready to move — even a little, even uncertainly — coaching fits. If you want to talk without changing anything, it’s a waste of your money and my time.
You recognize yourself in the “stuck” patterns
See if any of these land:
- You’re successful on paper and exhausted in reality.
- You know something has to change, but you can’t see the next move — or you can, and keep not taking it.
- You’re carrying a lot of other people’s expectations and losing track of your own.
- You hit a milestone and felt… nothing. Or dread.
If one or more of those is familiar, you’re not broken — you’re at a threshold. And thresholds are exactly where life coaching does its best work.
The honest test
Here’s a five-minute check, not a quiz — just a mirror. When was the last time you felt genuinely clear about what you want next? What are you carrying that’s really someone else’s expectation? What would “unstuck” actually look like, in concrete terms? If those questions stir something, that’s your answer.
What a first session actually looks like
If you’re on the fence, it helps to know there’s no ceremony to get through. A first session is a working conversation: we talk about what’s stuck, where you want to go, and whether coaching is the right tool for that — honestly, in both directions. There’s no intake questionnaire, no commitment on the table, no pressure to decide anything on the spot.
By the end of it you’ll have two things: a clearer sense of whether this fits, and one concrete next step you could take regardless of whether you continue. That’s the test, really — if an hour of honest, forward-looking conversation produces a next step you couldn’t see before, coaching is probably worth a longer look. If it doesn’t, we’ll both know that too, and I’ll say so.
The best way to know for sure isn’t to keep reading. It’s to have one short conversation and decide from there.