My office address and contact information are in the blue box in the right colum of this page. I hope the rest of this page answers some basic questions about my office, myself, and my Life Coaching pratice.

Monday through Thursday, morning until 8 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday, beginning at 9 am. Wednesday, beginning at 10 am. Thursday, beginning at 11 am.

Saturday office hours—10 a.m. until 3 p.m.—are available for clients who want to meet in my office but have a one-hour commute or more. These hours are also available for local clients who need a make-up session, because the previous work week had been too busy to schedule an appointment.

Note: I do not schedule free consultation meetings on Saturdays; if you have more than a one-hour commute, consider using Skype or phone for your consultation meeting.

My office is located at the Meadow Mill building, which is within walking distance of The Avenue and Falls Road in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, and is a short drive from the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus. It's conveniently located next to RT 83 near the Coldspring Lane exit—three exits south of RT 695.

Following these paragraphs, there are maps of the location; click on either map to receive more directions.

Locating the building, its entrance, and the part of the parking lot to use can be a little confusing. Please leave an extra 15 minutes for finding your way through the parking lot and building. Here are a few notes to assist you:

1. Take Falls Road to Union Avenue

   Union Avenue is in between 36th Street (the Avenue) and 38th Street. It's in between a McDonalds and a Rite Aid, both located on the same side of the street as Union.

   If traveling south on Falls, look for a "Meadow Mill Athletic Club" sign painted on the side of a yellow row house soon after you pass the McDonalds.

2. Turn left at the third stop sign on Union

   This turn is immediately in front of the RT 83 overpass and puts you on Clipper Mill Road. If you go under the highway and reach the Light Rail crossing, you've gone one block too far.

3. Almost immediately, in approximately 30 yards, take your first right under the highway

   This turn brings you across a wooden bridge, and has you facing the back of Meadow Mill office building. There is no sign on the road or on the bridge that says "3600 Clipper Mill Road."

4. Take a left in the parking lot and slowly drive completely around the building to the opposite side

   You'll be driving past the athletic club located at one end of the building, and the path gets very narrow before turning your first corner. Turn the second corner, follow the building, and you should see the Woodbury Light Rail stop above you to your left.

   The first two "office building" pictures in the right column were taken from the Light Rail stop looking down at this part of the parking lot.

5. Park anywhere

   The entrance to the building is a set of green doors with a few steps leading up to them and with an awning overhead; it's located to the left of the loading dock. Go through the doors, up the stairs to the second floor, and take your first right down the hallway. (If you take the elevator, exit and take your first left down the hallway.)

   I'm in Suite 240 at the end of that hall; my name is next to the door.

Click here for detailed directions for those coming north toward Baltimore on RT 295 or RT 95.

Although clients doing different types of work pay different fees, you can get unstuck for as little as $170 a month! This price includes a meeting scheduled every two weeks; meetings are one hour in length. This price also includes email and phone coaching in between sessions, and an optional resume edit.

In addition, you can save money by paying months in advance, and you can earn up to 2 free months a year by referring a new client to me.

To put this in perspective, budget for six months of working together; all of my clients make excellent progress in that amount of time. Now, absolutely, that would cost more than pocket change...but compare it to what stuck people do to fight boredom, distract themselves, and avoid discomfort.

Compare it to buying a car during a mid-life crisis. Compare it to six months of using alcohol, cigarettes, and other substances. How about plastic surgery or liposuction? Hanging out in bars for companionship? Also, compare it to other less skilled or more expensive life coaches—I knew of one who urged people to pay $5,000 for three months, because "unless you make a serious commitment to the work, you won't get serious results." (I don't know about you, but I have a hard time taking him seriously.)

How much is it worth to you to feel and experience more flow, peace of mind, happiness, and success? When you look at it that way, I think you'll find working with me to be reasonable, do-able, and money well spent.

So, don't let fear of finances stand in the way of at least coming in for a free consultation. Let's talk about it. If we're a great fit for working together, then there is almost always a way of working through the financial issues.

Finally, here are some some answers to other questions about fees....

I offer specially priced packages for a few meetings tightly focused on one goal, such as resume writing or interview coaching (click here for more information).

I provide personal-development services, not medical services. Because I do not provide medical services, I do not accept medical health insurance. If using your health insurance is very important to you, please consult with a psychotherapist, mental health counselor, or medical practitioner about possibly getting your counseling needs met through the medical community.

I am not aware of any insurance-accepting psychotheraists or mental health counselors who have an approach that is close to mine. If you want to seek that out, you can begin your search by clicking here—you can use this website to browse social-work counselors. I wish you the very best with your search!

Although negotiated and temporary fee adjustments do happen, I do not offer a traditional sliding scale—speak with me for more information about ways to save money while working with me.

I maintain a higher level of confidentiality than that provided by psychotherapists and mental health counselors. There are no embarrassing diagnoses or recorded personal details; what you say to me stays with me—with exceptions determined by ethical codes and legal dictates, which deal mainly with saving lives, or preventing the abuse of children and elders.

Many of my clients enjoy using modern conveniences in our work together: they work remotely with me by phone, they work remotely with me using computer video conferencing (Skype), and they enjoy the convenience of using email to ask questions or review the progress of their projects in between sessions.

If you use any of these methods of working with me, please realize that confidentiality is less secure than in-person meetings in my office. I will do my part to secure our communications—speaking on the phone or on Skype alone in a room with a closed door, password protecting my computer, and so on.

Realize also that there is a slight chance that communications across the Internet can be intercepted—it is very technically difficult to do, but it is possible. You may also want to familiarize yourself with ways of permanently deleting sensitive communications from your computer: delete items from your Recycle Bin and "deleted" email folder, and then compress your hard disk.

Generally, if you can save the most sensitive of conversations for meetings in my office, that would be best. For people working with me remotely, if you can save the most sensitive of conversations for phone calls, that would be best.

I have 15+ years of Counseling and Life Coaching experience, I had a 24+ year career in high tech as a software technical writer—including experience as a hiring manager, I am an experienced workshop developer and leader, I have a Master's degree from Boston University in Clinical Social Work—a Counseling degree, and I was previously licensed as a clinical social worker in the state of Massachuetts. Please note that I am not licensed to provide medical, mental-health counseling in the state of Maryland. For more information, please see my resume.

My clients' goals are most often something specific whose progress you can see or measure, such as dating more, finding a compatible partner, advancing your career, changing your career, or making more money. They can be smaller goals, as well, such as losing weight or quitting smoking.

Sometimes the goals can be more about feeling happier in your life; examples include wanting to be less shy and make more friends, learning to let go of workaholism or perfectionism, needing to reduce stress, or wanting to be calmer during your daily commute. As you can see, personal goals can be just about anything that you want to bring into being in your life.