Writing Coaching for People Who Think Differently

Think of me as a relationship counselor for you and your writing process...

I'll help you write better, more easily, and more powerfully. And along the way, I'll help you create a writing process that you love.

I have worked with accomplished and well-published writers, people who have barely written anything at all, and everyone in between. What all my clients have in common is that they are brilliant people who want to write with more ease, clarity, and power, and they want their writing process to be sustainable and even enjoyable.

At the heart of my coaching practice is a combination of two things working in concert:

• The tools and techniques that I honed in nearly a decade of teaching writing at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in writing and neurodiversity.
• The experience and deep listening to help you pinpoint exactly what you need: your unique strengths, who you are and who you are becoming, the hard points in your writing, and what you need to move forward with your goals.

And as a guide when something you're writing, or want to write, brings you to a threshold.

Most of the people I work with come to me at a what I call a threshold moment. They’re moving into a next phase of their work, their practice, or their sense of themselves, and it needs to be expressed in writing. 

It might be a grant proposal that could open a new chapter of your career, an application to go back to school or a promotion packet, a book project that formalizes the methodology you've spent decades building, a promotion packet, a practice statement, even a résumé. 

My work is to guide people through that moment: I will help you write materials that are excellent, so that you get the job, the grant, the book contract. And also the writing itself becomes part of the transformation: you will come away from working with me with a much deeper sense of who are you are, who you are becoming, and how to express that in the world.

We would be a particularly good fit if any of the following resonate with you:

• You are great at your job but dread the parts of it that involve writing.
• You have been told you're a "good" writer, but find the whole process very stressful and unpleasant.
• You feel held back in your writing by anxiety and/or perfectionism.
• The room lights up when you talk to people, but the words fall flat when you try to capture them in writing.
• Writing always seems harder than it "should" be and you don't know why.
• You identify as neurodivergent (autism, ADHD, etc) with or without diagnosis.
• You are working on a piece of writing that represents a threshold in your career or life (e.g. a grant, a fellowship application, a promotion packet, a grad school application, a statement, a new publication).