Lucida Strategies is a consultancy for writers, learners, and educators at every stage — grounded in what you hold most dear, and built for how your mind works best.
"Your way of thinking is not the obstacle to good writing — it is the very source of it."
We offer writing coaching, pedagogical mentorship, and educational support designed for the full range of how minds actually work — not the narrow range most institutions were built for.
Explore Our Services →One-on-one coaching for graduate students, academics, and professional writers navigating long-form scholarly and creative work.
Learn more →Coaching and professional development for educators, school leaders, and institutions committed to genuinely inclusive practice.
Learn more →Online courses and one-on-one coaching for students who deserve instruction built around how they actually learn.
Learn more →We begin every engagement the same way — by asking what you value, what you hope for, and what you are most fundamentally committed to in your work. Not what the assignment requires, or what the institution expects. What matters most to you. That question, taken seriously, shapes everything that follows.
If you are genuinely committed to the full range of human intelligence getting to do its best work — and we are — then real accessibility isn't a specialty or an accommodation. It is what values-led practice requires. You cannot hold that commitment and then design your teaching, your coaching, or your writing support for only one way of thinking. The two ideas are inseparable.
We are also both practicing writers and artists. That isn't incidental — it is what makes our coaching different from tutoring. We know what it means to face the blank page, to lose the thread, and to find your way back. We teach from inside the practice because we have never left it.
Our first consultation is always free. We meet by phone, by Zoom, or — if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area — in person. We respond to all inquiries within two business days.