Your young adult is brilliant. And you wake up to the same MondayYou watch the essays not go in. You watch the laundry pile up. You watch the wallet go missing againYour young adult is trying. The professionals you have already seen are doing their work. You are watching what happens when no one was ever doing the assemblyI do the assembly. I rebuild the operating system around how they actually operate, their environment, and the specific shape of their life16 to 28 year olds
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Who I work with,
and what's actually broken
If you are reading this, your young adult has probably already been through a list. Tutors. Coaches. Therapists. Diagnosis. Medication. You watched some of them help. You watched none of them reach the underlying problemYou are looking at a missing assembly, not a missing skill. Brilliant people fall apart when they have to run four systems at once (academic, operational, emotional, relational) and no one was ever wiring those systems together. The professionals you have already seen are each doing their part. None of them does the wholeI build that whole
How I work
I work with each young adult in 8-week phases (about two months each). Sessions are weekly. At the end of each phase, both of us decide whether to continue. I ask for a minimum commitment of two phases, which is four months. Most clients stay with me for twelve to twenty-four months because we are rebuilding multiple systems in parallel (academic, operational, emotional, relational) under live pressure: exams, internships, the move to college, a deadline, a breakupI work solo, with one young adult at a time. I build the work around their actual brain and their actual life, not around a curriculumI graduate clients. I do not retain them. Neither of us has to commit past one phase. We close on the day they hold the assembly together without me
Client Stories - (3 anonymized composites to protect the privacy of my clients)
The 18-year-old running a business through her first year of college
She was 18 when she came to me. First year of college, plus a custom baking business she ran on social media. She handled the baking, the orders, and the deliveries. She could not handle the back office. She did not send invoices. She did not track stock. She chased customers and apologised in cyclesShe had information from previous therapists. She could not make any of it work on a Tuesday. She had no structure between knowing and doingWe rebuilt the back office around how she actually starts a task. She broke the pile-up-and-apologise loop. She ran the business as long as she wanted to run it. She closed it on her own terms and went overseas
The young adult who lost the system on both fronts
She came to me carrying years of bullying. No friends. No signal for who to trust. She was moving into college, which is not high school. She could not run the academic operating system, and she could not run the social one either. Earlier professionals had treated the two as separate problems. They were one problem with two surfacesWe rebuilt both layers in parallel. Scripts for lecturers and project-mates. Friendship-tier sorting: who to keep, who to distance from, who to drop. Interest-group entry points. When she retreated from messages into the game she played, I met her inside the gameBefore ComicCon, we rehearsed what to do, what to refuse, what counts as a red flag, when to callNow, she has friends in different circles for different needs, and scripts for the situations she used to feel anxious about
The young architect whose career was on the line
A few years past registration. Strong portfolio, demanding projects, late nights. They did good work. They could not handle anything around the work. They could not arrive at the office on time the next morning, despite working until one. They could not stay on top of the administrative tail (drawings to finalise, authority submissions, client follow-ups). They were about to lose the job despite the quality of the workWe rebuilt the wrapper. Sleep, transitions, the administrative cadence, scripts for protecting themselves in office politics. We hit a second layer partway through: dating. They were repeating the same executive-function pattern in partner choice. They were misreading bad fits as good ones in the moment. We sorted hormones from compatibilityThey kept the job. They are on track for promotion. They left the unsuitable relationship behind
Working with me
I offer 2 types of engagements
The Clarity Session is a 1 time diagnostic | The Foundation Program is structural rebuilding over multiple phases
Either way, we start with a Discovery Call
Clarity Session
$450 for 2 people, $600 for 3 people
90 minutes
One-time diagnosticI profile how a person is actually wired underneath their surface behaviour. I call this the default operating system. Some people are built more like a Mac, some like a Linux, some like a Windows. None of them is wrong. They are running on different architecture. When two people misread each other's architectures, you get most of the conflict at homeMost often a parent comes wanting to understand how their young adult is geared. They come to see the wiring where they were reading resistance, laziness, or rudeness. Sometimes a couple comes after years of marriage counseling, still having the same argumentSometimes a couple comes before a commitment, wanting to know what they would be committing to. Sometimes a family comes.
You leave with a clear read on the wiring underneath. Once you stop misreading the architecture, you have less friction at homeThe session is for two or three people. Larger families book a separate session for the additional members.
This is not therapy and not a course of work. If your young adult needs structural rebuilding next, that is the Foundation Program
Foundation Program
$2,000 per month8-week renewable phasesMinimum 4 months (2 phases)Typical engagement 12 to 24 monthsWhat's included each month:
- Weekly 60-minute sessions
- Written summary after each session
- Email support, 3-business-day response
- No unlimited messaging. Focused, structured workAt the end of each phase, both of us decide whether to continue
What I'm not
Not a coach.
Not a therapist.
Not a medical professional.
Not a tutor.
Not a quick fix.
I do not treat grief, unprocessed trauma, or clinical depression
If that's what you need in the current phase, I will refer you to appropriate support. My work is strategic, not therapeutic
How to start
I take on a small number of young adults at a time, and I do not take all of themBefore we engage, we have a 20-minute call. I want to understand where you are, whether the young adult is ready for the work I do, and whether I am the right person for the engagement. You want to see whether we fitSometimes I say "not yet." That is a real call, and often the young adult needs something else in place first before they can work on the structure
Background, and how to reach me
Applied strategist who diagnoses for a living. A decade at the bench in biology research (mouse genetic models in obesity, diabetes, neurobiology). Next career phase in strategy, from funding management to design-thinking facilitation for decision makers in government. From that double background I bring scenario planning, classical strategy, and design thinking into the operating-system rebuild. The same wiring my clients have, lived from the insideWorking at reduced volume since chemotherapy ended in 2025
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