Persona Sessions
Coaching 🤝 Portraits to help you and others see your magic.
I bring developmental coaching into my portrait sessions to bring out your best self and capture the magic in your next project or life chapter.
Here’s what it looks like:
Reflecting: We start with prompts to help you reflect and process this season in your life and what transitions or projects are ahead for you.
Uncovering: A 50 minute developmental coaching session to uncover what wants to “sound through” you—your innate wisdom, genius, and wholeness. From here, we’ll create a creative direction and plan for the portrait session.
Capturing: A 2 hour portrait session depending on what unfolds from our session.
Integrating: A 50 minute session to integrate the entire experience.
Whenever I tell someone I’m a portrait photographer, the most common response I get is “Ugh, I need a good photo for [insert social media of choice].” That makes sense since our profile photo will most likely be someone’s first impression of us. A good photo is the digital version of a firm handshake.
The “ugh” (they go on to tell me) is because they hate the photo they currently have. And they hate having their photo taken. They feel so awkward and uncomfortable in front of a camera and it comes out looking a hundred times worse in a photo, even if the photo is technically flawless.
This breaks my heart because a photoshoot should be fun and playful! You should be able to show up exactly how you want to show up and look fabulous doing it.
I recently looked up where the word “person” comes from. It comes from persona—a combination of two words, per meaning “through” and sonare (so-nah-ray) meaning “to sound”. So you can say a person is not just about how they look or what they do, but what sounds through them–their soul, their energy, and the stories they inhabit as they move through the world.
A portrait session then is a space for your persona to be on full display and beautifully captured in a photo. That doesn’t happen with great equipment or the photographer’s skill level alone. There needs to be a certain quality of presence created between you and the photographer. One that helps you feel grounded, safe, and trusting of what will unfold during the session.
It’s this piece that’s often overlooked, but once it’s there you are free to have fun being yourself and that will show up a hundredfold in a photo
After our time together, you’ll walk away with more than just great photos of yourself.
You’ll have clarity for the next chapter of your business, project, or career.
You’ll feel more comfortable in your own skin.
You’ll see yourself in new ways.
You’ll have a gallery of images you can use for your profile photo, marketing material, book cover, dating profile, or anywhere else you need to make a great first impression.
These photos will be reminders of what really matters to you, who you really are, and how you want to show up in the world.
