I am a Certified Life Coach, speaker, and author of the book, Just Decide: Fail-Proof Strategies to Up-Level Your Life, Career, and Relationships. I am an expert at helping people make empowered decisions to live their most authentic lives.I specialize in helping people improve confidence, stop people pleasing, and improve their mental and physical wellness, relationships, and time and productivity.I help people navigate life's pivotal transitions in order to get the life they want, deserve, and design.

Hope After Stroke is like having a personal concierge therapist at your side, clarifying the medical jargon and empowering you each step of the way. You’ll discover simple practical tools and strategies you can use in the hospital, upon homecoming, and re-entering your community and workplace. Hope After Stroke will help you find the hope, certainty and resolve needed for recovery. Hope After Stroke is an easy-to-read, essential and evidence-based resource guide along with real-life stories that will help caregivers and stroke survivors get their lives back after stroke. You will discover how to: • Implement simple strategies and routines to develop resourcefulness and the mindset needed for long-term recovery• Establish daily practices to improve memory• Activate and apply the five known qualities successful Thrivers use to recover and find meaning and purpose in their lives after stroke• Reduce or eliminate anxiety without medication• Communicate more easily and effectively even with aphasia• Develop rituals of self-care that are scientifically proven to improve brain function and overall wellbeing• Ask candid questions about sex and seek resources for sexual issues post stroke • Seek and obtain the best rehabilitative services by effectively communicating with insurance providers, doctors and therapists to maximize recovery and much, much more!

Getting from where you are to the elusive where you "want to be" is a path often filled with boulders and pitfalls. Masterful trekkers seek guides. I don't give you answers, but I teach you the tools and strategies you need to keep focused on your outcome, clear your limiting decisions, and transform your language and thought patterns. You will discover habitual patterns that keep you stuck and install new ones to propel you forward.

Diagnose and treat an adult population with TBI and neurologic disorders. Provide cognitive retraining in functional community and traditional settings.Provide strategies for goal identification, time management and self-evaluation as well as traditional therapy for dysphagia and speech & language disorders. Incorporate EFT training techniques for stress reduction and self-regulation. Participate in weekly interdisciplinary Client Service Plan Meetings with M.D., OT, PT, Neuropsychologist, vocational specialist, outside case managers, family members,and L&I funders.