For US clients
Anxiety coaching that fits before your workday starts.
Skills-based anxiety coaching for US professionals — private-pay by design, outside the insurance and medical model. Based in Croatia, which puts my working afternoon in your morning: sessions at 7–9am CST/EST, before the day takes over.
The honest framing
Outside the medical model — on purpose.
This is coaching, not healthcare — and the structure follows from that fact. Coaching is non-clinical: there is no diagnosis here, no insurance billing, no benefits paperwork, because those belong to clinical care and this isn’t that. What there is instead: concrete anxiety and emotion-regulation skills, built in structured sessions, practiced between them, and tracked.
For some situations the medical model is exactly right — and if yours is one of them, you’ll hear that plainly on the first call, with help finding a licensed professional. The coaching-versus-therapy explainer maps that boundary honestly.
The grounding for the work: years of professional training in anxiety and emotion-regulation skills, and a practice deliberately narrowed to anxiety, mood, and life transitions. Not life purpose. Not manifestation. Not everything.
The time-zone advantage
Croatia’s afternoon is your morning.
Most US coaches offer you lunchtime slots or evenings when you’re spent. The geography here works differently: my working afternoon lands in your early morning — 7, 8, 9am Central and Eastern — so sessions happen before the workday claims you, when the skills practice actually sticks.
Sessions are online and in English — a 90-minute intake session to start, then 50 minutes each. You’ll never commute, and the recap plus practice plan lands in writing after every session.
Scope statement
In five states, you go to my other practice — not this one.
I hold a licensed clinical practice in five US states: California, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont.
If you’re located in one of those five, you’re served by that practice — getbetterthoughts.com — not by this coaching practice. This isn’t marketing; it’s a scope-of-practice boundary: coaching here is offered only to clients located where I do not hold a clinical license. Clients in the other 45 states and DC are fully in scope.
Frequently asked
Common questions
- Why is US pricing different from the EU pricing on the rest of this site?
- Because pricing follows the market where clients are, not where I sit. The US private-pay market for this caliber of work runs $150–300+/session; $220 sits inside that range, below the North-American coaching mean. EU pricing reflects EU markets the same way. One currency per path, no toggle, and no pretending the two markets are the same.
- Do you take insurance or provide superbills?
- No. Coaching is non-clinical — there's no diagnosis, so there's nothing to put on a superbill. If out-of-network reimbursement matters to your budget, licensed care may genuinely be the cheaper net option for you, and that's worth saying plainly. People choose coaching for the structure and skills focus, not to save money over reimbursed care.
- What happens in a crisis?
- Coaching is not crisis care. If you're in crisis in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or 911 for emergencies. The crisis resources page lists further contacts. For clinical concerns short of crisis, a licensed professional in your state is the right door, and I'll help you find one.
- How do sessions work across the time difference?
- Croatia is 6–7 hours ahead of Eastern time (depending on daylight saving). My afternoon slots land at 7–10am ET / 6–9am CT — before-work hours on your side. Booking runs through the same free 20-minute Discovery Call as everywhere else on this site.
Next step
Twenty minutes to see if this fits.
Free, no card, online — early-morning US slots available. If you’re not a fit, you’ll hear it plainly, with a pointer to what is.
Book your Discovery Call