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About Me

Although my background is in psychology and social work, I began coaching after experiencing my own traumatic loss, anxiety, and depression. My own personal experience at rock bottom was much more of a teacher than any of my psychology textbooks. I teach from a place of understanding the complexities of our grief, anxiety, and depression.

What I found is that anxiety and depression is our bodies way of begging for our attention. They are horribly painful alarm systems inside of us saying “Hello! Don’t you see me in here? Please help me!”

For good reason, we become terrified of what might happen if we respond to our discomfort and actually have to FEEL the pain. We live in a culture that teaches us to ignore, numb, and even fight away our pain. I don’t blame us, pain is unpleasant. It's important to remember that pain is a symptom of the problem.

I do what I do because I believe that in order to heal and find long lasting relief we all long for, what we really need is to lean into our pain in loving and nurturing ways- to respond to it and say “Hey, I’m here, I see you.” To listen long enough to find whats causing these symptoms and give them what they need.

And the best part- this method is backed by endless neuroscience research.