About Me

I have worked as a life coach and therapist for the past 15 years. I  trained at The World Coach Institute in 2017. I have worked as a licensed trauma therapist with a MSed in Social Agency Counseling for over 10 years in a variety of settings including hospitals, PHP, IOP, Addiction Centers, community mental health and private practice. My training as a therapist included identifying and working with Attachment Wounds, Development Trauma including neglect and deprivation, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, and Brainspotting. I worked primarily as therapist with C-PTSD, developmental trauma, BPD, and dissociative features including DID and OSDD.  I’ve always maintained a practice where I have slots for sliding fee scales for those who don’t have insurance or are struggling financially.

I work with individuals and provide group work around the need to identify values and develop attainable committed actions that allow us to live our lives with meaning and purpose even if we haven’t finished our therapy journeys. 

I use a number of assessments including the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, ACE, Clifton Strengths, Attachment Style Quiz by Diane Poole Heller, Sixteen Personalities and a Post Traumatic Growth Survey among others. I compile this information at the beginning to give me insight as to the strengths that my clients bring to the table. Of course though, the one-on-one interview is essential. 

I have the lived experience of my own C-PTSD, GAD and MDD. I know what it’s like to be in therapy. I have two adult children with autism and ADHD. I bring all that and my additional training to work in a trauma informed manner. 

The clients I am priviledged to work with are brave, courageous, resilient, inventive, creative, tenacious, fierce and so much more. Their stories are filled with inspiration at how well they cope, survive and thrive. I am honored to be invited to accompany them as they work to live their lives more fully. I am inspired by their desire to have more. 

My clients range in age from 18 to 80. 

Finally, I am often asked to accompany adults who have come upon a point in their lives where their histories, often filled with traumas, finally refuse to accept limits to their abilities to live fully, freely and authentically – they say NO MORE.

They often come with stories of limits and terrible paralyzing fears that bear witness to what they have survived.

I am honored to hear and accompany them as they tell the truths of what they’ve survived and how they have survived. I am in awe and honor of the fact they are here, today, in front of me. Most have such functional lives. They are passionate parents, daughters and sons, brothers and sisters, employers and employees, friends and spouses and partners even as they struggle.

Our beginning work is strength focused – what are those super powers they bring? What skills did they develop to survive the unsurvivable? Working together, we identify strengths and understand that we’ll use them to go on. I often will use assessments that identify their top five strengths from Clifton Strengths and their Meyer-Briggs identification and their attachment styles. All this information is used to help formulate a treatment plan that includes  clients’ goals and how to obtain them. We work collaboratively, but the client, you, sets the goals. I may help to clarify. We work to untangle lies and limits and fears to restore back to them the lives they were intended to have. And then they grow and transform into the best versions of themselves.

I am inspired by the words restoration and transformation – it’s what I see my clients do, day in and day out.

So, this may look like and is often labeled depression, anxiety, or PTSD. But I understand the effects of trauma and the coping skills developed to survive. I honor all the ways people have worked to be here, right now. My hope is to take those strengths and add to them along with adding flexibility and choices – you can make choices now! It’s part of what we discover together – where do you need freedom and flexibility.