if you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
-lao tzu
Coaching Services offered:
- Relationships – marriage, dating, surviving a divorce, workplace struggles, difficult friendships, extended family tensions
- Personal growth and wellness – life transitions, job satisfaction, self-advocacy, self-esteem, personal boundaries, finding peace and happiness, taking personal responsibility for needed change
- Expats – emotional and socials aspects of moving abroad, living abroad, returning home, balancing new roles and expectations, communicating cultural challenges that effect each member of the family.
- Fertility and Adoption – the planning, in the trenches, new family dynamics, surviving failures, relationship survival, knowing your limits and communicating as partners through it all
- Parenting – toddlers, teen and everything in-between! Co-parenting, step-parenting, parenting through divorce, positive parenting with boundaries and love, raising self-reliant children, redirecting children’s behaviors, supporting and building educational advocacy for your child, creating a positive parenting partnership with your spouse/partner.
Pura Vida Life Coach-supporting you on your path towards healthier relationships, personal growth and wellness, and difficult or unique life transitions.

Pura Vida:
pure life, happy life. It is a phrase used by Costa Ricans to express happiness, well-being, and satisfaction. In Costa Rica people try to live each day with gratitude and appreciation of the good things they have in life and not dwell on the negative. They strive to spread this happiness each day to their family and their community.
How does online coaching work?
Online coaching opens up many possibilities. With online coaching, clients have flexibility with how they would like to conduct their sessions. I offer face to face sessions via video conference, phone sessions, email and text support. Online allows you the convenience to have a session at your lunch hour, at night once the kids are in bed, when killing time between baseball games or out for an evening walk. I do recommend that the first few sessions are face to face on video conference so we can see each other and build a rapport. Between sessions I may send homework or mini steps for your goals and welcome you to check in on your progress. I hope you will find that online coaching helps meet the needs of you and your family by giving you the flexibility to meet when and where it works best for you.

What my Clients are Saying:
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