Before I became a therapist, I spent more than a decade building a career in digital marketing, strategy, and global media—including six years at Microsoft. I knew what it meant to be ambitious, capable, and successful in spaces that demanded a lot. I also learned what can happen when achievement, identity, relationships, and systems collide in ways you never expected.

A painful ending to that chapter of my career became the beginning of a much deeper reckoning. I had spent years knowing how to perform, produce, solve problems, and keep moving. What I hadn’t yet learned was how to tend to myself when pushing through was no longer enough.

Therapy became an important part of that process. So did spirituality, community, tending to what stress and trauma had done to my body, and allowing myself to imagine that the life I had worked so hard to build didn’t have to be the only version of my story.

That experience eventually led me back to school and into the work I do today. I became a Marriage and Family Therapist because I grew increasingly interested not only in what happens to us, but in what happens between us—how our relationships, families, identities, workplaces, cultures, and histories shape the ways we learn to survive, connect, protect ourselves, and love.

Today, those seemingly different chapters of my life make a lot more sense together. My years in corporate leadership inform how I understand ambition, burnout, identity, power, and the realities of modern work. My clinical training helps me understand the relational and emotional patterns underneath what we experience. And my own life continues to remind me that growth isn’t about becoming untouched by hard things.

It’s about having more choice in who we become through them.

That’s the work I bring to Dream Life Out Loud—and the work I’m honored to do alongside the people who find their way here.