1:1 Mindset & Identity Coaching
Align your values, trust yourself, and thrive
A gentle, intuitive, and transformational approach to reconnecting with yourself and building a life that feels truly aligned.
This coaching is about helping you return to yourself—to the parts of you that feel the most alive, fulfilled, and true. Together, we’ll navigate self-awareness, emotional processing, and aligned action so that you can:
✔ Find clarity in who you are and what truly brings you joy
✔ Release expectations that no longer serve you and embrace self-trust
✔ Learn to set boundaries and create a life that feels deeply yours
✔ Feel safe, supported, and guided as you step into a more expansive version of yourself
This isn’t about pushing you into another rigid plan or telling you what success should look like—it’s about creating space for you to fully step into who you are meant to be.
🌿 Who is this coaching for?
This journey is for you if:
💛 You feel disconnected from what truly makes you happy.
You’ve spent so much time doing what you "should" do that you’ve lost touch with what actually brings you joy.
💛 You’re constantly adapting to fit expectations—but you’re ready to put yourself first.
Whether it’s family, work, or cultural norms, you’ve been shaped by external influences. Now, you want to figure out what you actually want.
💛 You’re at a transition point and unsure what’s next.
Maybe you’re stepping into a new chapter, healing from a past version of yourself, or simply realizing that something needs to shift—but you don’t know how to begin.
💛 You’re craving deep validation, clarity, and a safe space to explore what alignment means for you.
This is your time to reflect, recalibrate, and move forward with clarity, self-trust, and joy.
How Coaching Works
Coaching is a collaborative journey where I meet you exactly where you are, with a balance of deep reflection and tangible action steps. My role is to create a space for you to:
🔹 Slow down & listen to your inner voice without external noise
🔹 Gain clarity on what alignment looks like for you
🔹 Gently shift old patterns that no longer serve you
🔹 Take aligned action with support & accountability
What’s Included in 1:1 Coaching?
📌 Private coaching calls – 60-minute sessions where we explore what’s coming up for you and create intentional next steps
📌 Messaging support – Ongoing check-ins between sessions for reflection, questions, and real-time guidance
📌 Guided exercises & reflections – Helping you tap into your intuition, reframe limiting beliefs, and move through emotional blocks
📌 Personalized support – This is not a one-size-fits-all program—our work together is customized to you and your specific journey
✨ Specialized Support for Expats & Global Professionals
I specialize in working with:
✅ Expats working in Japan & APAC who are navigating professional transitions, cross-cultural identity shifts, and redefining what "home" means.
✅ Expats returning to their home country after 3+ years abroad, helping them realign their sense of self, identity, and belonging after an extended time away.
Many of my clients have built lives across Japan, the U.S., and APAC—and I understand firsthand the emotional complexities of belonging, transition, and rediscovering your own path.
💡 This coaching isn’t about fixing you—it’s about guiding you back to yourself.
Curious about coaching?
Coaching is a powerful way to gain clarity, shift limiting beliefs, and take aligned action toward your goals. Whether you're navigating a career transition, adjusting to life abroad, or seeking more confidence in your next steps, a coaching session can offer deep insights and practical strategies. Try a session and experience the impact for yourself!
My Coaching Approach: The 3-Step Journey to Life Alignment & Inner Joy
This coaching process blends deep self-discovery, mindset shifts, and gentle but intentional action to help you feel more aligned, confident, and at peace in your daily life.
1) Self-Awareness: Reconnecting with Your Inner Joy & Authentic Self
So many of us go through life checking the boxes, moving from one goal to the next without pausing to ask:
💭 What do I truly desire?
💭 What makes me feel alive?
💭 Am I living in alignment with my deepest values?
This coaching process is an opportunity to slow down and listen—to reconnect with the inner voice that already knows what brings you joy, fulfillment, and peace. Together, we’ll explore:
🔹 Your core values and how they guide your decisions
🔹 Your personal energy & intuition—learning to trust yourself
🔹 What alignment feels like in your body and mind
✨ When you give yourself permission to slow down and tune in, you’ll see that the path forward has been waiting for you all along.
As an Asian American woman who has lived abroad and navigated intercultural relationships—both romantic and professional—I deeply understand how our identity, cultural expectations, and self-worth are interconnected. The way we move through the world, the roles we take on, and even how we define success are often shaped by external influences.
2) Acceptance & Self-Forgiveness: Letting Go of Pressure & Embracing Self-Trust
We often carry layers of expectation—from society, family, and even our past selves. As someone who has worked across cultures and experienced the tension between Eastern collectivist values and Western individualism, I know how difficult it can be to reconcile who we are vs. who we’re expected to be.
