My professional experience:  

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I was the Senior program and staff manager for Employee Assistance and Work/Life Balance Programs at SAS from 2000 to 2013.  I left to take care of my father and start my own practice.

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I have 25+ years as an educator, coach, counselor and facilitator with hundreds of hours of continuing education. I have developed well over 75 personal and professional seminars and groups.  
 

I earned a Masters in Social Work at UNC-CH school of social work, and a BA from Smith College.
 

I have completed well-over 300 hours of formal training in coaching, grief counseling; mediation; facilitation, assessments, management and leadership, couples/family/individual development, and conflict/communication.  

 

I have Certificates in facilitation; Mediation; Grief counseling; Grief Recovery, Meyers Briggs and several other workplace/leadership skills. 

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PERSONALLY

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Just like most/all adults, I have entered my 50’s having loads of personal experience grief, loss and change. I have lost both parents; in-laws; pets and friends.  I had a professional corporate career that I elected to leave in 2013 for more time with my aging father. My husband had children from a previous marriage and we had all of the complications and joys of blending families. We have navigated illness, long-distant and (very) short distance care-giving and after twenty years together, have grown tremendously.  

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I mention all of this because I want to illustrate that life can clobber us all and with experience, I know that “best practice” sometimes takes more energy and focus than a busy person has.