“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process
~ Brene Brown
is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
I show up to this work as a daughter, sister, and auntie, someone shaped by love, loss, and the quiet resilience that grows in between. I am a nature worshipper, a deeply curious and reflective learner who believes every experience, every person, and every season of life carries something worth understanding. A life lived across many places and cultures, and the gift of moving through the world in multiple languages, has deepened my reverence for the wisdom that lives outside my own experience, and my commitment to making space for it. I now call the lush, grounding beauty of the Pacific Northwest home, and it suits me. I hold a servant’s heart and a learner’s mind, always seeking to grow, to heal, and to contribute something meaningful to the world around me. That orientation is not separate from my professional identity; it is the whole of it.
Some paths to this work are straight. Mine was not, and I believe that’s exactly what makes the work richer.
I grew up shaped by adversity: food and housing insecurity, a childhood without the safe, supportive relationships every child deserves. I know what it feels like to be the child the systems around her couldn’t quite reach. That knowing is not separate from my work. It is the foundation of it.
Curiosity and a desire to heal became my compass early. A scholarship brought me to Brazil for a year as a high school exchange student. Later, I lived and studied as a monk at the Humanistic Academy of Life and Arts where I studied Humanistic Buddhism. These seasons of living cross-culturally, learning deeply, and sitting with what it means to be human shaped the relational practitioner I am today in ways that no credential alone could.
I worked fulltime while I earned my Bachelor of Science in Education. I spent years as a Lead Preschool Teacher in Head Start and ECEAP classrooms, serving immigrant, refugee, and low-income children whose early experiences often mirrored my own. That time in the classroom gave me something irreplaceable: I know what this work looks and feels like from the inside, and I know what it costs the helpers when the helpers aren’t held.
That knowledge redirected me toward systems work. Today, I hold an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement (IECMH-E®) and am Endorsed as Reflective Supervisor and Consultant. Alongside my Endorsement credentials, I hold certificates in Trauma-Informed Leadership, Compassionate Leadership, and Liberatory Design, frameworks that guide my co-design approach when consulting with organizations. Over the years, I’ve developed deep expertise in organizational culture, employee engagement, and the kind of care and wellness work that turns institutional values from words on a wall into something people deeply feel.
Reflective is not a new concept. Many cultures have carried reflection as a communal, sacred practice for generations. I hold the formal RSC framework with depth and care, while remaining committed to expanding beyond it, toward practices that are more inclusive, culturally responsive, and honoring of the wisdom traditions and the ways reflection has always lived outside Western professional structures.
My consulting work is grounded in the same principles I bring to everything: that relationship is not a soft skill, it is the mechanism of change. I work as a convener, connector, and systems thinker, partnering with organizations ready to build cultures that are as relational, reflective, and equity centered as the care they aspire to provide.
If you’re looking for someone who has been in the classroom, at the policy table, and in the thick of organizational transformation, paired with lived experience, intercultural depth, and a monk’s patience for the slow, essential work of healing, I’d love to connect.
Real early learning experience.
There is something that happens when you work alongside someone who truly gets it.
Over a decade teaching in nonprofit early learning classrooms with children birth through five and the families who love them is the foundation this practice is built on. The hard days are familiar here. So are the ones that remind you exactly why you chose this work.
That shared experience shapes everything about how we work together. It means less explaining, more connecting. And a deep, genuine respect for the professionals doing one of the most important jobs there is.
Deep expertise in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement (IECMH-E®)
Endorsement is more than a credential. It is a commitment, to the field and to the families and children at the heart of this work. Overseeing Washington State’s Endorsement program and working closely with the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health means this work is grounded in deep, working knowledge of what Endorsement requires.
Whether you are pursuing Endorsement, building pathways for your workforce, or strengthening reflective supervision within your organization, you will find a knowledgeable, collaborative partner here.
