Services
Coaching
Go deeper into your formative story one-on-one. We’ll talk about whatever is relevant in your current life with an eye towards the past and hope for the future. Storywork coaching will help you explore how you’ve interpreted the people and events that shaped you so you can grow to tell a more cohesive and true account of your life. Receiving care for and clarity around your story helps integrate your brain and free up space in your life to become more of who you want to be!
Individuals
Couples
Story coaching is a way to tend to your most intimate relationship. Marriage story coaching encourages empathy and understanding between partners through sharing childhood stories and exploring their current-day impact. It’s normal for married couples to feel confused by the patterns of conflict that seem to endlessly repeat. We do or say things we wish we didn’t do or say. We may feel triggered more deeply than a situation seems to warrant. There’s a good reason these things happen! How you learned to navigate the world continues to play out in specific ways with your spouse. Your body remembers and informs your reactions today. As your childhood experiences are named more clearly in a context of care, the reality of what’s playing out between the two of you can often be understood more clearly and with greater compassion.
Cost for Coaching:
Engaging your story with a story coach is not a quick fix, but it has been a sure path to healing in my life and the lives of many others. For this reason, I offer a discount for clients who commit to twelve sessions.
Individual session: $150 per one-hour session
Bundle of 12 one-hour sessions: $1500
Group
Storywork
Group Storywork
Story groups are a unique avenue to healing because your story will be cared for by multiple people at a time, each of whom reflect back to you particular aspects of the truth of your experience! Plus hearing others’ stories gives us insight and compassion into our own. Story groups provide a safe and confidential context – guided by a trauma-informed facilitator -- to witness and care for stories of heartache, harm, or abuse. Additionally, story groups provide a way to practice being with people in hard situations, which expands your capacity to do the same with others in your life. Story groups are composed of 5-7 participants with a trained facilitator. The group commits to meeting 2 hours per week over 7-9 weeks respectively. Participants write a 600 to 1000 word vignette of heartache or harm from their formative years (ages 4-18) that will be submitted in advance, read aloud to the group, and engaged with care. Along the way, a framework for understanding trauma and how to heal from it will be shared and discussed.
Marriage Groups
Explore your formative story alongside your spouse and other couples under the care of trained facilitators (Gail and her husband Brent). Marriage Storywork follows the same format and has the same benefits as Group Storywork except that the group is composed of 3-4 married couples (in addition to the facilitating couple) and runs 8-10 weeks respectively. Marriage Storywork provides a unique context to be seen by others in the company of your spouse. Witnessing your spouse receive care from others has the potential to open your heart towards him/her and grow your imagination for more compassion and open-hearted curiosity within your marriage.
Pricing
$1,000 per individual
$2,000 per couple
New Storygroups are starting in the fall!
Reach out through my contact form to let me know that you are interested!