General background information: I have a degree in biology, a minor in creative writing, and I am now pursuing a degree in nursing. I love writing and reading, baking, and I am hooked on Audible. I also food, though I’m not the best cook. I have been obsessed with flight and cars and anything fast for as long as I can remember. I have spent most of life on the go: changing housing at every 1-2 years and moving state to state and out-of-country every 2-3 years and traveling in between all the moving. Perhaps I should say something about long walks on beaches—but that would not only be cliché, but also inaccurate. I don’t tolerate the sun well, and I have been stung by too jelly fish, and had too many close-calls with sharks. If you’re chuckling, good. Humor and laughing are two more things I value tremendously. I understand how difficult it can be finding time to smile or laugh, since our lives as self-aware beings comes with a lot of catches: trauma, pain, unexpected illness, death, and loss, to name only a few of the many, unending challenges existence throws at each of us.
I’m here to listen, to you and learn about your individual challenges.

Why am I doing this?
I have lived life full of challenges and texture, and throughout my years of traveling, learning, teaching, reading, succeeding, and even failing. Exposure to so many cultures and lifestyles, and exposure to so great failures and devastating losses have helped me grow. It didn’t happen immediately, and I still live with challenges, like chronic illnesses and chronic pain, and loss. However, it was the most challenging years of my life that, once I had time to heal, I was inspired to pursue a life dedicated to helping others. I have learned a lot, but there are two lessons would rank as the most important. The first was how incredibly important and therapeutic it was and still is to write about the hurt and the struggles. The second thing (probably one of the most valuable lessons I learned) is how having someone like an unbiased third party (in my case, a counselor, or therapist) to talk to and trust can be very empowering, and life-changing.