about me

My Testimony

I'm a trauma-informed Christian relationship coach and founder of Virtuous Heality. I use both practical psychology and a biblical Christian approach to help women recognize and heal the emotional and relational patterns—like codependency, over-reacting, over-giving, and self-abandonment—that keep them stuck in painful conflict cycles.

But this work is personal to me, too.

I grew up in the Christian faith, but gradually wandered away from it in early adulthood. At the same time, wounds from growing up around instability, emotional volatility, codependency, and unhealthy relationship patterns had shaped what I believed about love and security.

I became especially vulnerable to seeking my worth through romantic relationships. Being chosen by someone could feel like proof that I was lovable; rejection or relational distance could feel like evidence that I wasn't. Over time, that contributed to unhealthy attachment, self-erasure, codependent patterns, and relationships in which I often worked far too hard to secure love.

The painful end of one especially unhealthy relationship eventually forced me to confront something deeper: I could understand my own patterns and their origins intellectually, yet still inadvertently repeat them. In my quest to find a love that could finally “prove” my worthiness of it, I had strived so hard to become someone that I thought could be lovable that I no longer knew who I was outside of that relationship after it had ended.

Years of personal growth, psychological study, and spiritual searching helped me understand important pieces of myself. But my deepest shift came when I returned to Scripture and ultimately surrendered my life again to Christ. I began to understand that I had spent years asking human relationships to give me something they were never designed to provide: my ultimate identity, security, and proof that I was worthy of love.

Coming to Christ didn't erase every old wound or make relationships effortless. What changed was the foundation from which I began learning to face them. God has continued teaching me how to distinguish love from control, boundaries from punishment, surrender from passivity, conviction from shame, and relational longing from making another person responsible for my identity.

That journey deeply shapes the work I do today.

I don't coach from a place of having everything figured out. I coach as someone who has been deeply loved, confronted, forgiven, and transformed by Christ—and who is still being transformed. My goal is to offer women a place where psychological insight and biblical truth can work together in honest, compassionate, practical ways.

Training & Professional Background

I’m formally trained and certified at the level of Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), with prior certifications as a Master Coach and Master Practitioner of NLP.

I’ve been working professionally as a coach since 2019, when I established my private coaching practice. In addition to years of one-on-one client work, I spent three years working with a professional coach-training and certification organization, where I gained extensive experience coaching hundreds of individuals both privately and within intensive training workshops and certification programs.

My experience extends beyond coaching clients 1:1 to helping train other coaches. I’ve taught many classes on coaching tools, techniques, and transformational processes within professional trainings and seminars, and have led numerous workshops and presentations on personal growth, behavioral and relational patterns, and the process of meaningful change.

Together, these experiences have given me thousands of hours of exposure to the complexities of human behavior and transformation—not only through sustained one-on-one coaching relationships, but also through observing, teaching, and facilitating change across a wide range of people, personalities, challenges, and life circumstances.

A Few Extra Details:

Originally born in Abilene, Texas, I consider myself a Florida native, having primarily grown up in Tampa and attended Florida State University. Shortly after college graduation, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I’ve been living for more than 15 years. Before coaching, I had a career as a marketing professional with more than 10 years of experience in the area of professional consulting services. I’m also a professional musician/vocalist. I am blessed with a wonderful family that consists of my husband Brian, my lovely step-daughter Remy, and our Australian Shepherd named Iggy.