“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because

your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Lilla Watson

Who am I?

I am a Parent and Youth Coach with over 20 years working with individuals and families. I start where you or your loved ones are with the primary goals being to build:

1. Increased self-awareness

2. Improved executive functioning skills and application across different life domains and

3. Improved relationships

4. Your ability to navigate decisions, transitions, or tricky moments with integrity and authenticity

Together we build the mental fitness, body-mind integration, connection and executive functioning skills needed to meet the moment you or your young person are facing.

We know that from early childhood even through young adulthood, young people and their caregivers shape one another bi-directionally. We must understand the context in order to clarify goals and steps needed. I specialize in work within family systems, including caregivers, youth, and young adults as the whole context. This space to understand, embrace and support the whole-family system is unique to my coaching model.

As a human being, a woman, mother of three children, wife, sister, daughter, friend, and professional, I have navigated some beautiful and extremely bumpy terrain, learning to balance and integrate different aspects of my identity. I laugh a lot, make art, love nature, play sports, listen to music, dance for hours, and love being alive.

I am a clinically-trained Social Worker, who developed my initial outlook in training with the Infant-Parent Program and Alicia Lieberman of the Child-Parent Therapy Group at UCSF. I am a health-behavior researcher, PK-12th School Counselor, and trusted advisor in the community. I have fallen in love with the coaching model as my methodology to support and contribute to building a healthier society. Coaching allows me to marry together my researcher origins, powerful clinical background and deep delight in working directly with human beings. The coaching modality allows me to meet you where you are, with all that I am.

Every engagement begins with a free consultation to get to know one another and to explore how I might be able to help you or your loved one build:

1. Increased self-awareness

2. Improved executive functioning skills and application across different life domains and

3. Improved relationships

4. Your ability to navigate decisions, transitions, or tricky moments with integrity and authenticity

Young People

You may be:

  • Interested in learning more about who you really are

  • Feeling frustrated, depressed or anxious

  • Struggling under the pressure to get it all right

  • Having trouble with school or meeting goals

  • Trying to make big decisions about your school, health, future, or relationships

  • Feeling like your parents aren’t hearing you

  • Feeling disorganized and flustered with meeting expectations

  • Wondering what’s “normal”

  • Nervous about how to navigate tricky social dynamics

  • Struggling to know what your purpose is

  • Feeling lost

Who I Help:

Through various methods, I am here to walk with you as you explore, find wholeness, belonging, and a sense of purpose. We start where you are, and I support you the whole way.

Parents & Caregivers

You may be:

  • Wanting to make sure your kid has someone safe to speak to

  • Trying to consider a new challenge or question from a place of thoughtfulness and curiosity (screens, teen dating, curfew, cell phones, etc.)

  • Feeling disconnected from or rejected by your young person

  • Navigating a change in your family life or an unusually difficult moment

  • Feeling suddenly out of your depth in your parenting/caregiving journey

  • Wondering how to be present for your family when you’re navigating your OWN challenges

  • Feeling immense fear or uncertainty and wondering how to manage it

  • Wondering how to support your teen as they grow into young adulthood in 2025

I will listen to you, and together we will move through the multiple layers of identity that you hold. I will support you in what matters to you.

Professional Bio

With two Master’s Degrees, in both Social Work (MSW) and Public Health (MPH) from UC Berkeley, I have over 20 years of professional experience working with individuals, families and organizations. I am passionate about working with humans to help them navigate through the challenges that come with being a teenager or young person, raising a teenager or young person, and balancing the needs of a family system. I am trained clinically and have a deep respect for research-based modalities. We start where you are.

Areas of expertise I bring to the table include:  

  • Executive Functioning Coaching

  • Infant-Parent & Child-Parent Psychotherapy (UCSF with IPP and Alicia Lieberman)

  • Family Therapy

  • Individual Therapy

  • Self-esteem Coaching

  • Parent-Child Counseling

  • School Counseling (PK-12th)

  • Human Development Training

  • All-American Athletics Performance and Training

  • Mental Fitness Expertise