About Jessica & Ecotone Coaching
Coaching in the Ecotone
I work with financially independent adults navigating the identity shifts that follow inheritance, business exits, windfalls, and other major transitions involving money.
When external constraints fall away, internal structure is revealed. What follows is often less a victory lap and more an ecotone — the transitional zone where two ecosystems meet. The old structure of your life no longer fully holds, and the new one has not yet taken shape.
The Terrain
Ecotones can feel unstable. The ground is shifting, and familiar rules no longer fully apply. Yet they are often the most alive and generative parts of a landscape. Major financial change creates this kind of terrain.
You may recognize yourself here if:
Nothing is technically wrong, but nothing quite fits.
You feel grateful — and quietly disoriented.
The strategies that built your success no longer help you live inside it.
Having every option available makes it difficult to choose any of them.
This is not a financial planning problem. It is a developmental threshold.
My History
I grew up inside a fourth-generation family business and, over more than two decades, moved in and out of roles as it evolved from a local institution into an global corporation. From the inside, I saw how money and power shape systems and the people within them.
In 2024, I became financially independent through inheritance and stepped away from full-time work. Even with training in adult development, the transition revealed how deeply identity and meaning are structured by constraint, and how disorienting it can feel when that structure dissolves.
This work emerged from the realization that the intersections of my background, training, and live experience positioned me to accompany others on this journey.
My Approach
I don’t see this period as something to fix or optimize.
When your financial reality changes dramatically, identities loosen. Meaning shifts. The structures that once organized your life no longer fully hold.
My work is grounded in Integral Coaching®, a developmental approach that builds the internal capacity to meet complex life transitions. Together, we work with how you actually show up — your habits, attention, nervous system patterns, and inherited narratives — so that change is lived, not just understood.
The goal is not to rush out of the ecotone.
It is to grow into someone who can inhabit it with steadiness — until the next structure forms.
How it Works
Our work typically moves through three overlapping phases:
1. Naming What Is Dissolving
We clarify what no longer holds — identities, roles, inherited narratives, motivations shaped by constraint.
2. Strengthening Internal Capacity
We work with how you actually show up: habits held in the body, where attention goes when you are alone, how you respond to pressure or abundance.
3. Authoring What Wants to Emerge
From a steadier internal ground, you begin shaping choices that feel coherent, sustainable, and fully owned.
More About Me
I’ve lived in Baltimore for over twenty years, where I share a home with my spouse, who is also an Integral Coach. We’ve built a life rooted in close friendships, shared meals and board games, and long-standing community.
We spend part of each year in Costa Rica, where jungle meets ocean and the pace of life feels different. Time there reminds us how much environment shapes who we become — and how important it is to choose contexts that allow us to grow well.
I’ve also been engaged in recovery community for over twenty years. It has been my greatest teacher, especially in revealing the slow, embodied nature of real change and the humility required for it.
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Trainings & Credentials
Certified Integral Coach (2014)
ICF Associate Credential (2014)
Inner Relationship Focusing, Levels 1 & 2 (2016)
Aletheia Advanced Coach Training, Level 1 (2023)
Professional Background
Before launching Ecotone Practice, I worked as a producer for The Marc Steiner Show and Just Words (2007 Peabody Award–winning program), spent five years in club sales with Phillips Foods, and served as Director of Enrollment at New Ventures West for over a decade.
Associations
Founding member of LGBTQ Integral Coaches Group
The Invitation
If you find yourself in an ecotone — between identities, between structures, between ways of living — you do not have to navigate it alone.
If you would like to explore whether this work is right for you, I invite you to schedule a conversation.
From My ClientsI came to Jessica exhausted by the language and pressure of goals, outcomes, and self-improvement. I expected better habits and clearer direction. What I received instead was something far more lasting: a return to myself. Through poetry, meditation, journaling, and Aikido, Jes taught me how to pay attention to my breath, my body, and my inner voice. At first it felt almost too gentle. Then it changed everything. I stopped trying to fix myself and started learning how to listen. That shift still shapes how I live and create today.
Some people help you get where you want to go. Jes helped me learn how to arrive, every day.
-Peter B, business owner
I had heard of coaching, but did not know what it really was about. Arriving to my first session I was lost, confused about my life, and on a mission to find me again. Throughout my work with Jessica I was able to grow, develop, and refine my whole self. I let go of past hurts and learned to be better to myself.
Jessica has a true gift. She looked at the core of what I needed and wanted, and helped me to open up and be honest with myself. The program she personally develops for you will change your life and mindset.
Thank you, Jessica!
-Lolita J, Human Resources Manager
Through the years…
