A walk is the plainest thing here. We meet somewhere with a path — a river, a stretch of woodland, the edge of a field — and we walk, and you say what is happening. There is no framework being applied to you and no exercise to complete by the end.
Walking does something that sitting across a desk does not. Nobody has to hold eye contact. The silences stop being awkward, because you are both busy going somewhere. Things that would be hard to announce in a room have a way of arriving on their own a mile in.
Who this tends to fit
People in the middle of a change who have already had the conversation where somebody tries to fix it, and did not find it useful. People who think better while moving. People who would rather not call what they are doing therapy, because it isn't.
You do not need to be fit, and you do not need to have an articulate account of what is going on. Half of what is worth saying gets said badly first.
How long it runs
Usually an hour and a half to two hours, at whatever pace suits you. Some people walk once. Some people walk every few weeks for a year. Both are a whole thing, and neither is a failure of the other.
After you reach out
Jesse writes back himself, usually within a few days. He'll ask one or two questions, suggest somewhere to walk, and if it turns out this isn't what you need he will say so plainly rather than book you in anyway.
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