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slowing down doesn’t have to mean losing your edge. let’s make you the best version of yourself.

Nervous system regulation for high-achieving women

who refuse to choose between work and life

Let me help you regulate your nervous system, using my signature Calm Hustle Method, designed specifically for high-achieving women, especially those with ADHD.

By combining my expertise as a licensed mental health counselor, with my training in yoga & behavioral coaching, we’ll help you find:

⮕ Less Force, more Flow

⮕ Less Rigidity, more Rhythm

⮕ More energy

⮕ A sense of internal safety

With a regulated nervous system, you can be balanced & effective in all areas of your life — in the board room, running your business, or in your personal life. A successful life isn’t built with willpower, it’s built with intention & a regulated nervous system.

Build your life worth living

Build your life worth living

Does this resonate?

Most of my clients share at least one of these . . .

  • They grew up in financial instability and learned to achieve to stay safe

  • They have ADHD (diagnosed or not) and struggle with imposter syndrome, perfectionism, or procrastination

  • They are operating inside high-demand systems that never truly power down.

The result?

Chronic tension. Sleep disruption.

Irritability. Imposter syndrome. Self-Sabotage.

Chronic fatigue. Autoimmune issues. High blood pressure.

A body and mind that refuse to work together.

Stress is not a requirement of success. Peace & Productivity can co-exist.

You can slow down, stay powerful, and keep your edge. Let me teach you how.

My Specialties

Where I do my best work

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01 Executives

Have balance. Stop living from a place of chronic stress. Remember how to have fun, without losing your executive edge. Share what you know & make a difference without killing your body in the process. Lead more effective teams.

02 Founders & Entrepreneurs

Get consistent. Stop living in productivity extremes. Achieve your business goals without compromising your life. Grow with intention, not chaos. Build an Intentional business, not a reactive one.

03 high-achieving ADHD women

Stop burning out. Overcome imposter syndrome. Break the perfectionism ⮕ procrastination cycle. Get out of your own way.

04 Financial therapy // Financial trauma therapy

Break free from financial overwhelm. Heal your relationship with money. Settle into & enjoy your 6-figure+ success.

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The calm hustle Process

Breakthrough

Starting in our first session, I’ll lovingly “read you to filth.” I’ll point out your blind spots, call you out where it’s needed, and start providing strategy to heal your nervous system & get you more effective ASAP.

Transformation

Now that you’re building momentum and getting results, we’ll look for sneaky subconscious belief systems that keep you working harder than you need to. We’ll transform these, using a combination of techniques that re-wire your nervous system, so you can start showing up as a better version of yourself.

Mastery

Now that you know your blind spots, have the techniques, and have rewired your brain for more sustainable performance, you’ll move into mastery mode. You’ll continue to apply your techniques, do additional subconscious programming as-needed, but mostly just enjoy the outcomes of our work together. Once you’re in mastery mode, you’ll use your new patterns to consistently design a life that energizes you for the long-term.

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I’m Nikolai blinow, lmhc

I work exclusively with high-performing women in leadership and entrepreneurship who are tired of white-knuckling their success.

This is not surface-level burnout coaching or “how do you feel?” therapy.

This is nervous system recalibration for ambitious women whose drive was shaped by ADHD, early financial instability, or just too many years of hustling hard.

We rebuild how you work — so your success stops feeling like an emergency.

Licensed in RI & MA.

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Something needs to change.

It’s time to slow down, stay powerful, and keep your edge. 

I know you’re busy. I also know you’re tired. I know you secretly want to slow down and drink pina coladas on the beach, but that you’d get bored with that in about a week.

I know you want results now, not later. Actually, you probably wanted results yesterday.

That’s why I offer a variety of options to work together – from my signature Calm Hustle Method, to weekly recurring therapy & coaching sessions, to half-day Calm Hustle intensives aimed at giving you months of results in just a short period of time.

Together, we’ll find the approach that gets you the most results, the most quickly, and we’ll work together to ensure you get results that last a lifetime.

After all, this is your life we’re talking about. You deserve to treat yourself like a designer handbag that will last forever and look great with everything (not like the cheap fad-of-the week, that you’re going to throw out next season.)


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Let's do this

Let's do this

Rediscover the joy you’ve been missing.

Find happiness and fulfillment now, not later.