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February-July 2026

Producing a doctoral dissertation is a momentous endeavor, with up to half of PhD students ultimately deciding not to finish.

I work with doctoral candidates who are exhausted, demoralized, and disillusioned, who’ve done some writing but aren’t sure how to bring it all together, and who could really use a trained and objective collaborator to finally get the dissertation done and defended.

Over a 6-month period, I work with you to build, implement, and maintain the writing practices and schedule that will help you succeed without sacrificing your wellbeing; to critically engage your ideas, research, evidence, and arguments on a substantive and actionable level; and to accompany you through the finish line after years of your hard work.

You may benefit from working with a dissertation coach if:

• Work/life balance consistently eludes you, too many demands on your time and energy making it nearly impossible to maintain relationships with friends and family or pursue the activities you once loved.

• The results of prolonged loneliness, isolation, imposter syndrome, and self-doubt are causing your mental, emotional, and/or physical health to suffer.

• Structural or institutional supports aren’t cutting it, with your advisors absent or slow to respond, your peers too busy with their own work, and/or your friends and family don’t even “get” what you’re doing in grad school let alone what your dissertation is about.

• Getting a handle on the mechanics, logistics, and sheer size of a dissertation project as an academic genre is proving challenging, and you’ve lost perspective, don’t feel equipped with the necesssary skills, find yourself spinning your wheels confused, and/or experiencing writer’s block.

With a 6-month coaching structure, I can help:

• Return some of your time to you, so you can remain engaged with the people and activities that allow you to thrive.

• Provide helpful, constructive, knowledgable, actionable, and consistent feedback that supports productive writing practices and schedules.

• Offer the kind of regular, substantive, and judgement-free critical engagement quality scholarship needs and deserves, without the worry that can come from sharing innovative unpublished work.

• Make sure that such a large project remains manageable and within perspective, its various elements adding up to a cohesive whole.

Given the way the 6 Month Slow Burn approach is structured over time, each of my clients receives support, regardless of the coaching package they choose, specifically designed to help facilitate writing the dissertation’s introduction (a tricky academic genre in its own right) and prepare for final dissertation’s defense.