It’s great to meet you.

I know what it’s like to love what you do and hate how your workplace makes you feel.

I worked 60-hour weeks in higher education roles that required Master’s degrees and years of experience but offered no health insurance, job stability, or livable wages. Years of dehumanization left me so wounded and exhausted that I struggled to figure out a new direction or apply to jobs. All the “No’s” after months-long interview processes felt personal. A rejection of me.

Fortunately, I also know what it’s like to say, “That’s enough.” To realize it’s not a lack of skill or effort that holds people back—but working systems designed to degrade, isolate, and exhaust so we keep providing exceptional work at the lowest price.

For ourselves, our communities, and our future, I believe we can do better.

My career counseling approach begins with the belief that you already have what you need to find meaningful work. You just need a supportive environment, self-understanding, and tools to help you heal and soar. I also believe you are the authority of your experience—not me. Like yours, my career journey is still unfolding. I learn as much from you as you learn from me. I hope our coaching relationship not only helps you navigate the anguish and uncertainty I’ve faced, but offers a kinder, more ethical model of how “business” can look.

Whatever you’re facing, let’s flow with it. Together.

Credentials

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Illinois

• M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Northeastern Illinois University

• M.F.A. in Fiction, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• B.A. in English Literature, University of Michigan

Experience

• 1,300+ hours coaching and counseling around career, transition, relational concerns, grief, anxiety, and identity development

• 7+ years teaching and coaching professional writing in DePaul University’s Professional Writing for Business program and NEIU’s Office of Career Development

• 3+ years hiring, mentoring, assessing, and developing 95+ employees and interviewees

• 6 years teaching and tutoring standardized test preparation through my own business and PrepNorthwest in Kirkland, Washington

• 14 years experience in higher education leadership, teaching, counseling, student affairs, and tutoring