The first ten minutes of any 1-2-1 set the tone for everything that follows. Get them wrong and the next forty feel like a job interview.
We don't open with intake forms. We open with a single question: what made you book this conversation today, specifically today?
That one question, asked without rushing past the answer, does more work than any structured assessment. It tells us what you're carrying, what you're avoiding, and where the conversation actually wants to go.
The rest of the session shapes itself around that.