Your investment &
why none of this is cheap
Before we talk about pricing, let's talk about what's at stake.
Because this is about your family. Your business, your influence and your legacy. The relationships between the people you love most. Working with me is about the future of everything you've spent your life building, or will build for the rest of your career.
And that's what this investment protects.
Most families who come to me have already spent years - sometimes decades - navigating the complexity of business & belonging together. They understand intuitively that the cost of getting this wrong vastly outweighs the cost of getting it right. [TODO: fix incongruency. ‘vastly outweighs’ commonly implies a positive but here it refers to a negative]
What they're looking for is someone who understands that too, and who can help avoid getting it wrong.
How I Work
I don't sell days and I don't sell hours.
Instead, the work is based on retained or project-fee arrangements, structured around the phases of our work together.
Each engagement is scoped to your family's specific situation — the size of the family system, the complexity of the enterprise, and the depth of work required.
This matters because no two families are the same. A fee structure that doesn't reflect your particular reality isn't a fee structure — it's a guess.
Every engagement begins with a proper understanding of what's actually required, and is priced accordingly.
What You Are Investing In
You're not paying for my time: you're paying for experience, skills and mental real estate
When you engage The Mickel Practice, I don't clock in & clock out. I carry your family in my head - between sessions, between phases, between the conversations you have with me and the ones you have with each other. That’s mental real estate, and it’s where a lot of my work takes place.
I'm thinking about your dynamics when you're not in the room. Noticing what hasn't been said yet. Holding the thread of the work even when the work will continue next week or next month.
That level of presence and attention doesn't fit on a timesheet. It's the difference between a professional service and a practice, and it's reflected in how I structure my fees.