The Stuck Client Breakthrough Lab
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The Stuck Client Breakthrough Lab is for transformation nerds obsessed with getting exceptional results, especially with the most challenging clients and those due for a breakthrough.
Doors open early 2027
Dear Gifted Practitioner,
I know you were born with a gift and a mission and that this isn’t just a job to you. And now you want to:
- Become a Master Practitioner, reliably masterful with your clients—without the crushing weight of pressure, uncertainty, over-responsibility, and “gotta get it right”
- Offer the level of quality you know is in you while resting back into your seat
- Know exactly how to handle it when your client isn’t progressing, what to do when you feel them getting in their own way, and what to do when you’ve just ended a session thinking, “well, that didn’t work, what should I try next?”
- Know 100% that your client will leave transformed (and then tell everyone they know how good you are) without working so hard that you’re tapdancing circles around them
You CAN have this but not simply by relying on your giftedness or working the modality you were taught.
You know how you want your true capacity to come out in every session, but some sessions feel mechanical, lacking your true magic?
It’s not your fault. You need a place to do some important unlearning work with others in order to rise above what’s broken in the therapy, coaching, and wellness industries. And you need to learn how to create a Catalytic Dynamic.
That’s why I created The Stuck Client Breakthrough Lab for practitioners who want to be among the best of the best in our field.
Create a Catalytic Dynamic
I know you’re already good at relationship. You’ve worked on yourself. Skillful, balanced, self aware.
But the Practitioner-Client Dynamic is suuuuper unique and unlike any other relationship in our lives…and it’s not inherently catalytic. We have to know how to build it that way.
This relational dynamic is an ecosystem in which power dynamics are at play, one in which money is exchanged for a unique type of intimacy and caring (which can get complicated), and one in which the financial exchange means you as the practitioner get your own survival needs met too.
And all of this happens with trauma in the room, with pain in the room, with big stories in the room, with your own sensitivity in the room, with the fullness of human experience in the room. So…it’s a lot.
Finding balance and mastery within it takes its whole own dedicated study and I’m honored to help teach you how to create a Catalytic Dynamic with your clients.
I’m living proof that masterful client work without over-holding or stressful uncertainty is possible.
After 20 years as first a Coach then turned Somatic Psychotherapist, I’ve learned that the most important thing about confident, handle-anything, next-level client work isn’t about modality or about having a gift.
It’s all about becoming more relational and human in our work. That means mastering the super unique Practitioner-Client Dynamic. Because decades of research shows that the best client outcomes aren’t about modality, they’re about alliance—another way of saying they’re about the relational dynamic.
While you’ve been taught that your client’s outcomes are about them, the truth is that they’re also about you and the kind of dynamic you cultivate with them. Why? Because we’re social creatures and we’re all in this together.
Here’s the thing. We know that therapy, coaching, and wellness are broken. That’s why I created The Stuck Client Breakthrough Lab. Because I’m here for Gifted Practitioners who deeply care about their clients and want them to have life-changing experiences without having to absorb the hierarchy, pathologization, pressure, exploitation, and policing so rampant in our field.
We’re all capable of so much more and it can feel soooo much easier. Let’s go.
There’s a WAY better way.
Every difficult moment with a client—a power struggle, their resistance, their lackluster results, their pushback, their hesitation to implement what you discussed, the pressure you feel to solve it, the need to repair a hurt—all of it can be traced back to these hierarchical structures.
A way to create more symmetrical, respectful, productive, non-patriarchal, and humanized relationship dynamics that change the trajectory of your work completely, putting you at the level of skill you’ve seen from the most seasoned practitioners you’ve ever worked with.
If you’re willing to have a paradigm shift, build new skills, and be mentored in non-policing community around this new paradigm, your clients will get rave results and they’ll likely build your practice for you through referrals because you’ll be different from the rest. (Trust me, this is what happened for me and how I grew to full waitlists for nearly 2 decades). You’ll be able to sit back and trust yourself fully because you know you can handle whatever or whoever shows up in your sessions.
