A 10-session course from a licensed counselor

You follow through for everyone else. This is for the things you keep putting off.

Mindset Evolution is a 10-session course for leaders, owners, and professionals who want to make decisions from their values, follow through under pressure, and stop letting stress set the agenda. One hour a week, with a licensed counselor and a private community of people carrying the same kind of load.

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Created by a Licensed Professional CounselorAbout an hour a weekPrivate — no algorithm, no feed
Watch the overviewMichael Chester, MA, LPC
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    Start free on Skool

    Two minutes. You're in the community and Session 1 opens right away.

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    Session 1 this week

    About an hour. Get clear on what you want to be about — then commit to one action and post it.

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    One new session a week

    Ten weeks of building patterns on purpose, in the gaps of a full calendar.

Sound familiar?

You can execute anything — except the things that matter most to you.

You don't have a discipline problem. You've built a career on discipline. The patterns that run your work are just not the ones running the rest of your life — and under enough pressure, the wrong ones take the wheel.

The decision you keep deferring

The hire, the hard conversation, the thing you'd tell any peer to do this week. Your mind keeps producing reasons to wait, and every one of them sounds like prudence.

The 11 p.m. brain

You're off the clock and still in the meeting. Replaying, rehearsing, forecasting. The thoughts run the show long after the day is over, and the people at home get what's left.

Stress setting the agenda

When the pressure is high, you react instead of choose — sharper than you mean to be, or quieter than the moment needs. The values you'd name on any leadership retreat don't show up in the moment.

In their wordsCourse participant

From the community

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— First name, course participant

Experiences vary. Mindset Evolution is a personal growth course, not treatment, and results are not guaranteed.

The approach

The skill under every other leadership skill

The course is built on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — one of the most researched approaches in modern psychology, and one of the few with a research base in the workplace itself. The skill it builds is simple to say and hard to do: stay present, make room for what shows up, and act on your values anyway. It's what lets you make the call under pressure and be the same person at 6 p.m. that you were at 9 a.m.

In workplace studies, that skill — researchers call it psychological flexibility — has predicted mental health, job satisfaction, and job performance a year later, and randomized trials of ACT-based worksite training have reduced distress and improved wellbeing. (Bond & Bunce, 2000, 2003; Flaxman & Bond, 2010) This isn't positive thinking. It's seeing clearly what's helpful and what isn't, then choosing your next move on purpose.

Values
Get clear on what you want to be about — as a leader, a partner, a parent — so decisions have a compass, not just a deadline.
Follow-through
Turn values into concrete goals and a weekly plan, with the accountability of a community around you.
Choice points
Spot the exact moment where pressure pulls you towards reacting — and choose the move that matches who you want to be.
Unhooking
Step back from the forecasting, replaying, and self-talk so they stop deciding your next move.
Willingness
Make room for the discomfort of the hard conversation instead of letting avoidance schedule your week.
Rewiring
Use repetition and your brain's own wiring to turn chosen actions into automatic patterns.

What's inside

Ten sessions. One a week. About an hour each.

Each session is a video lesson from Michael, a printable Session Guide with the worksheets, and one action for the week ahead. The sessions build on each other — the order is the method.

  1. 01

    Clarify, Commit, Change

    Make a commitment to yourself and get clear on what you want your life — not just your quarter — to be about.

    Preview the Session 1 Guide (PDF)
  2. 02

    Choose, Plan, and Act

    Values become goals: a vision 6–12 months out, SMART goals tied to values, and your first weekly action plan with the obstacles named up front.

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    Choice Points

    The moment between what shows up and what you do next. Towards and away moves, and what it means to be hooked — and to unhook.

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    Willingness

    The passengers on the bus: thoughts and feelings that try to steer. Name yours, and trade the discomfort scale for the willingness scale.

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    Unhooking from Unhelpful Thoughts

    Fact vs. story. The noticing technique that creates space between the thought and the reaction — and the new story your actions will build.

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    Making Room for Difficult Emotions

    The brain's spotlight on danger, grounding through the five senses, and making room — having a feeling without letting it choose the direction.

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    Opposite Action

    The wall between you and what you want isn't made of danger — it's made of discomfort. Notice what the brain wants and choose the opposite, in small repeatable moments first.

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    Rewiring Through Patterns

    How repetition builds automatic patterns — for or against you. Check in on your values and goals and choose one pattern to strengthen.

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    Staying in Motion

    Build your Ongoing Growth Plan: the strategies you'll keep using long after the course, with a person to share it with.

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    Continuing to Move TOWARDS What Matters

    Biggest takeaways, the finalized growth plan, and the TOWARDS framework you can return to at any scale — a whole new direction or a single hard meeting.

Why weekly? The rhythm gives you time to reflect, take action, and build momentum between sessions. Plan on about an hour for each session plus practice during the week. Some sessions can be stacked; most people get more from taking them one week at a time.

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The community

A room where you don't have to be the one holding it together.

Leaders have very few places to be honest about what's actually hard. This is one: a private group with the person who built the course in it, and a weekly rhythm that keeps you moving without another meeting on your calendar.

