Lead From Every Part Of Yourself
Are you ready to stop managing around
self-sabotaging patterns, confusing or black & white thinking, or internal frustration?
Executive coaching for creatives, founders, leaders and small business owners, built on a clinically-informed, parts-work foundation, with optional medically-supervised psychedelic support.
Begin to create and lead from Self.
THE COACH
A Humanistic & Spiritual Lens on Personal Growth
Ryan Chanatry is a Certified Life Coach and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Ohio and a partner and therapist at New Life Wellness, where he provides a highly personalized, collaborative, lifestyle-medicine approach to mental health treatment, going beyond symptom management toward lasting healing and well-being.
His trauma-centered clinical approach is humanistic, spiritual, and informed by parts work (Internal Family Systems, IFS). He integrates evidence-based, somatic, and sub-cortical methods, including bilateral processing, psychedelic and ketamine-assisted coaching, DBT, CBT, and mindfulness, to help clients release what's stuck, regulate the nervous system, and restore a sense of security and purpose.
From Corporate to Coach to Clinic
Before becoming a therapist, Ryan spent over twenty years in global leadership roles spanning marketing, entertainment, and consumer research, working as a consultant, general manager, and executive producer. That path from corporate leadership to creative producer to licensed clinician gives him a rare, dual-lens view of relationship dynamics, world cultures, life transitions, and what it actually takes to create lasting change.
This executive coaching practice exists at the intersection of those two worlds: the operational rigor of a career spent leading organizations, and the clinical depth of a therapist trained to work with the full internal system driving a leader's behavior, not just the polished part that shows up in the boardroom.
He believes healing and growth begin by understanding and honoring all parts of who you are, and finds meaning in witnessing that evolution, creating a space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and understood, never judged.
Areas of Focus
THE METHOD
Parts-Work Informed Coaching
Everyone carries an internal team: the driven achiever, the perfectionist, the people-pleaser, the inner critic that never clocks out. This coaching model is informed by Internal Family Systems and applies it to the office, recording studio, writing space, or startup office, not just the therapy room.
Meet Your Managers
The controlling, perfectionistic, over-functioning parts that got you promoted, and are now quietly burning you out. We identify what they're protecting you from.
Name The Firefighters
The reactive parts that show up under deadline pressure, the snap decision, the withdrawal, the outburst. We build awareness before they take over the meeting for you.
Lead From Self
Underneath the parts is a calm, clear, curious core, the seat of real leadership. The work is building enough trust internally that Self, not fear, makes the call.
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Clinical Foundations Behind the Coaching
Ryan draws on the same evidence-based and somatic modalities he uses clinically to inform how he coaches leaders under pressure:
HOW IT WORKS
A Four-Phase Process
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Map the System
Identify the parts driving current leadership patterns, strengths, blind spots, and reactive triggers.
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Build Internal Trust
Help protective parts step back enough for clearer, calmer decision-making under pressure.
03
Practice Self-Led Leadership
Apply new internal awareness to real decisions: hiring, negotiation, conflict, and scaling choices.
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Sustain the Shift
Install checkpoints and language so the system stays regulated long after the engagement ends.
WORK TOGETHER
Coaching Engagements
Executive 1:1 Coaching
Biweekly sessions for founders, entrepreneurs, artists, creatives, and senior leaders navigating growth, burnout, or high-stakes decisions using a parts-informed framework.
3-month & 6-month tracks available
Intensives
A focused half-day or full-day session for founders facing a specific inflection point: fundraising, scaling, a difficult exit, or a leadership crisis.
Single-session or 3-part series
Group Workshops
Introduce parts-work language to an executive team so conflict, feedback, and decision-making happen with more self-awareness and less reactivity.
Half-day & multi-session formats
BUILT FOR BUILDERS
Entrepreneur, Founder, and Small Business Owner Coaching
Founder Identity & Burnout
The part of you that built the company by sheer will is often the same part that can't stop, delegate, or rest. We work with the driven part directly, not to shut it down, but so it stops running the whole system alone.
