1:1 Coaching
You know what you're doing isn't working for you. You keep doing it anyway.
Self-awareness isn't the problem. You know you need to make different choices, and yet you make the same ones again. It's not who you are. It's an out-of-date Mental Framework driving your decisions, and you can update it.
The work
Why do I keep doing it?
You may already know your history. You may understand your attachment style, your anxiety, your relationships, and why certain patterns developed.
Yet you overthink the interaction. You take on too much. You look outside yourself for reassurance. You assign meaning before you have enough information. You keep trying to make something work long after reality has given you new information.
You know what you're doing. The real question is: Why do I keep doing it?
That's where our work begins.
Why I do this
Too many people wait for someday.
We all know that person. The one who was going to take the trip, change the job, say the thing, after one more year. Someday kept moving, and life went on without them.
I'm Karen Symanowicz. I spent years as a licensed therapist, and I saw what clinical work does well: it keeps people safe. What I wanted for people was more than safe. I wanted them moving.
I'm a licensed mental health clinician, a behavioral coach and a Mental Framework strategist. My work sits in the space between understanding something and actually living differently.
So I coach now. I help people see the Mental Framework driving their decisions, name it, and choose what comes next. I'm not the expert of your life. You are. I bring the tools, the questions and the push.
“The pattern isn’t who you are. It’s a Mental Framework, and it can be updated.”
The method
Notice. Name. Override.
You already know what isn't working. You've read the books and tried the advice, then got pulled right back. What's usually missing is language for what's happening and a next move you'll actually make.
Notice
Catch the moment the old pattern shows up: the automatic yes, the extra task, the “I don't know.”
Name
Call it what it is. Once a Mental Framework has a name, you have room between it and you.
Override
Choose a different move in real life, then do it again until it holds.
Working together
Three sessions. Then you go live it.
I'm active in the room. You won't talk for 50 minutes while I nod. We'll look at what's happening, name the Mental Framework underneath it, question the assumptions shaping your response, and find a different move to make. Sometimes that means understanding the past, but the work is about how you want to live now.
No endless sessions. We meet every two weeks for six weeks, with experiments in between so something is already different by the time we talk again.
The first two sessions build momentum and accountability. The third looks at what's actually changed.
- Format
- 1:1, online
- Sessions
- 3, every two weeks
- Investment
- $250 per session
- Between sessions
- Real-world experiments
- After
- 30 days before reapplying
- Who it's for
- People willing to try
How to start
Coaching is by application.
I’m accepting 10 people, so each one gets my full attention. The only real requirement is willingness to try.
Start your update
Do Update Your Internal Operating System. It names the outdated Mental Framework driving your decisions and gives you a design to bring to coaching.
Apply
Send your Mental Framework results and describe what keeps happening, in your own words. I read every application myself.
Begin
If we're a fit, you'll get access to book your first session.
Prefer to work on your own?
Update Your Internal Operating System
Find the outdated Mental Framework driving your decisions, choose the new one you want in its place, and install it in six real-world moves. $44, one-time.