About
Problem-solving is my passion.
From the first phone call, I focus on gathering as much information as possible to understand you better and what you are experiencing. By understanding your life and your struggles from your perspective, we can formulate solution-focused steps tailored to you.
I start by allowing you to paint the big picture of your life for me. Who are you? What brought you here? What pain are you carrying? These questions allow me to understand you as a whole person and not just your current mental state.
Each detail is important because it contributes to the masterpiece that is your life.
Having the right tools is vital to your success.
Once I have a good understanding of who you are, we begin to walk through your daily life and how your pain influences your ability to get through each day. We identify where your greatest struggles are in your immediate life. We will begin exploring solutions right away to give you even a moment of relief.
I often refer to this phase of our work as a ‘trial and error’ process. Coping with pain is a very personal process, and everyone will require a set of tools that they can pull out when they need peace. We will explore and develop those tools for you.
By experimenting with unique and often creative options, we will find the tools that will work for you and are accessible and fit your unique life and needs. This experimentation will be an ongoing part of the work we do, and it is something that we will come back to often to examine the tools you have and adjust or trade them out when necessary.
Journeying through the darkness leads to enlightenment.
The next phase of our work involves a deeper process of finding the root of your pain. This journey requires a significant amount of honesty, trust, and full-on courage. It is a path that is treacherous at times.
You will face some of your deepest suffering, generational curses, traumatic experiences, and layers of survival mechanisms. But you will not be alone. I walk next to you every step of the way holding the light.
Your job is to keep moving forward. Step by step, the path will become more apparent. The shadows will slowly fade.
It will not happen right away. And often, we will walk back into the darkness for a while to find a better way forward. Then, one day, you will wake up and realize that you are the one holding the light and choosing the path forward.
Every solution is uniquely yours.
My process is similar in all my work, but the solutions are always unique. The greatest solutions are not the ones I envision alone but those I uncover within you or your organization or group.
We are such unique, dynamic humans that we often get lost in finding a solution in the box given to us. And we forget we have unlimited potential within us.
My greatest quality is my ability to uncover that potential, those solutions, and walk alongside you to implement them.
About Me
Problem-solving started with horses, then people.
My unique mindset was not necessarily a choice but a by-product of charging forward without thinking and having no choice but to learn and adapt from my experiences!
I spent my early childhood problem solving from the back of a horse (or problem-solving when I fell off one). But it was the relationships with horses that taught me how to read body language and communicate when words were not an option.
College provided a new challenge for me – people. But in every sense of the word, I charged full steam ahead and worked with at-risk youth and realized that I had found my passion. I related to and could read the pain and suffering, but I had a unique problem-solving ability.
I gained purpose by walking in the darkness.
The next 15 years of my career involved charging into the next challenges in the mental health field and grabbing all the lessons and education that I could along the way.
I fell in love with both entrepreneurship and program development and my husband and children. Along the way, I lost and rediscovered my passion several times.
My life includes some of the brightest moments of growth and some of the most painful losses I could imagine. I followed themes in my life, and those often led me down the darkest paths. I have learned that I am not afraid of walking in the darkness, and I have learned to hold the light.
I have finally come to the point in my life where charging forward has a purpose and a direction. And I am grateful for every experience.