Self Reflection
Build an honest baseline picture of your relationship with yourself before any change work begins. We start by noticing, not fixing.
Services
Programs built on lived experience.
A Life Coaching program of my own design, one-on-one Life Coaching on whatever matters most to you right now, and Health Coaching across nutrition, movement, and the daily habits that hold them together — including a Diabetes Focus. Pricing is by inquiry, because the right fit matters more than a price list.
Life Coaching · My own program
The Art of Being Liked
by YOURSELF and others
Likability is what happens when you stop performing for approval. Learning to like yourself is the prerequisite to being genuinely liked by others.
Twelve weeks, three phases. It moves deliberately — you spend the first month entirely on your relationship with yourself before we touch anything relational, because the second half does not hold without the first.
Phase One · Weeks 1–4
By Yourself — Seeing & Accepting
The foundation. You learn to see yourself clearly, name your patterns, own them without shame, and make peace with what you find. Nothing here is about other people yet — this is the YOURSELF the title capitalizes.
Identification
Move from general seeing to specific naming. You identify your recurring approval-seeking loops — and locate the fear underneath them.
Admission
Own what you have seen, without judgment or shame. The pivot from observing a pattern to honestly saying: yes, this is mine.
Self Acceptance
Make peace with what has been seen and admitted. Self-compassion becomes the emotional ground everything after this is built on.
Phase Two · Weeks 5–11
And Others — Showing Up & Connecting
You take the self you have accepted and bring it into contact with other people: expressing it honestly, anchoring it in values, and building the relational skills that make connection possible without self-abandonment.
Authentic Self-Expression
Begin saying what is true — your desires, opinions and feelings — without pre-editing every sentence for approval.
Values & Identity
Anchor your expression in something steadier than mood: your values and your chosen identity. This is what makes likability self-sourced.
Presence & Attention
Shift from self-focus to genuine presence with others. Being with people without performing — attention itself becomes the connective skill.
Empathy & Attunement
Get onto another person’s map and make them feel genuinely understood. The relational heart of being liked by others.
Boundaries
The people-pleaser antidote. Holding your own line is the proof that connection no longer requires abandoning yourself.
Resilience to Disapproval
Non-neediness. You build tolerance for being disliked, which frees likability to become a byproduct rather than a goal.
Integration & Habit Anchoring
Turn ten weeks of practice into durable habits. This is where change stops depending on motivation and starts running on its own.
Phase Three · Week 12
The Return
Renewed Self Acceptance
Close the spiral. You return to self-acceptance enriched by the whole journey — same ground, new altitude — with an ongoing practice that carries the work past the program.
Life Coaching
General Life Coaching
Not every goal needs its own program built around it. I also coach one-on-one on the specific pieces of life that matter to you right now — communication with the partners, friends, and family in your life, your relationship with money and the habits and decisions underneath it, and navigating the professional world, from self-advocacy to burnout to the politics of the office. Wherever the work needs to go, that’s where we go.
Health Coaching
Built around what you are actually trying to change
Health Coaching here draws on tools and methods I have built through years of research and coursework in becoming a certified Health and Life Coach — combined with my own lived experience putting them into practice. We work across the areas that actually move the needle: nutrition, movement, mental and physical health, and the daily habits that hold them together.
No fixed length
We work at the pace that fits your goals. Some people need a few sessions to build a habit that sticks; others want ongoing support.
One-hour sessions
Weekly, scheduled the week before, however works for you — phone, Zoom, FaceTime, Google Meet, WhatsApp.
No condition required
You do not need a specific health condition to benefit. This is goal-specific coaching, built around what you want to change.
Credentials
Certifications
Certified in both Health and Life Coaching — which is why these two sides of the practice are not separate departments here.
HCI Certified Health Coach (HCI-CHC)
Vinson Sullivan · Health Coach Institute · 2026 · View certificate (PDF)
HCI Certified Life Coach (HCI-CLC)
Vinson Sullivan · Health Coach Institute · 2026 · View certificate (PDF)
Both certifications are part of Health Coach Institute’s accredited Health and Life Coach program, recognized by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for continuing coach education.