Parenting is often called the hardest job in the world and yet most parents are expected to do it with very little support. Parenting asks more of us than almost anything else: it challenges our identities, stirs up our own childhood histories, and meets us precisely at our most vulnerable moments. All the while, our children are growing and becoming themselves, minute by minute, day by day. The good news is that parenting also offers ongoing opportunities for repair, growth, and deepened connection. Research consistently shows that parents who receive emotional and relational support experience greater resilience, improved wellbeing, and stronger relationships with their children and with one another. Support doesn’t make parenting perfect; it makes it more humane.

Whether you are adjusting to new parenthood, navigating illness or neurodivergence in a child, facing a period of family stress, or struggling personally while trying to stay present for your child, parenting coaching can help. Coaching offers a space to slow down, reflect, and respond rather than react so that you can care for your child while also caring for yourself.

I have experience working with single parents and couples at many points along this journey, including times of transition, conflict, exhaustion, and grief. My work supports parents in understanding both their children’s emotional worlds and their own, so that healthier patterns can emerge over time.

My approach is informed by emotionally focused and psychodynamic traditions. We pay close attention to attachment, emotional regulation, and the often-unspoken patterns that shape family life. We work to understand what is happening beneath the surface and help you respond with greater clarity, compassion, and steadiness. Over time, this deeper understanding supports more secure relationships and a stronger sense of confidence in your role as a parent.

Relationships are one of the primary places where our attachment histories, vulnerabilities, and longings come alive. We can be our best selves, and our worst, with those with whom we most deeply connect. Whether monogamous or polyamorous, relationships ask us to navigate intimacy, difference, power, and repair, often without a clear map.

Relationship support helps people build more secure, resilient connections. Research consistently shows that emotionally attuned support improves communication, conflict navigation, and relational satisfaction across many relationship structures. Whether you are navigating conflict, transitions, trust, desire, jealousy, or communication challenges, relationship coaching offers space to slow down and reflect on patterns rather than react within them—ultimately providing a path toward changing what doesn’t work.

Many people reach a point where they are functioning but not fully alive. Questions of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment often emerge quietly, through restlessness, numbness, a sense of disconnection, or finding oneself making choices one does not understand. Or such questions may take shape as crisis: anxiety, panic, somatic symptoms, feeling unreal, existentially unsettled. Support during these periods can help translate disappointment, dissatisfaction, vague yet painful longing and confusion, or unrest into meaningful insight and clear direction.

Whether you are questioning what matters most, feeling disconnected from your work or relationships, or sensing a desire for something unnamed, coaching can help you slow down, listen more carefully, and forge a new path. Sometimes this is about optimization; often it is about alignment.

Whether you are navigating high school, college applications, college, graduate study, or a return to education, academic coaching can help you reduce stress, gain confidence, and approach learning with the steadiness you need to adapt and flourish. This work is particularly helpful for students who feel caught between high expectations and real obstacles, or who have learned to mask, overcompensate, or disengage in order to get by.

I work with students - including many who identify as gifted, 2E, or neurodivergent - who are facing burnout, perfectionism, inconsistency, stagnation, or a loss of confidence. Together, we attend to both practical academic demands and the emotional patterns that shape how you relate to learning, evaluation, and success.

Academic life places sustained demands on focus, performance, and self-evaluation, often during periods of significant developmental change. For twice-exceptional (2E) students, these demands can be especially complex: high ability or giftedness may coexist with ADHD, learning differences, life on the spectrum, or other neurodevelopmental variations, creating uneven profiles that are frequently misunderstood. Supportive academic coaching helps make space for this complexity rather than flattening it.

Research shows that 2E students, like all students, benefit most from relationally attuned support that recognizes both strengths and challenges: support that moves toward self-understanding, self-integration, and self-advocacy. We explore motivation, fear, self-worth, and attachment to performance, helping students develop a more sustainable and humane relationship to academic life, one that allows their strengths to emerge without erasing their needs.

Living in a world built around narrow definitions of attention, productivity, and success can be exhausting. For those who are ND or 2E, this can be particularly disorienting: notable strengths may coexist with significant executive functioning challenges, leading others—and even oneself—to misread struggle with unaccommodating institutional architecture as inconsistency, lack of effort, or failure.

Neurodiversity-affirming coaching recognizes that these patterns are not character flaws but expressions of how a nervous system interacts with an unaccommodating and unjust environment. Research increasingly shows that strengths-based, relational approaches are especially effective for neurodivergent and 2E individuals, supporting greater self-efficacy, emotional regulation, and functional growth over time.

