After a year of chronic illness, I began to look into alternative healing methods. From 2012-2014, I studied herbalism at the Florida School of Holistic Living. In 2014, I became a Certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, focused on a holistic approach to mind, body, and spiritual wellness. I healed my body within a year with a naturopathic approach.

In 2017, after years in Corporate America, I furthered my education in business and received my MBA from Rollins College. I am now able to utilize this background to help clients who own their own businesses and for coaching advice surrounding career changes, entrepreneurship, business optimization, and more. 

During Covid,  I felt incredibly called to create containers for connection, community, and a safe space to be vulnerable and express/work through emotions with others. I wanted to expand my coaching to group events. So, I participated in an 8 week program that certified me to become a group facilitator. I began hosting Moon Circles and Women’s Circles in 2020, which are now being hosted virtually and in person today!

After receiving my holistic health certification, it became increasingly clear how important mental, emotional, and spiritual health was to your overall wellbeing. Those 3 topics became my primary focus in my coaching practice. Over the years, I noticed that I naturally began attracting clients who came from traumatic backgrounds, suffered from CPTSD and other trauma related ailments.  With a desire to further my own personal knowledge on trauma and be able to provide support and coaching methods for my clients who come from past traumas, I received a certification as a Trauma Professional.

This certification includes 10 Core Competencies of Trauma, PTSD, Grief & Loss, Evidence-Based Trauma Treatments & Interventions, Desensitization, Integration & Closure. 

It’s important to me to be continuing my education within the realm of trauma. Top down approaches are very influential to those who are beginning their trauma work, but I often find that those clients who are very self-aware need more of a bottom up (body based approach).

This certification includes somatic therapies such as Somatic Experiencing^®, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Hakomi. It explores early developmental trauma, collective trauma, racialized trauma, trauma numbing and shutdown.

Many of the women I work with have a history of sexual abuse, domestic violence, or narcissist abuse. It’s important to me to be continuing my education to be able to work with all forms of trauma with an appropriate understanding and approach and offer the best support possible to each of my clients. 

Trauma is multifaceted, it affects us on an individual, collective and relational level. Healing all aspects of trauma is important to healing. Understanding how our childhoods have shaped us and are still currently impacting us in the present moment is important. As a coach, we work with your symptoms in the present, but it’s beneficial to understand the patterns in wounding.

Continuing to expand upon my original CCTP certification with Janina Fisher’s latest training in August to stay up to date with the latest treatments. 

Narcissistic Abuse is where my trauma work began, and what I find to be most common amongst my clients. I have my own experience overcoming narcissistic abuse and healing from gaslighting, but I always like to expand my tool box outside of my own personal scope of experience and learn from specialists.