The Climb Within
Coaching for those who do hard things.
Most coaching starts with what's missing. This work starts with what's already there — the capacity, the curiosity, the hard-won experience you've been building your whole life. The climb is about developing what you already carry.
The Premise
Life is both hard and beautiful. The science calls that normal.
Inner Range is built on a different premise than most coaching: you already have the raw material. The work is developing the capacity to access it — under pressure, in uncertainty, in the long stretches where progress isn't visible. It's also learning to recognize resistance when it shows up, and working with it as part of the climb.
No prescriptions. No outcome promises. No performance of expertise.
The Approach
The work is not a system. It doesn’t start with a gap analysis or a goal-setting worksheet. It starts with a question: what are you actually working with?
From there, we build. The coaching draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, mindfulness practice, and performance psychology — not as a framework to apply, but as a way of understanding what’s happening under pressure and what it takes to respond differently.
Every engagement is different because every person is different. What stays consistent: the quality of attention, the willingness to go where the work actually leads, and the commitment to follow through.
Who This Is For
This work is built for people who already operate at a high level and want to go deeper.
If you’re a veteran, first responder, executive, athlete, or someone who’s carried real weight and is now asking harder questions about how you want to lead your life — this is for you.
It’s also for people in transition: the end of a career, a loss, a shift in identity. Times when the old maps no longer work and you need to think more carefully about what’s next.
You don’t need to be in crisis. You need to be serious.
How the Work Goes
We start with a conversation — no intake forms, no assessments. Just a direct conversation about what you’re working with and whether the fit is right.
If we decide to work together, we meet regularly over video. Sessions run 60 minutes. The pace and frequency depend on what the work calls for.
Between sessions, I can be available. Not for check-ins or accountability nudges — for the moments when something comes up and you need to think it through with someone.
Engagements typically run three to six months, though some work unfolds over a longer arc. We’ll know when it’s time to close.
About
Richard and Buddha
Richard is a retired law enforcement officer, military veteran, and researcher. He coaches people who operate under real pressure — helping them perform, recover, and lead with more clarity, resilience, and humanity.
His credentials are grounded and specific. He holds an ACC from the International Coaching Federation, with graduate-level coaching training from Fielding Graduate University. He is certified in mindfulness facilitation through UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. His professional certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology — the study of how relationships and lived experience shape the brain and nervous system — comes from Portland Community College's Health Professions Campus. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Portland State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
For more than five years, he worked as a Therapy K9 handler alongside Buddha, a Bernese Mountain Dog. We lost Buddha to cancer in the spring of 2025. Oberon — another Bernese — is now in training to carry that work forward.
Richard is more than a year into a Master of Social Work program at Boise State University, pursuing licensure as a therapist. The coaching and the clinical training run in parallel — by design.