Through this process, you’ll be guided through a 5-level methodology (rooted in coaching psychology and inner healing) to:
🔹 Unravel limiting beliefs and old conditioning
🔹 Release the "shoulds" that are keeping you disconnected from your joy
🔹 Cultivate deep self-compassion & trust as you create your own definition of success
For many of us who have lived in multiple cultural worlds, self-worth can feel like it’s always being measured by outside expectations. The truth is, you don’t have to prove yourself to be worthy of happiness, success, or love.
✨ You were never behind. You were never off track. Every version of you has led to this moment.
3) Aligned Action & Embodying Your True Self
Once you’ve reconnected with your values, intuition, and inner joy, it’s time to bring that alignment into your daily life.
📌 Gentle accountability systems – Creating intentional habits that support your happiness
📌 Energy & boundary work – Learning to say yes to what feels good and no to what doesn’t
📌 Authentic self-expression – Feeling safe to take up space and show up as your full self
✨ When you step into alignment, life begins to flow. Your energy shifts, your relationships transform, and joy becomes your foundation—not just something you chase.
💛 What Clients Have Said
✔️ “Coaching feels like a hug—like a deep exhale I didn’t realize I needed.”
✔️ “It’s the validation I’ve been needing for years.”
✔️ “For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’m not alone.”
Looking for more of a career-focused program? Check out Career & Leadership Coaching.
Meet Your Coach!
Kristy serves North America and the APAC regions as a Career Transition and Mindset Coach. She is a graduate of Alyssa’s Institute of Coaching Mastery Certification program and the CEO Embodied Mastermind. She holds a B.A. from UCLA.
Kristy started her journey in the non profit industry and education, and spent 10 years dedicated to the Asian American community and developing programs for young professionals and students. She lived as an expat in Japan for 4 years, where she acquired Japanese as a second language (JLPT N2). While in Japan, she served bi-lingual candidates in Tokyo as a 360 full cycle agency recruiter and career consultant, and was the president of an NPO chapter that supported expats, Nikkei, TCK, and Japanese returnees.
She has first hand experience of what it takes to reach full alignment in a career after transitioning through an international job layoff, repatriation, multiple relocations, physical & gut health imbalance, and identity shifts. Kristy is passionately committed to supporting others through their own unique transitions to feel more purposeful & aligned in their career and lead a healthy lifestyle.
“It has been life changing, I have progressed in how I look at myself, and how I think. I’ve noticed more change in myself - mental growth & personal understanding - in the past 6 months than the past 10 years.
— Jeremy T.
Private Coaching Proposal Sample PDF
1:1 Private Custom Coaching is a one-of-a-kind experience for people who are committed to living their best life, open to changes and new perspectives, and want to have a purposeful career impact. Each program will be designed and customized for your personal success, as no two programs are the same. After your consult call, if we are both in alignment to work together, you will receive a program proposal.
1:1 Private Coaching Program Testimonials
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Athena M.
When I came home from Japan in November 2020, I found myself in the most challenging transition of my life so far. Up until then, I followed a very straightforward path, and suddenly I was back at what felt like the very beginning of my journey. After months of struggling on my own during the pandemic, I learned about Kristy’s coaching services through the JET Program alumnae network. I scheduled a Breakthrough Session that December and decided to officially invest in myself and hire Kristy as my coach a few months later. Initially, I felt my resistance to the mindset exercises. Still, Kristy graced me with patience and helped me grow comfortable with opening up to working on my inner critic and mindset.
She helped me rearrange my priorities - after years of putting my academics and career ahead of everything else - and I realized how important it was to work on myself and my headspace. This coaching program was incredibly beneficial to me and this ongoing journey that I decided to extend. Kristy made herself available throughout our months together to establish routines, offer support during all the rough patches of the job search process, and celebrate my successes. Kristy showed me how to utilize my resources through networking on LinkedIn and helped to expand my connections. She encouraged me to apply for a position at a dream company I categorized far outside my reach. I was convinced it would remain that way, but I’m proud to say I’m starting there in Jan 2022 after about a year working of together! I’m confident Kristy’s programs will benefit anyone going through a career transition or who wants guidance through a mindset shift. I would highly recommend her to anyone who needs assistance navigating through any obstacles in their career path!
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Adena I.
I went to Kristy at a crossroads in my life. I was in my second year of law school and was trying to figure out what I wanted to do afterwards. I felt the pressure of finding the “right path” and making sure I had set myself up for success. I lacked confidence in my abilities and just felt stuck. Kristy was a miracle worker. She helped me take a step back, acknowledge my own self-worth, and help me find a new path forward. Kristy has the innate ability to read people and situations and ask the right questions to get to the heart of a matter. As an Asian American woman, it was so comforting to have a coach who could understand the cultural and societal pressures I was experiencing. I’ve never met someone who has the observational abilities and natural skills that Kristy has. I highly recommend her as a coach for anyone who is going through a transition, looking to advance in their career, or just needs some support in finding a new path.
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Mariana V.
Kristy was my first coach, and the experience of working with her was beyond my expectations.
