Coaching and consultation for high-functioning individuals facing high-conflict or exceedingly difficult relationships at work, home, or elsewhere.

When it’s finally time to change the game.

Maxwell Strategic provides intensive, hands-on problem-solving services for highly motivated people ready to make profound changes in their most problematic relationships.

These services are not psychotherapy. They are precision consultation services for clients ready to resolve acute and chronic problems involving exceedingly difficult or psychologically dangerous people. These services will help you implement effective communication strategies and routines, execute firm boundaries as needed, and interface with other professionals when necessary.  Common circumstances include:

  • Navigating a divorce with a manipulative ex-partner

  • Being smeared or harassed by a toxic coworker

  • Preparing for a legal hearing or custody battle

  • Managing a high-conflict boss, client, or partner

  • Feeling stuck in any relationship that’s draining your sanity

Dr. Maxwell has accumulated 10 years of concentrated experience and specialization in assessing and treating difficult personalities and those in relationships with them. He is intimately familiar with the myriad romantic, familial, financial, and occupational hazards associated with these relationships. 

Maxwell Strategic is for you if:

  • You’re dealing with someone who twists your words and makes you question reality

  • You’re constantly managing rage, manipulation, threats, or silent treatment

  • You’re unsure whether to detach, confront, or endure

  • You feel trapped, terrorized, “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t”

  • You’ve already tried therapy, and you’re ready for a tactical approach

What does Maxwell Strategic provide?

  • Expert insight into exceedingly difficult personalities

  • Flexible meeting availability at agreed-upon locations and times

  • Thorough review of non-protected communications/exchanges

  • Real-time coaching for communication/exchanges when possible

  • Assistance with logging and documenting events, communications/exchanges, and more for posterity and/or legal purposes

  • Assistance with interfacing with other professionals (e.g., attorneys, human resources) when necessary

  • Coaching for immediate and long-term self-care

  • Pristine confidentiality

Maxwell Strategic is aware that some clients may fear retaliation for seeking help. Consequently, we take inordinate care to use discreet correspondence.

How does it work?

There is no one-size-fits-all template or universal formula for addressing complex, chronically problematic yet often meaningful relationships. You should be wary of promises of “quick fixes” or “10 easy steps” that purport to make “solving” these relationships as simple as undoing a loosely tied shoelace. You can expect Maxwell Strategic to help you:

  • Understand your relationship’s dynamics

  • Determine the factors that maintain the status quo in your relationship

  • Identify psychological, logistical, and other barriers to addressing those factors

  • Identify ways to remove or mitigate those barriers

  • If possible, replace barriers with supports that make addressing those factors easier

  • Constructively address factors that maintain the status quo and change the relationship’s dynamics *or* exit the relationship

You will likely feel some measure of upset, sadness, guilt, shame, and/or anxiety as you begin to take action to address your relationship with your difficult person. However, with Maxwell Strategic, you will have a vigorous, dedicated ally beside you.

Fee schedule and retainer option:

We recognize that some clients’ use of electronic funds is monitored. If necessary for your protection, we accept cash payments. Because these services are not billable to insurance and require intensive, specialized work, we use the following fee schedule and an alternative retainer package depending on client preference and need. Note that payment is requested before the time of service.

  • Initial Consultation (Standard): 60min | $350

  • Extended Consultation: 90min | $475

  • Written Strategic Plan: $350-$500

  • Tactical Email Support: $250/week

  • 3-Session Intensive Package: $1000

Retainer option: $3,500/month

Our retainer is a prepaid agreement where payment is provided up front to secure fluid, continuous access to intensive services for one month. A retainer agreement provides expedited access, priority, and readiness to address evolving circumstances as they come.

  • Priority access to Dr. Maxwell (within 24–48 hours)

  • On-call/emergency availability if/when crises arise

  • Ongoing, real-time tactical support via email and direct messaging

  • Daily check-ins for coaching and review of recent communications/exchanges

  • Ongoing/on-call coordination with involved attorneys, therapists, or others, when applicable

  • Real-time coaching for developing self-care strategies

Your time is now.

Contact Maxwell Strategic with a brief description of your difficulties and a list of dates and times you are available for contact. If you have specific preferences for methods of contact, please include them in your description. You will receive a reply within 24 hours.