You’re doing a lot.
It just shouldn’t be this hard.
Coaching for women who are capable, self-aware, and still stuck in patterns that don’t respond to insight alone.
Essays on healing, structure, and building a life that actually fits.
You’re getting through your days, but it takes too much effort.
You’ve done therapy, maybe medication, you understand yourself pretty well—and you’re still stuck in the same patterns.
This is for building a life that actually functions better, not just one you can tolerate.
Practical, experience-based behavioral health training grounded in real clinical work for physician assistant and physician associate programs.
I’ve spent 14 years working in behavioral health as a PA, mostly with people in treatment-resistant patterns.
A lot of them weren’t lacking insight.
They were lacking a way to translate that insight into daily life.
That gap—between knowing and functioning—is the work I love.
This isn’t therapy, and it’s not about pushing yourself harder.
We focus on what’s happening in your actual day-to-day life:
- where your time and energy are going (vs. where you think they’re going)
- why routines break down even when you intend to follow them
- how anxiety or ADHD is shaping your decisions in real time
- the patterns you keep recreating, even when you know better
- what would make your life easier to maintain—not just more optimized
And then we build from there—slowly, realistically.
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How to Build Resilience to Depression
I wrote this piece for the local newspaper! As we’ve attempted to settle into post-pandemic life, the mental health crisis continues to rage. According to a review by Boston University School of Public Health, rates of depression in the United States have risen from 9 percent, pre-pandemic, to 33 percent in 2021. With depression affecting…
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My Wish For 2023
Last Fall I read My Side of the Mountain to River. It’s a novel about a boy who leaves the city to make a home in the woods on the site of his great-great grandfather’s failed farm. He builds a shelter by burning out the trunk of a great hemlock tree and he steals a…
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Putting Spark to the Cold Ground
I once spent a night alone in a biologist’s cabin in Garden Valley, Idaho. It was January and the entire valley was padded with a foot of powdery snow. I was doing a clinical rotation in that small town and the doctor I worked with had an arrangement with the family that owned this cabin,…
