Coaching and Consulting
What I offer is Different. Here is Why.
When your child’s life is shaped by ongoing medical needs, your own life changes too—emotionally, relationally, and psychologically. Most parents are so focused on survival that they don’t have time to name or even fully feel the toll it takes. And they don't know how to cope.
As a mental health clinician and professor, who became a parent to a medically complex child, I’ve lived this tension. I know what it’s like to sit in the waiting room as both a clinician, academic researcher, and a mom. I’ve navigated the system professionally—and broken down within it personally.
This overlap gives me a rare perspective. I created this coaching and consultation space to offer real-world, emotionally attuned, non-clinical support for families and professionals who need more than surface-level advice.
Why This Matters
Caregiver trauma is often missed. It hides under to-do lists, diagnosis updates, and well-meaning “stay strong” encouragement. But unprocessed trauma builds—and it doesn’t just go away when the crisis does.
Through coaching and consultation, my goal is to help parents and professionals recognize the impact, name it without shame, and develop practical, compassionate ways to cope.
Services for Parents & Caregivers
You are doing the impossible—every day. But you shouldn’t have to figure out how to carry it alone. My parent coaching focuses on:
- Understanding the psychology of medical trauma (grief, anxiety, hypervigilance, disconnection)
- Naming and reframing your emotional responses—guilt, numbness, shutdown, survival-mode
- Learning nervous system regulation strategies rooted in real science, not platitudes
- Exploring the loss of “the life you expected” and how to create meaning in this one
- Building customized coping plans that are actually realistic for your life
- Processing the hard parts through a lens of compassion, not self-blame
Coping well doesn’t mean you’re unaffected—it means you’re learning how to move forward in a way that is sustainable, grounded, and emotionally honest.
This Is Coaching—Not Therapy
It’s important to be clear: coaching is not counseling.
- Counseling involves diagnosis and clinical treatment within the scope of state licensure.
- Coaching, as I offer it, is educational and supportive in nature. It’s about understanding what’s happening psychologically, identifying how medical trauma is impacting you, and building personalized ways to cope well over the long haul.
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from this work. If you're emotionally exhausted, detached, hypervigilant, or burned out—coaching can help.
Consultation for Counselors & Helping Professionals
Counseling clients navigating chronic medical trauma requires more than empathy—it requires insight into the long-term effects of systemic stress, anticipatory grief, caregiver PTSD, and secondary trauma.
Through consultation and training, I help counselors:
- Understand how medical trauma uniquely affects caregivers
- Learn what to look for beyond the “presenting issue”
- Gain language and tools for discussing loss, uncertainty, and nervous system overload
- Address faith, meaning-making, and trauma in integrated, ethical ways
- Confidently support clients whose trauma is still happening
Whether you’re a licensed professional, intern, or part of a care team, I offer individual consultation and group workshops tailored to your clinical needs.