Nervous-system regulation coaching for founders, first responders, and professionals running on empty. When vacation isn't recovery and willpower isn't sustainable, the work happens at a deeper layer.
This work is for people whose performance asks more from their nervous system than their nervous system can sustainably give. Founders eight years deep in a build that hasn't allowed real recovery. First responders whose dispatch cadence has compounded into chronic dysregulation. Professionals running on willpower because the alternative was unthinkable, and now the willpower is breaking.
Most clients don't arrive in crisis. They arrive in the fog stage, six to eighteen months past the initial disruption, with the world still demanding output and the body refusing to deliver it the way it used to.
Not a vacation, not a productivity hack, not a discipline problem. A nervous-system problem that responds to nervous-system work.
Each phase requires the one before it. Skipping ahead doesn't compound. The protocol is paced to how nervous systems actually rebuild, not how willpower wants them to.
First four to six weeks. We work the dysregulation directly. Sleep architecture, breath protocols, vagal-tone practices, daily regulation work. Get the system off the floor before we attempt anything more structural.
Weeks six to sixteen. With the system stable, we train. Polyvagal-informed practice, attention regulation, the underlying wiring that lets recovery hold. Optional neurofeedback layer for clients who want it.
Weeks sixteen and beyond. Integration. The new patterns get woven into your actual life so they hold under real load. Real-world stress test. Maintenance cadence afterward, designed for your specific work.
Each measures a different layer of where your nervous system is right now. None are diagnostic. All are starting points for the work.
Burnout Assessment Tool. 23 items. Primary measure of burnout severity across exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment.
Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Secondary measure across personal, work, and client-related burnout. Triangulates with BAT-23.
Patient Health Questionnaire, 9 items. Depression screen. Burnout and depression overlap; we measure both.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 7 items. Anxiety screen. Captures the activation pattern alongside the exhaustion pattern.
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Sleep across 7 components. Sleep is foundational to regulation. We don't skip it.
Optional layer for clients with Oura, Whoop, or BrainBit hardware. Heart rate variability + Body Perception Questionnaire for autonomic state mapping.
These are coaching reflection tools, not psychological assessment or diagnosis. For formal clinical assessment, see a licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.
Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate at Hawai'i School of Professional Psychology, Chaminade University. ICF-certified Associate Certified Coach.
21 years United States Air Force: 8 in electronic warfare, 13 as an EOD (bomb squad) superintendent. Medically retired with PTSD from institutional betrayal, not combat. The work I do now is the work I did on myself first.
First paid session. Reviews your pre-session assessment battery, designs the shape of the engagement, sets the rhythm. If we continue, individual sessions or the monthly subscription from here.
Book IntakeFour 55-minute sessions per month at weekly cadence. Subscription rate of $150/session, $25 below standalone. Weekly cadence is the protocol. Regulation work compounds at frequency. Bi-weekly doesn't reach the layer this work operates on.
Auto-renews monthly. Cancel anytime; current month's sessions remain valid through period end.
Start SubscriptionThey overlap clinically and they're not the same. Burnout is primarily about chronic dysregulation from sustained demand. Depression is broader and has different underlying neurobiology. The screeners we use (BAT-23 + PHQ-9) help us see which is which, and which might be both. If your scores suggest active depression, I'll refer you to a licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist alongside the coaching work.
No. I'm a clinical psychology doctoral candidate but not yet licensed, so the work here is coaching: non-diagnostic, non-therapeutic. The methodology is informed by clinical training (polyvagal theory, nervous-system science, trauma-informed framework), but the engagement structure is coaching. If during our work it becomes clear you need therapy, I'll tell you and refer you.
Nervous-system regulation work compounds at frequency. Weekly rhythm gives the body enough touch points to actually rewire the patterns. Bi-weekly creates too long a gap; the dysregulation has time to reset between sessions and the work doesn't compound. The Cognitive Performance line runs bi-weekly because design work doesn't need that cadence. Regulation work does.
Most Phoenix engagements run 12 or more sessions across 3 to 4 months for the core protocol. Some clients stay longer at lower cadence for maintenance. Some wrap after the core work is done. The first phase (stabilization) usually takes 4 to 6 weeks. The middle phase (neuroplasticity) runs 8 to 10 weeks. The integration phase is open-ended.
Phoenix is regulation work: nervous-system rebuild for high performers running on empty. Cognitive Coaching is design work: workflow architecture for cognitively-demanding professionals whose systems fight their cognitive style. Different problems, different cadences, different methodology. Some clients combine both. Most pick one based on where the actual pain is.
If you're in acute crisis (suicidal ideation, immediate safety concerns, severe substance dependency), the right next step isn't coaching, it's clinical care. I'll refer you to appropriate resources and we can revisit the Phoenix work once you're stabilized. If you're in the chronic-but-functioning fog, you're who this work is for.
No. Neurofeedback is an optional layer that some Phoenix clients add to deepen the work in Phase 2. The protocol works without it. If you're curious, we'll discuss it during the engagement, and you can book separately for the neurofeedback initial assessment.
$600 per month covers four 55-minute sessions at weekly cadence. Stripe charges monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime. The next charge stops, and your remaining sessions in the current paid month stay valid through the period end. The subscription is designed for the protocol's weekly rhythm. If your situation requires different cadence, talk with me at intake; we'll figure out the structure.
Book a complimentary 25-minute Discovery Session. We'll figure out if Phoenix is the right shape for what you're carrying.
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