The Trellis
One-on-one coaching for building a creative practice that works within the life you actually want to live.
Art is the path to healing the world. There is no doubt in my mind.
But it’s not just any art. And certainly not mass produced Hobby Lobby or Target art.
It’s your art. The art that you make because you need to, not because it’s what’s trending this season. The art that comes from your soul, not the Pantone color of the year.
The art that lights you up has the power to change the world, but you can only do that if you create a practice and path that is authentic to you.
That's what The Trellis is for.
A trellis doesn't decide what shape a plant should take. It provides support and structure while the plant finds its own way.
When is The Trellis useful?
Maybe you are trying to force yourself to make the same damn piece over and over for galleries and creating has lost its sparkle.
Maybe you’re getting depressed focusing on what will sell.
Maybe you’ve lost the inspiration/desire to create because it feels like a miserable job.
Or maybe you already know none of that is what you want, but you also don’t know how to move forward, because dreaming up a new way to exist and do things in isolation is hard.
You don't need to be stuck, burned out, or in crisis to benefit from having a space entirely devoted to thinking honestly about what you want, what you're doing, and whether the two still align.
A space that's entirely about your practice.
In Creative Nexus, community creates the possibilities. In The Trellis, we get to focus entirely on you.
Your goals. Your values. Your capacity. The things you're excited about and the things you keep avoiding.
I'm not here to hand you a roadmap or decide what you should want.
I'm here to ask questions, offer perspective, notice patterns and assumptions, and help you see possibilities you might not have found on your own.
Sometimes we'll leave with a plan.
Sometimes we'll leave with a better question.
Sometimes we'll realize the goal needs to change entirely.
The point isn't to move you toward some predetermined version of growth.
It's to help you make choices that actually belong to you.
What does support actually look like?
The Trellis combines regular one-on-one coaching with ongoing support between sessions, so you don't have to save everything for one conversation a month.
One 60-minute coaching session each month
This is our space to go deep.
Bring the decision you're circling, the goal you're trying to make room for, the thing that isn't working, the possibility you can't stop thinking about—or show up without knowing exactly what we need to talk about yet.
We'll figure out where to start.
Voxer support between sessions
Creative practices don't conveniently save all their questions for coaching calls.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, you can use Voxer to bring me what's coming up in real time: questions, decisions, ideas, stuck points, celebrations, or the thought you need to say out loud before you can figure out what you think about it.
This isn't homework, and there's no expectation that you use Voxer every day—or at all.
It's simply there when having another brain in the room would be useful.
There's no curriculum to keep up with.
The Trellis follows what you need, not a predetermined sequence of topics or milestones.
We might spend one month untangling a decision and the next making a concrete plan. We might talk about your creative practice, money, boundaries, opportunities, time, identity, or something happening elsewhere in your life that's affecting all of the above.
You don't need to arrive prepared with a problem to solve.
And you don't need to manufacture progress between sessions so you have something to report back.
This is a space to think, question, plan, experiment, change your mind, and figure out what support looks like as you go.
Enough time to actually work with something.
The Trellis begins with a three-month commitment.
Not because I expect you to accomplish a certain amount in three months, but because meaningful questions rarely resolve themselves in a single conversation. Having some continuity gives us time to notice patterns, try things, see what happens, change course, and keep going deeper.
And sometimes what you need during those three months is rest.
If your capacity drops, life gets complicated, or you simply need to step away, we can pause your coaching rather than asking you to push through for the sake of consistency.
Rest isn't something you have to earn by being productive first.
The structure is here to support the work.
The work isn't here to serve the structure.
Choose Your Season
Everyone receives the same support.
The difference in price isn't about receiving more or less care. It's a way to make The Trellis accessible while allowing those with greater financial capacity to help create access for others.
Choose based on what the cost means within your life right now—not how much support you deserve or how serious you are about your creative practice.
Both options include:
One monthly 60-minute Zoom session (except April)
Voxer support Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, with one week off in July
Three-month initial commitment
Ongoing month-to-month support afterward
Grove — $150/month
The sustaining rate and true cost of the offering.
Choose Grove if $150 fits comfortably within your current financial capacity. Choosing the sustaining rate also helps make Vine available to someone who needs it.
Vine — $100/month
For seasons when greater financial accessibility makes this support possible.
Choose Vine if $150 would require meaningful trade-offs, create financial strain, or simply isn't workable within your current capacity.
No application. No proof. No explanation needed.
Your circumstances can change. Your rate can too.
How is The Trellis different from Creative Nexus?
They share a philosophy, but offer different kinds of support.
Creative Nexus is community. You're in relationship with people who create differently than you sharing ideas, working alongside one another, finding accountability, collaborating, and expanding what's possible through those relationships.
The Trellis is one-on-one. The space is entirely focused on you: your creative practice, your goals, your capacity, the questions you're carrying, and the choices you're trying to make.
You don't have to choose one or the other. You might find one is exactly what you need, use both in different ways, or move between them as your needs change.
FAQs
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Not at all.
Your creative practice might be your career, part of your income, something you do entirely for yourself, or something you're trying to find your way back to.
What matters is that your creative practice is important enough to you that you want to give it—and the life around it—some intentional attention.
You don't need a particular level of experience, body of work, or professional goal to do that.
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Voxer gives us a place to continue the conversation between our monthly sessions.
Send a message when you have a question, need a sounding board, want another perspective on a decision, have something to celebrate, or just need to get a thought out of your head so you can figure out what you think about it.
I'm available on Voxer Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. This is asynchronous support, so we're not expected to be online at the same time, and responses aren't immediate.
You also don't have to use Voxer regularly for it to be useful. It's there when you need another brain in the room.
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After the initial three-month commitment, The Trellis continues month to month.
There's no expectation that you stay for a particular length of time. You might find that three months gives you what you need, stay longer because the ongoing support is useful, or return during another season when having this kind of space would help.
When you're ready to stop, you can.
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Absolutely.
Financial capacity changes. If the rate that fits your life changes, you can move between Vine and Grove.
No explanation needed.
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Take one.
If your capacity changes or life gets complicated, let me know. We can pause your coaching rather than asking you to keep showing up simply because it's on the calendar.
The Trellis is meant to support a sustainable creative practice. Sometimes sustainability means stepping away for a while.
I build that same capacity into my own practice. There are no Zoom sessions in April, though Voxer support continues as usual. In July, we'll still have our monthly Zoom session, but I'll take one week away from Voxer.
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No. The Trellis is coaching.
We may talk about values, identity, capacity, relationships, work, or other parts of your life when they're affecting your creative practice and the choices you're making around it.
But I'm not a therapist, and The Trellis isn't designed to diagnose, treat, or provide mental health care.
Our focus is on helping you think more clearly about what you want, notice what's shaping your choices, explore possibilities, and decide what you want to do next.
What could change with a little more support?
You don't need to have everything figured out before you start.
Bring the questions you're circling, the possibilities you're considering, the things that aren't working, the things that are working really freaking well, and whatever you haven't quite found words for yet.
We'll start there.