With over 30 years in the field of clinical psychology and 19 of those years providing direct patient counseling, my "WHY" is to inspire others to live a more hopeful, helpful and healthy life. We each live a story and when we take the time to listen and understand those stories, it creates endless possibilities in lifting others up and creating opportunities for each person to be and embrace their best self. I am blessed to be surrounded by creatively visionary, compassionately driven and empathically hard-wired people in my life who inspire me and the work I do each and every day. The pandemic storm along with the myriad of storms that have unfolded in each one of our lives individually and collectively have taken a cumulative toll on our wellbeing. It has brought the importance of self-care, mental health and need for organizational support to the forefront. We each play a role in being able to lift up others as we never know what is going on in someone else's story and we never know when we may need someone to lean on.