Personalized Coaching
with Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh, Ph.D.
Your Next Chapter Starts Here.
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If you've ever poured yourself into meaningful work, yet felt trapped by circumstances that make it impossible to really flourish, you're in the right place.
This forum is a space for ambitious, dedicated thought leaders and academics who have given so much of themselves to their work but who feel stuck in patterns, overwhelmed by expectations, or uncertain about what comes next.Â
You know the tension all too well. You've always everything that was asked of you, and you've done it well. But, even as you've achieved a certain success on paper and celebrated significant milestones, a sense of limitation or stagnation still lingers.
Maybe you're stretched too thin from too many demands. Maybe you're battling systems that feel too powerful. Maybe you're spinning your wheels about how to translate your skills and expertise in new contexts. And maybe you've already tried different methods to rediscover your motivation or inspiration, but none of them result in the outcomes you want.
Things are about to change.
Rather than moving through life on autopilot or acquiescing to others' expectations, you've now entered a space where it's possible to envision a life you love and to begin the process of making it your new reality, one strategic step at a time.
By uncovering the patterns that have shaped your decisions, clarifying the parameters of what you want to create, understanding your needs and desires, and taking aligned, intentional action toward your goals, you can cultivate the confidence to reclaim your energy, focus, and attention so that you serve your vision instead of someone else's. It's from this perspective that possibilities proliferate.
One-on-one coaching is your opportunity to explore, experiment, and expand into the version of yourself who can create and hold the life you want to design. It is a transformational experience that returns you to you!
Schedule Your FREE Discovery Call Now!What if the clarity you've been craving isn't out there, but already inside you?
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One-on-one coaching is a future-focused, forward-moving practice that helps you step out of automatic routines and into intentional action. It doesn't give you the answers or dictate a path for you, but rather creates space where you can rediscover your own wisdom, which so often hidden beneath the noise of work and life.
With a coach supporting you, you gain a collaborator who prompts deeper reflection, asks targeted questions, surfaces hidden complexities, and helps untangle patterns that lure you off course. Coaching provides a structured, purposeful environment where your own insights emerge, illuminating an aligned path forward. Over time, you build the habits, mindset, and confidence to act decisively, grounded in a renewed trust in yourself. From this place, you make choices that support your vision and steadily build momentum toward your goals, even amidst the demands of a full life.Â
Coaching is about returning to yourself, uncovering what you want, anticipating and clearing obstacles in your way, and bringing your vision to life.
I'm Ready!
For the High-Achiever Ready to Begin
You’re here because you know there's more you're capable of, and you're ready to step into your full potential.
You're someone who gets things done. The one others rely on when results matter. People admire your competence, respect your judgment, and trust that you'll deliver. On the outside, it looks like you've got it all under control. On the inside, you sometimes feel like you're spinning, stretched thin, or holding your breath to keep everything afloat. Your capabilities are vast, yet they often go underrecognized or undervalued in the environments you currently occupy.
You have vision, and recognize possibilities that others may miss. You're committed to making an impact, whether acting as a salve where you see pain, offering solutions where you see problems, and making a difference--however big or small--where you see a need for change.
And yet, self-doubt occasionally creeps in. You overthink or hesitate despite knowing you're capable of more. There seems to be a disconnect between the life you want and the one you're living
This is a common feeling that weighs heavily on high-achievers. If it resonates with you, it's likely a sign you're yearning to move past uncertainty or stagnation and toward aligned, empowered progress. A tailored coaching plan could be exactly what you need to translate your vision into deliberate, meaningful action.
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Let's Begin!Your journey to clarity, alignment, and momentum starts here
My one-on-one coaching practice is a transformational, personalized experience that begins with you. While traditional coaching often begins with milestones like updating a résumé or landing a role in a more transactional approach, my method starts further upstream: clarifying the life you actually want and uncovering what's been standing in the way. From there, we shape your work, projects, job materials, and goals so they reflect your vision (not just the next checkbox!). This process ensures your progress isn't simply a return to where you began, but a genuine movement toward the life you want to create.
What you’ll achieve with private coaching:
- Deep Clarity and Alignment:Â Identify what really matters to you by crafting a vision rooted in your values and priorities all while uncovering hidden patterns and belief systems that may be limiting your potential.
- Integrated Mindset Shifts:Â Cultivate new ways of thinking that guide your decisions, allowing you to face challenges with clarity and confidence.
- Actionable Strategies:Â Transform insights into tangible next steps with clear, step-by-step plans for projects, goals, and personal growth.
- Sustainable Systems:Â Establish habits, routines, and structures that make follow-through seamless, helping you maintain momentum over time.
- Strategic Goal Alignment:Â Evaluate your projects, goals and priorities to ensure each one aligns with your larger vision and purpose.
- Â Reclaimed Energy and Focus: Pinpoint where your attention and effort are being drained and reclaim control over your mental, emotional, and physical bandwidth.