The New Way, in three sessions
The way you’ve been taught to work is woven through with thread after thread after thread of patriarchy, capitalism, and authoritarianism. Unbeknownst to you, you were taught to create hierarchy in a room where people are trying to heal from that very energy—and if you’re not careful, those threads will weave themselves right into the psyche of your clients and reinforce their pain rather than heal it.
From Hierarchy to Relationality
- Root patriarchy, capitalism, and authoritarianism out of your practice
- See clearly the particular ways you’ve internalized hierarchies that keep you and your clients from the breakthroughs you know you’re capable of facilitating
- Let go of perfectionism, overefforting, and self criticism and settle into the shared humanity of imperfection—necessary so that we can relate to our clients and to each other as we learn together
- Lay the groundwork for becoming more reciprocally relational and accessible to your clients (this is where the magic is!) without violating professional boundaries
Get Symmetrical and Congruent
- Learn how to understand your client’s withdrawal, resistance, inconsistency, or lack of follow-through and know exactly what to do to break through
- See what you personally can change to create more magic and flow in every single session without overworking
- Wrap yourself around the paradigm-shifting belief about your clients you should have been taught earlier (I call it Congruence) because it makes everything so much easier
- Know exactly what you need to do to rework your approach with your most challenging clients (and everyone else too!)
Build the Alliance
- Learn how to build an unbreakable Alliance—the very thing research shows gets the best client outcomes
- Establish a foundation with your clients that can withstand rupture, challenge, imperfection, and can even be stronger for it
- Learn how to challenge clients in a way that’s collaborative rather than oppositional
- Build an alliance that inspires and encourages breakthrough rather than you having to muscle it or serve it up perfectly
What practitioners are saying
The way my clients are having breakthroughs…
…it’s way more than I was ever able to provide for them.
— Client
I feel so much more capable and confident with my clients overall.
— Client
This has made me feel so much more confident in my own body of work. And, able to rest into that and stand for that, and I’m creating a group program out of that that feels better than ever. There’s not the try-hard I used to have. I’m really proud of it.
— Client
You’ll AI-proof your practice
In a time when everyone’s losing their minds over AI, but is also simultaneously more hungry for human warmth and relationality than ever before, you’ll AI-proof your practice because there will never ever ever ever ever be a time when folks don’t need respectful, human, warm, connected, non-hierarchical relationships with people who have grown and evolved…in order to help them grow and evolve.
Even the smartest robots will never be able to do this. They can help with how people think but they’ll never be able to do the deep, subterranean, experiential and relational work I know you have the potential to offer.
It’s the Catalytic Dynamic that’s the key. The relationship.
What other practitioners are saying
People are in really good hands when they’re booking a session with me and I don’t have any doubts about that, no matter what they’re bringing or how they’re showing up. And I definitely feel more that way now than when I started.
— Client
I used to worry, like, what if I let [my clients] down? Or what if they wish they hadn’t invested? Like, there used to be those thoughts, and now I have none of that. I’m 100% confident that this time and money they invest in our work is going to be worth it.
— Client
Through this work I’ve become so much more DEEPLY compassionate and peaceful within myself and my work. This is priceless. I feel an ease that has allowed my heart to come forward without fear and I feel empowered to give my gifts without compressing into pressure to get it ‘perfect’. This is huge for me.
— Client
More from practitioners
I feel a lot of hope for the future of my work.
— Client
I’m noticing how much watching/owning/outing my subtle “missteps” in our work together is actually BUILDING confidence, which is counter-intuitive, but real.
— Client
I feel like I have more tools now to work with situations where I feel a client plateau or get stuck, how to pace the way I offer reflections or insight, and how to bring more curiosity and effective questions into the space.
— Client
The shift, in their words
Wow, this is way beyond what I expected to be possible.
— Client
I feel a lot of confidence that I can create something more true to the type of spaceholder I have the capacity to be now.
— Client
It’s given me perspective as well as new tools to play with. I can feel a new sense of somatic steadiness in holding sessions, more efficiency in getting to the meat of our work and cleaner transmission of boundaries.
— Client
The Stuck Client Breakthrough Lab
For transformation nerds obsessed with getting exceptional results, especially with the most challenging clients and those due for a breakthrough.