About Me

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My passion is to partner with other women to help them to discover new possibilities for themselves. I do this by sharing co-active coaching strategies and helping them to build their mental fitness.

I am a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.  In partnership with Positive Intelligence Inc., I am also providing science-based mental fitness training.

As a Parent Coach at Impact Parents, I  coach mothers like me who have children with mental health and substance use challenges. I help the mothers to move from a mindset of surviving day-to-day crises to establishing their own boundaries, utilizing creative strategies with their children and creating opportunities for themselves to experience serenity.

I also coach recently retired women who have spent their life focusing on their careers and caregiving responsibilities and now want to emphasize their own personal growth and increase their capacity for joy.

Over the last 30 years, I have directed national education campaigns to impact people's attitudes and behaviors related to health and mental health in such organizations as the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and AARP. At SAMHSA, I also collaborated with communities, families and youth to oversee the development of family-driven, youth-guided and culturally appropriate mental health services and supports for children and their families.

During my time at SAMHSA, I participated in coaching to plan my next stage of life. It was then that I learned how powerful and transformative coaching can be. I feel deep gratitude for the skills I gained to find balance, fulfillment and joy in my own life and to now have the opportunity share those skills with other women.