I am passionate about helping parents who are raising challenging children, by walking with them on their own path toward self-awareness, self-acceptance, and healing.

I am the foster parent to my two amazing grandchildren, who are feeling the effects of having a mom and dad who just weren’t prepared for the rigours of parenthood. Dad left first, and Mom did her best, but it wasn’t enough. So I am no longer Grandma (who gets to send the kiddos home after spoiling them!), but rather single mom doing my best to support two hurting, attachment-challenged little beings.

Perhaps like many of you, I had no idea what I was getting into! I am trained as a body-centered therapist, as well as in a number of other personal-growth modalities and processes. When my significant relationship ended several years ago, I invested much time, money, and soul into my own development and sense of self-worth and self-acceptance. But when my two kiddos began to act out from their pain, I realized that kids with trauma are able to push buttons and activate triggers that I didn’t even know existed! So, I have continued to learn from them and to heal my own wounds using the tools at my disposal.

After many long hours of research into attachment, trauma, brain development, and parenting techniques, I have come to believe that the way to reach troubled kids (and, I would suggest ALL kids, and adults too, for that matter!) is NOT through punishment (aka consequences), isolation and rejection (aka time-outs, etc), and other currently popular parenting approaches…but rather through love, empathy, and full (radical!) acceptance of where they are on their own healing path. And my experience has been that this is a very difficult parenting path to follow until we as parents have come to a significant level of self-acceptance and wholeness.

So, if you are seeking Radical Acceptance…for yourself, for your child, for your family…for the world…

I can facilitate your search using a variety of processes, including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), InnerRelationship Focusing, Body-Centered (Hakomi) Psychotherapy, all of which can heal hurts and trauma from years past. Many years of training and practice in mindfulness and self-awareness have brought me to the place from which I can offer you powerful practices that will transform your experience of  stress in your parenting and other relationships (including with yourself!). And, as a Certified Trainer with the Beyond Consequences Institute, I provide instruction and coaching in this love-based parenting model, and empower you to integrate your new understandings into your daily life.  I look forward to walking with you.