It’s very common that we start a new year full of new goals, ideas, and projects, but along the way, they slowly get pushed away due to day-to-day happenings of life.
This year, I wanted to make sure that I would keep consistency and control of each of my new projects.
Kristy did not just support me with finding ways to handle my personal projects while keeping my full-time job, but she also took me to this deep-dive into myself, where I could see my own personality and past experiences with a new perspective, which made me feel more confident than ever about where I want to be in the future.
Whether you’re looking for career advice or ways to improve your lifestyle in general, working with a coach will definitely be a worthy investment.
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Fuminori G.
Working with Kristy as my coach was meditational and comforting. If you occupy an executive or managerial role in an organization you should consider her service.
As you move up the ladder in any organization, there'll be only very few people you can talk to about your internal dialogues, and you don't want to be too selfish when hanging around with these few important people in your life. So it's very helpful to have the chance to talk to a pro like Kristy, just about your own "stuff". She is a patient but skillfully active listener, asking great questions and follow-up questions that help you realize the core issue or put things into a broader context, which then helps to find cues about how to approach or solve those issues.
If legends like Michael Jordan or Roger Federer (and other world-class executives) had or have mental coaches, it shows that everybody could need a coach. Because the way to improve is to get feedback, and having a professional personal sounding board like Kristy is a great way to get objective, valuable feedback.
Highly recommendable.
Ready to work together?
Are you ready to level up in life, challenge your old belief patterns, and change the trajectory of your life?
Are you 100% ready to invest in a life-changing experience?
If your answer is a full body YES, then I invite you to a complimentary 30 minute session to discuss your goals.
After our session, I will send you a coaching proposal for you to confirm, and we will get started.
I am currently accepting new clients.
FAQs
+ I've never worked with a coach before. Is that okay?
Yes, I've coached clients who have never experienced coaching support before and they all love it. Finding a good coach is similar to finding a therapist in that certian people will connect with you better than others. I mainly work with people who have a vision or something they want to achieve within the next 6-12 months. If your vision is unclear, but you know that you desire change, we can do a breakthrough session first to clarify your goals before starting a full time program.
+ What is the difference between your style of coaching and therapy?
My coaching style is a mixture of collective positive influence, positive self talk correction, and empowered accountability. Every session begins with a grounding practice and ends with aligned action. My coaching has been described as reflective, self affirming, motivational clarity sessions. Coaching is not a replacement for therapy. Please consult a therapist if you are seeking professional help.
The curriculum designed for you in this program, is supported by the training I received in Alyssa Nobriga's Institue of Coaching Mastery (12 month) program. I've been professionally trained for 12 months to practice 25 transformational modules (ie. shadow work, Byron Katie's The Work, positive + negative projections, nourishment barriers + dozens more), that support you as you transition through relocations, job loss, relationships, career transitions, etc. In addition to the mindset modules, you will experiment with personal development tasks like the 360 Leadership Interview, Time detox + Energy management, and other leadership tools learned from Kristin Constable's Activate Business Accelerator (6 Months).
+ What is the on-boarding process like for new clients?
Everything is digital. We use Docusign, Stripe, Notion, and LinkedIn for all of our communications, contracts, and payments. You'll receive an on-boarding packet, a notion portal, and a calendly link to schedule your first call. During the on-boarding call, we will co-design your custom private coaching program, set a session schedule, and detail your top priorities and goals.
+ Do you work with people in Japan or the US?
Both! As long as we can secure a time on the calendar, and you have dependable wi-fi, I can work with you from wherever you are calling in from.
+ Can I work with a coach and a therapist at the same time?
Yes. Some of my past clients have worked with therapists or physical trainers, while enrolled in my coaching programs. We encourage you to get the professional help that you need to support your through whatever life or career transition we are guiding you through with KMC.
+ I'm ready to invest. How much is the coaching program?
Private 60-Minute Session $250 USD (1 Mindset Module)
Private 2-Hour Breakthrough Session - $495 (2 Mindset Modules)
3-Month Coaching Package – $3,500 USD (Includes 4 × 50 minute sessions per month + unlimited support between sessions + 6 or more Mindset Modules)
6-Month Coaching Package – $7,000 USD (Includes 4 × 50 minute sessions per month + unlimited support between sessions + 12 or more Mindset Modules)
Interested in 1:1 coaching, but want to experience a coaching session firsthand?
Before enrolling in a full time coaching program, I offer opportunities to schedule a 2-hour breakthrough coaching session. This session is designed to help you identify any limiting beliefs, clarify gray areas, strategize immediate next steps, and determine whether working together for a full program is something you are ready to invest in.
What to expect:
Curate a safe space for you to share anything with me about your current life transition
Information about KMC Coaching Methodology and Coaching Style
A custom 2-hour coaching session bringing you through 2 of our 25+ SEMBU practices
What People Say About Breakthrough Sessions