You've spent years showing up for everyone else.
The people who come to work with me are good at their lives.
Capable, caring, responsible. They've built something real. But somewhere along the way, in the middle of all that doing and giving, they lost the thread back to themselves.
This work is about finding your way back.
“My empathy for myself has grown immensely”
"Kay's incisive questions and toolbox of perspectives helped me make big breakthroughs that are fundamentally shifting my self-awareness, internal dialogue, and how I naturally respond to difficulty. She helped me surface subconscious forces that have been shaping my life in big ways, so I can better understand them and consciously decide how to respond to them.
I consistently came away from each session with a significant, meaningful, practical insight and a path to immediate application. She created a safe space and seemed to challenge me in just the right ways.
My empathy for myself and others has grown immensely. I thought I was an empathetic person before, but I didn't realize how much my self-criticism was driving my feelings and actions... As an entrepreneur, executive, husband, and father, my growth through our sessions will be impacting me and my work for the rest of my life."
— Creative Entrepreneur & Executive
Hi! I’m Kay
Here’s what brought me here.
I was the classic overachiever: pre-med track, big dreams, even bigger ambition. Then my mental health took a serious turn and it became clear that path wasn't for me. Around the same time, I learned I'd inherited the family's degenerative hearing loss.
I pivoted, adapted, and just as I was preparing to start a PhD at McGill, my physical health collapsed. At 25, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Recovery took four years, and it cracked me open in all the ways that matter.
During that time I met the man who became my husband. I found my footing again. And eventually I found work I thought was impressive enough to match my ambition, until I realized impressive wasn't what I was after anymore.
Three years into marriage, at 35 weeks pregnant, we learned the baby I was carrying had died. Everything that had once felt important stopped mattering overnight.
In the healing that followed, I knew I wanted to do work that served life. When I found coaching, I knew I'd found it.
I’ve been coaching for a decade
I've worked with people across tech, engineering, consulting, healthcare, nonprofit, creative fields, and more. I hold a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation from the International Coaching Federation and trained with Master Coach Patricia Burgin at SeattleCoach.
My approach draws on current research in the coaching field and the kind of intuition that comes from years of sitting with people in hard moments.
One of the themes that I grasped as [Kay and I ] worked together is that life is about process. Too often, I want to make a decision about something, such as "who I want to be" and then be done with it. But this isn't reality. I am constantly evolving and changing. I will hold on to core values and characteristics that we identified, but am more comfortable with the idea of venturing out into the unknown and exploring. Coming into coaching, I wanted to "figure out" what I was to do next year. I've since learned (or re-learned?) that it's ok to live with ambiguity and to enjoy the journey. What I end up doing is not as important as living by my values.
Professor
I wanted to thank you for all of your support and guidance! I can't tell you enough how much you helped me to better prioritize my life! I can say with confidence that I am a completely different person today than I was the day we met and it is because of the work and guidance you gave. I feel like I have so much of a better handle on things and have really honed my ability to say no to the things in my life that aren't important
Accounting Director
“Coaching with Kay was empowering. I got the opportunity to create together with my coach, a vision of what I wanted to accomplish and where I wanted to go. The process of coaching exposed the subtleties of the influence of my 'subconscious' on my present life, and through that process, small but practical and useful changes were added to begin the journey towards my destination. The best part was getting a glimpse of how I could tap into myself and my surroundings to empower my transformative journey.
Research Scientist”
This hour belongs to you.
If you're reading this, you probably already know something needs to change.
Not everything. Not dramatically. Just . . . you need to find your way back to yourself. To remember what you want. To have one hour that belongs entirely to you.
That's what coaching with me looks like.
Sessions are $100. No packages, no pressure. If you're ready to start, I'd love to hear from you.