ABOUT
ME​

Mind/body connection: stress & inflammation

During my Ph.D. My focus was was in habit change, addiction and neuroinflammation (the role of stress in relapse behavior).  Much of the research on addiction also overlaps with the literature on executive functioning and I take what I know about the neuroscience of executive functioning and apply it to behavioral strategies that help people effectively change unhealthy or unproductive behaviors. 

Before graduate school I spent years in labs researching stress and inflammation and I believe stress reduction is an important piece of all habit change.  I incorporate this in my coaching.

Having Kids Changed me

I had my first daughter March of 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.  This was a stressful time for everyone.  Whether it was motherhood or the pandemic that changed me (likely both), I came out of that year a different person.  I was forced to reevaluate how to best spend my time and find a work/life balance that I had certainly never had in academia.  I learned how important social support is, particularly in moments of stress and transition.  I also realized I love working with people and feel I could have a more immediate impact through coaching, aiding clients with tools for habit change and stress management and their application in everyday life, than I was having in the lab.

Since coaching I have discovered how many people struggle with tools to help with executive functioning and I have found that my own journey through academia as a neurodivergent has been useful to my clients.  I have a unique perspective as someone who has both lived and researched neurodivergence.  

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