1-on-1 Journeys

What They Say

“I have so little to say about it in the best way. It feels so hard to say anything about it in a way that honors its intimacy.”

— Y

“River is... well, it's hard to describe what exactly River does. It's not therapy, it's not coaching in the ways I've understood it, it's deep in Secret Third Thing territory. River feels like a sort of custodian of gateless gates. We worked together for two months, and in that time he helped me get unblocked in a bunch of directions at once. River creates a space where what needs to emerge can do so, and offers thoughts about it.”

— M

“I think what River excels at is creating a space where certain kinds of things can come up and be welcomed and explored - it's a sort of safety, but not simply safety because he's also opinionated and human and there is a sort of edge to the safety that in some ways made it even more helpful than a more sterile ‘this is a safe space’ sort of thing.”

— K

My 1-on-1 work these days is about gaining deeper access to what’s obvious in you, especially the obvious things you may have been conditioned to ignore or resist.

The two options below, Obvious Coherence and Latent Insight are just two different flavors of that drive.

Obvious Coherence is more freeform, and assumes a lot of access to your somatic, spacious, and imaginal experience.

Latent Insight is a particular method that develops somatic, spacious, and imaginal capacity, in service to making space for what’s obvious. (It’s been described as “Right Hemisphere Bootcamp” before, which I don’t necessarily endorse, but it’s not inaccurate either.)

  • Honestly, people tend to find me when they’re sensing that another life is possible for them — and they’re deciding if they really want to step into it.

    No judgement, no agenda — I’m not invested in getting you to go one way or the other. I’m just invested in riding shotgun while you clarify what’s present in you.

  • I take two clients at a time, and slots go to the deepest bidder.

    “Deepest Bidder” for me involves a combination of:

    • Money: I have rent and medical bills and ambitions — part of depth, for me, is the recognition that these matter, deeply.

    • Commitment: I like to work with people who show up for the work, as long as there’s work that wants doing. People for whom this isn’t an idle curiosity they might pursue for a couple weeks, but something there’s a real appetite for.

    • Fit: With some people, I get a strong feeling of rightness about being in their process. With others, I just don’t feel like there’s a fit for me to be involved. I might really like you and feel good about your process on a personal level — but that intuitive rightness just isn’t there sometimes, and I trust that.

    If you contact me about 1-on-1 work, please include something about each of these factors.

    [Just for reference: I’ve worked with people who paid $300 for a month of weekly sessions, and I’ve worked with people who gifted $7,000 and kept me on retainer for impromptu sessions over the course of a couple months. There’s a range here. Feel into what feels like a deep commitment to you, and a respectful approach to me.]

  • I like to work with people who are excited to continue the work on their own outside of sessions. People who text me mid-week because they’re excited about something that happened in a meditation session, or because they want a listening ear about their response to something their brother said.

    There’s not any specific commitment I demand from clients (“X number of hours of meditation per week!”), but I do like to feel that you’re in it for real, putting yourself into the process with real courage and vulnerability.