1:1 Physician Coaching

Coaching is evidence-based. Multiple randomized controlled trials show it reduces burnout and emotional exhaustion and improves fulfillment, performance, and quality of life. In one recent study, burnout dropped from 77% to 33% in just eight weeks of virtual coaching. Fulfillment doubled. Energy, clarity, and joy increased significantly.

Coaching is structured very differently from medicine—and that’s a feature. It isn’t algorithmic, diagnostic, or prescriptive. It’s efficient, streamlined, and deeply personal. Because it doesn’t follow familiar medical structures (billing models, templates, documentation, insurance), the medical brain often tries to put it in a box. Sometimes that difference gets misread as illegitimacy.

The word “scam” often appears when something doesn’t fit our mental model of what help is “supposed” to look like. As a result, some physicians avoid coaching or judge it from the sidelines.

That avoidance causes harm—not because coaching is essential, but because the skills coaching teaches are desperately needed in medicine and aren’t being learned elsewhere.

I didn’t pursue coaching because I was burned out. I pursued it because after decades of clinical work and physician wellness leadership, it was clear that traditional wellness efforts were not shifting how physicians actually felt or functioned in daily life. Coaching did.

Over the last six years, I’ve coached more than a thousand physicians—1:1, in small groups, and at retreats. The work was so effective and meaningful that I chose to leave clinical pediatrics, a pension, and a predictable path to bring these tools to colleagues across the country.

Coaching is not a substitute for therapy, medicine, or system change—but it is a missing layer of support physicians deserve. Not because we are fragile, but because we are human in a profession that routinely asks us to be superhuman.

We talk about what you are hoping coaching will help you with. The purpose is to make sure coaching is the best next step for you and that we are a good fit to work together. I’ll also explain how I work and answer any questions you have.
When you sign up for the consult, you will answer a few quick questions so we can use our time together efficiently. I look forward to meeting you on Zoom. These sessions are always fun.

Coaching sessions are held on Zoom. I offer lots of daytime hours (on Pacific time). I have never not been able to accommodate clinic schedules, call schedules, and time zones. I have even made Europe and India work. After you are signed up, I send you a scheduling link. You can book your sessions at times that work for you on the link or we schedule the next session at the end of each session. I always tell you when I think is best for your progress to meet next.

I typically meet with every other week. This cadence is ideal for most women physicians because it allows time to integrate new skills and patterns between sessions, without losing momentum.

It depends. I recommend 3-4 months for your first coaching experience with me. This timeframe creates enough space for insight, practice, and meaningful change without feeling rushed. After that, many people continue coaching with sessions monthly or every other month. Others join one of my topic based coaching groups or come on a retreat. Some people are complete after one round. Most choose to continue because the results are feel amazing.

Once you confirm you want to proceed with 1:1 coaching, I send you an invoice. Once you pay, you’ll receive a link to all the resources, the pre-work, and we schedule your first session.

I require payment in full up front. If essential to proceed, I can offer a split payment, no more than one month apart.

If you are trying to use CME, education, or professional development funds and want to split your payment over two fiscal years, I try to work with you on this.

I don’t offer prn coaching or shorter coaching packages to new clients because a coaching foundation is key for optimal results. After you have completed an initial coaching package, been to one of my retreats, or joined a group program, I do offer shorter “prn coaching” packages.