See What Keeps Returning.
You notice the same reaction in different situations. You may already connect it to an earlier experience. The starting point is getting clear about what happens, when it shows up, and what you want to understand.
Personal Growth • Embodied Beliefs • Chosen Values
You’ve Built a Life.
Make Room for Yourself.
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From the outside, you’ve built a lot. Inside, one familiar pattern keeps getting in the way. You can see it, but knowing why has not changed what happens next. I help you put the values you choose into practice through everyday decisions, conversations, relationships, and commitments.
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Chris Pollitzer • Horizontal Growth Expert • CEO & Cofounder, INVERSELF
Steady Under Pressure • Clear About Your Values • Connected
The Company Behind the Work
Get to the Root.
Build What Comes Next.
INVERSELF is the company I co-founded to offer a personal growth program for people who are doing well in much of life, yet keep finding themselves in a familiar pattern. You may be carrying responsibility at work while second-guessing yourself at home, struggling to let someone else take the lead, or wanting a different life without losing the people you love.
The Passage is our one-on-one program, designed to help you understand what has been driving you and practice living by the values you choose. I lead non-clinical mentoring. Clinical care is provided by Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere, PhD, LCMHC (NC), LMHC (MA), LPCC (CA), to clients located in those states. Her Florida license is pending; clinical care is not yet available to clients in Florida.
Make Room for What Matters.
Mentoring helps you practice conversations, boundaries, decisions, and habits that reflect your chosen values. We work with the situations in your daily life and review what you learn as you try something different.
Continuity Through
Pyramis is being developed to help preserve your goals, reflections, and progress over time. AI is intended to support preparation and organization, with people reviewing its outputs and remaining responsible for decisions.
INVERSELF’s One-on-One Program • Applications Opening Soon
You Can See the Pattern.
What Comes Next?
Perhaps you know the conversation you keep avoiding, the responsibility you cannot seem to put down, or the expectation you no longer want to live by. You can describe what keeps happening. The question now is what kind of support would help you take the next step.
The Passage is INVERSELF’s one-on-one personal growth program, designed to help you get clear about what matters and practice living by the values you choose. You do not have to decide on your own where to begin. The assessment helps identify the appropriate starting point.
The planned program includes six months of individualized support. That describes the period of the program, not a deadline for personal change. Everyone’s path is different, and results vary. Join the waitlist to receive details when applications open.
Join the dedicated Passage waitlist for application announcements. Joining is an expression of interest, not an application or a commitment to enroll.
Assessment • Your Starting Point • Ongoing Support
Your Next Step Starts
With Understanding Your Needs.
Before we begin working together, we need to understand what support fits. The assessment may recommend clinical care with Dr. Kym first, non-clinical mentoring with me, or a referral to another provider. Here is how that starting point is established.
Understand Your Starting Point
Begin with a paid assessment. Dr. Kym discusses eligibility, scope, and the fee before booking. The assessment includes a baseline summary and recommended next steps. Payment does not guarantee a program invitation or a particular recommendation.
Your baseline summary is yours to keep, whether you enter the program or take it to another provider.Find Your Starting Point
Your assessment guides the recommendation: clinical care first, mentoring when appropriate, or a referral to another provider.
Clinical care first
Clinical Vertical Growth
Work with Dr. Kym to examine beliefs and patterns through clinical care guided by your assessment and individual care plan.
With Dr. Kym
When mentoring is appropriate
Lived Horizontal Growth
Build practical skills, apply your chosen values, and practice everyday conversations, decisions, and commitments through non-clinical mentoring.
With Chris
Clinical first? Kym signs off before you begin with Chris.
If you start in clinical vertical growth, Dr. Kym must approve your readiness before lived horizontal growth begins. Clinical care may continue alongside mentoring.
Clinical care is provided by Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere, PhD, LCMHC (NC), LMHC (MA), LPCC (CA), to clients located in those states. Her Florida license is pending; clinical care is not yet available to clients in Florida. Where care is unavailable or unsuitable, another appropriately licensed provider may be recommended.
Chris’s mentoring does not assess, diagnose, or treat mental health conditions and does not replace clinical care. Clinical support may be recommended later if your needs change.
Begin With a Clear Plan
If you start with clinical care, agree on your care plan with the clinician. If you start with mentoring, we agree on practical goals, client-chosen values, and ways to review your experience. Clinical care and mentoring have separate scopes, agreements, and responsibilities.
Review What You Need Next
Your support can change as your needs change. If you begin with clinical vertical growth, Dr. Kym determines when you are ready and must sign off before lived horizontal growth with Chris begins. Her sign-off does not necessarily mean clinical care ends; both forms of support may continue when appropriate. If clinical needs emerge during mentoring, we discuss an appropriate referral. Where both forms of support are appropriate, coordination uses the clinical provider’s release procedures and any required authorization. There is no fixed timeline or guaranteed outcome.
