The Fine Print
Disclaimer
Effective date: September 28, 2026
Coaching is not therapy. The services offered here are professional coaching services. They are not psychotherapy, counseling, mental health treatment, medical advice, or legal advice, and they are not a substitute for any of those things.
1. The role being offered
Coach Poppy is a Registered Art Therapist, an ICF-Certified Coach, and a Certified Family Law Mediator.
Holding those credentials does not mean they are being exercised here.
Within this practice, services are provided in the capacity of a coach. No therapeutic, clinical, mediation or legal relationship is created by working together, and the protections that attach to those relationships do not apply.
2. What that means in practice
- Coaching looks forward. It works on clarity, direction and what happens next, not on diagnosis or treatment.
- Nothing offered here diagnoses, treats, cures or prevents any condition.
- Creative and art-based exercises may be used. These are coaching tools, not art therapy, and they are not clinical interventions.
- Conversations about divorce, co-parenting or other legal matters are not legal advice. Please talk with an attorney about your legal situation.
- Coaching notes are not clinical records and do not carry the same legal protections.
3. The Emotional Clock® gift
The Emotional Clock® is a tool for noticing where you are emotionally in a particular moment. It is not a test, an assessment or a diagnosis, and it does not replace care from a licensed professional.
4. Athena membership
Athena is a small coaching membership where women come together on Zoom to talk, brainstorm and look at options. It is not group therapy or a support group run by a clinician. Gatherings are live and are not recorded. What you choose to share is up to you, and you can participate as much or as little as you wish.
5. If you are working with a clinician
Coaching can sit alongside therapy, and often does. If you are under the care of a therapist, physician or other clinician, you are encouraged to tell them you are working with a coach, and to continue that care.
Nothing said in coaching should be taken as a reason to stop, change or delay treatment prescribed by a licensed professional.
6. If you are in crisis
This practice does not provide emergency or crisis services. Messages are not monitored around the clock, and a reply cannot be relied upon in an urgent situation.
If you are in immediate danger, or concerned for your safety or someone else's, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line in your country right away.
7. No guaranteed outcomes
Every person, relationship and situation is different. No particular result or outcome is promised or implied by anything on this site.
Any examples, stories or testimonials describe individual experience and should not be taken as typical or expected results.
8. Your decisions remain yours
Coaching supports your thinking; it does not replace your judgment. You have the final say, and you remain solely responsible for the choices you make, the actions you take, and their consequences.
9. Website content
Content on this site is provided for general information. It is not tailored to your circumstances and should not be relied on as advice. While reasonable care is taken to keep it accurate, no warranty is given that it is complete or current.
External links are provided for convenience; we are not responsible for content on other sites.
10. Questions
If you are unsure whether coaching is the right fit for what you are carrying, please ask through the contact page before getting started. That question is always welcome, and the honest answer is sometimes no.