Professional Career

I’m a Certified Professional Life Coach and Mental Health Professional with a lifelong commitment to helping empathic people heal, grow, and thrive — especially those emerging from emotionally abusive or toxic relationship dynamics.

I hold a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, NY, and I’m a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) through the International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches (IAPRC). I’ve also pursued additional training in approaches that support nervous system regulation and mindset shifts to help clients stay grounded and navigate thought patterns that may be affecting their healing.

Over the past seventeen years, I’ve worked across a wide range of mental health settings, including outpatient mental health clinics, prisons in upstate New York, and reentry and training programs. My roles have included:

  • Crisis counselor for children and adolescents

  • Therapist for adults with severe and persistent mental illness

  • Entitlements specialist helping incarcerated individuals reenter the community

  • Administrator within a mental health and criminal legal training program

  • Professor of Psychology at New Jersey City University (NJCU) teaching Contemporary Issues in Psychology

Today, I bring this deep and diverse professional background — along with my own personal healing journey — into every coaching relationship. My work is rooted in empathy, empowerment, and education. I’m here to offer a judgment-free space where we can curiously explore what’s been holding you back, strengthen your self-awareness and boundaries, and support you in rediscovering your voice, purpose, and power.

Training & Certifications

  • Life Coaching - International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches (IAPRC): Certified Professional Coach (CPC) certification

  • Narcissistic Relationships, Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting

  • Trauma, Vicarious Trauma & Trauma Informed Care

  • Neuro Linguistic Programming

  • Positive Psychology

  • Mental Health & Criminal Legal Involvement

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Issues of Racial Equity, Anti-racist/Oppressive Practices, Intersectionality and Implicit Bias

  • Fundamentals of Facilitation

  • Collective Leadership Supervisor

  • Mental Health First Aid

  • Certified Laughter Yoga Leader

My Story

For many years, I was a serial monogamist — drawn to men who shared similar traits: charming, commanding, often with military backgrounds, physically fit, and emotionally dominant. On the surface, they looked like strong partners. In reality, many of these relationships were built on control, not connection.

In late 2008, while launching my career as a mental health professional, I reconnected with a high school love — someone I believed was my soulmate. What followed was an intense and overwhelming period of love bombing: within days, I had a brand new phone, was taken on shopping sprees, and treated to lavish dinners and romantic getaways. We moved in almost instantly, and for the first three months, I believed I had struck the love lottery. I was convinced we were meant to be.

But then, the mask slipped. Without realizing it, I had transitioned from the idealization phase into the devaluation phase. For the next three years, I would be trapped in a cycle of emotional highs and lows, confusion, and pain.

During that time, my confidence and self-worth began to unravel. I became anxious, jealous, codependent, and increasingly isolated. My partner subtly and persistently undermined my relationships with friends and family, leaving me without a support system. Even though I was the one supporting us financially, my efforts were constantly dismissed — feeding an internal voice that told me I wasn’t enough.

Eventually, I was discarded — emotionally and financially devastated. The psychological toll was immense. I had endured years of emotional and psychological abuse, infidelity, gaslighting, and profound isolation. But the deepest wound wasn’t the relationship ending — it was the disorientation of realizing I had lost myself.

Slowly, I began the process of healing. I came to understand that I had been in a pathological love relationship with a narcissistic partner. I found community with others who had survived similar dynamics, and as I shared my story, I discovered that my voice helped others find their own.

In time, I reclaimed my identity, my power, and my purpose. I found love again — real love, grounded in mutual respect and authenticity. And I discovered a deeper calling: to help others navigate their own journeys of healing from toxic dynamics and rebuild lives rooted in self-trust, strength, and clarity.

Through Empath Armor Coaching, I now guide others through divorces, separations, and the aftermath of emotionally harmful relationships. I help women strengthen communication, rediscover their inner voice, and develop the tools needed to create healthy, aligned relationships — starting with the one they have with themselves.

I know firsthand the value of having someone by your side when you're climbing out of confusion and emotional chaos. I know what it takes to untangle from trauma and find yourself again. I’m here to offer that support — with compassion, clarity, and care.

You can be whole. You can find peace. And you can thrive.