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 sons. Our daughter was diagnosed with an eating disorder and while she was an incredible student & soccer player, she became addicted to opioids following surgery. 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. 

Today, I am a therapist who is humbled by and honored to share the well-researched interventions on what makes relationships work. I am also a wife and mother of musicians and know intimately the struggle of artists.  I am an explorer, traveler, innovator, teacher, guide, creative spirit, and peacemaker.  I know relationship challenges, grief, betrayal, redemption, and recovery.

Relationships are the most difficult and most beautifully essential parts of our lives. That is why I have invested in specialized training in working with couples. I have completed The Couples Institute training as well as all available levels of training in The Gottman Method - including treating Trauma & Affairs and Couples & Addiction 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.