I hold an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing, alongside a second major in Psychology. After spending 27 years in the corporate world with Fortune 500 companies like Xerox, SUN, Oracle, and IBM—where I held various sales and technical positions—I transitioned my career to focus on my passion: helping individuals, couples, and families achieve balance in their work and personal lives, heal from trauma, and overcome addictions.
On a personal note, I am a proud mother of a recently engaged, 30-year-old son, a 34-year-old daughter, and a 13-year-old granddaughter. My life journey has included single parenting, marriage, remarriage, divorce, overcoming major illnesses, navigating midlife career changes, and experiencing both trauma and discrimination in workforce. Throughout it all, I've balanced being "on and off the mommy track," coaching and mentoring others as they climbed corporate ladder, and launching several successful businesses—including my therapy practice, which is truly my passion.
I am dedicated to using my rich life experiences to guide others on their paths to healing and fulfillment. My dedication to education, training, and years of life and therapeutic experience have given me the skills necessary to bring careful understanding, compassion, and expertise to each client's unique needs. I take my responsibility seriously and find the therapy process meaningful, rewarding, humbling, always intriguing. I look forward to working with each new client and family system. Together we can create an experience that will help solve problems and encourage personal growth; it can be life-transforming when working in a Collaborative process.
My training, career path, and specialties have involved my own psychotherapy, intensive study in attachment theory, emotionally focused therapy, structural family therapy, neuro-affective biology and a number of integrative psychotherapy practices, ongoing supervisory and peer consultation groups. I have trained with Jim Thompson, a renowned couple therapist, who is an approved therapist and trainer with Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). In addition, I combine my Emotional Focus Therapy work with work of Ester Perel, Terry Real and many other international therapists committed to families and coupling. My practice features a pluralistic approach designed to draw on the most effective methods of interventions for success in helping clients reach their goals as individuals, couples or within a family system.
