I've spent nearly two decades working in coaching, health and well-being, education, and entrepreneurship.

In 2005, I co-founded a nationally recognized coaching and mentoring program for young adults and families, where I worked in intensive, long-term coaching relationships for nearly a decade. In 2007, I founded Spirited Nutrition, expanding my work into health and well-being coaching.

Since then, I've coached and mentored people from around the world through private coaching, virtual coaching circles, group programs, and the training and mentorship of other coaches. My work has included meaningful life transitions, personal growth, sustainable health and behavior change, and helping people create lives that better support their well-being.

Before moving fully into coaching, I taught Environmental Studies at the college level and worked in environmental and experiential education. I've also founded and co-founded several businesses and programs throughout my career.

That breadth of experience continues to shape the way I work today: relational, experiential, thoughtful, and grounded in the complexity of real life.

I hold an M.S. in Natural Resource Management & Administration from Antioch University and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from SUNY Purchase.

I'm a Certified Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where I later spent more than a decade coaching and mentoring students in its Health Coach Training Program. My additional coaching education includes Gaja Coach certification and Spiritual Life Coach training, along with ongoing study in mindfulness, somatic practices, behavior change, personal growth and development, and whole-person well-being.

My formal coaching education has included training aligned with nationally and internationally recognized coaching standards, including NBHWC and ICF competencies.

I've continued to pursue training throughout my career because I believe good coaching is informed by both depth of experience and an ongoing commitment to learning.

Yoga has been part of my personal practice since 1989, and I've taught yoga for more than 15 years.

My training includes 200-hour yoga teacher training, Gaja Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, and additional study in mindfulness, meditation, trauma-informed and embodied practices.

Decades of practice and teaching have deeply informed how I understand the relationship between the body, nervous system, attention, self-awareness, and well-being. In my coaching, these perspectives may show up through somatic practices, breathwork, movement, or reflective exercises that support grounding, inner connection, and the space to hear yourself more clearly.

Beyond the practices themselves, yoga has shaped how I think about presence, connection, and what it means to live consciously and fully. You don't need to practice yoga to work with me, but the perspective I've gained from it is woven into how I approach well-being and how I hold space for others.

Some of the most valuable things I've learned don't fit neatly beneath a single professional title.

Being a mother to two young-adult daughters has been among the most formative experiences of my life. Their Waldorf education immersed our family in an approach that valued the whole person, creativity, relationship, rhythm, nature, and allowing each individual to unfold in their own way. Parenting—and witnessing who my daughters have become—has deeply shaped how I understand growth and the importance of creating conditions that allow another person to emerge in their own way.

My broader background includes travel and wilderness exploration, permaculture design, doula training, Wilderness First Aid, outdoor and experiential education and leadership, and ecologically grounded, place-based approaches to living, alongside decades of personal reflection and contemplative practice.

These experiences may appear unrelated on paper, but I see a common thread: understanding interconnected systems, learning through experience, paying attention to the environments in which our lives unfold, and recognizing that meaningful growth can't always be forced or hurried.

Together, they contribute to the multidimensional and integrative perspective I bring to Midlife Nourished.

I bring professional training and decades of experience to my work, but I don't approach coaching as the person who has the answers to someone else's life.

My role is to create a thoughtful, supportive space where you can slow down, see more clearly, reconnect with yourself, and allow your own clarity and direction to emerge.

I'm naturally at ease with people and genuinely enjoy getting to know the person in front of me. My style is grounded and thoughtful, but there's lightness and humor, too. I want our work to be meaningful without making every moment of it serious.

I draw from nearly two decades of coaching and working with people through change, along with a broad background in health and well-being, somatic and contemplative practices, and experiential learning. But the work is always shaped by you—your life, your well-being, and what you want to cultivate.