Disclaimer

This is not therapy

Even though I am a licensed psychotherapist, nothing on this website—and none of my coaching services—should be considered therapy, mental health treatment, or medical advice.

When you engage with my coaching, programs, emails, or content, you are not entering into a therapist-client relationship with me.

Coaching and therapy are different.

Therapy often focuses on diagnosis, treatment, and healing mental health conditions
Coaching is focused on growth, awareness, and forward movement

Both are valuable—but they are not the same.

Coaching is not a substitute for mental health care

If you are struggling with significant anxiety, depression, trauma, or any mental health condition, please seek support from a licensed mental health professional in your area.

You deserve that level of care.

Educational and informational only

Everything shared here—whether on this website, in emails, on social media, or inside my programs—is intended for educational and informational purposes only.

I share tools, perspectives, and strategies that have helped me and my clients.

But you are responsible for how you apply them.

No guarantees

I’m committed to giving you powerful tools and support.

But I can’t guarantee:

specific outcomes
timelines
or results

Your transformation depends on many factors, including your own effort, readiness, and life circumstances.

Personal responsibility

By engaging with this content and my services, you acknowledge that:

You are responsible for your own decisions, actions, and results
You will use your judgment in applying anything shared here
You release me from liability for outcomes related to your use of this information

If you need immediate support

If you are in crisis or need urgent mental health support, please contact:

a licensed therapist
your doctor
or a local emergency service

You don’t have to handle that alone.

Questions?

If you have questions about this disclaimer or how I work, you can reach me at:
[email protected]

Updated April 29, 2026.

Introduction and Summary

We want to make it easy for you to understand what information we collect from you, what we do with it, and how you can request access to this information.

We believe this is a best practice to maintain transparency and trust with our website visitors and clients, and it just so happens that this complies with the laws of many countries around the world, too. If you have questions about this policy, you can contact us at [email protected].

We collect as little information from you as possible for a specific and identifiable purpose, and then we commit to using this information only in the way we have specified. When you visit this site, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy, the collection of information identified in this policy, and you always have the ability to opt out.

What Personal Information We Collect and When

We collect information so that we can make our products and services better tailored to the people who visit our site and do business with us. We collect this information to (i) deliver products and services you have purchased from us, (ii) to notify you about our product or service offerings that you may be interested in, so long as you have given us consent to do so, and (iii) to keep track of visitor information to our site and/or or create retargeted and “lookalike” audiences for advertising purposes.

We collect information from you directly and indirectly through third-party services, as follows:

When you contact us...

With questions or comments in the contact form.
When you comment on a post directly on the website.
To request more information, schedule a telephone call, or sign up to the newsletter.
To place an order for products or services.
To receive your product or services.

When we contact you...

To provide the goods and services you requested.
To request occasional feedback.
To provide news, updates, and offers through the newsletter, usually by email.

When we contact others...

We may see certain personal information from third party apps and services that allow us to complete your order.
We may see certain personal information from third party installations that allow us to remarket our services and products to you on other websites.
We may see certain personal information from third party apps and services that allow us to monitor website traffic, email conversion, and other analytics data.
We may see your personal information when we work with third party processors, like our email provider and web host. For EU residents, please note that this means we may transmit your data across international borders.

Your Privacy Controls

We may use third-party services on our websites to assist in communicating or interacting with the public, including social media services, widgets, apps, pixels, and plugins, as further identified below. These services may distinguish or trace your identity, through, for example, persistent, multi-session cookies.

You can configure your system to delete cookies or disable them. In general, we do not collect or disseminate information collected by these services. When interacting with these third parties, their privacy policies apply. As of the time of this writing, we use:

Google Analytics: Specifically, Google Analytics collects data about visitors to the Site via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to other data which may be collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. We do not merge personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature. Should you wish to opt out of any Google Analytics Advertising features, you are encouraged to change your Ad Settings and Ad Setting for mobile apps, through the NAI’s consumer opt-out, or by using any of the other opt-out options currently available: currently available opt-outs.
Facebook pixels. More information is available here and here.

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect information about the pages you view and your activities on the site. They enable the site to recognize you by, for example, remembering your user name, offering a shopping cart, or keeping track of your preferences if you visit the site again. The cookie transmits this information back to the website's computer (or server) which generally is the only computer that can read it. You can set your Web browser to warn you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, or to limit the type of cookies you allow. See also more information on how to change cookies settings in popular desktop browsers.

This site uses single and multi-session cookies to enhance the visitor experience. Use the link above to opt out.
This site does not sell or share its email list for use by third parties.

If you choose to opt out of some or all of our data collection, you may not be able to access all features of this website or our services.

Keeping Your Information Secure

We store personal information with third parties that use industry standard practices for data security.

Your Rights to Your Information

You own your personal information and have rights to it. For example, you have the rights to:

- Withdraw your consent for us to market our products and services to you and otherwise use the personal information you have provided to us. Withdrawing consent is easy. Simply click “unsubscribe” in the footer of our emails, or [email protected].

- Request a copy of the information we have about you;

- Be forgotten (that is, have your data deleted and/or ask us to stop using your information for any purpose);

- Correct inaccurate information we have about you (and that means we will notify other service providers we use, and who hold your personal information for us, of those changes as well);

- Object to direct marketing and profiling (for example, we will remove you from our email list and from any list we have uploaded for the purposes of creating custom or retargeted audiences). We also encourage you to disable data collection services on your browser;

- Make complaints about the use of your data to regulatory authorities.

We will comply with these requests within 30 days.

Compliance

We make commercially reasonable efforts to work with data controllers (like our email provider) who guarantee compliance with privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

We store your personal information only for as long as it is needed to use it for the reasons you have consented to.

Occasionally we will revise this policy and will use your contact information to notify you of these changes if they reduce your privacy rights in any way.

Our data protection officer is Shelley Martinez, [email protected].

Updated April 21, 2025.