1:1 Mindfulness Coaching with Katy

Whether you're navigating a difficult transition, longing to feel more grounded and at ease, wanting to shift a pattern that keeps showing up, or simply curious about what a more intentional life could look like — mindfulness coaching offers a supportive, personalized space to explore all of it.

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A little about my background, and our work together:

My approach to mindfulness coaching is shaped by over fifteen years of clinical experience as an Independent Marriage and Family Therapist, completion of James Baraz’s “Awakening Joy” Certified Teacher Training, personal mentorship by Erin Treat — Guiding Teacher of Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center and teacher at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society — and my own ongoing, personal mindfulness journey.

Depending on your needs and what's calling to you, sessions may draw from the dharma (the Buddha’s teachings) as well as creative mindfulness modalities like SoulCollage®, mindful vision boarding, gratitude art journaling, and others.

Clients often tell me they feel both supported and thoughtfully challenged in our work together. Whatever your experience with mindfulness, we work collaboratively and at your pace. My goal is always to create a space where you can slow down, turn inward, and reconnect with the presence and wisdom that are already in you — then find practical, sustainable ways to bring that into your everyday life.

If you’d like to learn more about my background, training and personal journey, I invite you to visit my website About page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Mindfulness Coaching Can Help You With:

  • Meeting difficulty without being undone by it

  • Bringing contemplative practice off the cushion and into daily life

  • Experiencing what it means to be fully present, and why it’s hard to stay there

  • Learning to offer yourself the same care you give to everyone else

  • Reconnecting with the joy beneath the noise and the striving

  • Finding steadiness when life refuses to cooperate

  • Living according to your values instead of according to “shoulds”

    • Usually 1-2 minutes of meditating together as a way of arriving and transitioning

    • Check in: How are you in this moment?

    • Touching base about what feels most important to discuss

    • Discussing it from a mindfulness/dharma lens; I’ll be asking questions to support you in reflecting, embodying, making connections, etc.

    • Closing share out: What are you taking away from this time together?

    • If relevant, scheduling our next session

    • Wishing each other well and parting ways

    You’re encouraged to bring a notebook and pencil/pen to sessions so you can jot down any insights, ideas, musings, next steps, and/or takeaways that arise for you.

  • Sessions are either in-person at The Be Sanctuary in Upper Arlington, OH, or virtually from anywhere!

    You determine how frequently we meet based on your own discernment, circumstances, and goals.

    Some people decide to meet weekly or biweekly at first, then move to monthly, but there is no “right way” to do it. We can always discuss this together.

    There is never any obligation to continue meeting; your inner wisdom will signal to you whether it is beneficial for you to continue, pause, or stop meeting. If you’re unsure, we can discuss it together. 

  • Therapy is a valuable and often essential part of healing and growth — and many people find that coaching works beautifully alongside it, or as a next step once foundational therapeutic work has progressed.

    While therapy encompasses a wide range of approaches — including deep personal growth work, processing past experiences, and developing insight into longstanding patterns — it also carries a clinical framework that involves diagnosis, treatment, and the exploration of mental health concerns.

    Mindfulness coaching operates differently. It is not a clinical service, does not involve diagnosis or treatment, and is not a replacement for therapy when therapy is what's needed.

    What coaching offers is a present-focused space — one centered on expanding self-awareness, developing practical mindfulness skills, and applying those skills directly to your daily life. It's about learning to relate differently to your thoughts, emotions, and patterns, not by analyzing where they came from, but by building the capacity to meet them more skillfully right now.

    Sessions are tailored entirely to you and what you're navigating at this point in your life. You'll leave each session with something concrete — a practice, a reframe, a new way of relating to your own experience — that you can actually use in the days and weeks that follow.

    Some people see a therapist as well as a mindfulness coach, and if this is the case for you, we can talk about how this can be most effective.

    • $75 per hour (cash, Venmo)

    • Some people are able to get this cost reimbursed through their Employee Assistance Program at work (i.e. from their allotted wellness stipend). If this the case, I can provide invoices for you to share with your employer.

  • "She taught me other tools I could use to bring not only more mindfulness to my life but also more self-compassion. If something didn’t work for me, she reached into her deep tool kit and pulled out a new resource until I had a practice that was molded to my lifestyle rather than forcing me to conform to some standard approach."

    -Karen G., writer

  • "There aren't enough words to describe the magical, nurturing energy of Katy Oberle."

    -Chloe S., estetician

  • "Katy made mindfulness make sense for the first time."

    -Leslie W., nurse

  • "I so appreciated the opportunity to dig more deeply into the challenges, benefits, and ultimate rewards of lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. "

    -Susan, retiree