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Make Faster Progress Towards Your Goals With Expert Coaching
Get matched with a life coach who aligns with your personality and goals. Your coach will help you build strengths, uncover blind spots, and make faster progress.
Plus, you can switch coaches anytime.
Personalized coaching is currently available exclusively to Clearer Thinking Plus members.
Is This Coaching Program Right For You?
Our coaching program
can support you with:
Overcoming procrastination and breaking unhelpful habits (e.g., excessive screen time, gaming, snacking)
Building healthier routines (e.g., diet, exercise, sleep)
Managing acute or chronic stress (e.g., relationship challenges, major life transitions)
Coping with mild to moderate depression,
anxiety, social anxiety, or phobias.
This program may NOT be suitable if you are:
Experiencing an active mental health crisis and
need urgent support
Looking for medical services (e.g., diagnosis, medication, or formal assessments)
Currently experiencing abuse or neglect that requires intervention from local authorities or specialized services
Seeking specialist treatment (e.g., for OCD, PTSD, personality disorders, or psychosis). You’re still welcome to join if you are not currently seeking specialist care, but please note we do not provide trauma-focused therapy (such as revisiting traumatic experiences for reprocessing). We can, however, offer emotional support and help reduce related symptoms like anxiety or low mood.
How It Works
Sign Up
Become a Clearer Thinking Plus member and get matched with a coach.
Request Your Coach
Once you become a member, you'll have access to up to two coaching sessions per month.
Work on Your Plan
Meet with your coach and work on your plan together. You can switch coaches at any time.
We Focus on Evidence-Backed Methods
Coaching informed by psychological science.
Coaches use techniques drawn from well-studied approaches in psychology, including:
CBT
Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy
Techniques that help people identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Methods for acting in alignment with your values, even when emotions are difficult.
MI
Motivational
Interviewing
A structured conversational approach designed to strengthen motivation for change.
These approaches have been widely studied and used in behavioral interventions.
Our Intervention
6 x 45-minute one-to-one video call sessions with a coach
Client-Centered Approach
The strongest predictor of client outcomes across conditions is the extent to which the sessions focus on the client's goals, using activities the client believes in (Wampold, 2015).
How Different Factors Impact Effect Size
Therefore, our coaches collaboratively build a plan with the client to tackle the precise issue the client believes is most important. We give our coaches a toolkit of simple but effective techniques derived from proven therapies (e.g., motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance commitment therapy).
For common issues, we provide a default plan coaches and clients can start with, such as:
Behavioural Activation for
low mood / depression
Graded exposure for
fear / phobia / social anxiety
Sleep restriction, sleep hygiene and stimulus control for insomnia
For topics that our training doesn't cover directly, the client and the coach co-design an effective plan:
Agree on what topic to work on
Agree on how to work on it
Strong partnership between equals
However, we can't help with issues beyond our abilities:
Mental
Health Crisis
Immediate risk of self-harm, suicide, or harming others requiring urgent help
Medical
Support
Clinical diagnoses, assessments, medications, or certifying evidence
Specialist
Support
For example, OCD, PTSD, personality disorders, psychosis
Safeguarding Cases
Active abuse, crimes, or radicalisation that require help from local authorities
Triaging and Continuous Risk Assessment
Our sign-up form screens out clients seeking help for issues we cannot support with. If clients get passed the screening, but seem less suitable for our programme, our internal clinical supervisor invites them to a meeting where she will discuss their suitability for our programme and signpost them to local services as needed.
If existing clients who have a coach express that they'd like support for issues we cannot help with, these cases get flagged to our internal clinical supervisor / management for further action.
The Evidence
Clients Feel Better
They like their sessions, like their coach, and would love to recommend our programme to others.
Change in Life Satifaction After Our Programme
On average, clients are 2 points out of 10 happier after 6 sessions.
2 out of 10 happier
after 6 sessions
(n>200)
Rapid Growth from Word of Mouth
300% increase in sign-ups over 12 months despite 70% less paid advertising
Clients Spread the Word
Our growth from word of mouth has increased drastically in the past 12 months.
Feasibility Trial of our Sleep Programme
The results are comparable to one-to-one cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia delivered by professionals (Simon et al., 2023).
Results from Feasibility Trial of Sleep Programme
Both effect sizes are comparable to one-to-note CBT-1 delivered by professional therapists. Retention was >80% (n=36)
What Makes Our Coaching Different
Personalized
Whether you want to create a routine, or just need someone to listen, we're here to help!
Affordable
We're able to offer knowledgeable and experienced coaches at a much more affordable price.
Fast
Sessions typically begin within a week.
Most see strong results within four sessions.
Effective
Positive feedback from >500 users receiving interventions endorsed by the UN/WHO!
Our Client Stories
The coaching I got from Overcome earned me ~$20k in better fundraising alone. They’ve got a no bullshit approach that works well, and they go above and beyond to deliver it - working weekends, going over the session time limit by 30 minutes, and messaging throughout the week. I now tell other founders about Overcome. It’s really helped me develop professionally and personally.
Sam Emerman
"I came with a goal to reduce my stress and anxiety by at least 50% as well as being able to react to challenges positively (as you may know, being an early-stage co-founder isn’t easy). At the beginning, it seemed like I would not be able to change how I feel and think, but my coach helped me tackle my challenges one at a time. They listened to my priorities and helped me interpret my feelings and thoughts. My coach guided me through my custom program step-by-step, providing homework and useful tools. Each week I made progress and now I feel a lot more empowered to keep doing my job without stress and anxiety encroaching on my personal life too much. I’ve also learned to see my anxiety positively and as something that helps me help animals better, which has been a big breakthrough for me."
Sofia Balderson
"It was a game changer. I turned from being afraid of leaving home to making new friends. I'm so grateful for this opportunity. I will remember it to the end of my days!"
Maksym
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Is this therapy?
No. Coaching focuses on practical behavior change and goal-setting. Coaches are not licensed therapists.
How often can I schedule sessions?
Navigator members can schedule up to two sessions per week while subscribed.
How long do sessions last?
Sessions typically last about 45 minutes.
Who are the coaches?
Coaches are trained psychology graduates working through our partner organization, Overcome.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Clearer Thinking Plus memberships can be cancelled anytime.