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If you are in immediate distress, support is available.

In the United States: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 Crisis Text Line: text EMPATHY to 741741.

Outside the United States: Find a Helpline provides a searchable directory of free, confidential crisis support services in countries around the world.

These services are free, confidential, and available 24/7.

Work With Me

I help ambitious leaders shift the reactive patterns that limit their confidence, voice, and presence, so they can live and lead with more self-trust, ease, and connection toward a future they care about.

I bring a rare combination of corporate leadership experience, trauma-informed training, and lived understanding of the patterns that can limit voice, visibility, and potential.

Before founding Change at Play, I spent more than 20 years in HR and people leadership supporting leaders and teams in complex, fast-moving organizations. I understand the pressures leaders face: competing priorities, stakeholder expectations, team dynamics, organizational change, and the constant need to perform under pressure. In a world of increasing complexity, pace, and AI-driven change, those pressures are only intensifying.

I also know how much can be happening beneath the surface. We may look composed on the outside, while inside there is another story: self-doubt, overthinking, people-pleasing, proving, or holding back.

My own experience of early developmental and relational trauma shaped my identity in profound ways. It affected my confidence, my voice, my visibility, and what I believed was possible for me. On paper, I was capable and ambitious. But parts of me were still organized around the very survivalstrategies I adopted early in my development: adapting, proving, staying small, and not wanting to be fully seen.

While these protective strategies had helped me survive and succeed in certain ways, they were also limiting the life, leadership, and future I wanted to step into.

That realization led me into deeper study of trauma and the relational patterns that shape our sense of self, our voice, and our relationships.

Today, my work bridges leadership development and inner transformation. I help ambitious leaders understand and shift the reactive patterns that have kept them stuck, so they can lead with greater presence, self-trust, ease, and connection toward a future they care about.

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Working with a Therapist

Some people benefit from working with a licensed therapist, either alongside coaching or as a primary form of support. Therapy is often the right starting point when someone is experiencing acute distress or symptoms that are affecting their ability to function day to day.

If you are looking for a therapist, these directories can help you search by location, specialty, and approach:

Coaching and Therapy: Understanding the Difference

I am sometimes asked about the difference between coaching and therapy. Both can be powerful. They serve different purposes, and they can work well together.

Therapy typically works with diagnosis, clinical symptoms, and the processing of traumatic experience. It is delivered by licensed mental health professionals and is often the right starting point when someone is experiencing acute distress, unresolved trauma, or symptoms that are affecting their ability to function.

Coaching works with patterns, development, and forward movement. It supports people in understanding how they show up, where old strategies may be limiting them, and how to build new capacity in their body, their sense of self, and their relationships.

My work as a trauma-informed coach is grounded in frameworks that overlap with clinical practice, including NARM, Compassionate Inquiry, Internal Family Systems, somatic coaching, and polyvagal theory. I am trained to recognize when coaching is the right container and when a client may benefit from therapeutic support. 

If you are unsure which is the right fit for you, I am happy to have that conversation.

Learn More - Trauma-Informed Modalities

These are the organizations and training bodies behind the modalities that have influenced my work. Each site offers resources, practitioner directories, and further reading.