Neurodiversity Affirming Coaching Family Coaching Academic Coaching Expressive Arts Expansion Brainspotting
A warm hello to all my neurodivergent community! Welcome to Individuals and families seeking somatic, expressive arts based, educational, or communication support. Welcome to anyone who has found this space and is interested in growth!
My name is Michelle, and I’m proudly a multiply neurodivergent practitioner who believes strongly in creating strength based support. I value neurodiversity as a natural and valuable part of human experience and reject deficit based frameworks. I aim to provide support that is celebratory and responsive to each person’s ways of learning, communicating, and relating. I value liberation psychology, with racial equity and anti-racist values as a central priority in my work. I value a collaborative approach and working together in ways that honor each person’s unique experiences, communication style, creativity, and ways of relating to the world.
For a more detailed description of the services I offer, please see the page below :)
It has been an honor to work with individuals and families for the past 15 years, in Educational, Arts based and Coaching based settings. It is my goal to listen to all voices in a family and collaborate together to form new habits and ways of communicating with each other and understaning each other. My master’s thesis explored support based expressive arts therapy for neurodivergent adolescents. currently pursuing my doctoral degree and continue to engage in ongoing study and exploration in the field of both neurodiversity studies and Family Systems Theory.
I’m trained in Brainspotting and it is my goal to offer a collaborative and expansive based approach! Brainspotting is a focused mindfulness approach that uses eye position and attention to support emotional and somatic processing. It works by helping individuals notice internal experiences in a contained and present centered way, supporting the mind body system’s natural capacity for regulation and integration. This process can create space for deeper awareness, emotional clarity, and meaningful shifts in how experiences are held and understood. (You can learn more here: https://brainspotting.com/about-brainspotting/)
To further expand on and integrate this somatic work, I incorporate expressive arts, metaphors, storytelling, and narrative based practices that support reflection and growth through meaning making. My hope is to create a space that feels affirming, collaborative, responsive, and centered in curiosity and connection.
I’m trained in DIR/Floortime, which offers a developmentally respectful, play-based approach that uses connection and relationship to support communication, emotional regulation, and social connection. It is an honor to bring this approach into my work with young people.
I named my practice Emerald Family Coaching. To some, Emeralds are associated with healing, renewal, and growth, Symbolizing heart-centered clarity, emotional balance, and the steady unfolding of inner wisdom over time. These are all blessings that I hope for every person I work with!
Important Note: The work I offer is coaching based, and is focused on growth, support, collaboration, and skill building centering family and personal well being rather than clinical diagnosis or treatment.
If you would like to book a complimentary 20 minute info session, feel free to email emeraldfamilycoaching@gmail.com
Thank you for your interest in my work.
~Offerings ~
Neorodiversity Affirming Coaching
Support grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm that centers each person’s lived experience, strengths, and support needs. The goal is focus on each persons well being, and internal experience rather than focusing only on the externall. We can work together to explore your goals in how you learn, communicate, and move through the world, and build approaches that feel respectful, sustainable, and aligned with who you are.
Family Coaching
A collaborative space for families looking to strengthen connection, communication, and understanding. We work together to make sense of patterns at home and develop ways of relating that feel more supportive, grounded, and expansive for everyone involved.
Academic Coaching
Individualized support for learning, and school basedl goals. This work focuses on practical and organizational strategies that are tailored to how each person learns best and exploring what support is needed. Count on growing confidence to be an advocate for yourself and to learn forms of requesting the accommodations you need to thrive.
If you or your child needs accommodations at school, University, or work environments, I would be happy to support you in requesting a 504 plan and/or exploring accommodation needs and options!
Expressive Arts
Creative, open ended activities that use creativity art making and expression to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences. This process can support insight, emotional regulation, and self understanding in ways that go beyond words.
Expansion Brainspotting
A gentle, focused mindfulness based approach that supports emotional processing and regulation. Working with the visual field, attention and the body’s somatic responses, this process allows space for deeper experiences to be explored at a pace that is led by you and feels safe and supported.
Financial Investment
I believe support should be accessible! While also honoring the time, energy, knowledge, creativity, and care that this work requires. I value autonomy, honest communication, and trust-building. With this in mind, I invite coaching participants to choose their own payment tier with honesty and integrity.
Sliding Scale
Full Price Rate — $188 per session This rate reflects the full value of sessions. If you are someone with financial stability, disposable income, or access to significant resources, you’re invited to choose this tier.
Mid Range Reduced Sliding Scale — $138 per session This tier may feel right if you are financially stable but still thoughtful about your spending and budgeting.
Reduced Rate Sliding Scale — $98 per session This rate is intended to support accessibility. You might choose this tier if paying more would create financial stress, or if you are navigating limited financial resources.
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Scholarship Spots — I hold a number of scholarship spots at the rate of $11.11. If you are experiencing financial instability, please feel welcome to reach out and ask if a scholarship spot is currently available!
Thank you for your care and integrity in choosing a tier that aligns with your current situation!
If you have the financial capacity to pay full price, or mid range you choosing these tiers with honestly, is something that helps sustain my continuing this work, and allows me to continue offering lower cost and scholarship spaces to create more access.
Thank you for your care and integrity in choosing a tier that aligns with your current situation!
