About Me

Welcome. I’m Here to Help You Transform Your Story.

For the past 15 years, I’ve worked as both a life coach and therapist, helping individuals navigate the challenges of trauma and build lives filled with meaning, purpose, and resilience. My professional journey has been shaped by rigorous training and enriched by my own lived experiences, allowing me to deeply understand and empathize with my clients’ stories.

I hold an MSed in Social Agency Counseling and trained at The World Coach Institute in 2017. My career as a supervised trauma therapist spans over a decade in diverse settings, including hospitals, addiction centers, community mental health, private practice, and programs such as PHP and IOP. My therapeutic training includes specialties in:

I’ve primarily worked with clients navigating complex PTSD, developmental trauma, dissociative features (DID and OSDD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and the long-term effects of abuse and neglect.

Lived Experience That Deepens Connection
I bring to my practice not only my professional expertise but also my personal experiences with C-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD). As a parent of two adult children with autism and ADHD, I understand the complexities of caregiving and the impact of trauma on family dynamics. I know what it’s like to be in therapy and to walk the path of healing, and I carry these insights into my work with clients.

A Strength-Focused, Collaborative Approach
The clients I’m privileged to work with are brave, resilient, and incredibly resourceful. Together, we explore the strengths they’ve developed to survive the unsurvivable and build on these “superpowers” to create lasting change. I utilize tools like the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, CliftonStrengths, Attachment Style Quiz by Diane Poole Heller, Sixteen Personalities, and the Post-Traumatic Growth Survey to gain insight into my clients’ unique strengths and challenges.

However, assessments are just the starting point. The heart of my work lies in the one-on-one connection, where we collaboratively set goals and untangle the limits, fears, and lies that trauma can create. Together, we’ll identify where you need freedom, flexibility, and choice in your life—and chart a path toward achieving it.

Restoration and Transformation
My clients often come to me when their histories—marked by trauma, abuse, or neglect—can no longer dictate the limits of their lives. They are parents, partners, friends, and professionals who, despite their struggles, have managed to build functional and meaningful lives. But they are ready for more.

Whether you’re working through depression, anxiety, PTSD, or simply seeking a life that feels freer and more authentic, I understand how trauma shapes coping skills and survival mechanisms. My role is to honor everything you’ve done to get here and help you transform your story into one of restoration and growth.

The journey isn’t always easy, but it’s deeply rewarding. Watching my clients reclaim their lives and transform into the best versions of themselves inspires me every day.

If this resonates with you, let’s begin. You deserve healing, freedom, and the opportunity to thrive.

My Work History

My Training and Tools

  • Current – therapist at Counseling Services of Atlanta
    678-215-2007
     800 Old Roswell Lakes Parkway, Suite 200
    Roswell, GA 30076 and provide individual, group, family and psycho-ed services to clients from 14 through adult using Brainspotting, EMDR, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Somatic and Attachment tools using a client-centered, strength based approach.
  • Southeast Addiction center as a group facilitator leading a Processing group, an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group and a Trauma Group.
  • Manna Treatment on their trauma client side using EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,
    somatic and attachment-based interventions with adult clients from diverse backgrounds.
  • Life Coach for many years and currently. 
  • Eastway Community Mental Health in Dayton, OH working in a variety of positions including crisis counseling, hospital intake, residential treatment, and individual
    counseling. 
  • Seven years for several large businesses including logistics at Wright Patterson Air Force Base as an Information Specialist, EDS supporting a GM account as a Systems Analyst, and NCR as an Information Specialist.
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I have obtained an extensive amount of training, primarily in the area of trauma treatment including:

  • ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Brainspotting
  • Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
  • Perinatal Loss & Grief
  • EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  • Attachment Focused EMDR
  • Somatic Tools Training
  • Attachment Work Training
  • Sand Tray (yes for adults)
  • TF-CBT: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • CPT: Cognitive Processing Therapy
  • Life Coaching from the Worldwide Coaching Institute
  • Post graduate training in Gestalt Therapy
  • MS in Social Agency Counseling from University of Dayton
  • BS  in Computer Science Engineering with minors in Russian and Mathematics

My Personal Information

I have been married for over 35 years. I have 9 children ranging from late 20s down to 14. Yes I survived, and yes it was difficult at times.

I am a voracious reader, especially science fiction. “Arrival” is my favorite movie based on my favorite short story, “The Story of Us” by Ted Chiang included in a book of SF short stories. I mostly enjoy more positive, hopeful science fiction like “The Martian.” 

I love cooking, especially ethnic food, Thai, Greek, and other Mediterranean and Arabic food. 

I write extensively, mostly for myself; I can easily churn out 10,000 words. I enjoy drawing and small sculpturing. Some day I hope to have a pottery studio with a throwing wheel and kiln. I garden and long for a sunroom where I can grow flowers and herbs all year long.

My friends describe me as a deep thinker, quiet, warm, compassionate, intuitive and a bit melancholic with a rye sense of humor and great listening skills. I show up very strongly as an INFJ if you know anything about the Meyers-Brigg classification system.

My top five strengths from Gallup’s StrengthFinder 2.0 are Achiever, Restorative, Relator, Empathy, Harmony (Oh, Input was right there!) – I am a life-long learner involved currently in training for RTT and MAP. In the future, I plan to take college courses for free (a perk to living in Georgia when you turn 62) including Linguistics and Discrete Math. I studied a number of foreign languages in colleges including Spanish, Greek, Korean and Arabic (that’s in addition to Russian). And, I taught my kids Latin.

I still immensely enjoy learning about other cultures. I’ve read an extensive amount of Canadian and Swedish literature and plan on delving into other country’s popular literature to get a sense of their culture. Oh, and Iceland… see I know quirky things like this… they do not bring other languages into their language – so instead of bringing in the word “computer” they created from their own words “counting witch.” So that means they can read 15th century Icelandic literature with very little trouble. I think that’s quite beautiful.

My favorite image are Tuckamore trees that grows in Newfoundland. They are simple evergreens that when planted in groves grows straight and tall. But at times, seeds are swept to coastlines. They take root on the sides of cliffs and are tenacious. They bend nearly to the ground from the unrelenting harsh, icy, ocean winds, but they STAY. The ground under them is often littered with branches that simply could not withstand the fierce winds, but they dig in deep and stay. I think they are a model for the resiliency of the clients I am allowed to accompany through their process of restoration, transformation and healing. I find the trees’ forms intensely beautiful and a model for how we often survive trauma.