You might know me as a relationship expert or relationship coach. That was accurate once. Confidential Adviser is more accurate now.
I’m Megan Luscombe and I’m the service.
People leave feeling seen by me, without judgement, often for the first time. And they leave with something built specifically for them, not generic advice recycled for the masses.
What I do
Private, confidential advisory and strategy for the stuff you can't, or won't, or don't want to bring anywhere else.
The affair nobody knows about. The friend group you actually hate and want to leave. The business decision that's kept you up for weeks. The relationship you can't quite name what's wrong with, but you know something is. The thing you said to your business partner that you can't take back. The person you can't stop thinking about who isn't your partner. The life you're pretending to want 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 people negotiating a business split, a marriage, a friendship they've outgrown, and a version of themselves they're not proud of. Married, poly, single, running a company, grieving something they haven't told anyone they're grieving. Every kind of person, every kind of mess, every kind of secret. I'm not fazed by any of it, and I never will be.
Some people come to me with one specific fire to put out. Some come back for years because life keeps 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.
Sometimes that turns into a strategy, a clear plan for the exact situation you're in, not a template pulled from a book written for everyone else's problems. 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 a booked appointment. Sometimes it's a text late at night. Sometimes it's a two minute voice message on your way to a meeting you're dreading. Fourteen years of doing this properly means you're not getting a stranger with a framework. 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
You're someone who's tired of performing the palatable version of yourself. Maybe you've got a secret you've never said out loud. Maybe your relationship doesn't look like the one everyone assumes you have, and you're sick of explaining the basics before you can even get to the real conversation. Maybe you're running a business and the thing keeping you up at night has nothing to do with spreadsheets. 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 works for everyone else's problems. 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 do something useful with them.
You might be here for one deep, honest day that changes everything. You might be here for a few years, not because anything's broken, but because life hands 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 comes from a counselling or psychology model of working with someone, 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 2026, once I understood it didn't suit the work I wanted to be doing moving forward, or the clients I wanted to be doing it with.
I now work with people 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, for as long as you need it each month. 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.
Retainers run for a minimum of six months and start from $2.5k plus GST a month.
A 4-hour intensive is $3k plus GST.
Our first conversation
Every relationship with me starts with one paid conversation. Not a sales call, not an audition, just you and me 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.
Already know a four hour intensive is exactly what you need? You can skip straight to booking that above ↑. 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.
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, couples, and businesses across every kind of situation imaginable for over 14 years.
Affairs and betrayals. Relationships that exist completely outside the mainstream. Decisions that couldn't be brought anywhere else. Businesses showcasing an IG highlight reel whilst imploding behind the scenes. 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. I drink espresso martinis and I take my clients' secrets to the grave. In that order of importance, obviously.
The kind of person you'd want as a friend. What you're actually getting is considerably more useful than that.
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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.
No judgment. Ever. Not of your choices, your relationship structure, your desires, your business or your situation. I don't have a predetermined idea of what a good life or 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 something 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 need, not what's convenient or conventional.
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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, relationship expert or strategist - a title I carried for fourteen years and that accurately reflected the work at the time.
Since July 2026, I've retired that title. Not because the work changed, but because my understanding of what I actually do finally caught up with the reality of it.
Confidential Adviser is MUCH more accurate.
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