About
Rewriting your story
Raising children
doing your best at work
all the time…
being a good partner
and at home…
Right now, life is totally unmanageable. At every corner, a new surprise, challenge, or decision.
Argh, what to do? Which way to turn?
There’s that creeping feeling in your stomach again. And a strange voice whispers, “Don’t stop if you don’t want it all to come crashing down.”
But, for sure, you know you can’t keep this pace up. You’re exhausted. You’re out of ideas and out of options.
So, think about what life’s like now. It’s like looking in a funhouse mirror. Everything’s distorted.
When did it get like this? How will you find your way out?
This is the story of your life. Your story is real, and it’s valid. You’re not making it up. It really is just like you say. I know that.
But your story is not who you are.
With my help, you can write a new story, any way you want. You get to become your own hero. Together, we can do this.
We start at this distorted perspective. As we work together, your perspective will change.
In my office, there’s a kaleidoscope that we’ll often use. When you first look through the viewfinder, you see one picture. As you write your story, as your perspective changes, your picture changes.
Bit by bit, you re-write your story.
You become the author of your life.
You are the hero, the champion you’ve always wanted. You get to write the ending you want. The ending of your story is your destination.
My Story
I have a very diverse background. From nurse to mother to teacher and now therapist. Helping people and being in relationships with others has always been important to me.
As a registered nurse, I learned that a little empathy and compassion go a very, very long way. In many different settings, I saw patients and families at the lowest, most vulnerable times in their lives. I always strived to provide emotional strength and comfort in those difficult, and sometimes very dark, times.
Raising children has been one of my greatest joys and the hardest job I’ve ever done. As a divorced mother of three young children, I had to make many difficult decisions alone. It was a time of struggle and uncertainty. I often felt so very lost, uncertain where to turn. The good news is that we all made it through very well.
Teaching middle school, as a special education and classroom history teacher, gave me the opportunity to immerse myself in the messy lives of tweens. Not children nor teens yet, I saw children struggling with very adult problems: substance abuse in the family, alcoholism, and divorce, to name a few. There they were in school, expected to pay attention and learn, but very distracted by home.
That’s when I knew I had to do something more than my job description allowed.
And so, I made the trip to graduate school again – to become a therapist.
I love being a therapist. It feels like I’ve finally put my shoes on the right feet. I am very honored to sit with clients each day, holding their pain, sharing my experience and hope. I am humbled to be the recipient of so much trust. My job is my joy, my passion and my sacred calling.
It is my privilege to see clients set and accomplish their goals. Shifting perspectives like the picture in a kaleidoscope, I am blessed to witness their transformations from anguishing to flourishing. I enjoy this gift every day, and it’s a gift I’ll gladly give to you.
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”