Meet Your Coach
Who I am
I’ve spent the last 18 years working in culture change advocating for, designing, and sustaining systems that provide neuroinclusive and trauma-informed care for both patients and caregivers. My work has always centered the people who are most often overlooked: those who think differently, communicate differently, or carry histories that require more understanding than the system is designed to offer.
In those years, I’ve witnessed something profound:
When people are truly listened to and treated as whole beings, everything changes.
Their confidence shifts. Their contributions deepen. Their sense of meaning expands. They begin to bring forward parts of themselves that had been waiting to be seen.
I also have a deep passion for helping caregivers think creatively and compassionately as they support individuals with cognitive differences, especially those living with dementia or displaying challenging behaviors.
My career is built on a single premise: every person deserves authenticity and empathy. I bring both into every interaction I have—as a nurse, an educator, and a leader.
And at the heart of it all is this truth:
I am a human first and a clinician second.
My Coaching Philosophy
How I See People
Being neurodivergent has shaped the way I move through the world and the way the world moves around me. I know what it feels like to be misunderstood, to mask, to work twice as hard in systems not designed for my wiring. These lived experiences taught me something essential: every person has a brilliance that emerges only when they feel safe enough to bring their full self forward.
People open when they are understood.
They grow when they are protected.
They become more themselves when they are seen.
This is the ground my coaching stands on.
Why I Coach
Seen & Held grew out of nearly two decades of witnessing what becomes possible when people are met with genuine listening, relational attunement, and the kind of safety that lets their inner world come forward.
As a neurodivergent professional, I’ve lived the challenges that so many people who are wired differently face in workplaces, relationships, and everyday life. These experiences deepened my belief that everyone holds a unique brilliance that can only emerge in spaces that feel safe, inclusive, and attuned.
My coaching is an extension of that knowing.
I find joy in supporting the people who hold others — the coaches, mentors, caregivers, leaders, and those who feel called to inspire. I understand the quiet weight they carry. I see the heart behind their work, and the way their own clarity and grounding can ripple outward into everyone they touch.
I offer the kind of space I’ve needed throughout my own journey —
grounded, intuitive, and deeply human.
A space where they can be witnessed, where their truth can surface without fear, and where clarity and confidence rise as they are met with authenticity.
This is the work that most aligns with who I am, and what led me to create Seen & Held Coaching.