Co-Founder & Partner Conflict
Disagreements between co-founders or business partners are rarely just about strategy, they're often competing parts protecting different fears: losing control, losing the vision, or losing the business itself. We name what's underneath the disagreement.
High-Stakes Decisions
Fundraising, hiring, firing, and scaling decisions get harder when fear-driven parts take the wheel. Coaching builds enough internal clarity to make the call from Self, grounded, not reactive.
BEYOND THE BOARDROOM
Creative & Artist Coaching
Ryan's own path through entertainment, music, and executive production gives him firsthand fluency in the pressures unique to creative work, ego, collaboration, competing visions, and the blurred line between art and business.
This coaching track applies the same parts-work informed lens to filmmakers, musicians, bands, and working artists navigating creative or management friction.
Creative Partnerships & Bands
When co-writers, bandmates, or creative partners hit a wall, it's rarely just about the art, it's competing parts (the perfectionist, the visionary, the protector) colliding.
We name what's really driving the conflict before it breaks the collaboration.
Artist & Management Dynamics
Friction between artists and managers, labels, or producers often comes down to mismatched parts: the part that wants creative control and the part that wants stability or commercial success.
We help both sides find language for what they actually need.
Individual Creative Coaching
For filmmakers, musicians, and artists working through creative blocks, self-doubt, or the identity strain of balancing art with business, coaching that treats the inner critic and the inner visionary as parts worth listening to, not obstacles to push past.
"Contentment begins by understanding and honoring all parts of who you are. Leadership and creativity is no different, the work isn't getting rid of your parts, it's learning how to understand and work effectively with them."
Ryan Chanatry, LPC
A REFERRAL PATH TO PSYCHEDELIC COACHING
Psychedelic & Ketamine-Assisted Coaching
For clients seeking a deeper level of access to stuck patterns, this coaching practice can refer to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at New Life Wellness, where Ryan is a partner and licensed clinician.
The ketamine treatment itself is a distinct clinical service delivered within New Life Wellness, governed by its own informed consent, medical evaluation, and licensure standards, separate from this coaching practice.
Two Separate Relationships
Any ketamine treatment is provided exclusively by New Life Wellness under a clinical, clinician-client relationship with its own consent process.
Coaching with Ryan remains a distinct, non-clinical relationship and does not include any psychedelic session itself.
Integration Coaching (Optional)
For clients who are already in treatment at New Life Wellness and separately choose to engage in executive or creative coaching, integration conversations can apply this a parts-informed coaching framework to insights that emerge, once the clinical treatment has concluded.
How Referrals Work
If ketamine treatment seems relevant to what you're working through, Ryan will discuss making a referral to New Life Wellness.
That referral is disclosed, is never required to continue coaching, and does not create any obligation in either direction.
This coaching practice does not provide, administer, or oversee ketamine treatment in any capacity. All medical evaluation, dosing, and administration are handled exclusively by licensed clinical staff at New Life Wellness under their own clinical protocols.
See the disclaimer below for the full distinction between coaching and therapy, and for disclosure of Ryan's professional relationship with New Life Wellness.
BACKGROUND
Credentials & Experience
These credentials reflect Ryan's clinical training and licensure, and inform how he approaches coaching.
They are shared for transparency about his background and are not being exercised as clinical credentials for a coaching relationship.