- Compassionate Coaching Support: Receive heart-centered guidance that helps you navigate complexity, troubleshoot obstacles, and stay aligned with your mission without judgment (and with a firm nudge when you need it!)
-  Tailored, Personalized Guidance: Experience a fully customized coaching program designed around your specific goals, challenges, and vision, delivering insights and strategies that you can put to work immediately.Â
What you’ll leave with
By the end of your coaching journey, you’ll not only feel capable—you’ll be equipped with supportive frameworks and concrete tools that will help you make empowered decisions to actualize the life you want. Whether you’re navigating career transitions, rethinking your professional path, seeking a healthier work/life balance, hoping to clarify and/or align with your larger mission, or striving for holistic growth, this coaching experience gives you the space and support you need to transmute reflection into action.
Let's do this!The Coaching Methodology
My coaching approach is designed to create lasting transformation by guiding my clients through a clear, supportive, and highly personalized framework. Though every client's specific goals may vary, my three-phase structure provides the scaffolding to build clarity, take powerful action, and integrate sustainable change. It's around this framework that I co-create a specific, tailored plan with each client.
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Phase 1: Foundations and Clarity
In Foundations and Clarity, we build a solid foundation for our work together by exploring your deepest needs and desires and by understanding the greatest challenges to bringing that vision to fruition. This process is anchored in understanding your values, identifying your priorities, uncovering existing (at times, unhelpful) patterns, and reviewing the current conditions of your life. This step provides a space for significant self-awareness, which is the cornerstone to making intentional decisions about what comes next. Through this work, we increase the likelihood that every action you take is anchored in the vision you're creating.
Phase 2: Strategy and Action
Once the foundation is in place, we move into Strategy and Action, the phase dedicated to designing and implementing the plan that will bring your goals to life. This phase blends vision with practicality: we craft a tailored blueprint, identify a clear strategy, and integrate new habits into your daily routine to make the relevant action steps feasible. The emphasis is on testing, refining, and iterating, giving you crucial data through real life experience that you can leverage into refined strategic action. Through this work, you build momentum by ensuring your approach actually works in your life.
Phase 3: Reinforcement and Mastery
The final phase, Reinforcement and Mastery, focuses on making sure your progress endures. Growth is not just about achieving goals but also about sustaining them, where new habits and refined strategies become part of your natural rhythm. In our work together, we will troubleshoot challenges in real time in order to solidify the personal and professional systems you're building. The goal is to leave you not only with the results you're seeking but also the skills, confidence, and resilience to navigate future challenges independently. Through this work, the impact of the coaching experience continues long after our sessions conclude.
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The one-on-one coaching process that informs my philosophy is more than a framework to overcome immediate challenges. Rather, it is a methodology that reshapes your approach to your life and career by prioritizing YOU and the life you want to live, and then building a professional profile around that vision.
I'm in!Your Path to Personalized Coaching
Each of the one-on-one coaching paths available to you are designed to meet you where you are and move you toward the change you're ready to create. Depending on the pace and depth you're looking for, these coaching containers allow you to choose the level of support that's right for you.
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Available programs:
- The Breakthrough Intensive
- The Mentorship Program
- The Signature Coaching Program
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For more information about each coaching container, please keep reading below!
Breakthrough Intensive
The 90-minute Breakthrough Intensive is designed to help you tackle a specific challenge, gain strategic insight, and leave with a clear, actionable plan. Whether you're preparing for a big decision, reconnecting with your purpose, updating your career goals, establishing a healthy work/life balance, navigating a tricky mindset block, or simply feeling stuck and ready to make a shift, this session will help you move forward with confidence. Â
This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
- You’re navigating a specific challenge, decision, or goal that you want to tackle head-on.
- You’re stuck in place or spinning in circles and want clarity you can act on right away.
- You’re craving a fresh perspective and concrete strategies.
- You’re ready for a breakthrough that shifts your methods to help you move past what’s blocking you.
- You’re ready to turn uncertainty or self-doubt into momentum you can trust.
The Mentorship Program
The one-on-one Mentorship Program is designed for those who thrive with steady partnership, ongoing reflection, and consistent accountability. Whether you choose the 6-month or 12-month container, this program provides a rhythm of regular check-ins, allowing you to integrate insights, practice new strategies, and build meaningful momentum without overburdening you. The benefit lies in its continuity--that is, having dedicated space to process challenges, recalibrate goals, and celebrate wins--so your growth isn't a momentary shift but an accumulated, sustained evolution.
6-month Mentorship
The 6-Month Mentorship is your container for focused, forward movement and habit-building support. With monthly one-on-one coaching, ongoing encouragement, and a strategy tailored to your goals, you'll gain clarity, structure, and tools to create meaningful shifts without the overwhelm.Â
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This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
- You’re craving clarity in your next steps and want a thought partner to help you see the bigger picture of your path.
- You’re ready to shift old habits, patterns, or perfectionism so you can make meaningful and consistent progress without sacrificing who you are.
