COACHING PACKAGE
Exploration & Clarity:
Finding a Path Forward
Some things deserve to be done intentionally.
A thoughtful space to slow down, take an honest look at where you are, gain insight, focus on what matters, and begin to move forward.
Is This Package for You?
This is good for you if…
You’re at a crossroads and feel the weight of needing to “figure it out,” but aren’t sure where to start.
You’re craving clarity, not quick fixes, and want the space to think deeply while still making meaningful progress.
You feel stuck in indecision, overthinking, or competing priorities and want structured support to move forward.
You know there’s more alignment possible in your life or work, but you haven’t been able to translate that into a clear direction yet.
You value a thoughtful, collaborative process that blends reflection, strategy, and accountability.
You’re ready to commit to a consistent rhythm of growth over the next three months—and want guidance you can trust.
You want to leave not just with insight, but with a clear, realistic roadmap built around what actually matters to you.
This may not be a good fit if…
You’re looking for someone to tell you exactly what to do or make decisions for you.
You want a quick burst of motivation without doing deeper reflection or follow-through.
You’re not ready to examine your values, patterns, or assumptions—and how they shape your choices.
You prefer a completely unstructured or casual approach rather than a guided, intentional process. OR you are in search of therapy.
You’re unable to commit time between sessions to think, reflect, and apply what we uncover.
You’re looking for guaranteed or immediate outcomes rather than steady, supported progress toward clarity.
You’re not yet ready to take ownership of your next steps, even with support in place. You need a little more time.
A 12-Week Supported Journey
WEEKS 1-3
The Starting Point
Explore with intention and understanding.
Focus
- Building a supportive environment and relationship with your coach
- Learning the structured way forward to support your journey ahead
- Clarifying the specific issue or decision
- Exploring your strengths, values, goals, and priorities
This phase creates a strong foundation with someone you can work through it with.
WEEKS 4-6
Obstacles and Growth
Understanding what shapes the situation.
Focus
- Exploring your current thinking from multiple angles
- Noticing where things feel aligned or misaligned
- Identifying constraints and competing demands
- Begin understanding patterns, tensions, and assumptions
This phase gains insights about obstacles to plan for using personalized skills and tools.
WEEKS 7-9
Experimenting
Engaging the real decisions and tensions of daily life.
Focus
- Testing perspectives and options with micro experiments
- Working through the core issue more directly
- Considering what is realistic within your life
- Work to develop a growth mindset
This phase is where we experiment and gain more information to see what will work with your life.
WEEKS 10-12
Direction & Forward Movement
Shaping what comes next.
Focus
- Defining two meaningful areas of focus
- Building practical, realistic, immediate next steps through collaborative goal setting
- Summarize the coaching journey with clarity takeaways
This phase is getting you ready for the next steps and creating momentum toward your goals.
Timeline Notes
Plans
This process is not about arriving at a final answer.
It is about having a clearer understanding and a way to continue moving forward intentionally.
Our work together is designed to help you better understand yourself, not simply to find quick answers. We’ll explore your values, strengths, goals, obstacles, and patterns so you can make decisions with greater confidence and intention.
By the end of the program, you’ll have actionable tools, deeper self-awareness, and two clearly defined goals to focus your efforts. You’ll also have a clearer picture of the resources and strengths you already possess to navigate challenges moving forward.
While meaningful progress can happen quickly, sustainable change takes time. The purpose of this process is not to create an instant transformation, but to help you build the foundation, skills, and momentum needed for long-term growth.
The most lasting changes are often the result of small, intentional actions repeated consistently over time.
What begins to change
Why now?
We often wait until we feel completely burnt out to seek support. You don’t have to wait for a crisis to decide to move forward with more intentionality.
Over time, our clients often notice a shift in:
CLARITY
The confusion and overwhelm become defined and understandable.
AGENCY
Vague issues become workable problems with specific paths of action.
RESILIENCE
Decisions become less reactive and more grounded in your core values.
MOMENTUM
There is finally less stress and a way to move forward with purpose and clarity.
The work doesn’t remove challenges entirely. It helps you see them more clearly, changes your relationship with them, and shifts your mindset.
Why Work With Us
Insight and the path forward don’t come from being rushed or from voices telling you what you “should” do. It comes from being thoughtfully guided through the right questions, at the right pace, in a space where you can actually hear yourself and gain the tools and structure to make change.
At Of Iron & Willow, this work is designed to be both grounded and meaningful, where reflection leads to action.
What makes this experience different is the way it blends warmth with structure.
There’s care in how each session is held and structured.
