A graduate professor of mine once said that we teach people what we most need to learn ourselves. I think this is certainly true for me. Anxiety, stress, feelings of “not enough”, perfectionism, busyness and self-imposed pressure are things I’ve experienced quite a lot through my lifetime.

When I first studied psychology, there was a big focus in the field on identifying what was “wrong” with people and trying to fix this.

I discovered a few things along my journey that changed the way I see the world. One of those was during my early training on my internship, when I had the privilege of working with Dr. Robert Brooks. What I learned from Bob is that we can work from strength — identify our “islands of competence”, the things we do well, and build upon this.

I then came upon meditation, mindfulness and mind-body practices and I discovered the transformative power of these in my life. I learned from sitting with hundreds of patients over the last thirty plus years about how human we all are, about the resilience of the human spirit, and about how things begin to change when we can meet ourselves where we are, embrace our imperfections, and learn how to unlock the hidden treasure of inner resources that we have access to when mind, body and heart are aligned.

As a psychologist, mind-body coach, public speaker, and teacher of practical tools for well-being, I am passionate about helping people understand the mind-body connection and learn to access their inner toolkit to discover that they don’t need to fix or change themselves to awaken the power of inner transformation.