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HOW I HELP

The work begins where expertise ends.

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Most of my clients are exceptional at what they do. They’re used to being the person with answers — in the room, in the relationship, in the family. What brings them here is something their expertise doesn’t touch: a pattern that keeps returning, a relationship that won’t resolve, a version of themselves they’ve outgrown but haven’t yet replaced.

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Integrative Health Coaching is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about building what’s next — with rigor, honesty, and a process structured enough to hold the complexity of a real life.

Individual Coaching

Individual Coaching 

For physicians, executives, and leaders navigating the gap between professional identity and personal wholeness.

 

This is one-on-one work — confidential, structured, and forward-leaning. We begin with where you are and what’s in the way. We work toward what you actually want, not just what seems manageable from here.

 

This work is well-suited for: burnout and moral exhaustion; the relational costs of high-stakes leadership; boundary-setting in complex professional environments; major transitions — in role, in identity, in what you want from your life; vicarious trauma and the weight of other people’s suffering; conflict at work that has become chronic or corrosive.

Sessions take place over Zoom, are 1 hour long, and are confidential. $270 per session.

Couples Strength Building Sessions

Couples’ Strength Building Sessions

For partners who are competent everywhere except with each other.

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This is not couples counseling. It’s a forward-leaning coaching process for two people who want to understand each other more clearly, communicate more honestly, and build something more durable than what they have now — without relitigating the past indefinitely.

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We work with values, patterns, and the places where two people’s systems collide. The goal is not agreement on everything. It’s the capacity to stay in genuine contact even when you’re not.

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This work is well-suited for: entrenched conflict that has become the default mode; navigating major transitions together; boundary-setting and the resentment that builds when it’s absent; estrangement from adult children and the grief that accompanies it; parenting through complexity and disagreement.

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Sessions take place over Zoom, are 1.5 hours long and are confidential. $340 per hour.

Family Conversation Circles

Family Conversation Circles

For families carrying something too heavy to carry alone.

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Some family situations don’t need more conversation — they need a different kind of conversation. One where every voice has weight, no one is talked over, and the goal isn’t winning but understanding.

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Family Conversation Circles begin with individual sessions for each family member and move into structured group conversations facilitated using Circle practice — a process rooted in restorative justice, designed to create safety, mutuality, and genuine hearing. The Circle format removes the hierarchy of ordinary family dynamics. In its place: a container where people can see and be seen, speak and be heard, without the usual risks of judgment or deflection.

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This work is well-suited for: estrangement and fractured family relationships; eldercare decisions that have become points of conflict; family business or foundation disputes; healing before the death of a family member; situations where members have stopped speaking and don’t know how to begin again.

Sessions take place over Zoom, are 1.5 hours long, require sequential sessions, and are confidential.  $340 per hour.

Workpace Engagement

Workplace Engagement

For leaders who want their organizations to be as healthy as they are capable.

I work with leadership teams, healthcare systems, and organizations navigating the human side of institutional life — conflict, accountability, trust, and the kind of culture that either drains people or sustains them.

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This work draws on Integrative Health Coaching, Circle practice, and mediation — combined into a process that is direct enough to move things and safe enough that people actually participate.

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This work is well-suited for: leadership teams in conflict or misalignment; building cultures of accountability and psychological safety; navigating organizational change; resolving entrenched conflict between management and staff; community building within and between teams.

Sessions take place over Zoom.  $340 per hour.

Cost estimate provided upon request

Conflict Resolution Mediation

Conflict Resolution / Mediation

This is not arbitration. No one is declared right or wrong. The goal is a process rigorous enough to hold genuine disagreement and relational enough to leave participants with more than a settlement.

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This work is well-suited for: sibling disputes around aging parents or inheritance; conflicts with adult children; workplace conflict between colleagues or within teams.

Sessions are 1.5 hours long and are confidential.  $340 per hour.

What my clients say about working with me

"I worked with Ricka to learn how to decrease stress and take care of myself. I was not taking care of myself and felt stressed out, tired, crabby and unhealthy and that carried over into my family life. Ricka helped me learn techniques to manage my stress at work to get that good feeling back."

A.M.

Working With Me

Who do you support?

Adults — from college age through late life — navigating chronic, complex, or confusing situations who are ready to move forward and want a structured process to do so.

Payments

Fee for service, due at time of session. Health Savings Accounts accepted. Please verify your individual HSA coverage for health coaching before our first meeting.

Confidentiality

All records and transactions are confidential unless release is authorized by you in writing or required by law.

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