Vital Contact Gestalt Services

I help people heal relational and childhood wounds, so that they can facilitate meaningful change and fully step into their lives, while having more connected and fulfilling relationships with others. I am a process-focused Gestalt Professional whose work focuses on supporting you to understand what you are doing and how you are doing it, via heightening awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By asking deeper questions, working with the body, and/or experimenting with different choices we can learn more about the impacts of the habitual ways you tend to respond to your life... while exploring what you need in order to move forward. I have a special interest in working with folks who are seeking to deepen their understanding of themselves. I will show up authentically as myself - with curiosity, warmth, humor, and a mixture of challenge and support - in hopes of fostering your growing capacity towards greater health for yourself and your relationships. As someone who appreciates the diversity of human connection, I offer a welcoming space for all relationship styles, genders, sexual orientations, and ways of loving. Many of my clients are people who have done a certain degree of their own "inner work", yet they find their old patterns still exist. They long for relationships that feel secure, for deeper connection to self, and for a way through the complexity of their past wounds. Together, we will explore what is possible. My approach integrates Gestalt coaching, Gestalt therapy, somatic awareness, and years of practice, research, study, and real-life experience... helping people shift from stuck patterns into embodied presence and relational wholeness. I meet people where they are. I aim to partner with each client in a collaborative way that addresses their unique needs, and we start looking at those needs in our very first meeting. You don't need fixing. You need space to listen to yourself deeply, accompanied by someone who can help you integrate your experiences into real, lasting change. If you are interested in the possibility of our working together, please click the "Request Appointment" button to set up a discovery call. ----- Veterinary Leadership Coaching: With my background of owning and managing two AAHA-certified veterinary hospitals, my years of experience as a veterinarian, and my having held every position within the veterinary hospital structure, I am uniquely able to offer Veterinary Leadership Coaching for individuals and organizations who are facing the numerous challenges around what it takes to cultivate and nourish healthy, impactful, and inspiring leaders in the veterinary profession today. ----- Education & Advanced Trainings: * Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, 2024-25) * Gestalt therapy postgraduate training (GATLA, Gestalt Associates Training of Los Angeles: Seattle & LA Programs, 2019-25; ongoing) * Gestalt therapy training, summer residential (GATLA, 2024-25; ongoing) * Advancing Clinical Education in Sexuality certification (AASECT, 2021) * Nonviolent Communication (various trainings, 2020-23) * Fear Free Certified Veterinarian (FearFree, 2020) * VMC w/ Mark Opperman, CVPM (various seminars, 2006-14) * Acupuncture certification (Chi University, 2009) * Herbal Medicine certification (Chi University, 2010) * Food Therapy certification (Chi University, 2011) * Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (University of Florida, 2007) * BS, Biology (University of Central Florida, 2002)