I’m Megan Luscombe and I’m the service.
Folks leave feeling seen by me, without judgement, often for the first time. And they leave with strategy built specifically for them, or their relationship, not a template pulled off society's shelf and handed back to them as advice.
What I do
Confidential advisory and strategy for the hard stuff.
The affair nobody knows about. The friend group you actually hate and want to leave. The relationship you can't quite name what's wrong with, but you know something is. The thing you said to your sister that you can't take back. The conversation you know you need to have but you’re choosing avoidance instead. The person you can't stop thinking about who isn't your partner. The life you're pretending to want with the person you're supposed to be marrying because it looks right on paper. The secret you've been carrying so long it's started to feel like a personality trait.
I've sat across from folks negotiating a version of themselves, or their relationships, they're not proud of.
Society already sold you a template on what a life should look like. What a relationship should look like. Who should want what, when, with whom. Whether you should want one at all. Most of the industry just repackages that same template and sells it back to you dressed as advice. I don't do that.
I'm not interested in what your relationship is supposed to look like. I'm interested in what you actually want it to look like. Even if it's nothing close to the same thing. Even if what you want is no romantic relationship at all, a life built around friendship and chosen family instead, or a hundred different relationships across a lifetime that never fit one box.
I'm not here to help you build a more comfortable version of a life or relationship that's actually running on old, patriarchal scripts.
Married. Poly. Monogamish. Single. Open. Unsure. Questioning. Curious. Not interested, and done pretending otherwise. Straight, queer, or somewhere in between still figuring it out.
Every kind of person. Every kind of relationship. Every kind of mess and every kind of secret. I'm not fazed by any of it, and I never will be.
Some come to me with one specific fire to put out. Some come back for years, because life and relationships keep handing them new ones. Both are exactly the right reason to be here.
What that looks like
You talk. Properly. No filter, no polish, no version you've cleaned up for public consumption. Say the thing exactly as it happened, exactly as it felt, even the parts you've never said out loud before, about the relationship, or the lack of one, or the six different kinds you're juggling at once.
Sometimes that turns into a strategy, a clear plan for the exact relationship you're actually in (or the life you actually want), not a template pulled from a book written for everyone else. Sometimes it doesn't need to be that at all. Sometimes you just need somewhere to put it down, and someone who'll actually hold it.
And it doesn't only live inside booked appointments. Sometimes it's a text to me late at night. Sometimes it's a two minute voice message on your way to a conversation you're dreading. Fourteen years of doing this work means you're not getting a stranger with a framework, or some gross five-step system for "fixing" it. You're getting someone who remembers your whole story, who's already thinking about your specific situation before you've even finished explaining it, and who happens to have the professional experience to actually do something useful with what you tell her.
My ideal client: Individuals & Couples
You're someone who's tired of performing the palatable version of yourself, your relationship, or your lack of one. Maybe you've got a secret you've never said out loud. Maybe what you have doesn't look like what everyone assumes, and you're sick of explaining the basics before you can even get to the real conversation. Maybe you're not sure you want a romantic relationship at all, and you're tired of that being treated like a problem to solve. Maybe you just know, somewhere in your gut, that something's off, even if you can't quite name what.
You don't want a workbook. You don't want to be handed the same advice that supposedly works for everyone else. You want someone who'll actually tell you what she thinks, who'll hold your secrets properly, and who's clever enough to help you build something that fits, rather than something that's supposed to.
You might be here for one deep, honest day that changes everything (4-hour intensive). You might be here for a few years (on-going retainer client), not because anything's broken, but because life and relationships keep handing you new things to work through, and you'd rather do that with someone who already knows your whole story than start from scratch with someone new. Either way, you're exactly the right person to be here.
These days I work two ways
A monthly retainer if you want me in your corner for the long haul, or a four hour intensive if there’s one thing that needs sorting, properly, in a single sitting.
What I charge
You're probably used to costs that come from a counselling or psychology model, especially here in Australia. Book a session, use up your ten sessions on a mental health care plan, rinse and repeat.
I used to work that way too. I retired that model, and that language, in July 2026.
I now work with folks via a monthly retainer for the ongoing stuff, or a four hour intensive when there's one thing that needs sorting properly, in one sitting.
A retainer allows ongoing access to me, held specifically for you and/or your relationship, for as long as you need it each month. During our first conversation together we'll map what that looks like. Some months you'll lean on it heavily. Some months, barely at all. Either way, the space stays yours. It doesn't vanish on a quiet month, and it's there the second something urgent lands.
Individual retainer
$2.5k + GST/month
A monthly retainer, built around strategy and conversations, not a set number of sessions. Not fixed forty-five minute blocks you either use or lose.
One conversation a week as your baseline, length and cadence flexing with what you actually need that week, some weeks that's an hour, some weeks it's fifteen minutes. Alongside that, you've got access to me between conversations, text, voice memo, or a call, within stated hours (shared once you're a client).
If you're local to the Mornington Peninsula, in-person is available too. Just don't expect a therapy chair or a counselling room, that's not what this is.
Minimum term is six months. After that, it continues month to month at the same rate, no new contract, no pressure to stay locked in. Come and go as life requires it.
Couples retainer
$5.5k + GST/month
The same structure, built for two. Strategy and conversations together, or split between you individually when that's what's needed, flexing week to week rather than locked into a fixed time.
