My whole life I have felt out of place and confused about what exactly I was going to do in my life. As a child, I was sensitive and highly anxious, I struggled with something as simple as leaving my house to go to the store or hang out with friends.

When I was 21 I attended Culinary School with thoughts of becoming a chef and owning a restaurant. 1 month into school, I was in a rollover car accident in the middle of winter. A year and a half later is when I began to feel the full effects of the accident. I started having trouble with my appetite, going from 160 pounds to 90 pounds in a matter of a few months. I started wearing sunglasses 24/7 because light would make me extremely nauseous. Seizures and epileptic fits that would last for hours set in as a new normal, leaving me exhausted. I suddenly couldn’t walk on my own because of extreme vertigo. I was forgetting things regularly and constantly getting very confused. I would also have uncontrollable bouts of intense emotions where I would suddenly feel angry for no reason, terrified, or even become extremely sad and cry for 6 hours at a time. It turns out I had sustained a traumatic brain injury from my accident and it was fully manifesting itself. My world changed quickly, drastically and dramatically. For the next two years, I spent most of my time in a room by myself, struggling with my injuries and the feeling of wanting to get better but not knowing how. In addition I was faced with myself and didn’t like what I was exposed to. My life was out of my control and I was very vulnerable. 

There’s a long list of other symptoms that I experienced over 6 years.  

Luckily for me, I had people in my life who deeply cared and wanted to see me live my life to the fullest. Their support, compassion, kindness, and commitment to seeing me get better had a deep and lasting effect on me. It deeply changed me as a person in ways that I’m continuously grateful for. Inspired by what I had been so selflessly given throughout this intense process of recovery, I realized I wanted to help others.

After I came to a point where I was healthy enough, I was able to set out and travel for a short period. Not long after this, even more traumatic events would occur. Afterwards, I couldn’t even make sense of the world anymore and my trust in others had been broken. 

I knew I needed something to look forward to every week and beyond, this is when I started studying Process Healing. I began to heal the emotional and mental wounds that had occurred. I started to get a clear picture of who I was again and over time it felt as if my life could have happiness and satisfaction in it once again. Through Process Healing, I started to be kind and compassionate to myself. Eventually, I began to find my voice and clearly express what I had gone through, providing much-needed clarity to the situation. 

Trauma leaves mental, emotional, and physical wounds. One of the most challenging aspects of trauma is that in many cases the physical heals, but the unseen scars in the mind remain. Someone can look and seem normal but the struggle on the inside persists. When those events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors get triggered they can be completely overwhelming. I’ve been through it, frustrated, scared, and many times completely helpless. If I had a coach at this time who could've offered me the support that I needed, my mental and emotional recovery from these events would have been so much smoother. This would have also helped those who cared for me who were exhausted and depleted, creating more room for everyone to breathe.

I meet my clients with understanding and curiosity. My goal as a practitioner and coach is to create a space where my clients have the opportunity to heal. Where we can clear what's holding them back making way for their hopes and dreams, so they can live a life with more happiness and satisfaction. 

What I offer in doing this work is helping create support, understanding, and clarity. Doing this in the kindest and gentlest way possible.