Every client starts with the Stronghold Assessment. Everything after that is built around what your data actually shows — not a one-size approach applied from a distance.
The Stronghold Assessment is a 125-question instrument built specifically for coaching. It measures 76 composite scores across identity, relational patterns, emotional patterns, trauma indicators, and wellbeing. It also includes five validated mental health screening tools.
When you finish, I have a complete picture of where you are before our first conversation. That means the first session is about real work — not warm-up.
The assessment is free for all new clients. You complete it online at your own pace before the discovery call.
How you see yourself, how you relate to others, and where those patterns formed.
Anger, passivity, shutdown, avoidance — how you respond when things get hard.
What was installed in you before you had a choice about it.
Five validated tools covering depression, anxiety, trauma, burnout, and crisis indicators.
Marriage-specific layer. Nine signed agreements and relational alignment data. Couples only.
The assessment takes 30 to 45 minutes. Complete it in one sitting if possible. Your results are scored automatically and reviewed by Dr. Hines before your discovery call. Nothing in your results is shared without your consent.
Individual and couples coaching follow different processes. Both are structured, sequential, and built around your specific assessment data — not a generic curriculum.
Walk through your full assessment picture. Name your identity type, your passivity index, and your primary pattern. Establish the coaching relationship and your first honest commitment.
Trace the origin story. Map the father wound, the family system, and the generational patterns you inherited. Separate what was installed in you from who you actually are.
Identify exactly where and how you surrender ground. Map the anger cycle, the passivity triggers, and the escape patterns. Install the first behavioral interrupts before they are needed.
Build the true identity foundation. Address shame without softening it. Build the 5-year vision and map the calling-career gap. Establish the man you are actually becoming — not the performance version.
Transition from coached to self-led. Monthly check-ins, drift prevention, and a 90-day reassessment that measures actual composite change — not your perception of it.
Each partner reviews their own assessment with Dr. Hines separately before any joint session. No surprises. No ambushes. Each person understands their own picture first.
Both partners come together. The couples gap report is walked through openly. What is real gets named without blame framing. The first shared picture is established.
Map exactly how this couple fights, goes silent, or cycles. Identify the pursuer-withdrawer dynamic and the specific triggers that fire it. Build the interrupt before it is needed.
Surface how each partner attaches and what they need to feel safe. Build toward emotional and physical intimacy restoration. Install the connection rituals that protect the marriage daily.
Walk through all nine areas of marriage agreement from the couples assessment. Build the covenant document together — conflict protocol, household roles, vision alignment, shared commitments.
Build the shared vision for where this marriage is going. What are you building together? What does the legacy look like? The Family Mission statement is completed here.
Transition from coached to self-led couple. Install the rhythms that protect the marriage long-term. A 90-day reassessment measures actual composite change — composite score by composite score.
30 minutes. No cost. Tell me what's going on. I'll tell you what I see.
125 questions. Takes 30-45 minutes. Free for all new clients. You'll get your results the same day.
Before we talk again, I read your 76 composite scores. The first real conversation starts from there.
Session 1 is assessment feedback and Phase 1 of your coaching plan. No warm-up. No worksheets. We start.
Both are no cost. Both tell you something real. Either one moves you forward.
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