We reach our goals by making different choices, and practicing new ways of being. I seek to combine my expertise as a teacher and coach with my understanding and experience of the spiritual journey. The outcome will be up to you. The process will be exciting, difficult, different, possibly fun, and definitely unpredictable. You may have a clear idea of where you want to go, but how you get there, and what it will look like once you are there may be quite another matter.

So I promise to be a true companion on this journey. I have traveled with many people over the years, dealing with issues of health, family, relationships with friends and lovers, career, values, spiritual longing, abandonment, rejection, self-esteem – you name it! To arrive at this place where I am bold enough to claim that I am both a coach and a spiritual director, I have done the following:

• Managed a non-profit learning center based on the original model of Attitudinal Healing

• Facilitated in a nationwide diversity program funded by the Fetzer Institute of Kalamazoo, Michigan

• Managed graduate programs and acted as a Mentor Coach for Newfield Network, accredited coach training school

• Practiced as a coach/spiritual guide for almost twenty years

• Practiced as a cranio-sacral therapist (Upledger) and neuro-muscular therapist (St. John) for fifteen years

• Use my experience as an artist to enhance my coaching and spiritual direction

Beliefs that guide me

• We exist as integral, unique parts of a Mystery that we can never fully understand.
  
• One of the great stumbling blocks to the embrace of this Mystery is the eternally unanswerable question, “Why?” The paradox that we face is that while Life’s ultimate purpose is largely unknowable, we each live out a part that is unique and essential.
  
• Acceptance of this mystery allows you to experience Life as sacred while leaving energy free to work on those things you can affect.
  
• You don’t have to be anyone special to enter into the sacred realms described by the mystics. You just have to want to do so, and to be prepared to make some sacrifices – perhaps to sacrifice your old ways of thinking – in order to do so. But the root of the word sacrifice is to make holy, so perhaps to sacrifice something isn’t such a bad thing.
  

Current professional groups and affiliations:

- Member, International Coach Federation

- Member, Spiritual Directors International

- Member, Alexandria Art League

- Graduate, “Entering the Castle,” Caroline Myss’s program of modern mysticism based on the teaching of Teresa of Avila