Assessment. The Right Starting Point. Support That Responds to Your Needs.
Working With Chris • Non-Clinical Mentorship
Then Comes Everyday Life.
When you begin mentoring with me, we bring the work into the situations you actually face. There is still a conversation to have, a decision to make, or a commitment to follow through on. Together, we turn what matters to you into something you can practice. This is lived horizontal growth: building skills, knowledge, and habits through experience.
Choose What You Want to Practice.
You choose the values and priorities that guide the work. I help you turn them into specific actions: asking for help, making room for family, sharing responsibility, or saying what you need clearly.
Prepare for the Real Conversation.
We work through the situation in front of you, consider your options, and practice how you want to respond. That might mean rehearsing a boundary, planning how to delegate, or making a decision without taking on another commitment by default.
Try It. Review It. Adjust.
Between conversations, put the action you chose into practice. We review what you tried, what got in the way, and what you want to do next. Accountability means returning to your own commitments with honest reflection and room to adjust.
My mentorship is non-clinical and focuses on practical skills, chosen values, and accountability. I do not assess, diagnose, or treat mental health conditions. If you begin in clinical vertical growth, Dr. Kym must sign off before you begin mentoring with me. Everyone’s path is different, and results vary.
Steady Under Pressure
Clear About Your Values
Close to What Matters
When Mentorship May Fit
What Would You Like
to Do Differently?
You may carry a great deal of responsibility and still find a particular part of daily life difficult. Perhaps you keep taking over work you meant to delegate, agree to plans you do not have room for, or postpone an important conversation. When mentoring is appropriate, these specific situations give us a place to begin.
This work makes room for honest reflection, choices that are yours, and consistent practice. The aim is to help you become clearer about what matters and bring those choices into the relationships and responsibilities in front of you.
What Mentoring Is Designed to Help You Practice
- Make Choices That Reflect Your Values
- Say What You Need With Greater Clarity
- Set Boundaries and Stay Connected
- Share Responsibility and Accept Support
- Review Your Commitments and Adjust
What I Bring as Your Mentor
You Bring Your Life.
I Bring Perspective and Practice.
My role is to ask useful questions, offer perspective, help you prepare, and return to the commitments you choose. Your role is to decide what matters, try the work in your own life, and tell me honestly what fits and what does not. I do not choose your values or make your decisions for you.
I draw from two decades in Special Operations and Psychological Operations, including the design of assessment and selection environments, and eight years of executive work. That experience shapes the questions I ask about responsibility, decisions, and follow-through. It informs my mentoring; it does not make me a clinician.
- Retired U.S. Army Ranger
- Intelligence Community
- Psychological Operations
- Special Operations Assessment & Selection
- Columbia Business School
- Eight Years of Executive Experience
- Executive & AI Strategy
Coming Soon
The Actualization Effect explores how beliefs shape the lives we build, and what it means to begin choosing for ourselves. It asks why recognizing a pattern is often only a starting point, how values influence everyday decisions, and what kinds of support can help people carry new choices into their relationships, responsibilities, and changing seasons of life.
The work grew from three years of examining gaps in how people are supported. Context is often lost when someone moves between providers or forms of support. People repeat their histories, insight remains disconnected from everyday practice, and relationships and community can be left outside the conversation.
The book brings those questions together: how can we preserve useful context, connect the right forms of support, and make room for continued growth? It explores a model that respects each professional’s role while keeping the person’s choices, relationships, and experience at the center. It presents a developing approach, not a promise of a particular result.
From Manuscript to INVERSELF
The book explores the ideas behind INVERSELF. Pyramis, the system being developed within the company, is intended to organize goals, reflections, and progress so useful context is easier to carry forward. Its design keeps permissions, human review, and professional responsibility central. Technology supports the work; the relationships remain human.
Chris Pollitzer
Co-Founder, INVERSELF • Mentoring • Values in Practice • Framework Development • Special Operations Assessment & Selection • Psychological Operations
Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere
Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer. Clinical care is provided by Dr. Kymberly Lasser-Chere, PhD, LCMHC (NC), LMHC (MA), LPCC (CA), to clients located in those states. Her Florida license is pending; clinical care is not yet available to clients in Florida.
Dr. Dean Alderucci
Artificial Intelligence • Mathematics • Algorithm Development • Neural Networks • Platform AI Development
Leonard Mello
Co-Founder, INVERSELF • Creative Direction • UX • Database Architecture • Front-End Development • Marketing Strategy
Publication timing and platform details will be announced as the work develops.
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Explore the personal growth program taking shape alongside the book. Join The Passage waitlist for application announcements and details about one-on-one support.
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The Passage is designed to help you become clearer about what you value, steadier under pressure, and closer to the people who matter. Join the waitlist for details about our one-on-one personal growth program. Everyone’s path is different, and results vary.
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