1:1 Sessions
I work with people one-to-one, in seasons. About three months of depth work through the lens of friendship. With yourself first, and from there, with the people who matter to you.
This isn’t advice, and it isn’t a program. There’s no curriculum and no homework grades. We slow down and pay attention to what’s actually happening in you - the parts that protect, criticize, hurt, want - and we let it unfold rather than trying to fix it.
The premise underneath everything: nothing is missing in you. What feels like deficiency is usually disconnection, and the answer to disconnection is friendship.
The shape of a season
The first conversation. Free, forty-five minutes. We find out whether there’s something here for both of us. I’m allowed to say no, and so are you.
Your story. One session, all yours. Where you want to go. What crossroads you’re at. Where you’ve already travelled, what you tried, what happened. Who’s accompanying you: who supports you, and who doesn’t. And how well you’re taking care of yourself. Mostly I listen.
The contract. A short call where we make everything explicit: what we’re tending together - I call it the thread - how we’ll work, what it costs, what we each commit to. Serious friendship is deliberate, so we make our agreements out loud.
The season. Ten sessions of seventy-five minutes, over about three months. Weekly for the first two months, to build momentum; every other week through the third.
Between sessions, two things. A practice: one at a time, drawn from what emerged, something to keep you company during the week. And a thread between us: send me a voice note or a message when something’s moving, and I’ll come back to you within a couple of days.
The renewal conversation. At the end, we decide one of two things: another season, usually with a new thread and a lighter ongoing rhythm; or completion. If it’s completion, we do something most relationships never get: a real goodbye, with reflection on both sides about what unfolded.
What I ask of you
Show up on time and actually available. Do the practices: not perfectly, but honestly. And be willing to be curious about the parts of yourself you’ve been at war with.
That’s the whole job description.
The friendship question
People ask, reasonably: if you’re the Friendship Facilitator, are we becoming friends?
It should be clear by now that I don’t use the word friend lightly. So working with me doesn’t automatically make us friends; though we might become friends, if we’re meant to be.
While we’re working, I’m your facilitator, fully. What we become afterward, life decides.
This is probably for you if
- Something in you already knows there’s more… more depth, more contact, more aliveness… and self-improvement projects haven’t gotten you there
- You’re willing to be curious about the parts of you you’ve been at war with
- You want a deeper relationship with the people in your life, and you suspect it starts closer to home
- You can commit to a season: three months of actually showing up
And probably not, if
- You’re looking for a system to install - what we explore is a way of being
- You’re looking for someone to fix you - the premise here is that nothing is missing
This is not therapy and not a substitute for it. If what’s alive in you is trauma that makes it unsafe to be with your own experience, the right first door is a trauma-trained therapist - and if I believe that’s the case, I’ll say so directly, warmly, and early.
Practical things
Sessions are seventy-five minutes, on video over Zoom.
What it costs. Your story is ₹1,500. A season of ten sessions is ₹15,000, paid in three monthly parts - ₹6,000, ₹6,000, ₹3,000 - or ₹13,000 if you pay upfront. So a full first season, intake included, comes to ₹16,500, or ₹14,500 upfront.
Prefer to go one at a time? ₹1,500 a session, the same rate.
This pricing is for clients in India. If you’re reaching me from elsewhere, email me (hello@franklobo.com) and we’ll talk. A few subsidized places exist, decided case by case - also just email me (hello@franklobo.com).
If a crisis lands mid-season and you need more than we planned, extra sessions are added at ₹1,500 each.
The season fee is committed for the season. No halfway exit, and no refunds mid-way. In this kind of work the deepest value tends to arrive in the second half, and an exit ramp invites you to evaluate it too early. If you stop, the sessions you haven’t used carry forward to a future season.
Rescheduling: 24 hours’ notice, over WhatsApp or email. Inside 24 hours, the session is owed - the first time can slide.
Recording: I ask permission to record audio only, for my own notes while I’m starting out. You’re free to decline and it changes nothing. Recordings stay private to me.
Confidentiality: what you bring stays between us.
The first conversation is free. No pitch, no pressure to continue.