My career began working in group homes and residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents. There I learned how this form of treatment can be effective and generalizable to other conditions where a group must work together to achieve specific behavioral goals. I then took what I learned to help families and systems within the community modify the undesired behaviors of youth while creating or mending their interpersonal connections. Out of curiosity about other mental health treatment modalities I spent time working in an ER as part of a Crisis Response team.  This led to the formation of my private practice which I maintain today. Private practice opened a pathway to new skills and interests as I honed my use of CBT, Psychodynamic and Gestalt theories in my work with adults. I later added to my repertoire by becoming a Level 2 Gottman Method trained couples therapist.

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 In 2018, I endeavored to find a new passion. My self-exploration led me to Parent Coaching. Here my initial passion for working with children combined with my desire to support adults. In this space I wrote my self-published book "The Parenting Treatment Plan." It is titled as such because I have come to believe that our approach to parenting needs restructuring. It needs to be healthier and easier. And the knowledge of how to achieve this needs to be affordable, hence the low price of my online parenting course. In both my book and my course I explain how understanding and achieving the two SMART goals of parenting eliminates power struggles and cultivates self-discipline and emotional stability in children. What are those SMART goals of parenting? 1) for the parent to become the authority figure (aka respected role model) and 2) for the child to learn how to make good choices. Parenting is a universal experience we all share and are shaped by. But the deluge of information and do's and don'ts often leaves those most in need of guidance paralyzed.

My goal is to simplify and improve.

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In addition to my education and work experiences, I am also the mother of five sons. I bring all of my knowledge with me into my work by relating to the single parent, the partnered parent, the co-parent, the happily married, the unhappily married, the divorced, the grieving daughter, granddaughter and sister, the parent of adult children, the entrepreneur, the ambitious, the career-oriented and so much in between. I value being able to hear my client’s needs, validate them and encourage them to become the best version of themselves.

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