Nerdy, queer, psychological. In the past four years, I helped over 600 clients navigate through life and relationship problems with my no-frills, evidence-based approach to coaching. Aside from my coaching work, I am also a psychosocial support specialist in training, a researcher, and a clinical psychology graduate student. My different roles alongside my 9 years of education in psychology allow me to see, understand, and appreciate the change process from different standpoints — what works in effectively achieving goals (the coach's perspective), what works in improving mental health and well-being (the therapist's perspective), and what works in paving ways for positive changes at the systems and organizational level (the perspective of a researcher assessing mental health programs). I advocate for sustainable and meaningful change. Given my psychology education and training, I utilize therapeutic approaches in my coaching work. I collaborate with clients on working towards their goals using methods from both cognitive-behavioral and existential perspectives.