Human communication begins with awareness.

I teach skills that are less about “the right thing to say” and more about the kind relationships we want to experience along the way.

Including that relationship we have with ourselves.

I truly believe that more stress and strife comes from misunderstanding than from dreaded conflict… Let’s get started.

Coaching Credentials & Expertise

CERTIFICATE: ICF-Accredited
(International Coaching Federation)  Leadership, Emotional Intelligence & Human Development Coaching iPEC (New York 2018)

Program on Negotiation of Harvard Law School   
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (2024)

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and
Belonging (DEIB) and Intercultural Communication: University of Minnesota and Cultural Intelligence Center • culturalq.com

Multi-Cultural Counseling
Alfred Adler Graduate School (2023)

Nonviolent Communication
with Lyra Health (by Marshall Rosenberg)

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
for Adolescents and Young Adults
with Dr. Russell Harris (Psychwire)

Trauma-informed Practice Conference
School of Social Work University of St. Thomas (2018)

Somatic Coaching Certificate
Coaches Rising & Strozzi Institute 

Mindfulness Coaching Certificate
Coaches Rising (Amsterdam 2019)

Fundamentals of Mediation
Diane Hamilton / Two Arrows Zen  (2020)   

https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/code-of-ethics

If you’re curious. Read resume here.

A few fun facts - and confessions:

  • A Myers Briggs INFP – nicknamed “The Mediator”  

  • Daughter of an art teacher.

  • I love playing word games with my teenage kids.

  • Favorite exercise: Moving rocks. Least favorite: Treadmills.

  • Typically takes the stairs…

  • Feel-better music is soundtrack from the Great British Baking Show.

  • Confession: Never really got into social media.

  • Happy places: Lake Superior, Arizona, Cornwall and anyone’s kitchen table with whatever they’re offering to sip on.