Higher Vibes Coaching FAQs

Basic Coaching FAQs

    • Where Coaching Fits: Coaching is tactical, practical, and nonclinical. It bridges self awareness and daily execution. Rather than analyzing childhood memories, we focus on navigating office politics, decoding behavioral patterns, holding firm boundaries, and regulating your nervous system under intense pressure.

    • Therapy and Clinical Care: Therapy is healthcare. It diagnoses conditions, treats illness, unpacks past trauma, and handles acute crises. If you need clinical triage, work with a licensed therapist, not an executive accountability partner. Coaching can complement therapy, but never replaces it.

    • Our Role as Coach: We serve as strategic sounding boards and sharp facilitators. We help you untangle complex scenarios, decode behavioral loops, steady your system under pressure, and build practical operational scaffolding. We bring perspective, real accountability, and clear boundaries. We do not give unsolicited advice, hand down blueprints, or provide clinical care.

    • Your Role as Client: You bring the real agenda and own every single outcome. You define your priorities, make the hard calls, and run experiments in the real world between our calls. We hold the space and challenge your thinking, but you drive the bus. All decisions and results belong to you.

    • Step 1: Background: Fill out the contact form with context on your situation and goals. We may follow up with a few quick questions to clarify details before setting up a chat.

    • Step 2: Fit Check: We get on a 15-minute Zoom to see if our styles match. If we are aligned, we move forward. If it falls outside our scope or is not a fit, we let you know directly.

    • Step 3: Contracting: We develop a contract based on your needs (e.g., some clients have worked with me for over a year) and schedule our first real coaching session.

Leadership Coaching

    • Yes: Many larger companies set aside dedicated annual budgets for leadership growth. Clients fund their work through Learning and Development or Professional Development stipends.

    • Check Your Budget: Ask your manager, HR partner, or People team about your available stipend, guidelines, and deadlines.

    • Payment and Invoicing: You pay upfront and submit our itemized invoice through your internal expense portal for reimbursement. We provide the documentation you need.

    • Absolute Privacy: Even when an employer foots the bill, your coaching remains entirely confidential under ICF ethics. We do not share notes, goals, or session details with your company.

    • Your presence on our roster is private. Unless you explicitly choose to discuss our work, we will never disclose that you are a client. Even if you personally choose to disclose that we work together, you control the narrative.

    • Just like clinical care, our engagement is bound by ICF professional ethics. You have a secure space to lay out the real issues without worrying about personal or professional fallout.

    • Hybrid Consulting & Coaching: Partnering on strategic business planning, brand and marketing alignment, and operational execution alongside targeted executive coaching to build sustainable leadership systems.

    • Individual Coaching: Providing high-trust, confidential 1:1 support focused on personal accountability, decision fatigue, emotional regulation, and managing high-stakes pressure behind closed doors.

    • Advisory Retainers: Contracting directly with companies, boards, or venture-backed leadership teams to support executive retention and leadership alignment through high-growth sprints or restructuring.

ADHD Coaching

    • No formal diagnosis is required. Many high-achieving adults—particularly women, BIPOC, and late-identified professionals—have navigated careers using masking and adrenaline without formal evaluation.

    • Focus on Function: As a non-clinical practice, we do not diagnose or treat medical conditions. Instead, we target the functional friction you actually experience: task initiation, time blindness, context switching, working memory, and operational follow-through. If executive function challenges are impacting your career or quality of life, this container is built for you.

    • Clarifying Your Needs: We partner with you to identify where functional friction occurs with your neurodivergent traits, even if not diagnosed. We look at sensory overload, cognitive fatigue, energy rationing, and environmental triggers so you have a grounded, accurate understanding of what you actually need to function sustainably.

    • Communicating Your Needs: We help you translate those internal needs into clear, professional, and actionable communication. You learn how to articulate functional boundaries, request specific workplace adjustments, and hold your ground with leadership, HR, or teams without oversharing or compromising your privacy and dignity.

    • No HR Paperwork: We do not provide clinical assessments, diagnose conditions, evaluate medical severity, or issue formal documentation, disability letters, or legal requests for HR. Any required medical paperwork or legal accommodation filings must come directly from your licensed healthcare provider or therapist.

    • Minal Kamlani, PCC, CPRC, TICC, is an executive, ADHD, and recovery coach. She completed specialized training in neurodiversity-affirming coaching and established the first Neurodiversity Special Interest Group for ICF NYC.

    • Minal has 15+ years of health and tech leadership, with lived experience in neurodiversity, parental caregiving, and long-term recovery (eating disorders, smoking cessation).

    • Minal partners with other coaches in the ADHD space if there is a better fit.

    • Higher Vibes Coaching offers virtual ADHD coaching for $125/session à la carte, with a substantial discount for a 3-month program paid in full.

    • You can check whether your company will pay for this as an accommodation.

Recovery Coaching

    • Our founder, Minal Kamlani, is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Trauma-Informed Certified Coach (TICC). She has also earned a CPRC certification.

    • Minal integrates rigorous professional credentials, along with her personal journey of sustained eating disorder recovery and smoking cessation.

    • Our work is harm-reduction literate and centered on your personal recovery goals, physical safety, and baseline stability. We focus on dismantling emotional triggers, regulating the nervous system under workplace stress, and creating sustainable routines that support long-term well-being without moralizing or shame.

    • We offer an individualized, non-dogmatic partnership. While we respect and collaborate with traditional 12-step programs and clinical recovery models, participation is not a prerequisite.

    • Higher Vibes Coaching offers virtual recovery coaching for $125/session à la carte, with a substantial discount for a 3-month program paid in full.

Spring Health Coaching

    • Scheduling Protocol: We schedule your upcoming sessions together to ensure calendar alignment and protect your preferred time slot. Most clients really do prefer this.

    • No Back-to-Back Sessions: The platform does not allow coaching appointments 2x in one day. If a client / coach does this consistently, they may lose platform privileges.

    • Accessing Sessions: Join through the SH platform on a stable connection. Camera off with movement is welcome if that supports you best. Use headphones if in a shared space. Phone sessions are not supported unless for occasional tech issues. No driving for safety reasons.

    • Privacy & Recording: We do not record sessions on the platform for your long-term health and privacy reasons. You may not record or AI transcribe sessions on your own.

    • Cancellations & Reschedules: Be respectful of our business and give at least three (3) business days’ notice or longer for non-emergencies so we can try to rebook your spot.

    • Termination: Several appointment changes, late cancellations, or no-shows in a short period will end our coaching relationship. You can choose to work with another coach after that.

    • NO Clinical Care: We don’t diagnose conditions, unpack deep trauma, or manage psychiatric emergencies. We will suggest that you seek licensed therapists, medical professionals, or emergency services with the credentials to help.

    • NO Business Consulting: We are not your fractional CXO or freelance staff. Note that other coaches who help you with business plans under the guise of mental health coaching know they are in breach of ICF coaching guidelines.

    • NO Mentoring: We won’t tell you which offer to sign, but we will help you talk through what works for you and brainstorm ways for you to find mentors. Your career is yours to run.

    • Session Length: We offer 60-minute sessions, which are not allowed on platforms.

    • Framework Depth: Proprietary frameworks are reserved exclusively for private clients.

    • Session notes: Private sessions include very specific notes to help you move forward.

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