My Story
I've Been There Too
For years, I felt like I was fighting my own brain, lost in anxiety and rumination as I tried to figure out how to keep my art and my independence, and find the stability I needed to be able to breathe.
I repeated the same patterns and cycles, hoping that if I just worked harder, something would click.
It didn’t. Instead, I hit a breaking point where fear about the future was paralyzing me from making decisions and moving forward.
It wasn’t about trying harder. It was about doing the inner work to quiet the fear, and building systems that fit how I think and need to live.
That’s exactly what I help my clients do now.
Grounded in Experience,
Focused on You
✓ ICF-ACC credentialed coach, held to international coaching ethics standards, so you can trust your coaching process is safe and professional
✓ ADHD coach training through ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) and Coach Approach Training Institute (CATI), so you don’t have to start by explaining yourself
✓ Completed the full Co-Active coach training program (CTI), plus specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Coaching (ILCT). Sessions built on proven coaching methods, not improvised advice
✓ Executive function and career coach at a leading neurodivergent career coaching practice. Helping neurodivergent adults find work that excites them, and thrive once they’re in it
✓ Trauma-Informed Coaching Certificate, The Centre for Healing, for working through overwhelm, shame, and the stories that keep you stuck
✓ Youth Mental Health First Aid certified
Trained to recognize when a teen needs more support and how to connect them to it
✓ 15+ years coaching teens, adults, and creatives. 200+ clients and counting
Creative Roots. Entrepreneurial Heart.
I’ve built businesses, led nonprofit arts organizations, and worked alongside renowned artists.
Along the way, I’ve learned that thriving takes more than skill. It takes a plan that fits you, the self-trust to follow it, and the right support.
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Founder of Studio GRC, a NYC voice, piano, and public speaking studio, since 2010
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Co-founder and former Artistic Director of the NEMPAC Opera Project
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International opera performer and on-screen actor, working alongside Academy Award–nominated actors
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Coach to visual, performing, literary, and media artists, from emerging to established
I know firsthand what it takes to build a creative life with no blueprint, and how much easier it is with the right support.
Why I Do This Work
Over the years, I’ve watched even my most talented clients struggle. It wasn’t because they lacked ability. They were trying to manage their lives and careers with systems that were never built for how they think.
Many of my neurodivergent clients come to me after years of being told to “just try harder.”
That message isn’t just untrue. It leaves talented, capable people feeling like something is fundamentally wrong with them.
I know what it’s like to wonder if you’re making the right next move, without someone to help you tell the difference between a real mistake and an unfamiliar one.
That’s why I coach: to help neurodivergent and creative people, and the families who support them, quiet the voice that sabotages their attempts and build systems that fit how they think and live, so they can thrive the way they’re meant to.
