In a session, we chat about whatever you feel like, easy or difficult, fun or not so much. Free association conversation is our goal. Alongside that, I'll be working directly with your unconscious system, at levels so subtle they're not usually noticed.

I generally work virtually. The most progress is possible if you have both your camera and your sound on.

No. You just hang out, and we chat about whatever you've got on your mind. If you have specific things you'd like to talk about, we can talk about those, and if you want to mention things from the past, you can. Your intelligent, automatic unconscious system will be making use of your hidden strengths either way. You can even change the subject multiple times, ortake silent breaks. It's up to you.

It might. Only your own super intelligent, automatic unconscious system knows what self-healing it can do at any given time. It always has your very best overall function in mind, and that can mean there's a particular order of healing that will turn out best.

Yes.

No. I'm not a therapist, and Hidden Strengths Coaching is not a traditional mental health therapy. The single similarity to therapy is two people chatting.

None of what we do in your Hidden Strengths Coaching Sessions will cause pain. If a painful memory does come up, our goal is not to make it greater, or dig deeper into it.

We can certainly talk about anything you want to, and I can offer suggestions that might be helpful if you like, but the real work of Hidden Strengths Coaching is done by your own intelligent, automatic unconscious system, as it chooses what best next step it can take on your behalf.

While we're chatting, the little things I do often go unnoticed. They're just natural, flowing parts of our conversation. Clients often forget this work is even underway. As for feeling embarrassed, I will do my best not to ever cause embarrassment. If you choose to chat about something where you did feel embarrassed, that feeling might naturally come up, but it will not be something we dwell on, unless you choose to.

Each session is 60 minutes long.

I like to meet once a week, and prefer not to meet less than once every 2 weeks. This spacing gives your intelligent, automatic unconscious system time to do any self-healing or window of tolerance work, or capacity building, and be settled and ready again when we next meet.

You may not notice anything during your sessions. As far as whether you'll notice anything after your sessions, these 2 Introductory Sessions are meant to be an easy way you can try something new before deciding if you'd like to proceed. Some people do experience benefits after the first or second session, while others take more time. Yet whether you consciously experience anything or not, be assured that your unconscious system will experience some benefit.

When you spend time doing things you enjoy, that are healthy and non-addictive, your intelligent, automatic unconscious system gets a break, and has more energy for all the tasks it does for you, including more self-healing within.

So feel free to take breaks and enjoy yourself. You'll be aiding your unconscious system's healing work.

There's one other way you can help your unconscious system. During your day, if you feel like it, occasionally pause, and let one of your 5 senses "do whatever it wants to do" for just a bit. For instance, let your eyes go wherever they seem to want to go, or let your ears hear whatever they seem to want to hear. Just do this when and if it feels comfortable, with whatever of your 5 senses feels comfortable. Don't force this, because that will take away a little bit of your unconscious system's abilities to do its work.

Every once in a while, you might feel more weary or tired than usual for a day or to. This can happen if your unconscious has opened up a particularly large area that needs more work than usual. But this isn't typical. If you do feel more weary or tired during the couple days after a session, it just means there's some bigger good going on, so you can help by trying to give yourself whatever extra rest or sleep you seem to need.

The truth is that your unconscious system has the most energy to do its work when you're relaxed and not making much conscious effort. That's why we chat about whatever's on your mind in sessions, even if the subject skips around or goes silent. Because that's when your unconscious system has the most ability to do its work.

Your unconscious system has a map of every single part of you, every nook and cranny, and knows exactly how each intricate part works and fits together. It always has your very best overall functioning and health as its goal. And its own special intelligence tells it exactly which next steps are the very best for your this, given the available resources. It might just be rebuilding the foundation needed to support the next consciously noticed advance.

Your unconscious system prizes your safety. Because of this, it's kept you going through your life. At certain points, where it crucially needed more resources to keep you safe, it may have made compromises to do so. And these may have became permanent if that urgent need for safety was repeated. Many times a trade might have been necessary that handicaps one part of our unconscious system's overall functioning. So it can't keep doing all the things it did before. But this Hidden Strengths Coaching helps your unconscious return things to before any trade-offs became permanent.

During the session, it's not common to notice anything that seems like a change. You might notice a deep sigh, or perhaps warmth or tingling somewhere. These can be positive signs that your inner system is noticing, and doing its work.

But for you to notice something, it has to grow large enough to be consciously noticeable. And if your unconscious begins a shift at a microscopic level, this can take awhile. But once a change has gotten large enough for you to notice, it can be like you don't notice your muscles getting stronger while they're growing. You only notice when you happen to use the for something that used to be hard.

In the same way, with Hidden Strengths Coaching, you might notice that something different than usual happened as you look back over part of your day. You might realize you easily did something that used to be hard, or that hasn't been possible, and that you didn't even think about it before or during. It just happened.

Eventually, with the help of Hidden Strengths Coaching, your unconscious system will give you automatic strength to feel firm in your right to be, to show up as yourself, and to start really living.

Along the way, it helps your unconscious automatically increase your bandwidth and your capacity - for conscious and unconscious tasks. You'll experience more resilience and more stress tolerance, and you'll likely find yourself doing more things more easily than you used to.

Your intelligent, automatic unconscious system would be best able to answer that. Some people begin to notice these things after a few months of Hidden Strengths Coaching, others after nearer to a year, and some even longer. Each person's unconscious and personal history is unique, and it all plays a part.

No. Unlike muscles that become strong or weak depending on how much you use them, the positive changes your intelligent unconscious system makes with the help of Hidden Strengths Coaching will be permanent.

Hidden Strengths Coaching pairs well with other healing modalities. It requires no conscious effort, and it supports your automatic unconscious body-mind system at its very foundations. It may even be likely that this work will bolster the effectiveness of other healing modalities, because your unconscious will be increasing your bandwidth and capacity, and becoming more and more able to do whatever you're needing.

If you're especially concerned, please check with your mental health and/or medical providers. And feel free to share Lisa's contact information with them. She is always happy to provide more details.