Whether you are navigating ADHD, autism, learning differences, giftedness, or executive functioning challenges, coaching offers a space to slow down and understand how your mind works, without shame. This work is particularly supportive for individuals who have been praised for their abilities while quietly struggling with follow-through, organization, time, or overwhelm.

I work with adolescents and adults who are seeking greater clarity, steadiness, self-trust, and practical solutions. We work collaboratively to support a shift from self-criticism toward understanding, agency, and sustainable change.

Periods of transition often arrive with both urgency and uncertainty. Even when a transition is chosen, it can unsettle our sense of competence, belonging, and direction. Career and life transitions don’t just ask what you will do next; they ask who you are becoming.

The good news is that transitions, while destabilizing, are also fertile moments for growth. Research consistently shows that reflective support during major life changes is associated with greater resilience, clearer decision-making, a stronger sense of agency, and greater satisfaction with outcomes.

Coaching can help you slow down and listen more carefully to what is emerging, while offering practical guidance. This work supports you in responding thoughtfully rather than reacting out of fear or pressure. We explore attachment, meaning, and the inner narratives that influence your choices, helping you move forward with greater clarity, integrity, and self-trust rather than urgency or avoidance.

Gender shapes how we are seen, how we move through the world, and how we experience ourselves. Questions of gender are not abstract: they are lived daily through relationships, institutions, expectations, and the body. Support around gender wellbeing offers space to reflect, integrate, and make meaning.

Research across psychology and sociology shows that unpressured, gender-affirming, relational support enhances wellbeing, self-coherence, and resilience, particularly in the face of social pressure and marginalization.

Whether you are exploring gender identity or possibilities, navigating social, pharmacological, or surgical transition, living within constraint and uncertainty, or simply wanting a space where the full complexity and ongoing evolution of gendered experience is taken seriously, coaching can provide a place to slow down, reflect, and orient toward what matters to you. This is not about arriving at a prescribed outcome, but about cultivating a more grounded, self-attuned, and livable relationship with yourself.

I work with individuals across a wide range of gender experiences, including cisgender, trans, nonbinary, gender-exploring, and gender-questioning clients. The focus is on understanding how gendered experience intersects with attachment, self-worth, desire, and belonging. We attend to both personal history and cultural context, helping you develop greater emotional clarity, self-compassion, agency, and a feeling of at-homeness in yourself.

The personal is political. Feminist empowerment coaching recognizes that wellbeing is not just an individual project, but a relational and cultural one. Whether you are reckoning with over-responsibility, invisibility, anger, exhaustion, guilt, body shame, self-doubt, or unaccommodated desires, coaching offers a space to slow down, make meaning of your experience without minimizing it, and forge a path forward.

This work supports both self-understanding and self-authorization. I work with individuals who are navigating identity, power, caregiving, and leadership, while subject to resistance, weaponized helplessness, gaslighting, unreasonable and unjust gendered expectations, and unhelpful internalized pressures. We explore how personal history and cultural context intersect, helping you reclaim authority over your inner life and move in the world with greater clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.

Parenting a child who is exploring their gender or expressing a novel evolution of their gender presentation can involve a mix of love, excitement, uncertainty, and concern. Many parents want to support their child fully but may feel unsure how to respond, advocate, or navigate the emotions this journey evokes. Coaching can help you show up for your child with respect, compassion, and validation without overwhelming your child with your concern or becoming overwhelmed yourself.

Of course many parents worry about their child’s well-being and social experiences. One of the most important things parents can do, beyond respecting and fully trusting their child, is learn to tolerate and regulate their own anxiety. When parents feel anxious and pressured for clarity, children may sense that tension and feel an inner need to “resolve” it by closing down their own space for exploration and dynamic gender development. Coaching can help parents create a safe, open space for their child’s ongoing exploration and self-definition, without letting fear or worry drive responses.

Coaching can help you find ways to validate your child’s self-expression without implicitly insisting that your child choose right here, right now, once and for all. Basic respect practices such as using chosen names and pronouns, advocating for others in a child’s intimate and extended social environments to do likewise, and unreservedly acknowledging autonomy over hairstyle, clothing, and manner of social expression are essential. So too is open listening, openness to having one’s assumptions challenged, willingness to abide in uncertainty, and supporting ongoing exploration and self-invention.

We explore how attachment, family dynamics, emotional regulation, and cultural context influence interactions, helping you notice where anxiety arises and practice responding in ways that keep you connected to your goals: promoting emotional health, resilience, and stronger family bonds. Your heart goes wherever your child goes, but you can gain tools to stay grounded, regulate strong emotions, and communicate with openness and curiosity rather than fear.