Some things are useful to explore at your own pace. Other times, it helps to have a responsive and skilled human with you—listening, tapping, and moving the emotional energy together.
In a private session, we give focused attention to what is alive for you. You might bring one specific issue, a decision, a place where you feel stuck, or something you do not yet know how to name. Together we support relief, clarity, and your own Inner YES.
Much of Thriving Now is available to explore through self-paced resources and conversationally with Gus. Private sessions are here when being met and working together one-to-one would serve what matters now.
Ready to schedule? It’s right here.
How I work
Do you want to live, laugh, and love with clarity and confidence? Yes? I do, too. And with all of life’s emotional stresses and strains, each of us sometimes needs support, tools, and skills if we hope to live a thriving life.
In our sessions, I listen, sense, tap, reflect, and respond to what is moving. EFT Tapping gives us a simple and surprisingly effective way to engage with emotional energy together. You do not need to know how to tap before we begin. I can show you, and we can adapt the words and the process so they feel congruent with your body, your knowing, and your choices.
I love helping people find the peace and clarity of their Inner YES. I think of the emotional world we co-create as a living ecosystem. How we tend it matters—to our bodies, our relationships, our families, our communities, and our planet.
This is responsive work. I bring deep experience and skill, and together we keep safety, respect, and freedom at the core of how we engage. Questions are appreciated. Laughter and tears are welcome. You can pause, redirect, change the tapping words, or tell me when something does not fit. Your clarity and choices matter throughout.
Would a private session fit what matters now?
You might gently ask yourself:
- Would focused time with a skilled, responsive human help me right now?
- Is there something I want us to explore together—an issue, decision, stuck place, or something I cannot yet name?
- Do I feel an Inner YES to scheduling—or would asking a question help me clarify?
Both scheduling and asking questions are welcome. And if private coaching is not a YES for you right now, thanks for taking care of yourself!
Private coaching is one distinct kind of support, not a “premium level” above Resources, Gus, or our group coaching Circle. A private session is focused time just for you and what is alive for you.
If group coaching appeals to you, the Emotional Freedom Circle is where we tap together, bring our intuition and life experience, and support one another while preserving each person’s freedom to choose what is right for them.
Sessions & pricing
Thriving Now is a worldwide community with members from diverse backgrounds and economic situations—so it is clear a single “standard price” cannot work equitably.
If you choose to work with me, you will pick a gliding-scale payment for each session from a range of options. The range is here to open possibilities. What you choose in the range is completely up to you, and it can vary from session to session. I do ask that you pick an amount that feels mutually generous and balanced. I’m honored to get a chance to engage with you, and any amount in the range works for me.
50-minute private session · $280–$130
A 50-minute session gives us room for in-depth work, especially when what is alive has several layers or would benefit from more spacious attention.
- Gliding scale: Choose an amount from $280 to $130. Circle members may choose an amount as low as $108.
- Time to reserve: Up to 60 minutes, allowing room for closure and any technical issues that arise.
20-minute private session · $140–$65
A 20-minute session is designed for highly focused attention on one specific issue, question, decision, or emotional edge.
- Gliding scale: Choose an amount from $140 to $65. Circle members may choose an amount as low as $54.
- Time to reserve: Up to 30 minutes, allowing room for closure and any technical issues that arise.
Not sure which length fits? Ask me. You do not need to force certainty before reaching out.
Your worth is not defined by what you can afford to pay.
Read more about the heart and philosophy of my gliding scale.
For an exceptional coaching value, you are also welcome to explore the Emotional Freedom Circle.
Schedule & pay
When you schedule
- Choose the session length that fits.
- Check that the timezone shown on the scheduling form matches where you will be for the session. Sessions are offered on different days, evenings, and some weekends.
- Choose Zoom, which is preferred, or phone for how we will connect.
- If you would like a private audio recording, request it on the booking form or tell me at the beginning of our session.
- Review Prepare for our time before we meet.
Most people pay while they book. Payment at booking is not required. If you still need to pay after scheduling, please do so before our session unless we have made other arrangements.
You can pay by credit card or PayPal through the payment page. To pay with Bitcoin, Venmo, or Cash App, email Rick.
To pay by check in U.S. funds, please make it payable to:
Thriving Now LLC
115 Coachmans Trail
Asheville, NC 28803-9411
Prepare for our time
I am truly looking forward to our coaching and tapping time together! Here you’ll find some helpful tips and some logistical details, too. Be sure to review them so we’re all set for your session.
Safety, Respect, and Freedom are core
- Questions are appreciated anytime—in session and by email.
- Laughter and tears are welcome here.
- Your clarity and free choice matter.
- Ask for what you need to take care of yourself.
- Pauses to breathe and ground are a natural part of the process. Ask for one anytime.
- Please correct or redirect me if anything does not feel congruent or true.
- Feel free to change the tapping words so they better fit your feelings and sensations.
- If something is coming up, share it—especially if it does not “make sense” yet feels important.
Logistical details
- Start on time, not early. Let us both use the minutes right before the session to ground and focus.
- Connect on Zoom or call me by phone right at the start time.
- Pay before the session begins unless we have made other arrangements. Most people pay while booking.
- Cancellations are okay. Even in the first minutes of the session—we are human. There is no penalty for cancellations.
- No-shows are hard. The first no-show in a calendar year is without charge. After the first, any other no-shows are charged at the 20-minute session rate.
- “Can we tap on that?” Yes. Ask for this anytime.
- Recordings are optional and free. They are right for most people, but not everyone. Request a recording on the booking form or at the beginning of the session; otherwise, we will not record. If we make one, email me within 30 days after the session to request your private audio link.
- Email me before, after, or between sessions whenever that would be helpful. I am the only person who reads email sent to rick@thrivingnow.com.
It takes courage to be emotionally real. Thank you. I value vulnerability and am honored to be engaged with you in this way.
If you want a tapping refresher before we meet, the free Learn EFT Tapping course is available for you and to share with friends.
About Rick
There have been stretches of my life that were really rough, when I was absolutely not thriving. Certain people and coaches profoundly supported me through those times. They helped me get grounded and clear, bring up my energy, and move forward. That lived experience is part of why I was drawn to this work and why supporting emotional freedom still matters so much to me.
For decades, I have worked with thousands of people from around the world and across a wide spectrum of ages, identities, and ways of living. I bring intuition, deep experience with EFT Tapping, and a body-mind-spirit orientation to our work. My role is to help you quiet inner noise, know more of your own clarity, and cultivate the emotional resilience and skills to be Thriving Now… and onwards… Your Way!
I live and love in Asheville, North Carolina, where I can be found adventuring with my family, hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, improv dancing, and playing river otter in the pristine streams of the surrounding mountains.
I am an Emotional Freedom Coach, an aspiring imperfectionist and useful spirit buddy, and am earnestly devoted to Emotional Freedom for All—so each of us gets to know what it means to be Thriving Now.
- Read what clients have shared.
- Interested in an in-person session in Asheville? Email me to ask about current possibilities.
Emotional Freedom Coaching is coaching and EFT Tapping support. It is not psychotherapy, medical care, or treatment for a physical or mental health condition.
Ask Rick
Questions Are Welcome!
You can email me personally at rick@thrivingnow.com. I am the only person who reads that address.
You are welcome to ask about session length, scheduling, payment, how we might work together, or something you are not sure how to name yet. I will get back to you soon.
What would “Thriving” look and feel like for you?
Other questions are welcome, too. I look forward to engaging with you.
Warm smiles,
Rick ~ ThrivingNow