Stop living the life others expect of you. Start living the life you want.

One-on-One Coaching for people who want to stop overgiving and start living their own life. You'll learn to trust yourself, speak honestly, and stop making everyone else's needs more important than your own.

Does this sound like you?

  • You spend so much time thinking about what other people need that you're not always sure what you need anymore.
  • You say yes when you want to say no, then feel resentful afterward.
  • You feel guilty when you put yourself first or do something simply because you want to.
  • You avoid saying what you really think because you don't want an argument, rejection, or someone's disapproval.
  • You feel responsible for fixing other people's emotional well-being and making things better when they're unhappy.
  • You're constantly reading the room, paying attention to everyone else's mood and adjusting yourself accordingly.
  • You give a lot in your relationships but don't feel equally cared for, appreciated, or considered.
  • You wonder whether people love you for who you are or because of what you do for them.
  • Things that matter to you, including friendships, interests, goals, health, or simply having time for yourself, keep getting pushed aside.

Stop living the life others expect of you. Start living the life you want.

When you work with me, you're going to find that I'm very compassionate, very honest, and very direct. And one of the first things I'm going to tell you is that you probably have a pretty shitty relationship with yourself.

You put yourself last. You make other people's needs more important than your own. You don't say what you really want. You don't stand up for yourself. You worry about disappointing people, upsetting them, or losing their love, so you keep giving, accommodating, fixing, and taking care of everyone else.

Think about it, would you treat someone you loved this way? Would you continually put their needs last, ignore what they wanted, refuse to stand up for them, and expect them to spend their life taking care of everyone else? Who in their right mind would want to be in a terrible relationship like that, and yet that's exactly how you're treating yourself.

You're trying to get from other people something they can never give you: the sense that you're okay, that you matter, that you're valued and worth loving.

And if you've spent your life taking care of other people, putting yourself first may sound selfish. You may have been taught that being a good person means putting other people's needs ahead of your own.

But you can't really care for other people until you learn to care for yourself. Otherwise, you're giving them a watered-down version of you, made up of what you think they need, what will make them happy, and what will keep you from being rejected. When you stop living for everyone else, you get to show up as yourself, authentically and unapologetically, and let people love the person you really are.

During our work together, you'll develop a very different relationship with yourself. You'll learn to trust yourself, take your own needs seriously, speak honestly, ask for what you want, and let other people be responsible for their own choices and feelings.

You'll practice new ways of showing up in your relationships and in your life, not from fear of what someone else might think or do, but from a much stronger sense of who you are and how you want to live.

You're no longer a shadow of yourself, living for everyone else. You're becoming fully yourself and creating a life that's actually yours.

Imagine a life like this

  • You know what you want, what matters, and you don't need someone else's approval to ask for it.
  • You feel free to be yourself instead of constantly adjusting who you are to keep other people happy.
  • You speak honestly and stand up for yourself, even when it means someone else may not like what you have to say.
  • You can let someone be disappointed in you without scrambling to fix it, explain yourself, or take back what you said.
  • You make your own decisions and trust yourself to handle whatever happens next.
  • You stop taking responsibility for everyone else's well-being and let other people own their choices, problems, and feelings.
  • You only engage in relationships where you can be fully yourself, where you give because you want to, not because you're afraid they'll leave, get angry, or fall apart without you.
  • You're comfortable in your own company and don't need a crisis to feel useful or a relationship to feel whole.
  • You make decisions based on what you value, not on who you're afraid of upsetting.
  • You start creating a life you're genuinely excited to live.

Are you ready?

If you're serious about changing your life, it's time to stop thinking and start doing.

I want you to know that coaching can be challenging. You'll be facing some feelings and emotions you've been avoiding for a long time. But as you learn to understand them instead of avoiding them, you'll experience a profound sense of growth and aliveness.

I'm going to show up for each session with a 100% commitment to your growth, and I'll ask you to show up with a 100% commitment to yourself. You'll need to be on time, ready to work, with no excuses.

Together, we'll uncover what's been keeping you stuck, but more importantly, you'll discover a new way of being that allows you to show up in the world the way you want to be and create the life that you want to live.

12 weeks of private coaching · $5,000

Start with a complimentary conversation.

We'll talk about what is happening in your life, what you want to change, and whether working together makes sense.

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What Becomes Possible.

Working with Doug helped me get out of stuck patterns and see long-standing problems in a completely new way. His calm, grounded presence made it easy to relax, reflect, and be honest, and our conversations often led to real breakthrough moments. Doug brings warmth, directness, and creativity in a way that genuinely makes a difference.
Caryl Taylor
Before working with Doug, I thought the problem was my relationship with my boyfriend. What I discovered was that there were really two relationships that needed healing: the one with him, and the one with myself. As I changed the way I related to myself, my relationship with my boyfriend began to change too. Doug helped me see this with clarity and compassion, and that shift changed everything.
Mary L., Denver
After working with Doug, I feel less stressed, more present, and more grounded in my own needs. After years of people-pleasing, I've learned to say no, make room for myself, and feel happier overall.
Colleen Uhl

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A few common questions.

How is this different from therapy?

Therapy often includes understanding and healing the past. My coaching focuses on what's happening in your life now, understanding what's driving your choices, what you want, and what you're going to do about it. If you're already in therapy, coaching can also work alongside it.

What happens in a coaching session?

I do a lot of listening because I want to understand not only what you're doing, but what's happening underneath it. We look at what you're thinking and feeling, what you're afraid might happen, what you actually want, and what's making it difficult to act on what you already know.

Sometimes that means understanding something you've never seen before. Sometimes it means having the conversation you've been avoiding, setting a boundary, making a decision, or learning to stay with the uncomfortable feelings that arise when you stop doing what everyone expects of you.

How do I know if I'm ready for coaching?

You don't have to have everything figured out. In fact, that's part of what we'll do together.

What matters more is that you're tired of going around the same circle and willing to look honestly at your own part in keeping it going. You don't need to know exactly what you want yet, but you do need to be willing to find out.

Do I have to make a big decision?

No. I'm not going to tell you to leave your relationship, quit your job, cut someone out of your life, or make any other decision for you.

My job is to help you become clear enough about what you want and secure enough in yourself that the decision becomes yours.

Why 12 weeks?

Because understanding a pattern and changing one are two different things.

You may understand in the first conversation exactly why you keep putting yourself last. The harder part comes when someone gets angry, disappointed, distant, or unhappy because you've started behaving differently.

Twelve weeks gives us time to work with those moments as they actually happen, rather than having one insightful conversation and hoping everything changes afterward.

What if I'm not sure this will help me?

That's what the complimentary session is for. We'll talk about what's happening, what you want to change, and what's been getting in the way. You'll experience how I work, and we'll decide whether working together makes sense.

Is everything we talk about confidential?

Yes. What you share in our sessions stays between us. People often bring things to coaching that they've had difficulty saying out loud anywhere else, which makes confidentiality particularly important.

If you're currently dealing with active abuse or a mental health crisis, coaching isn't the right first step. Please reach out to a licensed professional or crisis support first.