You’ll notice the difference in ways like:
- Thoughtful questions that help you understand why you’re stuck, not just what to do next
- A clear process that keeps you moving forward, learning through experiments, and taking a growth mindset
- Gentle accountability that turns insight into measurable change over time
- A balance of emotional awareness and practical next steps
Your life isn’t reduced to a checklist, but it also doesn’t stay abstract.
This is a space where your experiences, values, and circumstances are taken seriously, while also being organized into something you can act on.
If you’ve been craving both understanding and a structured approach to moving forward, this is where those two come together.
Your Coach
Outside of Coaching: You can find them climbing rocks, hiking, traveling, leaning into quality time, reading a good book, or getting lost in a modern board game.
Nika Anwell, Ph.D., BCC, LPCC, NCC, RYT200 (she/they)
Nika’s Approach: Person-centered, structured, creative, educational, and data-informed, with heart at the center. I offer deep, steady support while honoring exactly where you are right now.
Nika believes that most people don’t need fixing. They need space to think, room to breathe, and support as they reconnect with themselves.
Drawing from her background in counseling, coaching, public health, and evaluation, Nika helps clients navigate seasons of uncertainty with curiosity, compassion, and structure. She specializes in helping people untangle competing priorities, clarify what matters most, and create meaningful forward movement when the next step isn’t obvious.
Her coaching style is warm, reflective, and practical. She asks thoughtful questions, helps clients identify patterns and blind spots, and gently challenges them to consider new possibilities. At the same time, her training in evaluation ensures the process remains grounded in action, translating insight into concrete goals, sustainable habits, and measurable progress.
Whether you’re navigating a transition, seeking greater fulfillment, or simply trying to understand what comes next, Nika serves as a fellow traveler, helping you discover a path forward that feels authentic, aligned, and uniquely your own.
A Letter from Your Coach
Dear Explorer,
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re standing at a crossroads.
Maybe life looks okay from the outside, but something feels off. Maybe you’re questioning what comes next, feeling pulled in too many directions, or carrying a sense that the life you’re living no longer fully reflects who you’re becoming.
You might know something needs to change, but not know exactly what.
And that can be an incredibly lonely place to be.
Many of us spend years moving from one responsibility to the next, checking the boxes we’re supposed to check, and doing our best to keep up. Somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with what we actually want, what matters most to us, or even what we’re feeling beneath the surface.
If that’s where you are, you’re not broken. You’re human.
And you don’t have to have it all figured out before reaching out for support.
This package isn’t about rushing you toward a goal or handing you a plan someone else created. It’s about creating space to slow down, step back, and listen more closely to yourself. Together, we’ll explore where you are, what you’re carrying, what you long for, and what might be standing in the way of moving forward.
Sometimes clarity comes from finding answers.
More often, it comes from asking better questions.
Questions about your values. Your strengths. Your patterns. Your hopes. The stories you’ve outgrown and the possibilities that are waiting to be explored.
My hope is that you leave this process with a deeper understanding of yourself, greater confidence in your next steps, and a clearer sense of direction, even if every answer hasn’t appeared yet.
And just as importantly, I want you to find the support that best serves you.
Whether that’s through this coaching relationship, another coaching package, a different provider, or an entirely different resource, helping you connect with the right support is my top priority. If we’re not the right fit, I’ll do my best to help you find what is.
You don’t need to navigate this season of uncertainty alone.
Let’s get curious about what comes next.
With warmth,
Your coach Nika
Final Alignment Check
This package is for people who care deeply about how they’re living but keep hitting the same friction points.
You may have made solid plans that didn’t hold, made progress and lost it, or know what to do but still feel stuck.
It’s not a lack of willpower.
Most people are trying to change without the insight, alignment, systems, and support that real life requires.
Because lasting change isn’t just discipline or trying harder. It’s understanding your patterns and building something that actually fits your life.
When change doesn’t stick, it’s not a personal failure. It means the approach missed the full picture.
That’s where this work is different.
At Of Iron & Willow, we slow down to understand how you actually operate, then turn that insight into practical, livable systems:
- habits built from awareness, not pressure
- structures that support your goals
- systems that match your capacity
You don’t need to be perfectly “ready” to start.
You just need a willingness to look honestly at what’s been happening and try a different approach.
If pushing harder hasn’t worked, there’s nothing wrong with you.
You’ve just been missing support that connects the whole picture.
That’s the work we do here. And if that resonates, you’re in the right place.
The Path Details
What’s Included
- 12 weekly one-on-one sessions
- Deep focus on your specific life concern
- Values-based exploration framework
- Between sessions, personalized reflection and exercise
- A grounded, sustainable path forward with two clearly defined goals and subgoals using habit and systems best practices
- Between session review of reflection and exercises to make the most of our session time
- Between sessions, personalized customization of the program to fit your specific needs
The Investment
A focused engagement for lasting change.
