About

Two careers, one vantage point.

Most therapists who work with executives have never been one. The reverse is also true. I have spent my working life on both sides of that line.

M.J. Coleman, Registered Counselling Therapist - Candidate

My background

Practice and experience.

I am a Registered Counselling Therapist - Candidate, regulated by the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists. I work from a private practice in Halifax and online with clients across Nova Scotia.

Before entering practice, I spent more than three decades in business and senior leadership roles. I know what it is to build something, to carry the weight of decisions that affect other people's livelihoods, to sustain a marriage and a family alongside that, and to live with the parts of the work no one sees.

That experience does not replace clinical training, but it does mean you do not have to spend the first six months of our work explaining your world to me. I have lived in it.

How I work

Grounded, direct, unhurried.

My approach is relational rather than programmatic. There is no manual, no fixed protocol, no script to work through. There is, instead, a real conversation between two people: one of whom has spent a long time thinking about how lives change, and one of whom is in the middle of one.

The work tends to move at the pace of trust. Some clients arrive ready to speak about things they have never said aloud; others need many sessions before the ground feels stable enough. Both are fine. I take my cues from the person in front of me.

What I bring is a steady, considered attention; a refusal to flinch from the harder material; and the long memory of someone who has watched many lives unfold under similar pressures. What I do not bring is advice, agenda, or any version of "what you should do." Those are yours to find.

"The work is not to fix you. It is to give you a room in which to think, and a person who will think alongside you."

Who I work with

People who carry more than they show.

My clients are typically in senior leadership roles, founder-level responsibility, or comparable positions in their professions. They are capable, thoughtful, and used to managing pressure quietly. They care deeply about their work, their relationships, and the people who depend on them.

They tend to come not when they have collapsed, but when they have noticed something they cannot keep ignoring: a strain at home, a growing distance from themselves, a question that will not settle. The work is well-suited to people who want a space to think rather than a place to be fixed.

I keep a small, considered roster, which means I can give each person the kind of attention this work requires.

Begin a Conversation

A short, private exchange, and then we decide.

If anything here resonates, the next step is a brief, confidential conversation to see whether the fit is right.

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