Welcome to Compassionate Families.
I’m so glad you’re here.
For more than 30 years, I’ve had the privilege of helping people make sense of their experiences, understand their relationships, and find practical strategies to renew their resilience for the challenges they face every day.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Story Coach, Accredited, Certified, Advanced EFT Practitioner, and Forward Facing® Health & Wellness Coach, I hold credentials that equip me to help you address stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.
Whether you’re seeking personal growth through story engagement, strategies for self-regulation, or coaching to address symptoms of compassion fatigue, I offer approaches that can help.
Story Groups
As we learn to read one another’s faces—and one another’s stories—we embody God’s compassionate presence to one another.
As we meet one another—and one another’s stories—with compassion and curiosity, we’re invited to tell a more truthful story about what happened, what it cost us, and how we survived stories of heartache, betrayal, and harm.
When our experiences are more than we can bear, we adapt in order to survive.
As we learn to honor stories that left us powerless and alone, we’re invited to grieve the ways our experiences constrain our freedom to live more fully into the goodness we were meant for.
We can’t change what happened in the past, but we can change our relationship with ourselves—and our relationship with our stories—when we encounter our stories in the compassionate presence of others.
Story Groups invite us to attend to what happens within and between us—and to experience more of the freedom we were meant for.
As we begin to imagine what restoration might look like, we can allow even what we have suffered to be redeemed and become part of the uniquely enstoried way we offer faith, hope, and love to one another.
What might faith, hope, and love look like if our stories no longer determined what is possible?
The shortest distance between two people is a story.
Patti Digh
Strategies for self‑regulation
Regulation makes reflection possible.
Story Groups help us integrate what happened in the past—strategies for self-regulation help us overcome overwhelm in the present.
When we’re overwhelmed, it’s challenging to be reflective and mindful.
Strategies for self-regulation can help us interrupt patterns of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm and create greater freedom to choose how we respond to ourselves, others, and the challenges we face.
I’ll show you simple and effective tools that will be right at your fingertips, any time, day or night.
They’re everyday tools that change lives every day.
Learn More About My Modalities →Coaching
The same qualities that enable you to be compassionate toward others can leave you vulnerable to a cycle of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm that can lead to compassion fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout.
Caring for others without becoming depleted requires us to remain compassionately connected to ourselves as well.
Forward Facing® Coaching can help you learn to care for yourself while caring for others.
You’ll learn simple and effective strategies to renew your resilience for the challenges you face every day.
There is hope.
If you’re wondering which approach would be best for you, let’s connect.
My Credentials
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level 1 & 2 Training
- Accredited, Certified, Advanced EFT Practitioner
- Forward Facing® Health & Wellness Certified Coach
- Forward Facing® Health & Wellness Certified Consultant
- Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist
- Amen Clinic Certified Brain Health Professional
Narrative Focused Trauma Care
Training in Narrative Focused Trauma Care through the Allender Center.
Accredited, Certified, Advanced EFT Practitioner
Advanced training in Clinical EFT.
Forward Facing® Health & Wellness Certified Coach
Training to prevent compassion fatigue and renew resilience in individuals.
Forward Facing® Health & Wellness Consultant
Training to prevent compassion fatigue and renew resilience in organizations.
Amen Clinic Brain Health Professional
Training in practical approaches to support brain health.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and maintain a separate psychotherapy practice. Story work, EFT, and coaching offered through Compassionate Families are educational and coaching services and are not psychotherapy.
Let’s connect.
Reach out to connect by phone or email. I'll be in touch with you soon.