My greatest passion is helping empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP) transform their lives to become more confident, trust their intuition, and have less overwhelming feelings and anxiety. Helping my clients fine-tune their gifts, communicate easily and clearly and live with joyful authenticity is my goal. Learn to live with passion and purpose.
I combine psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, and a whole-body approach with practical tips and techniques to help people awaken their innate gifts of being an empath and manage the common struggles that often come with this superpower.
My Approach
Empowering empaths and HSP to transform their lives with an individual, strength-based approach is what I specialize in. Helping people create more peace, joy and happiness is my goal. Guiding people with inquisitive questions and conversations is the method that I use to help people discover their own unique gifts and solutions. Teaching skills and utilizing exercises helps people identify the areas of focus for our coaching sessions. My approach is gentle while letting my clients set the pace within their comfort level. People generally feel very comfortable with me and often open up quickly. Helping people identify limiting beliefs and behaviors and giving them practical action steps helps them achieve their goals. I help them be accountable for making the changes necessary to reach these goals leading to fulfillment and living the life of their dreams. Each person has special and unique gifts to contribute to the world.
Certifications and Memberships
Certified Professional Life Coach
Certified Life Story Coach
Certified Life Purpose Coach
Certified Transformation Life Coach
Certified Peer Support Specialist
Certified Master Hypnotherapist
Harvard Institute of Coaching Affiliate Member
Other Training and Professional Development
Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
Peter Levine's Healing Trauma Online Course
EFT Tapping
Public Speaking Topics
Trauma-Informed Care
Cultural Competence
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services
Professional Experience
I have over 25 years' experience working in mental health, crisis services, advocacy and nonprofit administration. I am the founder and former executive director of Empowerment Services, Utah's first peer-run nonprofit organization. I was also a Certified Peer Support Specialist working with people in mental health.
I live a joyful, happy life full of peace and gratitude. That wasn’t always the case though. Despite my professional success in the human services and nonprofit fields, I found myself in an abusive relationship that ended almost seven years ago when my ex-husband and abuser was sent to prison for kidnapping me. This resulted in complex PTSD, severe agoraphobia and chronic health problems.
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Feeling different from most people was always normal for me. I was a sensitive and shy child who manifested somatic symptoms in the form of stomach aches when I heard the teacher in the room next to mine yelling at children in her classroom. I was very intuitive and could sense the emotions and energy of others. Finally, about 10 years ago I discovered that there is a name for this: I am an empath! Like many newly aware and awakening empaths, I struggled with overwhelming emotions and physical symptoms that I took on from other people. Not knowing how to interpret or trust my intuition, I can see how my sensitivities coupled with poor self-esteem and weak boundaries left me susceptible to narcissistic abuse and domestic violence.
The past seven years have been spent learning about myself, my gifts, my vulnerabilities, trauma, and about empaths. Healing, recovering and rebuilding my life and my identity has allowed me to build amazing, healthy and supportive relationships and to no longer attract toxic people and energy vampires into my life. As an awakened and empowered empath, my greatest passion is helping other empaths and HSP find their way through the maze of often confusing and overwhelming emotions and energies.
When I’m not coaching, I enjoy spending time with family and friends, hanging out with my three dogs and three cats, reading, and working on jewelry design and metalsmithing.