1:1 Work
Ugis Strauss delivers the Off-Switch Method in structured 1:1 engagements. Private work usually runs as a structured 12-session engagement over 3–4 months, with daily practice between sessions. It has a beginning and an end.
Who comes for 1:1 work
People who can describe their anxiety in precise detail — where it came from, what triggers it, why it makes sense — and still wake up inside the same reaction. The understanding is there. The automatic response has not changed.
People who have already done real work on this. Years of therapy, coaching, self-development, or sustained effort. It produced insight. The patterns remained.
Executives, founders, and professionals in high-demand roles where sustained emotional load has become a problem they can no longer manage around.
“I was functioning well from the outside. Internally I was carrying constant load — not one trauma, just accumulation that never reset. The effect showed up in clarity and recovery speed, not only in stress levels. For someone in a demanding role, that is what matters.”— John Bennett
People who want a structured engagement with a clear arc and a defined endpoint. Not an ongoing support relationship. A course of work that finishes.
What brings people here
Anxiety that has been understood and worked on for years and still fires without apparent cause.
A sustained period of pressure — a difficult role, a difficult period — that ended. The reaction is still carried in the body.
Grief, loss, or shock that was processed in words but is still present in the body when the memory surfaces.
A specific pattern — a reactive response, an avoidance behaviour, a recurring situation that always produces the same result — that has not responded to previous work.
A high-stakes period ahead where the current emotional baseline is not the starting point they want.
“I realized that for the last 10 years I could not move forward just because of situations from my past. I tried many methods and was sure I had dealt with everything — only here did it turn out those situations were still affecting me.”— Victoria Vayzhgela, Ukraine
“I had done years of therapy, including CBT. I understood my patterns. The reactions were still there. This was the first time something shifted not in how I thought about my history, but in how my system actually responded to it.”— Brooke McDermont
If a pattern above lands close, a fit conversation is the right next step.
Dealing with a specific pattern → Who This Is ForHow the engagement runs
01
Initial conversation
45 minutes. Your situation. What you've tried. Whether this is a fit.
02
Fit assessment
Clear picture of what the engagement involves and what it requires.
03
Private work
Three phases, usually 12 sessions over 3–4 months. Most progress happens in daily practice between sessions.
04
Tracking change
Symptom score is measured each session. Progress is tracked as a number, not left as a general impression.
05
Integrate
Behavioral and structural work. Sessions become infrequent. The engagement closes when the work is done.
How the work is structured
The Off-Switch Method moves through three phases. Each must be substantially complete before the next begins.
The Regulate phase works down accumulated emotional load — chronic stress, body tension, future anxiety — to a level where deeper work is accessible without destabilizing. The client learns the primary tool in Session 1 and uses it daily from that point.
The Repattern phase works through the full emotional history systematically — not only the presenting situation, but the whole range of material that is still carrying activation. This runs for approximately two months of daily practice, mostly between sessions.
The Integrate phase addresses what remains after the emotional work: behavioral patterns, structural habits, and ways of operating that are now visible as the primary issue.
Sessions become less frequent as the work progresses. The engagement closes when the work is done.
The aim of private work is not endless discussion. Once the technique is learned, individual targets can sometimes be worked on in minutes; the full process provides the sequence, pacing, tracking, and integration around that.
Full detail on The Method page →By the time the work closes
The typical pattern at engagement close is: the presenting issue no longer drives the person in the same way, sleep and recovery have returned, and behavioral patterns that were previously masked by emotional load have become visible and addressable. Sessions become infrequent. The engagement ends.
What the work requires
The primary tool is introduced in Session 1 and owned by the client from that point. It takes about fifteen minutes to learn.
Progress depends on regular practice. A client working with it fifteen to thirty minutes daily moves through the work substantially faster than one who uses it only when symptoms are acute. One client cleared his full emotional history in approximately one month by using the technique consistently during otherwise idle time — commuting, waiting, brief gaps in the working day. That pace is unusual. The principle is not.
In the middle phase, the main workload is a structured review of personal history — at the client’s own pace — until each area no longer drives the same response. This runs for approximately two months.
Clients who are not willing or able to practice daily between sessions are not a fit for this engagement.
Who this is not for
People who want ongoing conversational support.
The work here is structured and finite. A practitioner offering long-term therapeutic support is better suited.
People whose situation requires immediate psychiatric care.
The Off-Switch Method works alongside psychiatric treatment where that is already part of the picture. It does not replace it.
People looking for accountability coaching or goal support.
That is a different kind of work.
People who are not prepared to practice daily between sessions.
Without the daily work, the method does not progress.
The first conversation
The first step is a 45-minute conversation. You describe your situation and what you’ve already tried. I give you a clear picture of what the engagement involves and whether it fits. No commitment is required from that conversation.
If it makes sense to proceed, Session 1 follows and the work begins.
Book a first conversationIf this is the right kind of work, the first step is simple.