The Decision Coach Who Will Tell You What Your Therapist Won’t

If, in a moment of desperate uncertainty, you were to Google “How to make a hard decision,” you might stumble across Nell Wulfhart, a self-proclaimed “decision coach” whose website promises to get you “unstuck in just one session.”

Most of Wulfhart’s clients find her this way, which baffles her. “But if you’re coming to a stranger on the internet to help you make up your mind, chances are, you’re overthinking it,” she says. “My job is to pull you out of that spiral.”

Since starting her business seven years ago, Wulfhart has guided hundreds of clients through high-stakes quandaries like whether to get married, get divorced, go to grad school, switch careers, have a kid, start a business, retire, and move across the country — or not. She recently worked with a couple to choose a name for their baby.

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