About
The Woman Behind the Work
"You did not survive the water to stay on the shore. You were made to rise, to rebuild, and to thrive."— Kristin Coad
I didn't come to this work because it was my dream. I came to it because surviving wasn't enough — and I needed to understand why.
When I was in the middle of the hardest period of my life — navigating intimate partner violence, raising my kids, trying to hold a job, trying to hold myself together — I didn't have a roadmap. I had to build one. What I built became the foundation of everything I do now.
My background is in psychology and ethics — I've spent over a decade in professional environments where I saw how systems think about behavior, accountability, and human complexity. I'm also a certified life coach and NLP certified. And I am a peer facilitator — someone who has sat in the circle, not just led it. I graduated from the House of Ruth Maryland's Storytellers program and facilitated for three years before stepping into broader advocacy work.
I am a published author. I am a speaker. I am an IPV survivor who is no longer defined by survival alone.
The goal isn't for you to need me forever. The goal is to help you find your words, name your patterns, and take your next step — whether that's into therapy, out of a situation, or simply forward into the life you're still building.
I am not a therapist. I will never position myself as one. What I am is a bridge. I know the invisible layer — the part that doesn't show up in a police report, the part your family doesn't see, the part you can't explain even when you're standing right next to people who love you. I know it because I lived it. And I built tools because I needed them. Now I share them — because you shouldn't have to build yours from scratch.
