Strategic Advising
Strategic Advising gives professionals an edge through deeper self-understanding. In a collaborative partnership, clients develop clarity on their thinking, find their authentic voice, and sharpen their decision-making.
What is Life Coaching?
This is not consulting. You won’t be told what to do or handed a business plan. Strategic Advising is a person-centered process, you are the expert on your own life, career, and circumstances. The role of the Strategic Advisor is to create a space where you can explore how you see the business world, understand your own patterns of thinking and relating, and arrive at decisions that are authentically yours.
What makes this partnership unique is that your advisor brings genuine fluency in the business realm, an MBA, CPA, and Master’s in Accounting, not to impose a framework, but to understand your world, speak your language, and meet you where you are. That expertise serves your exploration, not the other way around.
Key Aspects of Strategic Advising
- You Are The Expert: This is your process. You set the direction. The advisor's role is to facilitate, not prescribe.
- Collaborative Partnership: A confidential, one-on-one relationship built on curiosity, trust, and mutual exploration.
- Self-Understanding: Gain deeper insight into your own patterns, motivations, and blind spots, understanding why you think and react the way you do.
- Interpersonal Clarity: Develop a sharper understanding of others, how they operate, what drives them, and how to navigate professional relationships more effectively.
- Authentic Voice: Discover and articulate your true perspective, values, and positions with greater clarity and confidence.
- Sharpened Decision-Marking: Move through complex choices with more precision, grounded in a clearer understanding of yourself and the dynamics around you.
Our Blueprint
Session 1
The Baseline Check-In
Establish your starting point through conversation, history, and goals—like a wellness exam for your mind.
Session 2
Mapping Patterns
Identify recurring thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and begin noticing the cycles that shape your daily life.
Session 3
Insight & Alignment
Connect experiences to present reactions, uncover values, and start realigning your choices with what matters most.
Session 4
Tools for Balance
Learn practical strategies for stress management, emotional regulation, and building a personalized mental health toolbox.
Session 5
Reframing & Growth
Apply insights and tools to real-life challenges, reshape unhelpful beliefs, and strengthen positive habits.
Session 6
Integration & Future Planning
Review progress, highlight lasting strengths, and create a roadmap for continued growth and ongoing check-ins.
Get Started with Strategic Advising At Insightful Edge
Taking the first step toward strategic advising is choosing to invest in your own growth and success. Our structured, goal-oriented sessions give you clarity, strategies, and ongoing support to help you move forward with confidence. You might benefit from life coaching if you are:
- Recurring conflicts that never seem to resolve.
- Communication breakdowns or difficulty expressing needs.
- Growing emotional distance or lack of intimacy.
- Struggles adjusting to major life changes such as marriage, parenting, or career transitions.
- A desire to strengthen the relationship before challenges escalate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to have a problem to benefit from Strategic Advising?
Not at all. Most people who seek Strategic Advising are already successful, they’re not in crisis, they’re curious. They want to understand themselves more deeply, see situations from new angles, and gain clarity on how they move through the professional world.
Think of it as investing in yourself when things are going well, so you’re even sharper when things get complex.
How is this different from therapy?
Therapy addresses mental health concerns, anxiety, depression, trauma, relational patterns rooted in deeper emotional work. Strategic Advising is not therapy. It’s designed for people who don’t need clinical treatment but want a structured space to think, explore, and grow.
That said, the two aren’t entirely separate. Both are grounded in a person-centered philosophy: you are the expert on your own life, and the process moves at your pace, in your direction. If something surfaces that suggests therapy might be valuable, we’ll discuss that openly. And because Insightful Edge Therapy offers both, that transition can happen seamlessly.
How is this different from business coaching or consulting?
Consultants and many coaches operate from a model where the expert tells you what to do, they assess your situation and prescribe solutions. Strategic Advising is fundamentally different.
Here, you are the expert. The advisor’s role is to understand your world, ask the right questions, and create the conditions for you to see more clearly. The business background, MBA, CPA, accounting, means your advisor can genuinely understand the landscape you’re navigating without needing you to translate. But that expertise is in service of your exploration, not a predetermined playbook.
You won’t leave with someone else’s answers. You’ll leave with your own.
What kinds of things do people work on?
People come to Strategic Advising when they want to think more clearly about something that matters to them: a difficult professional relationship, a high-stakes decision, a pattern they keep noticing in how they lead or communicate, a sense that something isn’t working but they can’t quite name it.
It’s for anyone who wants a space to explore how they see the business world, how they relate to others within it, and how they can show up with more clarity and intention.
Who provides Strategic Advising at Insightful Edge?
Strategic Advising is offered exclusively by Marc Scott. It draws on his unique combination of credentials, registered mental health counselor intern, licensed CPA, MBA, and Master’s in Accounting, and his person-centered philosophy. This isn’t a service that can be handed off; it’s rooted in a specific set of experiences, training, and approach.
Therapy services at Insightful Edge are offered by multiple providers. Strategic Advising is Marc’s alone.
How often do people meet with a Strategic Advisor?
That depends entirely on you. Some clients meet weekly during periods of active decision-making or transition. Others prefer bi-weekly or monthly sessions as an ongoing thinking partnership. There’s no formula, we’ll discuss what fits your needs and adjust as things evolve.
Is this confidential?
Florida Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern Confidentiality
Confidentiality for a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern is a stringent legal and ethical mandate under Florida Statutes, primarily Chapter 491 and Chapter 90.503, establishing a strong psychotherapist-patient privilege.
General Rule: All communications between a mental health counselor intern and a client are confidential and remain so unless the client provides written consent for disclosure.
Purpose: The primary intent is to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of the public by providing a safe space to encourage individuals to seek needed counseling services, ensuring emotional survival is equal to physical survival.
- Exceptions & Mandatory Disclosures: The privilege is exceptionally strong but has critical, mandatory exceptions designed for public safety:
- Duty to Warn and Protect: The intern must disclose information to a law enforcement agency and the potential victim if the client communicates a specific threat of serious bodily injury or death to an identified person, and the intern makes a clinical judgment that the client has the apparent intent and ability to imminently carry out the threat.
- Mandatory Reporting: The intern is required to report suspected child abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a child or vulnerable adult to the appropriate authorities.
Court Orders: In legal cases, information may be subpoenaed by the court, though the privilege is vigorously defended. - Client Waiver: The client can agree in writing to waive their privilege.