The thread running through the work has always been how change happens.
Across clinical practice, training, supervision, consultation, and organizational work, I have returned to many of the same questions: What helps people feel understood? What supports learning and growth? What helps new practices take hold?
What sustains the work.
What I love about this work is that there is always something to discover: an unexpected insight in a training room, a new possibility emerging through consultation, the satisfaction of watching someone I've mentored find their own footing, or the extraordinary trust of someone sharing a part of their life they seldom reveal.
Each encounter asks something different of me and offers something in return. I bring experience, knowledge, and a commitment to doing the work well, while remaining open to what others have to teach me.
To be invited into these moments, and to make a difference through the work we do together, is a privilege that continues to enrich and sustain me.
Different settings. A consistent orientation.
Since joining the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2008, I have trained thousands of practitioners nationally and internationally across behavioral health, human services, clinical, community, and public-sector settings. As a Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor, I bring a clinical perspective informed by direct practice, supervision, and leadership in complex service systems.
The work extends beyond workshops. Through consultation, coaching, curriculum development, and implementation support, I help organizations translate learning into practice and develop the internal capacity to sustain it.
M.Ed., LPC — Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor, License #0701003663
MINT Member — Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2008
Trainer & Consultant — behavioral health, human services, public systems, and community organizations
The life beyond the work.
I am endlessly interested in people—the stories we carry, the contradictions we live with, the ways culture and place shape us, and the unexpected routes by which we find our way forward.
I am West Indian by heritage, a wife, the mother of three beautiful citizens of the world, and grandmother to nine. My parents and the generations before me are part of the foundation of who I am. My mother remains one of my dearest friends, and family keeps me rooted across generations and geographies.
I love wandering through unfamiliar cities, marveling at architecture, discovering history in unexpected places, and quite happily eating my way through the world. Travel, language, and culture continually remind me how many ways there are to experience life.
Home also includes Dzibi, our beloved rescue, named for Dzibilchaltún, the Yucatecan pueblo where she was found. She has little regard for professional boundaries and a remarkable ability to insert herself into whatever is happening.
Some of my greatest joys are time with my husband, my mother, Dzibi, and my besties—shared meals, laughter, long conversations, and the adventures that become stories worth retelling.
The people and places I love keep me attentive to the richness and complexity of every life.
