Online Mindfulness & Compassion Coaching

No. As long as you are open to trying and learning, no previous experience is necessary. In fact, these sessions are a great, guided way to start your mindfulness & compassion practice.

Most forms of therapy work primarily through talking.

Mindfulness and compassion coaching sessions focus on building your mindfulness & compassion skills.

- We slow down, tune into the present moment.
- I guide you on applying mindfulness & compassion to the unique challenges and content of your life, and shifting how you relate to your experiences (your thoughts, emotions, body sensations).
- I help connect you to your own inner wisdom, and find your own answers.
- Through these sessions and your continued practice outside of sessions, you begin to see a real, concrete shift in your actions and feelings in your day to day life.

Mindfulness and compassion coaching can be particularly supportive if your therapist is not trained in mindfulness & compassion practices, or if traditional talk therapy wasn’t helpful (sometimes talking increases suffering rather than reducing it).

Mindfulness and compassion coaching and therapy are highly complementary; many of my clients do both simultaneously.

Life coaching tends to focus on goal-setting, accountability, and forward momentum. Mindfulness and compassion coaching works differently: we slow down, turn toward what's actually present, and use the challenges and content of your life to build your mindfulness and compassion skills. The emphasis is on how you relate to your experience (your thoughts, emotions, body sensations), rather than on external goals and action plans. That said, sessions do produce clarity and next steps. Through these sessions and continued practice outside of sessions, you begin to see a real, concrete shift in your actions and feelings in your day to day life. The two approaches are not opposites; mindfulness coaching simply goes deeper and focuses on specific skill-building for mindfulness and compassion.

Apps offer guided meditations. Coaching offers a relationship. In sessions, we apply mindfulness and compassion directly to the specific stories, relationships, and challenges of your life, not to generic scenarios. You have an expert coach who has lived the multicultural experience herself and understands your context without needing it explained. You walk away from sessions with concrete next steps, meditation recordings, conversation scripts, handouts or other resources, which provide the accountability and support you need between sessions.

Feel free to bring a notebook — many people find it helpful to jot down insights or things they want to remember.

You may find it supportive to be in a calm environment where you have privacy.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic framework developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. It works with the idea that we all have different inner parts, such as an inner critic or a younger burdened self. This isn't a new idea: mindfulness and Buddhist tradition point to the same concept, and my teachers speak to it directly. What IFS does is take it further, offering a structured way to become aware of these parts and approach them with curiosity and compassion. This helps you stop being the part, and rest as the bigger self, the larger awareness that holds it. In our sessions, I may gently invite you to notice and turn toward your inner parts.