Mindfulness Coaching

Possible Benefits

  • Improved focus and concentration
  • Increased emotional resilience and equanimity
  • Enhanced stress management skills
  • Greater self-awareness
  • Improved relationships and communication
  • Overall enhancement of well-being and ability to care for yourself
  • Increased skillfulness in responding to challenging emotional or physical states
  • Greater connectedness to yourself and increased self-compassion

Coaching Sessions

Mindfulness coaching sessions begin with a brief guided practice, followed by a review of your practice over the past week — what you noticed, what felt challenging, and what surprised you. The heart of each session is experiential: we practice together, explore your direct experience through inquiry, and close by setting an intention for the week ahead. Unlike therapy, mindfulness coaching is focused on the present moment and on building skills through direct experience rather than exploring the past or future

Skills Groups

Practicing mindfulness in community offers something uniquely powerful — perspective on your own patterns, momentum to sustain your practice, and the reminder that you are not alone. Each session includes guided practices, reflection, and supportive discussion. Groups are small, intimate, and Trauma, Eating Disorder, and Non-Diet informed. All backgrounds, identities, and experience levels are welcome — no prior mindfulness experience needed, and you never have to share more than you're comfortable with.

What is Mindfulness Skills Coaching?

Many people are drawn to mindfulness but aren't sure where to begin — or have tried it before and found it difficult, unhelpful, or even distressing. Mindfulness skills coaching offers a personalized, supported entry point into practice, wherever you are starting from.

Our sessions focus on developing and exploring core mindfulness practices rooted in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an evidence-based approach first developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn that has been widely studied for its benefits on stress, anxiety, depression, and overall wellbeing.

You don't need any prior experience with meditation or mindfulness — and if the idea feels unfamiliar or uncertain, that's a perfectly valid place to begin. I offer mindfulness skills coaching integrated with therapy services, or independently from therapy. Whether you're new to practice, returning after a long break, or have completed therapy and are looking for one-to-one guidance in building or maintaining a practice, coaching can meet you where you are. If you are already in therapy with another provider, mindfulness skills coaching can be a helpful adjunct to your existing treatment — and I will collaborate with your team to ensure it integrates cohesively with your care.

Mindfulness coaching is tailored to your individual context, history, and background. We will begin with an initial assessment to identify areas you would like to improve, potential areas of challenge, and your practice goals. I work within a values-oriented, trauma-informed, and non-diet framework — because how you come to this practice matters as much as the practice itself.

Many clients I work with carry significant trauma histories or have experienced their body as a source of distress. Standard mindfulness programs, for example, often begin with breath-focused practice — but for individuals with trauma or an eating disorder history, this can sometimes increase distress and move you outside your window of tolerance (the zone in which we can process experience without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down). Working with a guide rather than practicing alone offers more structure, safety, and support — and when difficult content or sensations arise, we can navigate them together rather than leaving you to manage them on your own.

For those in eating disorder recovery, mindfulness coaching can also support the gradual process of reconnecting with the body — rebuilding awareness of hunger, fullness, and sensation in ways that feel safe, gentle, and manageable over time.

Mindfulness is not about achieving a quiet mind or getting it right. It is about learning to show up for your own experience — with curiosity, compassion, and care — one moment at a time.

The Mindfulness Journey

Mindfulness found me before I fully understood what it was. My path to practice began in early adulthood through experiences with spirituality and the wilderness — long before I had language for what I was experiencing. Later, in my training as a therapist, I came to understand the science and practice more formally, and what had once been intuitive became intentional.

I am currently completing a graduate certificate in Applied Mindfulness through West Chester University — a program that has deepened both my personal practice and my clinical work. I have also attended multi-day meditation retreats and completed the Mindful Eating-Conscious Living training through UCSD, each of which has shaped how I hold this work with clients.

Mindfulness can be practiced in ways that honor your own background, beliefs, and traditions — whether spiritual, secular, or somewhere in between. While mindfulness as we know it in Western therapy draws deeply from Buddhist and other contemplative traditions, it belongs to no single culture or faith. It is, at its heart, simply the practice of paying attention — with openness, curiosity, and care.

I maintain both a formal and informal practice, and coming back to the cushion after time away feels like coming home. My kids are some of my greatest teachers on this journey — reminding me to pay attention to the small things (like watching the water drain from the bathtub), helping me cultivate patience and equanimity, and calling me back to the present moment. My personal mindfulness journey is always in process and unfolding. I won't pretend to have it all figured out — but perhaps I can offer guidance that will help you on yours.

In eating disorder recovery especially, mindfulness can help rebuild a gentle, curious relationship with the body — with hunger, fullness, sensation, and emotion — at a pace that feels safe and manageable.

I am grateful to my teachers who have so beautifully shared the gift of showing up fully for your own life. I hold the foundational belief, expressed so well by Jon Kabat-Zinn, that as long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong — no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. That belief sits at the center of everything I do.