$4,797
FULL PAYMENT OR STRUCTURED PLANS
- Full three-month coaching engagement
- All direct sessions and session materials
- Deep review of personal growth reflections
Looking for Something a Little Different?
Life Design
Looking to go beyond a specific issue to look at multiple areas of your life?
How does the Life Design package differ from the Exploration & Clarity package?
- A six-to twelve-month package to do a deeper dive
- Life design audit to see where things are out of balance
- Assessing the “web” of how different aspects of your life intersect
- A multi-phase approach that allows for both exploration and implementation
- Intentional redesign across 1-3 key life areas (career, finances, relationships, time, health, etc.)
- Ideal life prototyping to intentionally design and test options
- Developing decision-making frameworks you can rely on after coaching ends
- And much more!
Thought Partner Session Bundle
Looking to talk through things with someone without a curriculum?
Thought Partner Sessions include:
- One-on-one sessions
- In-session review of your between-session reflections and experiments
FAQ
Life coaching is a collaborative process focused on helping you move forward, clarifying what matters to you, identifying patterns, and building practical ways to create change.
Coaching is not therapy and does not diagnose or treat mental health concerns. It’s also not financial advising or prescriptive consulting. Instead, we work together to help you better understand yourself and take intentional, aligned action.
Coaching can support a wide range of areas, including:
- Life transitions and decision-making
- Dating
- Retirement transitions
- Habit creation
- Relationships and communication
- Career direction and fulfillment
- Financial behaviors and money mindset
- Identity shifts and personal growth
If it matters to you and impacts how you live your life, it’s something we can explore.
Unlike many coaches, our work is both relational and structured. Putting you at the center of our work while also creating a framework that feels tangible.
We use a combination of:
- Values-based reflection
- Practical tools
- Habit-based systems for change
- Personalized curriculum (in certain packages)
- Collaborative problem-solving
The goal isn’t just insight. It’s creating sustainable change that lasts beyond coaching.
Expertise:
The coach who leads this package, Nika, has the heart of a counselor and the mind of an evaluator and strategist.
In addition to coaching, she has expertise in counseling, evaluation, yoga, couples’ work, and financial tools.
It depends on the level of support and structure you’re looking for:
- Session bundles → Best for specific challenges or shorter-term support
- Exploration & Clarity → Best for gaining direction in a transition
- Deep Dive / Curriculum-based packages → Best for long-term, sustainable change across multiple areas
If you’re unsure, we can talk through this together on a discovery call.
Because coaching is a partnership that requires active participation from you and work outside of sessions, we cannot guarantee specific financial results. However, we are fully committed to providing you with the tools, strategies, and unwavering support you need to succeed.
This depends on the package you choose.
In more structured programs, there may be:
- Reflection exercises or assessments
- Action steps or habit tracking
- Ongoing check-ins or support
In session-based bundles, a lot of learning and discovery happens in session, which creates action steps for you to implement between sessions. It is where the magic happens. Then, depending on the package, we review anything you might have shared with us and customize the following session to fit your journey.
Coaching is less about giving you “the answer” and more about helping you find your answer.
That said, we do bring:
- Education
- Frameworks
- Tools and strategies
You won’t be left on your own. You will be actively involved in creating what works for you, and we are here to support you along your journey.
Many clients begin to experience shifts in awareness, clarity, and confidence early on.
Sustainable change, however, takes time and consistency, which is why some packages are designed to support longer-term work and integration.
Results are also very dependent on how much work you put in outside of the session and your specific concerns, goals, barriers, skills, etc.
That’s completely normal. Coaching works best when there is some level of openness and willingness to reflect and take action, but you don’t need to have everything figured out.
A discovery call can help you explore whether this feels like a good fit.
Yes. All coaching sessions are held virtually, making them accessible no matter where you’re located.
Pricing reflects the level of support, structure, and work involved behind the scenes, not just the time spent in sessions.
More comprehensive packages include things like:
- Personalized curriculum design
- Pre-session review and preparation
- Assessments and reflection tools
- Ongoing support between sessions
- Customized roadmaps and integration support
These elements allow for deeper, more sustained change over time.
More flexible options, like session bundles, focus primarily on the time spent together during sessions and are designed for shorter-term or more specific needs.
Not necessarily.
Most packages require an initial deposit to secure your spot, with the remaining balance paid on a monthly basis. The exact deposit amount varies depending on the package.
For those who prefer to pay in full, some packages offer a discounted rate when paid in full.
Ready to begin the journey?
Step into your season for growth. Together, we’ll gain clarity and nurture your vision into a tangible and sustainable reality. One that is in alignment with how you want to live and who you want to be, starting exactly where you are.