LICENSURE
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), State of Ohio
Education
M.S., Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Wright State University (4.0)
B.S., Business Administration, The Ohio State University (with honors)
CREDENTIALS & TRAININGS
Licensed Professional Counselor, Ohio (C.2507360)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II: Complex Trauma, CCTP-II
EMDR Trained Clinician, EMDR Consulting
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Professional (C-DBT in progress)
Certified Grief Informed Professional, CGP
Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional, CMIP
Complete Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Immersion
Somatic & Polyvagal Addictions Treatment (CAIMHP in progress)
Brainspotting Step-by-Step Workshop with David Grand
ACA SAIGE LGBTQ+ Rainbow Certificate Program: Level 1
Integrating Ketamine into Palliative Care, End of Life Psychedelic Care Certificate
Certified Life Coach, Life Purpose Institute
Certified Visionary Medicine Sitter & Coach, Blue Morpho Academy
BACKGROUND
Ryan Chanatry is a licensed professional counselor, certified life and visionary plant medicine coach, consultant, and startup advisor with over twenty years of global business & leadership experience. He is currently Therapist & Partner at New Life Wellness.
Previously, he was the creator and founding General Manager of Topic, First Look Media’s streaming service, where he oversaw programming, creative development, and content licensing, P&L/revenue, business strategy and operations, as well as sales, marketing/press, and distribution. Topic was acquired and merged with MHz Choice under Kino Lorber Media in May 2023.
During his time at Topic, he Executive Produced over 50 series, films, and shorts including Academy Award nominated The Letter Room starring Oscar Isaac; Tell Them You Love Me, a Netflix #1 film (June 2024); Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and Gotham Award-winning documentary series Philly D.A.; Emmy nominated The Zo; NY Times “What to Watch” pick The Accidental Wolf, directed by Succession’s Arian Moayed and starring Kelli O’Hara; Tribeca selection The Courtroom, and more.
He has been a voting member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Television Academy (Emmys) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Prior to First Look Media, Ryan was Director, Global Marketing Insights at Netflix where he led the team responsible for consumer intelligence and tracking across brand, advertising and social media, as well as strategic creative planning and development. In addition, he worked extensively on Netflix’s international market launches across Europe and Japan.
He joined Netflix in 2013 from Mediacom in Singapore where he was Director, Asia-Pacific Insights & Decisions. Before that he was Senior Brand Strategy Consultant at Interbrand in the US, Japan, and Singapore.
Having lived in five countries, he’s conducted on-the-ground research in twenty-five different markets, and has worked extensively in the entertainment, technology, automotive, FMCG, insurance, retail, and telecom industries.
Availability
In-person: Dayton, OH or travel to your location
Virtual sessions: Worldwide
IMPORTANT NOTE
Coaching Is NOT Therapy
Ryan Chanatry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Ohio and practices as a therapist at New Life Wellness. However, the executive coaching services offered on this site are coaching, not therapy, and are governed by a separate scope and relationship.
Coaching is a forward-focused, collaborative partnership designed to support leadership development, decision-making, and performance. It draws on parts-work concepts as a framework for self-awareness, but it does not involve the diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions, does not constitute a clinician-client relationship, and is not a substitute for psychotherapy, medical care, or crisis intervention.
Coaching engagements are not confidential in the same manner as therapy, are not billed to insurance, and are not subject to the clinical standards, licensure protections, or HIPAA obligations that apply to a therapeutic engagement. Every coaching relationship begins with a written coaching agreement that outlines scope, confidentiality, fees, and the responsibilities of both parties, consistent with standard coaching practice.
If you are a current or former therapy client of Ryan's at New Life Wellness, moving into a coaching relationship represents a change in the nature of your professional relationship. Before beginning coaching, this change, its implications, and your right to decline will be discussed and agreed upon directly, consistent with standard ethical practice for licensed clinicians offering non-clinical services.
The clinical credentials and trainings listed on this site inform Ryan's coaching approach and are shared for transparency about his background, but they are not being exercised or relied upon as clinical credentials within the coaching relationship itself.
Ryan has a financial and professional relationship with New Life Wellness as a partner and therapist there. Any referral between this coaching practice and New Life Wellness, in either direction, is disclosed and is never a condition of receiving services from either practice.
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, are in need of clinical treatment, or believe therapy is the more appropriate service for your needs, please contact New Life Wellness directly or reach out to a licensed mental health provider in your area.