Scope of Service

Personal Strategy is nonclinical consulting designed to help you think through decisions, objectives, projects, opportunities, and practical problems.

This page explains the scope of Personal Strategy services, including location-specific availability and limitations.

How Personal Strategy Works

Personal Strategy focuses on the problem or decision you are trying to figure out, not on analyzing you as a person.

You bring the objective. We investigate the path.

You do not need to have every decision or detail figured out. Once you know what you are trying to accomplish, Personal Strategy can help you investigate the questions, decisions, and practical steps involved in pursuing it.

Depending on the matter, we may examine available information, question assumptions, identify missing information, compare options, research relevant information, consider costs, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs, and develop practical strategies and next steps.

You bring your objective, priorities, and context. I bring questions, structure, investigation, and an outside perspective. You remain responsible for your decisions.

What Personal Strategy Does Not Include

Personal Strategy is not psychotherapy, mental-health counseling, professional counseling, or psychological services.

Personal Strategy does not include:

  • Psychotherapy

  • Mental-health counseling or professional counseling

  • Psychological assessment or testing

  • Psychological or mental-health diagnosis or treatment

  • Crisis intervention

  • Medical or healthcare services

  • Legal advice

  • Tax or accounting advice

  • Investment or financial-planning services

  • Other services requiring a professional license or credential I do not hold

Personal Strategy does not assess, diagnose, treat, interpret, or attempt to modify your psychological, emotional, behavioral, or mental-health functioning.

My academic background includes graduate education in psychology, and I teach psychology at the college level. Personal Strategy is separate from that academic work. I am not a licensed psychologist or other mental-health professional, and Personal Strategy services are not provided under a license to practice psychology or another mental-health profession.

Standard Personal Strategy Scope

Personal Strategy is currently available under the standard scope described above in:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Modified Personal Strategy Scope

Personal Strategy is currently available with additional boundaries in:

Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, and New York

If you are located in one of these states, you must bring the overall objective you want to pursue.

You do not need to have every detail or decision figured out. Personal Strategy can include investigating the practical questions, information, options, opportunities, costs, risks, constraints, tradeoffs, and strategies involved in pursuing your objective.

I can help you investigate how to pursue an objective you have chosen. I will not determine your goals, determine what you “really want,” or make decisions for you.

If you are located in one of these states, please let me know so that our work remains within the scope available in your location.

Services Not Currently Offered

Personal Strategy services are not currently available in Arkansas, Virginia, or West Virginia.

These states are undergoing additional review, and availability may change in the future.

International Services

Personal Strategy is currently offered only within the United States under the location-specific availability described above.

If you are located outside the United States, please do not book a session.

Instead, please contact me with your country or region and a brief description of what you are trying to figure out. I am open to exploring whether Personal Strategy can be expanded to your location after applicable requirements have been reviewed.

Please wait for confirmation that Personal Strategy is available in your location before booking or submitting payment. Contacting me does not guarantee that services can be offered there.

Not Sure Whether Your Question Fits?

You are welcome to contact me before booking with a brief description of what you are trying to figure out. I can let you know whether it falls within the Personal Strategy services available in your location.

You do not need to provide sensitive personal, medical, or mental-health information. A brief description of the decision, objective, or problem is enough.

Your Location

Availability is based on where you are located when Personal Strategy services are received.

You are responsible for confirming that Personal Strategy is available in your location and for following any location-specific limitations listed on this page.

You do not need to notify me of ordinary travel or changes in location when Personal Strategy remains available under the standard scope where you receive services.

Please do not book or participate in a session while located somewhere Personal Strategy is identified as unavailable. If you are in a location where a modified scope applies, please let me know so that our work remains within the applicable boundaries.

Personal Strategy is not a substitute for services from a licensed mental-health, medical, legal, financial, or other regulated professional when those services are appropriate.