Trauma-informed coaching means I understand that your nervous system has a history — and that history shows up in the room long before your conscious mind catches up. It means I won’t push you past what’s safe, I won’t turn a leadership conversation into an excavation project, and I won’t mistake a protection response for a personality flaw.

You don’t need to have experienced a major trauma to benefit from this approach. Trauma can be the slow accumulation of smaller things: being spoken over in meetings — and at the dinner table. Being passed over for a role you were clearly qualified for because your degree came from the wrong school. Being treated like the secretary or the caregiver in rooms where you have long since earned your seat. Those experiences leave a mark, even when they don’t leave a scar you can point to.

Most of the women I work with have simply spent years in environments that rewarded them for overriding what they knew. The body keeps score. This work helps you start reading it.

Therapy explores the root of the wound. Coaching works with how the pattern is showing up right now — in the meeting, in the decision, in the sentence you edited before it left your mouth.

I hold a master’s in counseling and I’m trauma-informed, which means I understand the wiring. What I don’t do is provide clinical treatment, diagnose, or work with acute mental health conditions. If something surfaces that belongs in a therapist’s office, I’ll say so and I’ll help you find one.

My work begins before the polished explanation — and stays inside what coaching is designed to hold.

No. I hold a master’s in counseling and I’m a certified trauma-informed coach, and I’m not a licensed therapist — this is not therapy. Coaching is forward-looking, action-oriented, and focused on what’s possible from here. Therapy is clinical, often explores the past in depth, and is equipped to treat mental health conditions.

My work sits at the intersection of body, voice, leadership, and choice — and I know where that boundary is. If something in our work points toward clinical support, I’ll name it and help you find the right person. Often coaching and therapy run alongside each other well.

The Enough Method is the framework at the center of everything I do. Three stages — Regulate, Anchor, Embody — that take you from the moment something lands in your body, through the automatic response that’s been running things, to a choice that actually feels like you.

Regulate is about hearing the signal before the old story answers for you. Anchor is about coming back to what’s actually present so you can access your own judgment. Embody is about practicing a different response until it becomes yours — not a script you rehearse, a way of leading you inhabit.

You learn the stages in order. Then the order stops mattering, because you’re not running a process anymore. You’re just handling it.

We talk. I listen for what you’re saying, what you’re avoiding, and what your body is registering that your professional mind hasn’t translated yet. I’ll ask what happened in the room. I’ll ask what your body did. I’ll ask what you edited out.

Sometimes I offer a practice. Sometimes I name what I’m hearing underneath the presenting problem and we sit with that for a while. Sessions don’t follow a rigid script because your situation doesn’t follow one either.

What stays consistent is the framework: we’re always moving toward more choice, more clarity, and a response that fits who you’ve decided to be.

Most coaching works on one or two things: mindset or strategy. What you believe, or what you do. Those matter — and they’re not enough on their own.

The missing piece is usually the body. Because you can have the right belief and the right strategy and still find yourself going quiet in the meeting, over-explaining the decision, or driving home with the version you wish you’d handled differently. That’s not a mindset failure. That’s a body response that got there before your thinking did.

My work looks at the whole woman — body, belief, and strategy, head and heart in the same conversation — not just the part of you that shows up on a performance review. That’s a different entry point. It produces different results.

No. You’re not going to be asked to cry in a coaching call and call it a breakthrough.

What you will be asked to do is notice what’s happening in your body — the tight throat, the jaw, the held breath — because those signals are information, not inconveniences to manage. There’s a difference between getting swept away by an emotional response and being able to read one. This work develops the second.

The goal is not to feel everything in the room. It’s to stop being surprised by your own reactions, so you can choose what you do with them.

That’s up to you — and you always have a choice. What I can tell you is that most, if not all, of the women I’ve worked with have made significant growth and continue to grow even beyond our time together. The work doesn’t stop when the coaching does.

All I can say is this: if you do the work, the work works.

Most coaching works at the level of mindset — and that’s a real lever, right up until the moment something lands in your body and the old pattern answers before the new belief has a chance to.

If you’ve come away from coaching with insights you believe and habits you still can’t hold under pressure, the missing layer is usually somatic. This work starts lower than the mind. It works with the response that happens before your thinking catches up.

That’s a different entry point. It produces different results.

No. The women who find their way here are usually functioning very well by every external measure. They’re trusted, capable, and often the person everyone else calls when things get complicated.

What they notice — quietly, usually — is that the cost of being that person keeps going up, and they’re not sure anymore whether what they’re building is what they actually want.

You don’t have to be falling apart to deserve support. You just have to be paying attention.

Healthcare is my background and I love that world — the particular kind of woman it creates, the complexity, the weight of it, the way it asks everything of you and then asks a little more.

That said, the pattern I work with doesn’t stay in one industry. I’ve worked with women across corporate leadership, pharma, tech, financial services, and beyond. If you’re a woman in a demanding role who has become very practiced at getting everyone else through the room while quietly leaving yourself out of the equation, the work is still the work.

Start with The Meeting After the Meeting and see if it lands.

Start with The Meeting After the Meeting — it’s free. All it requires is uninterrupted time. One real leadership moment, examined without performance.

If what it surfaces looks familiar — if you recognize it as a pattern rather than a one-off — the Woman in the Middle Leadership Assessment is the right next step. It maps exactly where the self-override response repeats across your leadership and gives you a clear picture of what to do about it.

Everything else follows from there.

The Meeting After the Meeting is a free audio experience built around one real leadership moment. All it requires is uninterrupted time. It’s a first look — useful on its own, designed to help you see what your body absorbed and where you left yourself out of a specific conversation.

The Assessment goes deeper. It’s a paid diagnostic that maps where the same response repeats across your leadership — voice, boundaries, visibility, authority, decisions — in your own words, with my eyes on your specific situation. You leave with written findings, a tension map, an anchoring tool chosen for your pattern, and a private debrief.

One moment versus the whole picture.

That concern is worth sitting with — because time is often one of the first things we work on together.

We all have the same amount of time in a day. The real question is what’s important enough to schedule, and what keeps getting bumped so that everyone else’s priorities stay intact. If you can’t find an hour every other week for your own leadership, that’s not a scheduling problem. That’s the pattern.

Sessions are every other week. The tools inside The Enough Method are designed to be used in real meetings, not just in a coaching call. This isn’t one more thing to carry. It’s the work that eventually helps you put down what was never yours to begin with.