You’ve practised enough to know that meditation touches something real. But you may feel stuck — practice has gone flat, or effortful, or strangely separate from the rest of your life. Maybe something has opened that you don’t quite know how to hold. Maybe you’ve moved between traditions and teachers without finding one that fits the whole of you.
Most teaching meets this in one of two ways: try harder, sit more, go on a longer retreat — or, you’re already free, just see through it. I work in the space between. Meditative insight and the content of your life — emotions, patterns, relationships, difficulty — aren’t separate. They’re woven together, each one deepening the other. The work isn’t to transcend your experience or to fix it, but to find ways of meeting it that let both insight and life open together — and a depth and beauty in ordinary life that can be surprising in how close it is.
How I work
We work collaboratively. I’m not handing you a system to follow — I’m walking with you while you learn to trust your own direct experience. Sometimes that means clear instruction and structure, because there are things you can’t yet see from where you’re standing. Sometimes it means getting out of the way of what’s already moving. Either way, the authority stays with you.
A few things I hold central:
Collaborative — You stay the authority on your own experience. I offer structure, lenses, and honest reflection; you test them and keep what’s true.
Relational — Depth doesn’t only unfold in solitude. What I offer is a particular quality of attention and presence — a space where what’s here can be met as it is.
Trauma-sensitive — Practice can stir up old material. We work in a way that respects your nervous system rather than overriding it.
Neurodivergent-friendly — I’m autistic, and I teach in a way that makes room for different minds, paces, and ways of attending.
Why one-on-one
Speaking regularly with a teacher was the single most important thing for my own practice. It gave me feedback, it surfaced things I couldn’t see from my own vantage point, and it gave me the steadying sense of someone looking out for me.
One-on-one work lets the practice be shaped exactly to you — your experience, your questions, the particular forks in the road you’re standing at. We can refine technique, work out when to change practices, and make sense of meditation and the wisdom traditions in the context of a full, complex life.
Practising together, live, in the coaching call, is one of the most effective ways I know of to deepen experience and shift ways of relating. I’ll bring in suggestions of how we can turn each call into a meditative practice that opens to what is here in a way that drops into a deeper sense of being.
Coaching is its own practice, and I take it seriously. I’ve trained for it, I keep refining it, and I bring real care and confidence to guiding people into depth — including into territory that can feel disorienting to navigate alone. This is the work I’m most devoted to.
Who this is for
This tends to fit people who are sincere and open — not necessarily experienced, but genuinely willing. If you sense there’s more available in your practice and your life than you’ve yet found a way into, we may be a good fit.
Working together
One-on-one sessions are the part of my teaching I charge for. Rates are on a sliding scale, and I keep some places available by donation for people who are a good fit for this work but can’t meet the standard rate. Access matters to me — if cost is the only obstacle, say so, and we’ll find something that works.
The best next step is a free discovery call — a chance to talk about what you’re working with and see whether we’re a good fit.
June 2026: I currently have availability for two new clients.
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