FAQ · LIFE COACHING
The honest answer is: as long as it’s useful, and not a day longer. I don’t sell a 12-month package you pay for up front and then feel chained to. That model serves the coach, not you.
Here’s what the timeline actually looks like, and why.
Start small, re-evaluate honestly
Most people start with a month or a quarter. We meet one-on-one, weekly or every other week, and at the end of that stretch we ask the only question that matters: is this still earning its place in your week? If yes, we keep going. If no, we stop — and that’s a success, not a failure, because it means you’re moving on your own.
It depends on what you’re untangling
A specific decision or a single transition might clear in a handful of sessions. Something deeper — a career rebuild, a pattern you’ve been stuck in for years — takes longer. There’s no formula, because the timeline follows the actual work, not a curriculum.
What I can tell you is that you’ll feel the direction shift early. You won’t wait months for the first movement. The work is forward-looking and specific, so the first “I can see the next step” moment usually comes in the first couple of sessions.
The goal is independence, not a standing appointment
This is the part that surprises people: a good coach is trying to become unnecessary. The point isn’t a permanent weekly session — it’s building the capability to move on your own, so the coaching ends. I measure the engagement by whether you eventually don’t need me.
If you’re making your own calls, taking your own next steps, and the fog has cleared, the work did what it was supposed to do.
The difference between this and a “program”
Some coaching is sold as a fixed 6- or 12-month transformation. I don’t do that. Life coaching here is built around your pace and your actual life, not a syllabus someone decided you’d need for a year. Which means the honest answer to “how long” is: less than you think, if you show up and do the work between sessions.
Not sure you even need it? Start with the Back to Moving check — five prompts, no score, no commitment.
Where the real work happens
Here’s the part people underestimate: most of the progress happens between sessions, not in them. The hour is where we get clear and make the plan; the week is where the plan either becomes real or doesn’t. That’s why every session ends with one specific application goal — one thing you’ll do differently before we meet again, not a list of ten.
That structure is what keeps the engagement short. When you’re moving on your own between sessions, you don’t need a standing appointment forever — you need enough sessions to build the habit, then you take the wheel. The timeline, in other words, follows your momentum, not a syllabus.
The honest expectation
Coaching isn’t a magic timeline — there’s no “fixed in six weeks” guarantee, and I won’t pretend otherwise. What I can promise is a clear structure: we agree on what “done” looks like early, we check in on it honestly as we go, and we stop when you’re moving on your own. You’ll always know where you are and what’s next, which is more than a fixed-length package would ever give you.