My clients come from every season of life. You might be:

• Thriving at work, and wondering why it doesn't feel like enough
• Balancing career and family, and losing yourself somewhere in the middle
• Single, and longing for deeper connection, with others and with yourself
• Searching for your next career, or for work that truly fits you
• Watching your kids grow up and leave, and asking, “What now, for me?”

Whatever brings you here, the heart of the work is the same: quieting the mind, so you can hear the wiser part of you underneath the noise.

Most of my clients are women, and men are always welcome.

I help people live from a place of stillness and presence. It starts with awareness: noticing what's happening inside you before your mind rushes to explain it, judge it or fix it.

In our sessions, I listen closely. I leave room for silence, and I don't assume I know your answer. We slow down together, and I ask questions that help you hear yourself more clearly: what you're feeling, what your mind is telling you, and what becomes possible when you're not caught in the same familiar pattern.

I won't talk over your experience or hand you a script for your life. I'm right there with you, paying attention. My hope is that in that space you feel more grounded, connect with your own awareness, and find a way forward that feels true to you.

Underneath it all are more than 25 years of study and spiritual practice, so each session draws on whatever will serve you best that day. More about my background →

I don't diagnose or treat mental health conditions. Coaching is for people who are ready to grow: to find more stillness and live more fully.

I work alongside many psychiatrists and therapists. If you're going through something that needs clinical care, such as depression or trauma, I'm glad to work together with yours, or to help you find one.

Since I was five years old, I knew I wanted to be an actress. As a child I felt deeply connected to something bigger than me, lying in the grass outside, completely at home in the world.

By 19, I had traded all of that for what I was supposed to do. I was living at home and commuting to college to study something I didn't care about. On the outside I looked fine: social, fun, surrounded by friends. Inside, life had lost its depth and meaning. I was going through the motions, chasing things that were never going to fill me.

Then my boyfriend broke up with me, and everything I'd been holding together fell apart. One night I lay in bed, so lost in despair that I no longer wanted to live.

That's when it happened. The anxious, mind-made self I had been living as simply fell away, and what remained was a deep, quiet peace. The next morning, the world was new. The birds outside sounded more beautiful than I'd ever heard them. Music was more vibrant. Colors were brighter. I felt connected to something far greater than myself, and for the first time in years, I knew exactly what I needed to do.

I enrolled in theater school in New York City. Every day I commuted in with a joy I hadn't felt since I was a little girl, and before long I moved there. In New York, I met myself again.

I discovered I didn't need most of the things I'd thought would make me happy. I learned to stop taking life, and myself, so seriously. I'd always had a sense of humor, but now I became more playful and more appreciative, amazed at simply being alive and breathing.

Years later, I found the words for what had happened to me: a shift in consciousness, a falling away of identification with the thinking mind. It's the heart of what I share with my clients today. You don't have to wait for a crisis to wake up. You can learn to find that stillness and live from it, starting now.

My second awakening came at my father's bedside. From the moment I walked into his hospital room, I was simply present: with him, with the room, with everything his passing brought. When he took his last breath, I felt everything expand, and I lived in that spacious, awake state for nearly two months. It showed me that no matter what's unfolding in life, you can give space to it and expand from it. That's what I bring to every client I work with.

I've been doing this work for over 25 years, ever since my first awakening. Along the way I've explored nearly everything, from silent meditation retreats and yoga retreats to sweat lodges, and I've studied with many master meditation teachers.

Before coaching, I spent many years as an actress and as a massage therapist. Both taught me to be fully present with another person, to listen deeply, and to notice what's said without words, and I bring that to every session.

Eckhart Tolle has been part of my path from the beginning. I first studied with him in small group gatherings, back when he was just becoming known, and I've since completed his School of Awakening twice. I've also done live sessions with Byron Katie and Thomas Hübl, and I've been deeply influenced by the teachings of Michael Singer.

My board certification in coaching was built on Guiding Mindful Change, an approach that brings awareness into every moment of a session. That's still the heart of how I work.

I've been meditating for 30 years, and I'm a certified meditation teacher. I've seen again and again how powerful meditation is for quieting the mind. But it isn't the only way. Some of my clients find it hard to get still in meditation, so together we find other ways to settle the mind that work for them.

I don't follow a single method. I bring all of it, and above all, I bring presence. From that place, I ask the deep questions that help you notice your thoughts and the stories you've been telling yourself, and tell the difference between what is and the story you've made up about it. As the story loosens, you connect with your wise self, the deepest part of who you are. You feel the expansion that's always been there, and you learn how to find your way back to it on your own.