This rate reflects the reality of working with two people's dynamics, histories, and needs inside the one relationship, not a discount, properly priced for the complexity it actually is.
Access between conversations works the same way, text, voice memo, or a call, within stated hours. In-person is available for those local to the Mornington Peninsula, same deal, no clinical setting, just a proper conversation.
Minimum term is six months, then continues month to month at the same rate.
Our first conversation
Every relationship with me starts with one paid conversation. Not a sales call, not an audition, just us talking properly for the first time, so I understand what's going on and you get a real feel for how I work. From there, we figure out together whether that looks like a retainer or an intensive.
This appointment can be booked by an individual or a couple.
Already know a four hour intensive is exactly what you need? You can skip straight to booking that below 👇🏼. This first conversation is here for anyone who's not quite sure yet, or just wants to talk it through with me before committing to anything.
This appointment is $200 plus GST, because it's still me, still my time, still the same brain at work.
4-hour intensive
Sometimes you don't need someone in your corner for months. You just need one properly long, properly honest conversation to finally untangle the thing that's been sitting in your chest for weeks. That's what this is. Four hours, no distractions, no filter, in person, Mornington Peninsula/Melbourne. We start wherever it hurts and we don't stop until it makes sense.
Snacks included, because I'm thorough, not a monster.
INVESTMENT: $3,000 + GST for an individual, $4,500 + GST for a couple.
If what you're carrying needs more than four hours, this isn't the right fit. That's what the retainer is for.
I'd love to tell you about the couples and individuals who've booked these and what's shifted since. But every one of them asked for an NDA, so you'll just have to trust me on this one.
Based overseas or interstate and still want this? Happens more than you'd think. Book in, just bring your own flights.
About me
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There's no formula here. No program to follow, no framework to work through, no predetermined idea of what your life, business or relationship should look like on the other side.
What there is - is a completely private space where the real conversation can finally happen. I work with what you actually bring, not a sanitised version of it. I say what I see, clearly and directly. Sometimes that's uncomfortable. Usually it's a relief.
And I do it without judgment, without agenda, and without ever repeating a word of it.
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I've worked with individuals and couples across every kind of relationship imaginable for over 14 years.
Affairs and betrayals. Relationships that exist completely outside the mainstream. Decisions that couldn't be brought anywhere else. Secrets carried for years. Shame that had never once been said out loud.
The range and depth of what I've held is what allows me to meet people exactly where they are, without flinching, without referencing a textbook, and without needing the situation to be simpler than it actually is.
This isn't a career I fell into. It's the work I was built for. And honestly? I still love it.
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You're reading this because you want to know who you're about to trust with something you haven't told anyone else. That makes sense. I'd do the same.
So here's me, unfiltered. And I do mean unfiltered.
I can tell what someone is thinking without them opening their mouth. I've been told this is unsettling. I think it's just paying attention.
My brain works fast, notices everything, and has absolutely no interest in small talk. I'm a Taurus - I come alive at night, I love the darkness, and I find the parts of people they don't show anyone infinitely more interesting than the parts they do. Which is convenient, given what I do for a living.
I've burned my own life to the ground and rebuilt it. I don't flinch at other people's messes because I've made a few spectacular ones of my own. I joke with my clients. I swear occasionally (read: a lot). I will absolutely tell you what I actually think - kindly, directly, and without turning it into a therapy session about your childhood unless your childhood is genuinely the problem.
I'm queer, married to my wife, and a mother. Although almost two decades ago I was married to a man, and divorced. What a time. I've lived both sides of the binary most relationship advice is built around, which is probably why I don't buy into it.
I've also heard the assumption plenty of times, that being queer makes me a man-hater. It doesn't. I don't hate men, I hate patriarchy. If a woman calling out men on their shitty behaviour makes a man feel attacked, like they've stumbled into some "man-hating feminist," they're not my client. They are however part of the problem and need therapy (and if you're dating a man who hates women, you should probably reconsider).
I drink too much coffee and I take my clients' secrets to the grave. In that order of importance, obviously.
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Confidentiality above everything. What you bring to me stays with me, always, without exception, covered by a mutual NDA as standard for those who want it.
No judgment. Ever. Not of your relationship structure, your desires, who you love or how, your business, or your situation. I don't have a predetermined idea of what a good relationship looks like and I'm not here to impose one.
Honesty over comfort. I'm not here to make you feel better about a relationship that needs to change. I'm here to tell you the truth, kindly, directly, and without softening it into something easier to receive.
Your terms. The help you get here is built around what you actually want, not what's convenient, conventional, or what someone else told you a relationship should look like.
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A note on how I’m described
You may have seen me referenced in the media or on a podcast as a relationship coach, or relationship expert, a title I carried (and was referred to by media as) for fourteen years.
Since July 2026, I refer to my service as a Confidential Adviser and Strategist working specifically in the area of relationships (Romantic. Platonic. Self. Doesn’t matter which). Not because the work stopped being relationship expertise, it's still exactly that, but because "coach" never quite captured what actually happens in my room. I'm not coaching you toward someone else's version of a good relationship. I'm advising you on yours, and "confidential" isn't just a word I like the sound of, it's a promise. Whatever you bring here stays here, so you can actually say the real thing without calculating what it might cost you. The title changed because of that.
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