Thirty years of practice. One enduring belief.
That every human being carries within them the resources for their own flourishing.
I was told as a child that I wasn't academic. School felt like a system designed for someone else's mind—structured, rigid, and profoundly at odds with how I naturally learned. I watched my classmates navigate subjects that seemed to come easily to them, while I struggled, felt out of step, and carried that weight of inadequacy for years. I began to believe that certain domains of knowledge simply weren't for people like me.
Then I discovered psychology. Something shifted the moment I opened those first books, sat in those early lectures. A subject that had always felt out of reach suddenly made complete sense. I didn't just understand it; I excelled. The patterns of human behavior, the architecture of family systems, the neurobiology of emotion—it all unfolded like a language I'd been waiting to learn my entire life. I went on to complete advanced academic training, to build a practice, and I never looked back.
That experience—of finding yourself in work that matters, of discovering you were capable of far more than you'd believed—it shaped everything that came after.
"I kept finding that something was missing. Psychology explained so much—but not everything. There was a layer beneath the thoughts and emotions that nobody seemed to name."
Over the first fifteen years of my practice, I built a solid reputation. I studied extensively. I learned the frameworks, earned the credentials, and watched my clients improve. But as the years accumulated, I began to notice something in the work that troubled me. We could reframe thoughts, process emotions, restructure family patterns—and it would help. And yet, I kept finding that something was missing.
Psychology explained so much. But not everything. There was a layer beneath the thoughts and emotions that nobody seemed to name. It lived in the spaces between heartbeats, in the way someone's voice changed when they spoke about home, in what people knew about themselves that they couldn't articulate.
I began to develop my own framework. It cost me, intellectually and professionally, to move against the grain—to suggest that the soul mattered, that intuition was data, that the deepest healing happened when people returned to their own inner authority. Many colleagues were skeptical. But the more I worked this way, the more I saw people not just recover, but flourish.
Lead From Your Soul wasn't a brand I created. It was a name for something I had been living all along.
The Journey
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1990sEarly clinical practice begins
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Early 2000sExpat experience begins; living between cultures
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2010Lead From Your Soul published
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2015International school work expands
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2020Speaking practice grows globally
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PresentNew book in development
She has lived the experience she helps others navigate.
I've spent the last two decades moving between worlds—between London and Charleston, between continents and cultures, between versions of myself. I've raised children in foreign countries. I've built communities from scratch. I've felt the particular loneliness of the expat life: the sense of never fully belonging anywhere, of always carrying a home that no longer exists the way you left it.
This isn't academic knowledge for me. I know what it costs to leave your roots. I know the disorientation of building identity in a place that doesn't speak your language, doesn't share your references, doesn't feel like home. I know what you gain—resilience, perspective, a kind of resourcefulness. And I know what you lose, and what you never quite recover.
That lived experience is woven into everything I do with families, schools, and individuals navigating life between cultures. I don't just understand the expat journey theoretically. I've walked it.
Thirty years. Thousands of lives.
My work spans a breadth that still astonishes me. I began in traditional clinical practice—individuals and couples in my office, the intimate space where people bring their unguarded selves. That foundation remains. But over the decades, the scope has expanded.
I've worked with families navigating the complexities of expatriate life across three continents. I've consulted with international schools, helping entire communities understand the psychological landscape of mobility, identity, and belonging. I've worked with Fortune 500 companies on organizational development and leadership. I've stood on conference stages in cities I'd never visited before, speaking to audiences of therapists, educators, and leaders about what it means to lead from the soul.
What ties it all together is the same belief that has guided me from the beginning: people are more capable than they know. Families are more resilient than they believe. And when we learn to listen to what lives deepest within us—not the noise of should and have-to, but the quiet knowing of soul—everything changes.
The Foundation
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)State board certification with advanced training in family systems theory
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Family Systems CertificationAdvanced training in Bowen family systems theory and application
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Academic PublicationsArticles in peer-reviewed journals on family dynamics, expat psychology, and clinical practice
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International SpeakingRegular invited speaker at conferences, schools, and corporate events worldwide
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Continuing EducationCommitment to ongoing professional development and training in contemporary practice
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AuthorLead From Your Soul and forthcoming second book on leading with presence