ABOUT LFG
I spent a long time becoming what the moment needed.
I’m much more interested in being fully alive.
I know what it’s like to be responsible, capable, and deeply attuned to the people around me. To read the room. To accommodate. To figure out what might keep me connected.
Those capacities have served me well. They’ve also made it remarkably easy to lose track of myself.
These days, I’m much more interested in what’s honest.
What do I actually want? What do I love? How do I want to spend my time? What am I afraid to admit? What happens when I let myself be myself?
I don’t have all those questions figured out.
I’m living them.
People come to me because they want movement
My clients are smart. They’re self-aware. Many have already spent years in therapy, coaching, and doing their own work. They don’t need another hour of thoughtful questions.
They want something to actually change.
That requires depth. We might follow something underneath the problem you came in with, pay attention to what your body reveals, notice a pattern you couldn’t see from inside it, or stay with something tender long enough for something new to become possible.
And then we come back to your actual life.
What do you want to do? What do you need to say? What happens next?
I believe in going deep. I also believe in getting somewhere.
I care about love
When I strip away everything I’ve learned about how people grow and change, the thing underneath it all is pretty simple.
I care about how we love.
How we talk to ourselves when no one else is listening. How we tell the truth and stay connected. How we let ourselves be known. How we soften the things that protect us long enough to really meet another person. How we stop and actually see each other. How we repair. How we delight in one another. How we make room for what we want and for what someone else wants, too.
Because some of the most extraordinary moments of being human happen when we become available enough to really meet ourselves, each other, or the life happening around us.
To me, that is part of being fully alive.
“Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.”
— Bell Hooks, All About Love
What makes me come alive?
Coffee in the morning. The kind I occasionally get excited about the night before.
Blue skies and the hills of Marin. The leaves on a red maple tree. Long walks with friends. Laughing until something hurts. Being silly with my son. Bonfires. Dance floors, especially with my husband. A really good concert. Going somewhere I’ve never been. Experiences that surprise me, stretch me, or show me something about myself I didn’t know before.
And also, lying in bed under a cozy blanket reading poetry written by someone a hundred years ago and feeling, somehow, completely connected.
I love people. I love beauty. I love play.
And I love the mystery of being alive.
I’ve got receipts
Twenty-plus years. Deep training. Hundreds of humans. And I’m still curious as hell.
I’ve spent more than two decades studying how people grow and change, and working alongside them while they do it.
I’ve coached hundreds of senior leaders around the world, led within a Big Four executive coaching practice, and trained deeply in human development and the body.
I bring all of it to the room.
A few of the experiences that have shaped how I work:
Psychology, University of Virginia
My first formal study of human behavior and development.Integral Coach
Advanced training in Integral Coaching, developmental psychology, systems, and human development.Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Three years of professional training in the body, nervous system, stress, trauma, resilience, and our innate capacity for healing.Inner Team Dialogue
Training in a parts-based approach integrating Voice Dialogue, vertical development, and polarity work.Coherence Therapy with Dr. Tori Olds
Training in an experiential approach to understanding and transforming the emotional learnings underlying persistent patterns.New Ventures West + Inner Team Dialogue
I’ve served on faculty developing coaches in Integral Coaching and parts-based work.20+ Years of Coaching + Leadership Development
Hundreds of senior leaders across consulting, finance, law, technology, healthcare, entertainment, and beyond.
We all have a story.
I’d love to hear yours.
