Relational Coaching

Grow your relational skill. Show up in your life with clarity, courage, and care.

Relational coaching is for people who want to live and lead from a place of deeper relational integrity—at work, in partnerships, in family life, and in everyday interactions. It’s a collaborative process that centers around cultivating skill, awareness, and aligned action in your relationships.

How Is Relational Coaching Different from Therapy?

While there is overlap, relational coaching is distinct from therapy in important ways. Coaching is future-focused, and oriented toward building specific relational skills to help you meet your goals. Importantly, coaching does not address issues related to mental health, diagnosis or treatment planning.

Therapy often involves exploring your personal history, and understanding how past experiences impact the present, however its primary function resides in the domain of mental health concerns, diagnosis, and treatment. 

Coaching, on the other hand, is best suited for individuals who are functioning well but want to improve how they show up in relationship—with themselves and others.

Who Benefits Most from Relational Coaching?

This work is ideal for individuals who:

  • Want to improve their relationships but aren’t drawn to traditional therapy

  • Are ready to engage with growth edges without deep emotional excavation

  • Value direct feedback and hands-on support

  • Are seeking a more action-oriented, skills-based approach to change

Coaching supports people who are ready to take responsibility for their part in relational dynamics and are curious about what becomes possible when they show up differently.

What Can Coaching Help With?

Relational coaching offers concrete tools and practices to help you:

  • Communicate more clearly and compassionately

  • Listen without defensiveness

  • Set and maintain healthy, respectful boundaries

  • Navigate conflict and disappointment without shutting down or escalating

  • Develop empathy and emotional intelligence

  • Build self-worth and self-trust in relational contexts

This work is especially helpful for those wanting to shift out of old patterns and into a more empowered way of relating.

Beyond Skills:
Transformational Relational Work

Yes, I teach skills—but more importantly, I help you understand:

  • Why you do what you do in your relationship

  • What blocks intimacy or openness, and how to work with it

  • How to engage with the parts of you that resist change

  • How to notice and savor moments of connection and possibility

There is a deeply spiritual dimension to this work. I believe relational healing is world-healing. The way we relate to those closest to us has ripple effects far beyond our homes. When we shift how we show up in our partnerships—with more presence, humility, and care—we begin to shift the world.

Shifting out of power-over relationships that are primarily concerned with hierarchy, control, and individual empowerment and into a way of being founded on practices that promote power-with, true intimacy and relational empowerment.

How Does This Work Support
Deep Relational Change?

The truth is, we can’t change other people—but we can change how we relate to them. That’s where the power lies.

Relational coaching helps you work with your own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—your "steps in the dance." When you shift those steps, the entire dynamic with your partner, colleague, or loved one can shift too. This creates new space for connection, trust, and transformation.

Relational change starts with personal accountability. From there, ripple effects often follow.

What to Expect in a Session

Relational coaching is not passive. I take an active, engaged role in the process.

You can expect:

  • Direct feedback and real-time reflections

  • Specific practices to try during sessions and between them

  • Thoughtful challenges to your assumptions and patterns

  • Encouragement and support that’s grounded in care, clarity, and skill

Each session is a space to experiment, reflect, and move toward the kind of relational life you want to live.

Relational skill is not just a personal asset—it’s a form of social change. When we live from a place of skillful presence, boundaries, empathy, and respect, we make the world a more connected, more livable place.

If you’re ready to practice a new way of relating, I’m here to walk with you.