- You have projects, applications, or career goals you want to streamline and advance with greater focus and ease.
- You need tools and strategies to create healthier boundaries and more balance in how you approach your work and life.
- You’re looking for short-term, high-impact support to gain momentum and lay the foundation for lasting change.
12-month Mentorship
The 12-Month Mentorship is your expansive container for deep inner work, evolving clarity, and aligned transformation. With monthly one-on-one coaching, long-term support, and a strategy rooted in your vision and values, this space gives you room to explore, grow, and act according to your own timeline, with care and consistency.
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This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
- You’re ready for a deep, sustained transformation anchored in your larger mission.
- You want to reimagine your relationship to work, building a professional profile on your terms and aligned with your vision and values.
- You’re seeking ongoing accountability and support not only to design but also to sustain the systems, habits, and structures that allow you to thrive.
- You’re prepared to move from survival mode into expansion, establishing healthy boundaries, creating more capacity, connecting to creativity, and achieving more freedom in both work and life.
- You’re ready to free yourself from the patterns and habits that have kept you small, finally stepping into a fully aligned and expansive version of you.
The Signature Coaching Program
The Signature Coaching Program is the heart of my work, offering the most flexible, customizable, and high-impact coaching container I offer. Unlike the Breakthrough Intensive, which zeroes in on a single challenge, or the Mentorship Program, which provides consistent accountability and check-ins, this program is designed for sustained, transformational work across multiple layers of your personal and professional life.
This is where we blend deep mindset shifts with tailored strategy, weaving immediate wins with long-term vision. Each session builds upon the last, creating momentum and integration according to your needs and timeline, compounding progress over time. Whether you choose 6, 10, or 15 sessions, you'll receive a high-touch, personalized roadmap that expands as you grow, offering the depth, space, and continuity needed not only to create meaningful change but to evolve into the person who can sustain it.
The 6-Session Signature Program
This coaching container is designed to help you reclaim your time, prioritize what really matters to you, and build the momentum you need to move forward with confidence.
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This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
-  You’re prepared to zero in on a high-priority goal and leave with a concrete roadmap to achieve it.
-  You’re ready to shift your mindset around self-trust so you can act decisively without second-guessing yourself.
-  You’re eager to pinpoint what’s holding you back and remove obstacles that have been slowing your progress.
-  You’re seeking practical strategies you can implement immediately.
- You’re ready for a focused, high-impact coaching experience that keeps you accountable and ensures measurable progress.
The 10-Session Signature Program
This coaching container designed to help you gain clarity, test strategies, and build sustainable momentum across layered goals and challenges.
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This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
-  You’re navigating either one complex goal or multiple, layered goals, and seeking clarity on how to move forward effectively.
-  You’re looking for steady guidance and support to build habits and routines that enable consistent progress across projects and priorities.
-  You’re ready to recognize internal patterns and approaches holding you back, and integrate new ways of thinking that open up greater possibilities.
-  You’re eager to cultivate actionable systems that keep you on track and ensure follow-through.
- You’re ready to test new strategies, adjust as you go, and refine your approach based on real-time insights.
The 15-Session Signature Program
This coaching container designed for deep transformation, helping you shift perspective, build aligned habits, and fully embody the version of yourself who consistently achieves long-term goals.
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This one-on-one offer is a great fit for you if:
-  You’re ready to define your personal mission so that your work, decisions, and actions consistently reflect your purpose.
-  You’re seeking to embody the version of yourself who achieves aligned goals with confidence, focus, and ease.
-  You’re eager to build long-range strategies that turn ambitious goals into actionable, sustainable steps toward success.
-  You’re looking to develop personal and professional systems that make progress feel effortless.
-  You’re ready to set and maintain boundaries that protect your time, energy, and focus so you can pursue goals without burnout.
- You’re calling in a coaching relationship with a trusted partner who combines accountability, strategy, and perspective to help you operate at your peak.
MEET THE COACH
At the heart of my coaching philosophy is the belief that a fulfilling life begins with honoring the whole self. My approach is holistic: your professional and personal life are deeply interconnected, both improved by a sense of purpose. I help clients discover and nurture that connection so they can create a life that feels aligned and authentic.
With 20 years of experience informing my methodology, I offer more than just support in my coaching programs and services--I provide a space for transformation. You already have the answers inside you. My role is to help you unlock them through powerful questions, active listening, reflection, and holding space for your growth. Whether you're seeking clarity, balance, accountability, stability, fulfillment, or progress, we explore deeply to uncover patterns and insights that lead to lasting change, not just temporary and fleeting fixes.
My clients often describe feeling transformed, inspired, and empowered to pursue their dream lives, equal parts compassionate guide and no-nonsense strategist: I’ll honor where you are, but I’ll also challenge you to stretch into what’s possible. When you’re ready, I’m here to welcome you into a community of ambitious, heart-centered individuals who are designing lives they truly love.
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I'm so happy you're here!
Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh, Ph.D.
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