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Individual coaching might be a good fit for you if you:
- Need a deeply personalized program designed by a coach who will meet you where you are today, help you identify your goals, and be alongside you through every up and down.
- Have ongoing support needs that might require understanding for varying programming during periods of chronic flare-ups, illness, crisis, mental wellbeing recovery, and so on.
- Have a short term goals that you would like a coach to help you target and stay accountable to.
- Feel more comfortable working privately with your coach than you would in a shared group space.
- Want to deepen your non-carceral practices in an intentional and reflective safe space.
Stronger U offers a variety of wellness coaching opportunities that are programmed to your very specific needs! We are transparent with you and will refer you to people we trust if we cannot meet your needs. Read below to learn more about our one-one-one coaching opportunities. Click on “I’m Interested” if you’re looking for general information or want to be added to our waitlists. Click on “Discovery Call” to chat with us about your goals and get personalized recommendations. We look forward to connecting with you!
Coaching Options
Stronger U coaches represent a breadth of expertise. Our primary coaching options are shared below:
Mental Wellbeing Coaching
The Stronger U team has lived experience and 15+ years of experience coaching clients, volunteers, and community members through navigating marginalization, neurodivergence, dissociation and plurality, trauma / PTSD, trans and nonbinary experiences, being “the only one” or having to rely only on yourself, coping through crises, and chronic suicide and harm urges.
Mental Wellbeing Coaching might be right for you if you have struggled to be affirmed by traditional interventions, you seek respect for your autonomy and mutually consensual processes, you want to feel humanized and like you are talking to a “real person” while also having the outside perspective of a coach who can help you hear your own voice and care for yourself in relevant ways.
Medical Exercise Coaching
Our founder, Ryder Fox, has lived experience as a person with chronic conditions and mobility challenges and has has coached hundreds of medical exercise clients since 2007, some who have remained with them since those early years. Medical exercise bridges gaps between traditional personal training, or the traditional fitness industry, and physical therapy. It allows clients to gain corrective exercise that considers their full bodies (not just one area of pain) as well as how their bodies impact their daily lives.
You might want to work one-on-one with Ryder on exercise coaching if you are a senior who is seeking to regain and/or maintain your independence, a person living with chronic conditions or mobility challenges, or someone living with gender and/or body dysphoria who wants to be humanized and affirmed in your movement journey.
Life Transitions Coaching
The Stronger U team has lived a lot of life! We won’t have all the answers, and it is not our role to tell you how to live your life. We are happy to create a safe space for you to be heard, to hear yourself think, and to help you organize those thoughts into your next steps, whether that is transition, job or academic decisions, executive functioning, regaining your voice and autonomy, setting boundaries, or anything else that you feel like we would be a good fit to help you with. What does becoming stronger look like to YOU? Let us help you with that!
Non-Carceral Practitioner Coaching
The Stronger U Team has a wealth of non-carceral wellbeing expertise, working with multiply marginalized individuals, systems, and larger organizations. If you are a practitioner who is grappling with questions around providing more life- and identity-affirming support that aligns with your values, then we’d love to work with you!
Our coaching sessions are best for practitioners who are seeking a minimum of 12 weeks of ongoing dialogue around topics like: Supporting people whose identities and needs you are less familiar with, Harm Reduction and non-carceral strategies for Safety Planning; Depathologizing stigmatized mental health experiences, Trauma-informed and conscientious intervention, Non-carceral practices within carceral systems, Creating your own non-carceral systems, and so on.
If you need irregular consultation instead of coaching sessions, we invite you to use our Practitioner Consultation option, listed on the A La Carte page.
We look forward to helping you take your practice to the next level!
Pricing
Stronger U coaching clients receive highly customized programming, personalized attention, and genuine care. We are dedicated to you, investing in your programs between sessions, educating ourselves, and providing living wages to our coaches who share marginalized identities.
We seek to be transparent with our costs and ask you to be transparent with us about your needs so that we can make the most relevant recommendations. In our commitment to you, we also ask that you make a minimum of a 3-month commitment to us. Clients typically work with Stronger U coaches during 1, 2, or 3 sessions per week, in a mix of programmatic sessions and check-ins between sessions.
Why frequent meetings? Optimal coaching relies on mutual relationships built with your coach, which will often take some time to develop and an investment of time in order to make progress. Coaching might not be quite what you’re looking for, and that’s okay! We also offer a variety of consultative opportunities. Some clients may choose to work with us once per month, on a retainer, or for infrequent consultations. You might also be interested in purchasing a single holistic wellness assessment or program design. Please review our “a la carte” page for more information.
Policies:
- Our individual coaching base rate includes programming for your session, session facilitation, and up to one 15-minute text-based followup between sessions.
- Pre-payment for one month in advance is required, and months are billed every 4 weeks.
- Base rates do not include, but are available at add-on costs, additional programming in-between sessions or additional communication between sessions. Add-ons or retainers can be negotiated ahead of time as an ongoing monthly expense, or paid and scheduled with at least 72 hours advance notice, when unexpected needs arise.
- We have a 24-hour cancellation policy in effect.
- Sessions begin and end on time and late arrivals will forfeit time between the beginning of the session and arrival.
- We require 28 days written notice of intent to terminate sessions.
- Sessions roll over in the event of travel, illness, or emergencies; payment holds for up to 4 weeks
- Sessions expire after 6 weeks of continuous non-use
Ready to start working with a coach who invests the time and care that you deserve into helping you reach your wellness goals? We’re excited to work with you!
Pricing Scales
- 15 minutes: Best for people who want accountability, general wellbeing check-ins, or need support for self care or other body doubling activity. Generally people using this option have already worked with their coach to clarify their needs and programming so that these conversations are brief, but full of meaningful support. Please note that 15 minute sessions typically occur through SMS text.
- Rates: $35
- 30 minutes: Best for medical exercise clients and anyone who wants to meet one or more times per week, either for general wellbeing check-ins, to make progress toward a specified goal, or for body doubling. Sessions may occur over video chat, phone call, or SMS text, based on your needs and preferences. *All medical exercise clients meet over video chat for physical wellbeing.
- Rates: $65; $95 for Practitioner Coaching
- 60 minutes: Best for clients who desire informal chats, want to meet less frequently, wish to be taught how to implement a program, are seeking leadership or mentorship coaching, or who otherwise would like a longer consultation period with their coach. Sessions may occur over video chat, phone call, or SMS text, based on your needs and preferences. *All medical exercise clients meet over video chat for physical wellbeing.
- Rates: $120; $175 for Practitioner Coaching
Disclaimer
While we believe that affirming coaching and consultations can be transformative, Stronger U does not purport to prevent, cure, or treat any mental health, medical disease, injury, or physical condition. While our coaches are highly skilled and qualified, they do not provide licensed therapy, treatment (clinical or otherwise) or diagnoses. We coach members and clients through holistic wellness practices, which are not a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, medical or mental healthcare, substance abuse treatment, or any other professional advice offered by qualified medical or legal professionals.
If you are in need of immediate support, various non-carceral options may be found at this link.