Red Thread Labs Love Labs

Level-Up Sessions

Notice what pulls you. Choose what you pull in.

Level up, and get the
 Love of your Life.

Practice Labs to find the hidden habits holding you back.

The defaults you picked up as a kid are still running your life. You didn't choose them — and they can be changed.
When you do, you level up.

Upcoming · Wed, Nov 11 · Salt Lake City Cherished & Chosen An interactive evening for creating loving connection & healthier relationships. 6:30–9:30 PM. $40, or $75 for two. Dinner included, limited seats. Reserve a seat →

You know something
needs to change.

You're here because you want to show up as a better you:

This is for you if

  1. You keep ending up in the same dynamic — different day, same feeling.
  2. You know what you want but something keeps getting in the way of having it.
  3. You may have done the reading, the therapy, the journaling — and still feel stuck in the same place.
  4. You want to be someone your people can count on — and you want to count on yourself.
  5. You're ready to stop explaining the problem and start living differently.

See · Shift · Prove

The method is simple — three steps. Every Level-Up Session runs on them.

01

See

Name the loop that keeps running your love life.

02

Shift

Change how that loop runs, where talking alone can’t reach.

03

Prove

Practice with real people until the change holds.

What you walk
away with

A Level-Up Session uses the Destination Method — a relational coaching framework built by VA clinical researchers — to work directly with the parts of you that talking won't reach. You don't need to understand how it works. You just need to show up.

After a session

  1. The thing you keep doing — named in one sentence. Clear, specific, yours. Not a diagnosis. A starting point.
  2. A real shift, not a new idea. Something actually different in how that part of you is running — not advice to try later, a change you can feel now.
  3. More room to move. More room to choose. More room to be who you actually want to be in the moments that matter most.

About JD

JD Carlston

JD has been coaching since being a teen. A lifetime leading athletes on the field and humans in tech. Peer support trainer and crisis responder. Direct lineage from Dr. Robert Dee McDonald, a VA clinical researcher and one of the original architects of NLP, and Dr. Carolyn Elliott, whose work on cultural integration and desire has shaped practitioners worldwide.

JD and Chick did this work on themselves first. We practice before we teach at Red Thread Labs.

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Choose where
to start

Something in you is ready or you wouldn't be here. Pick the entry point that fits where you are right now.

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Good place to begin

Preliminary Consult

Free / 25 min
$93 / 25 min

We look at what you want to change. You leave knowing exactly what your next move needs to be.

Ready to move

Level-Up Session

$500 / 2 hrs
$993 / 2 hrs

Intro Rate. Two hours. Massive results.

"...better than a year of therapy."

You leave as who you want to be in the moments that matter most.

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Choose your session and how you'd like to meet.

Preliminary Consult (25 min) Free

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The person you've been isn't the only person you can be.

"You can choose differently."
"Infinitely innocent and incomparably good."

Love Labs · Being Cherished. Choosing Real Love.