As a therapist and coach, I inspire individuals and couples to get out of their own way.  I’m sure I could spend time saying it much more eloquently than that, but you’re here reading this because you want to know more about how to actually create change.  My work is designed to move you from “talking” about change to actually “doing” it.  

I started doing therapy in 2005 and worked primarily with victims of family violence. It was life changing work that challenged and stretched me in more ways than I can describe.  After 5 years of doing purely trauma recovery work, I knew it wasn’t sustainable. To be honest I had doubts about whether the work I was doing was actually making a difference. I wanted to serve a purpose bigger than myself and wanted to be sure it was hitting at the core of the issue.  

In 2010, I opened my own practice and completely dove into learning everything I could about relationships. Certifications, trainings, conferences, you name it and I did it.  I learned invaluable tools during the course of it all it, and I have sat with more couples and individuals than I can count; helping them heal and learn how to truly love. Not just each other, but themselves.

And that is where I find my work today. Helping couples get out of their own way in order to love themselves AND each other more. I truly believe that you can’t love yourself OR shed the wounds of the past if you don’t know how you’re holding yourself back. 

If your relationship is stuck in patterns of negative communication, struggling to find resolution to long standing conflict, overwhelmed on how to even begin healing trust or just stuck on all levels, I can help. You CAN’T have a loving and thriving partnership if you’re struggling to heal the past and create sustained connection.

I know my passion for this work and I know what is possible when you take the leap into change...together. I want THE TWO OF YOU to crush old stuck communication patterns once and for all. I want THE TWO OF YOU to learn how to leave the past in the past. I want THE TWO OF YOU to you live life like the power couple you are. Because when you’re operating as a team…THE TWO OF YOU are truly unstoppable!

FUN FACTS ABOUT ME:

I’m a wife, a twin momma and a business owner.  And those are just a few of the hats that I wear. I grew up on the California coast and moved to Sacramento for graduate school in 2002.  I fell in love with the city, met my now husband and created a life and a business that I’m quite proud of.

I LOVE sports…give me a team to cheer for and I’m there!

I could live off of a killer cheese plate and delicious red wine….don’t worry…I won’t actually try this.

I KNEW in my gut that I was having twins before the doc even told me the news.

I can watch the same set of movies over and over again….it drives my husband crazy.

I love to run. I’m not the fastest by any stretch of the imagination but my endurance is on point.

I’m much more sensitive than people believe and have struggled with wanting EVERYONE to like me….ugh!!  I used to want you to like me, now I want you to know me.

My dad has affectionately told me (more than once) that I’m the only person he knows that can land in a pile of poop and come out smelling like roses…..Yes, I ALWAYS leap and then look…sorry Dad.

I love REALLY BIG and believe it’s one of my super powers.