What happens inside

Weekly commitment
Each session ends with one action for the week. You post it. Saying it out loud to people who'll notice is the accountability you give everyone else — pointed at you.
Michael in the room
This isn't a course with a comment section. Michael reads and responds in the community — questions about a session, a hard week, a decision you're circling.
Live Q&A
Regular live sessions to work through what's coming up as you apply the skills. Camera off is fine; listening is fine.
Community challenges
Short, practical challenges that turn a concept from a session into something you actually try that week.
After Session 10
The course ends. The community doesn't. Continued access is $19.99/month — for the Q&A, the challenges, new material, and the people who know what you're working on.

Who it's for

Built for people who carry a lot and want to carry it well.

This course is for you if…

  • You run something — a business, a team, a practice, a household — and the pressure is constant
  • You can name what you'd do differently but keep not doing it
  • You want skills, not pep talks, from someone with a clinical background
  • You have about an hour a week, and you'd rather spend it building than scrolling

It isn't the right fit if…

  • You're in crisis or have active safety concerns right now
  • You're looking for treatment, a diagnosis, or a level of care
  • You want someone to tell you what to value

If that's where you are today, please start with professional support. Here's where to find it.

The real question

"Will I actually finish this one?"

You've bought courses before. Most online courses are never completed. This one is built so that following through is the easy part, not the hard part.

One session a week

Sessions are released on a weekly rhythm, so there's always one clear next step — never a backlog waiting to make you feel behind.

You commit on day one

Session 1 starts with a written commitment: when, where, and how long. You already know this works; it's how you run everything else.

A Session Guide for every lesson

You write as you watch. The worksheets turn each idea into one action for the week ahead.

People who notice if you go quiet

Michael and the community are in the same Skool space. Post a check-in, ask a question, come back after a brutal week.

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Michael Chester, MA, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor

Your guide

Michael Chester, MA, LPC

Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the founder of Everest Therapy Solutions, a values-driven group practice in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He built the practice while working as a clinician — so he knows what it is to run something and carry the weight of the people who depend on it.

For more than a decade, he has helped people understand how a "normal" human brain leads us into automatic patterns, and how intentionally practicing new ones gradually rewires the brain so the new patterns become automatic instead. He recognized that many of the research-based strategies capable of creating lasting change are only accessible inside a one-on-one therapy setting, yet they benefit far more people than those seeking treatment. Knowledge alone rarely creates lasting change; without guidance, structure, and practical application, it's hard to turn what we know into the patterns that shape our days.

After more than 18 months of development and a decade of testing these strategies with clients, he built Mindset Evolution to make the tools accessible while preserving the guided experience that makes one-on-one work so impactful. These are the same tools Michael uses in his own life — including in running his own business.

Licensed Professional Counselor · Founder, Everest Therapy Solutions · Mount Pleasant, SC

Join the course

Try the first week free. Stay if it's helping.

Your trial gives you full access to Session 1, its Session Guide, and the community. If it's not the right fit, cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged. Finish the 10 sessions over three months, then stay connected for less than the price of a lunch.

  • All 10 video sessions, released weekly
  • Downloadable Session Guides and worksheets
  • Private community: weekly commitments, live Q&A, challenges, and Michael reading and responding
  • Your Ongoing Growth Plan and the TOWARDS framework to take with you

Want this for your leadership team or staff? Email admin@everesttherapysolutions.com about group access.

Founding member rate
$100 $50/month

For your first 3 months — the full 10-session course. After that, ongoing access to the community, Q&A, and everything new is $19.99/month.

$150 for the whole 10-session course — less than a single hour of executive coaching, under $1.70 a day. Founding members keep these rates for as long as they stay.

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Created and led by Michael Chester, MA, LPC — Licensed Professional Counselor, South Carolina.

Prefer to talk to a person first? Call or text Everest Therapy Solutions at 843-256-3322 and ask about Mindset Evolution.

Not ready yet? Take the free 10-minute check-in first.

What Actually Matters — a two-page tool from Session 1. Circle the values that feel like you, answer three honest questions, and pick one small move for this week. No email needed.

Download What Actually Matters (PDF)

Questions

Frequently asked

I don't have time. How much does this really take?

About an hour a week for the session and its Session Guide, plus small actions you're already going to be in situations to take. It's designed for a full calendar: one clear next step each week, sessions that stay available if a week gets away from you, and no meetings to attend unless you want the live Q&A.

Is this therapy? Is it coaching?

Neither. It's an educational course built on ACT, a model that is used in therapy — but the course itself isn't designed as treatment. Therapy takes your history, your health, and your circumstances into account; a course can't. The tools pair well with a therapist or a coach if you have one, and they don't require either.

Who can see what I post?

Only members of the private community — nothing is public, and there's no algorithm or advertising. You choose what you share; a first name is fine. Plenty of people start by watching and post when they're ready.

Can my team or company join?

Yes — email Michael about group access for a leadership team or staff. The course works well as a shared language for a team, and the community can be set up as a private space for your group.

What happens after Session 10?

You'll finish with an Ongoing Growth Plan and the TOWARDS framework, and your membership drops to $19.99/month for continued access to the community, live Q&A, and new material. Stay as long as it's useful; cancel whenever it isn't.

Can I cancel?

Yes. Cancel any time from your Skool account in two clicks. If you cancel during the 7-day trial, you won't be charged.

An important note. Mindset Evolution is an educational personal growth course. It is not therapy, not treatment, and not a substitute for professional support. It is not suitable for people in acute crisis, with active safety concerns, or with untreated psychosis.

If you're in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) in the U.S., or contact your local emergency number. If you're looking for a therapist, Everest Therapy Solutions can help you find the right support.

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