A space to understand yourself more clearly, recognise the patterns that keep repeating and learn how to meet your life differently.
Private Guidance with Em Cruickshank
My private work brings together somatic awareness, meditation, breath, movement, contemplation and practical guidance. We work with what is actually happening in your life, but we also look beneath the immediate experience to understand the perceptions, behaviours and habitual responses that may be shaping it.
This isn't about giving you my answers. It is about helping you develop the awareness, understanding and practical tools to find your own, so that over time you become less dependent on the conditions around you for your sense of balance, clarity and wellbeing.
Complimentary 30-minute introductory call
Choosing someone to work with privately is personal, and I think it is important that we have the chance to meet before deciding whether this work feels right for you.
This complimentary 30-minute call gives you the space to tell me a little about what is happening in your life, what has brought you here and what you would like support with. You can ask me anything you need to about the way I work, and together we can get a sense of whether Private Guidance is the right next step.
There is no expectation that you arrive knowing exactly what you need. Often that becomes clearer simply through the conversation.
Complimentary — 30 minutes
90-minute Initial Private Guidance Session
Our first session gives us the time to properly understand what is happening in your life, rather than rushing towards a solution.
You will do much of the talking while I listen for what sits underneath the immediate experience — the patterns, perceptions, behaviours and responses that may be contributing to where you find yourself now.
From there, we begin to work together. Depending on what is useful for you, I may draw on meditation, somatic awareness, breath, movement, contemplation, Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practical strategies that you can begin applying in your everyday life.
By the end of the session we will have a much clearer understanding of where the work might take us. If continuing together feels right, we will discuss what that could look like, including the frequency and structure of your sessions.
Investment: $275
60-minute Ongoing Private Guidance Sessions
This is where understanding begins to become practice, and where I begin to teach you the full framework that sits underneath my private work.
Rather than simply working through one problem after another, you will learn a repeatable way of understanding what is happening, recognising the perceptions and habitual responses shaping your experience, and deciding how you want to meet what is in front of you. It becomes a system of thinking and approaching life that you can return to again and again, long after our work together has finished.
We use what is actually happening in your life as the place to learn it. Relationships, work, difficult decisions, emotional reactions, periods of change or simply those moments when you know something isn't working but can't quite see why. Together we slow things down, understand what is happening beneath the immediate experience and practise applying the framework until it becomes increasingly familiar to you.
Alongside this, our sessions may include meditation, somatic awareness, movement, breath, contemplation, formal learning and Buddhist and Taoist teachings. These practices aren't separate from the framework; they help develop the awareness and capacity required to actually use it.
The intention is not to create a reliance on our sessions. Quite the opposite. I want you to leave this work with something you understand and know how to use for yourself — a practical framework for navigating your life with greater awareness, clarity, resilience and inner authority.
You can work with me session by session, or begin with a ten-session program that gives us the consistency and time to learn and apply the full system together.
60-minute Private Guidance Session — $225
10-session Private Guidance Programme — $2,000
Payment options are available for the 10-session programme.