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Write me at [email protected] and ask for the free 45-min consultation.
I'll leave you feeling better, clearer, and more empowered than when we began.
Or use the button below to self-schedule online.
Write me at [email protected] and ask for the free 45-min consultation.
I'll leave you feeling better, clearer, and more empowered than when we began.
Or use the button below to self-schedule online.
The testimonials on this page are from people who've coached with me over the years, starting in 2010. You'll note that many come out of Ithaca, New York, where I lived for a bit longer than a decade. I now coach only by video and am based in KC to take part in eldercare for my mother.
It took me a while to believe that it was okay to publish names and photos and even web links identifying people offering testimonials, given the private nature of our work together. All current testimonials (see button just below) do offer that info, and some are in video format.
Photo by Z of Z Walsh Photography, NYC 2022
A bit of my personal story is here: My Adventures in Inquiry and Trust
You can also learn more about me and what happens between me and my clients in my book, Scooch!: Edging into a Friendly Universe, available as an e-book or paperback.
You can also learn more about me and what happens between me and my clients in my book, Scooch!: Edging into a Friendly Universe, available as an e-book or paperback.
My joyful self-outing statement: I'm a cisgendered woman and identify as queer or lesbian. I'm also mama to a trans-man who took the pic above. I welcome all human beings of any gender identity or sexual orientation to my practice. Among many other experiences, I've had the privilege of coaching a few people coming out later in life and working to extricate themselves from a straight lifestyle and identity, and I love getting to do that work. I've coached queer and straight people of all kinds (various ages, races, nationalities, genders, etc.) and continue to derive great pleasure, satisfaction, and enrichment from the diversity in my practice.
I'm currently most reveling in the work I get to do with clients who want to better understand and apply the teachings of Abraham-Hicks.
"Thank you for showing myself to me. Your approach is gentle, self-honoring, and baldly honest all at once. I deeply appreciate your respect and non-judgment of any and all topics in our conversations. It can't be overstated how much value your honest, fearless observation brings to your coaching. It freed me to do the same while talking with you. This has been a liberating, grounding, and fundamentally empowering experience."
— Connecticut client
"In the past, I've experienced many 'therapeutic' sessions and processes, but no one has cut to the the core like you have, and I like that you do not coddle me, you do not pacify me: you challenge and energize me. I am so thankful that our paths have crossed, because you (okay, you are a bit intimidating at first) have awakened me."
— Ithaca, New York client
"Jaya, you say I move forward so fearlessly after our sessions. That really is how it feels, like the way just opens up and I can freely ZOOM ahead."
— North Carolina client
"What makes coaching such a valuable experience for me (as opposed to therapy—even with a very good therapist) is that I get to hear a little about you. You are not some lofty PhD who remains distanced from me (in the name of professionalism) so that I always wonder who they are, what similar experience, if any, they might have had, or what are they really thinking when they talk. You're a real person who really did what I am trying to do. That's pretty inspiring."
— Ithaca, New York client
— Connecticut client
"In the past, I've experienced many 'therapeutic' sessions and processes, but no one has cut to the the core like you have, and I like that you do not coddle me, you do not pacify me: you challenge and energize me. I am so thankful that our paths have crossed, because you (okay, you are a bit intimidating at first) have awakened me."
— Ithaca, New York client
"Jaya, you say I move forward so fearlessly after our sessions. That really is how it feels, like the way just opens up and I can freely ZOOM ahead."
— North Carolina client
"What makes coaching such a valuable experience for me (as opposed to therapy—even with a very good therapist) is that I get to hear a little about you. You are not some lofty PhD who remains distanced from me (in the name of professionalism) so that I always wonder who they are, what similar experience, if any, they might have had, or what are they really thinking when they talk. You're a real person who really did what I am trying to do. That's pretty inspiring."
— Ithaca, New York client
You are warm, professional, knowledgeable, firm when needed (which is invaluable!), honest and direct. I have LOVED working with you and I think that the world is a better place because you are in it!
— Brooklyn, New York client
"The way that you challenge people’s language and words and thinking is unique in that you gracefully call them out on their victimhood, whining, preconceived notions, etc., and turn it around all the while remaining positive and allowing the person to feel safe. You really helped me to be able to challenge myself on my own after going through it enough times with you."
— Ithaca, New York client
"Jaya, the 5 months I have worked with you have been like riding the express train to my dreams. I love that all of the answers have come from within me, have resonated with the truth that is deep in my core, and you are like the most skilled, compassionate, and wise interpreter—leading me gently toward my truth, pointing out important signs along the way, re-framing perceived obstacles, and supporting me in not getting lost in the jungle of my busy mind.
"Your full-bodied listening and wise insights are a balm to my anxious heart, and the quickness & ease with which I have breezed through old fears and obstacles has been so amazing and freeing. I have gone from having a secret, long-standing dream to making it a reality in the last month and a half. You are the catalyzing variable to my success!"
— Breana Cross, Oregon
(Breana's passion is to keep sign-language interpreters out of burnout)
"Your full-bodied listening and wise insights are a balm to my anxious heart, and the quickness & ease with which I have breezed through old fears and obstacles has been so amazing and freeing. I have gone from having a secret, long-standing dream to making it a reality in the last month and a half. You are the catalyzing variable to my success!"
— Breana Cross, Oregon
(Breana's passion is to keep sign-language interpreters out of burnout)
"My heart is full of gratitude for your clear and consistent coaching. I have never felt so completely 'at the helm' of my life as I do tonight. As if I know, at my very center, that all is possible ... and that all is so good. All of it. I feel washed clean—of unnecessary shame, of the mental rhetoric, but more than that, of my very story and its ability to bind me. Jaya, you have this uncanny ability to reflect back to me my smoke and mirrors. And then I can see my life (and everything else!) in a whole new way.
"I never realized just how long I had been spinning my wheels in the same old mind-cycles! But sitting down with you, I know you are always going to cut right to the marrow of it. You help me to unwrap the hidden gifts that my life hurdles present.
"Jaya, you coached me through something so painful, but so triumphant today. You compassionately stood beside me and midwifed me through one of my darkest moments. And then, with your usual bright smile and warm laugh, you sent me back into my life with a trusting, joyful and wide-open heart again."
— Ithaca, New York client
"I am grateful to receive your blessings. They feel nourishing, allowing me to safely unfold and find my potential. It is helpful to see my goodness through someone else's eyes while still gazing into a mirror discovering my own reflections."
— Pennsylvania client
"I never realized just how long I had been spinning my wheels in the same old mind-cycles! But sitting down with you, I know you are always going to cut right to the marrow of it. You help me to unwrap the hidden gifts that my life hurdles present.
"Jaya, you coached me through something so painful, but so triumphant today. You compassionately stood beside me and midwifed me through one of my darkest moments. And then, with your usual bright smile and warm laugh, you sent me back into my life with a trusting, joyful and wide-open heart again."
— Ithaca, New York client
"I am grateful to receive your blessings. They feel nourishing, allowing me to safely unfold and find my potential. It is helpful to see my goodness through someone else's eyes while still gazing into a mirror discovering my own reflections."
— Pennsylvania client