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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 work with your coach on topics that are not currently being offered through our group coaching programs.
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, or click on “Let’s Connect” if you would like to schedule a free consultation to learn more about how we can empower you to become a Stronger U.
Coaching Expertise
Stronger U coaches represent a breadth of expertise. Our primary expertise is 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, 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 Welbeing 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 from 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, someone living with gender and/or body dysphoria who wants to be humanized and affirmed in your movement journey.
Life 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!
Leadership and Mentorship Coaching
The Stronger U Team has a wealth of leadership and mentorship experience and we are happy to help emerging leaders or longer-term leaders who are looking to make changes. Our expertise is primarily in nonprofit volunteer management, training and mentorship, and support of marginalized communities.
Our mentorship passions are around supporting people with marginalized identities who have not been able to access affirming personal, educational, and professional development opportunities. You might want to work with our coaches if you are leading high school or undergraduate internships, or other similar bridging programs aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion.
Neurodivergent people, disabled people, and other marginalized humans often face a number of access barriers in traditional workplaces and often find it is better to freelance, be independent contractors, or start their own small business. If this resonates with you, you might want to work with one of our coaches to help you discover your passion, identify your pathway toward supporting yourself, and make meaningful steps toward working for yourself.
Pricing
Stronger U packages are highly customizable to your unique needs and budget. We will make recommendations on packages based on what we learn during our free consultation period and assessments with you. It is our goal to make your one-on-one sessions as affordable as we can while also honoring the needs of our coaches and organization. We are dedicated to our clients, investing in your program design 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. Packages are generally sold in 1-month trials or 6-month commitments and include 1, 2, or 3 sessions per week. The pricing scales below allow us to provide larger discounts to people who spend more time with us. All packages may be mixed and matched to meet your unique needs.
Why frequent meetings? Optimal coaching relies on mutual relationships built with your coach, which will often take some time to develop. 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.
Have more questions, or want to schedule your free consultation with a Stronger U coach? Let’s Connect!
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.
- Rate range: $25 – $38
- 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.
- Rate range: $48 – $74
- 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.
- Rate range: $90 – 140
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, we recommend:
- THRIVE Lifeline, for fully anonymous, non-carceral deescalation, grounding, safety planning, and general support conversations, 24/7/365.
- Text “STRONG” to +1.313.662.8209, from anywhere in the world. *THRIVE’s crisis response services are free, but please note that texting rates and international rates may apply.
- Additional non-carceral options may be found at this link.