Everything in life is an experiment.
It’s all learning.
Learn how to enjoy the process.
Everyone needs a nudge sometimes. Whether you’re an individual who wants support as you grow, or you’re inspired to bring more of a design process perspective to your life. As your personal Design Tugboat, I can help you safely navigate unfamiliar waters and approach your life with curiosity, compassion, and playfulness. Just like a tugboat, I’m gently at your side even when things get rough.
I am a Life and Death Design coach. I am a CTI-trained Certified Personal Co-Active Coach and a trained End-of-Life Doula, and I bring 20+ years of expertise as a human centered designer to my work.
I specialize in helping individuals embrace new perspectives throughout various life changes and in making peace with death.
What I offer
Death Care for Individuals
As an INELDA-trained End-of-Life Doula, I provide support, guidance, and comfort to individuals and their families before, during, and after the dying process. We do this by companioning people as they navigate the mental, physical, and emotional process of dying.
My goal is to help you reflect on your relationship to death and previous losses, and help you get clarity around what matters for you when it comes to the end of your life.
I address some of the unknown, confusing, or scary parts of death.
Together, we consider how your death might affect the people around you and plan for that.
Most importantly, I empower you by showing you that you have options.
Career Navigation for Death Doulas
I help emerging End-of-Life Doulas explore different aspects of the death doula world and shape a career that is exactly right for them.
Fill the doula learning gap
Through one-on-one coaching, I offer my fellow death doulas an orientation to our evolving career landscape, and a launching-off point for starting and growing a successful doula business. I help you clarify your vision so you can pursue it.
Forge a path as unique as you
I have a special place in my heart for for those whose paths are full of twists and turns. Where you might struggle to see how your jumbled pieces come together, I see a sandbox of opportunity. Let’s play together to create a career path the world has never seeen!
Life Coaching for Individuals
I offer personal coaching at the intersection of individual insights + life design + big picture reflection.
I can help you...
Figure out what's next after a transition—at a career crossroads, while facing major life change, or when navigating retirement.
Shift momentum—get unstuck, move things along, or slow things down and be present.
Explore and prioritize meaning—put your energy into what matters most to you.
Learn to trust yourself and amplify that voice inside that knows what's right for you.
Build your creative confidence and capabilities, and cultivate skills and mindsets to move through the world as a designer, doing design-focused work or in living a more empowered and engaged life.
Why is “Design Tugboat” my company’s name?
Tugboats are magnificently powerful despite their relatively tiny size. They help small and large vessels navigate tricky conditions and unknown waters. Whether they’re providing little nudges from behind, or pulling with all of their might, they get the job done. I am a tugboat that helps individuals navigate life and death using a blend of coaching mastery, doula compassion, and human centered design expertise.
Even the most capable ships in the world need a tugboat. Save your energy and take the nudge.