Coaching Psychologist. Doctoral researcher. Mentor. And, your instructor.

Twenty-five years sitting with capable, caring, deeply responsible people — and figuring out what actually changes them.

I trained as a therapist. Studied counseling psychology, medical ethics, anatomy and physiology. My coach training spans the Co-Active Institute, the Center for Right Relationship, the Gottman Institute, and private mentorships with coaching mentors I chose carefully. I was studying to become a midwife when I realized that for me, that was metaphorical.

I've trained staff and presented at the Omega Institute, Ben and Jerry's, and Stanford University. I served as an on-set coach for NBC's Friends. I created Healthy Boundaries for Kind People® and Maybe Baby®.

My doctoral research on boundary development as identity transformation produced original theoretical contributions that have never appeared in the coaching literature before — the Values–Boundaries Paradox, Values Vertigo, Stage Zero. These aren't borrowed frameworks. They came out of rigorous research into what actually happens when people transform, and why most approaches stop short of it.

I'm also an experiential educator — decades of designing learning that changes how people practice, not just what they understand. Which is a long way of saying: this won't be a lecture. You'll use what I teach you before you leave.

I teach what I've found. Not theory for its own sake. Tools and frameworks that change what happens in the room — between a coach and a client, a leader and their team, or anyone navigating a conversation that matters.