The problem crosses work and home
Business stress is showing up as marriage distance, or marriage distance is showing up as impatience at work. You cannot fix one without the other.
Whole-Person Coaching for Successful Professionals
Brian BachmanExecutive Coach · MA, LPC
Five complaints are usually one system. This is the coaching that can see it.
Whole-person coaching means one person looks at your work, your marriage, your stress, your habits, your history, and your sense of purpose together, because they are not separate. The defensiveness your board mentioned, the quiet marriage, the sleep problem, and the company you cannot stop running from bed are almost always expressions of the same underlying pattern. I built this practice around that idea, and I bring ten years of clinical practice to it.
What whole-person coaching is
Most coaching works in one silo. Most problems do not live in one.
Executive coaching works on leadership. Therapy works on symptoms. Marriage counseling works on the marriage. Financial advisors work on the money. Each is useful, and each sees one room. Whole-person coaching is the practice of walking through the whole house with one person who can notice that the same pattern is in every room.
In practice that means a structured assessment across the domains that matter: leadership and decision-making, relationships and home, stress and recovery, habits and inner patterns, purpose and stewardship, and, when it is relevant to you, faith. Then a written synthesis: strengths, blind spots, contradictions, the loop connecting your complaints, and the two or three leverage points that will change the most. See a sample Whole-Person Profile
Who this is for
People who are doing well and know something is off, and who are tired of solving one room at a time.
You have tried single-silo help
A leadership coach, a therapist, a couples weekend. Each helped a little. None of them could see the whole picture.
You keep repeating the same pattern
You understand it. You still do it. Insight has not produced change, and you are starting to wonder if anything will.
You want a real model of yourself
Not a personality test. A working synthesis of how you actually operate under pressure, and what to do about it.
You value confidentiality and depth
You are not looking for a pep talk or a productivity system. You want someone who can handle the real material and keep it private.
You are willing to test things
Between meetings you will have a conversation, make a decision, try a different response. The model gets corrected by what happens.
The computer metaphor I almost hate
We update new information well. The harder problem is the information we stopped realizing was information.
Imagine the mind has something like RAM and long-term storage. RAM is what you are actively working with, and you update it fine: a colleague corrects a number, you adjust. But some information stopped being information a long time ago and became a file. You do not wonder what color the sky is each morning. Some of those files were written when you were nine: keep the peace, stay in control, keep producing. They built your success. They are also running your marriage.
Whole-person coaching is how we find the files. When a client’s five complaints are drawn on a whiteboard and the loop appears, from an old fear to a leadership habit to a home dynamic and back, the reaction is almost always the same: “oh, that makes a lot more sense.” That is where the actual change starts.
How an engagement starts
Four steps from “something is off” to a plan you can actually run.
A 20-minute call about fit
You tell me what is actually going on. I tell you honestly whether it is the kind of problem I help with, and whether coaching or clinical care is the right door. No pitch, and no pressure to decide on the call.
We pick the right depth
One defined problem is Focused Coaching. A problem that crosses work and home is Integrated Coaching. If you want a full working model of how you operate, that is Private Advisory. I will tell you which one fits, including when the answer is the cheaper one.
I build the map
Integrated and Private Advisory engagements start with assessment and a written synthesis: strengths, blind spots, the patterns connecting your complaints, and the two or three leverage points that will change the most. See a sample Whole-Person Profile
We test it against real life
Meetings roughly every other week. Between them you run specific experiments: a conversation you have been avoiding, a decision, a boundary, a different response under pressure. The map gets corrected by what actually happens.
Three depths of engagement
The engagement should match the problem, not force every client through the same process.
Focused Coaching
$2,750 · 2 months
One defined problem, four private meetings, specific experiments between them, and a written continuation plan. For people who already know what needs attention.
Integrated Coaching
$4,500 · 4 months
Most clients start here. A problem that crosses several areas of life, a targeted whole-person assessment, a written synthesis, eight meetings, and a check-in between them.
Private Advisory
$7,800 · 6 months
A comprehensive Whole-Person Profile, twelve meetings, priority access, optional spouse perspective, and a final synthesis of what changed. For a select few who want the full model.
“Brian sees patterns other experts miss. I could never turn my brain off or simply enjoy the life I built. Now, with Brian’s expertise, money serves me. I do not serve it anymore.”
Questions
What people usually want to know before they book.
Is whole-person coaching the same as life coaching?
No. Life coaching is usually broad and often lacks psychological depth. This is structured, assessment-based, and built on a decade of clinical pattern recognition. It is designed for high-responsibility people with complicated lives, not general motivation.
Is it therapy?
No. Coaching is future-oriented and organized around patterns, decisions, and implementation, under a separate coaching agreement. My license as a counselor means I can recognize when something is clinical, and I will tell you and help you find the right care.
What is a Whole-Person Profile?
A written synthesis, built from structured assessment, history, and when useful established instruments, of how you operate: strengths, blind spots, contradictions, cross-domain patterns, and priorities. Private Advisory includes the comprehensive version. Integrated Coaching includes a shorter synthesis focused on your central problem.
Does faith have to be part of it?
No. Faith is integrated when it matters to you and left out when it does not. Christian executive coaching and spiritual formation coaching are separate pathways for clients who want faith at the center.
How long does it take to see change?
Most clients report the first real shift within the first month, usually when the pattern becomes visible. Durable behavior change takes the length of the engagement, because it has to survive contact with real pressure.
Keep reading
Related pages.
Private whole-person coaching
If several apparently separate problems keep tracing back to the same pattern, that is exactly what this coaching is built to see.
A 20-minute private conversation. No pitch. We start with the problem you can see, then figure out together whether it is the problem or one visible part of the system producing it.
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