I haven't always been a therapist.  I spent 25 years working full-time in a Fortune 100 company before changing direction to do consulting work and earn my graduate degree.  In those years, I was a single mother, divorced, remarried, and had two more children. Just after that, my daughter was diagnosed with multiple mental health issues, including an eating disorder. While she was an incredible student & soccer player, she became addicted to opioids following surgery. My sons were toddlers. After 15 years, 9 rehab/recovery centers, some incredibly wonderful and some incredibly heartbreaking years, we lost her.  The family survived.  My marriage survived. But not without a lot of stress and hard lessons learned.  Actually…to call those years stressful is an understatement. I felt well enough educated by life at that point to want to help others - so I engineered a career transition. Kind of a whole-life makeover…

Today, I am a therapist who is humbled by and honored to share the well-researched interventions on what makes relationships work. I’ve lived it, practiced it, and learned from mistakes along the way.  I know relationship challenges, grief, betrayal, redemption, and recovery.

I am proud of my education and credentials.  But I am prouder of my resilience and the experiences that have been critical in shaping how I relate deeply and authentically to a very wide range of people with their own personal and relationship challenges.   

My offer to you: A safe, non-judgemental, guided experience of exploring what holds you back, and my wise assistance with getting that crap out of the way of your best life and relationships.