Learn. Heal. Thrive.

Improving yourself, your relationships, and your self-worth

Individual Counseling and Couples Coaching

Educational. Skills-Building. Collaborative.

Rather than traditional talk therapy or passive listening, I actively engage in sessions, providing an empowering, skills-building approach. This is particularly effective for resolving anxiety, reactivity, insecurities, low self-worth, maladaptive coping methods, relational distress and for divorce and breakup recovery.

Individual Counseling

Empowering and collaborative. Navigate your life goals, purpose, limiting beliefs, confidence, career, dating, relationships and more.

Breakup Recovery

Specialized guidance to recover from the pain of relationship endings, narcissistic-abuse or divorce. Feel better by healing through the five stages of recovery.

Couples Coaching

Together, learn science-based relationship and communication skills, aligned with The Gottman Method for more for trusting, deeper connection.

Empowering and Skills-Building

Courses with evidence-based practices and empowering skills to help guide your healing today, while improving your life forever.

Learn

Through sessions and courses learn nervous system calming and social-emotional skills, while building self-awareness, aligning with your values, understanding your maladaptive reactions, triggers and more.

Heal

I provide compassionate, evidence-based guidance for personal and emotional healing. Feel results and build self-trust as you practice daily emotional processing skills and calming practices.

Thrive

Experience more confidence, calm, improved relationships and other profound benefits of processing painful feelings, triggers and beliefs, instead of depressing or maladaptively reacting to them.

Credentials

Hi, I'm Athena

Experienced. Evidenced-Based Approach.

With a Master's Degree in Counseling, an MBA in Human and Organizational Behavior, 10+ years of experience and 40+ years of life experience, I provide compassionate, experienced, confidential support. I am an IFS-Informed Therapist and Certified Relationship Coach I am trained in The Gottman Method, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and more.

Free Consultation

Approach

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We aren’t born knowing how to understand and process our emotions in a productive way. It's a skill we must learn and practice.

What to Expect

Learn Heal Thrive

What to Expect

Resolve chronic stress and anxiety

Learn emotional processing skills

Build your confidence and self-trust

Align with your values and purpose

Heal from divorce, breakup and heartbreak

Overcome maladaptive coping methods

Respond rather than react to triggers

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools

Compassion Focused Therapy skills

Mindfulness and NeuroSensory practices

Cleanse regrets, shame and resentment

Communication and Boundaries skills

Capacity for secure, trusting relationships

Inner Child and Inner Critic Work

Eight Week Program

Testimonials

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Brene Brown, PhD

Testimonials

Feel Real Results

"I just wanted to say thank you for your gift. It is wonderful... for the first time in my life, I am seeing and feeling healing!!!!"

More Than Talk Therapy

"Truly grateful for all you have done for me. I can feel such a shift. I have had dozens of therapists throughout my life, but have never felt more valued and understood. Thank you for helping me live my life again."

Navigate Divorce

"I feel so lucky to have found you as my expert guide - helping me through the rough waters of divorce and on the road back to myself. You've made such a difference in such a short time."

Restore Confidence

"Thank you for all your help over the past several weeks. I actually feel better. You helped me restore my self-worth and pushed my confidence to move forward with my life and career."

Heal Heartache

"I hope you have a smile knowing how you are really having a healing impact on other people because of what you walked through yourself. Thank you for personally understanding divorce and getting me through the heartache of it."

Calm Anxiety

"I wouldn’t have found my way back to myself without your guidance. I went from daily panic attacks and bad anxiety to now totally able to calm myself."

Delivering the body from functioning as a storage room for suppressed emotions brings a sense of natural love and ease, a spaciousness, that we commonly call happiness.

Somesh Curti, PhD

Courses

Program Overview

Access to Eight Week Course

Learn evidence-based, social-emotional health skills to improve your personal, mental, emotional and relational well-being. Tutorials and workbooks are derived from scientifically proven practices, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Parts Work, Nervous System Science, Behavioral and Emotional Skill Training (BEST) and more.

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Values, Priorities and Self-Awareness

First, we will focus on your immediate concerns and priorities, and create a personalized treatment plan aligned with your healing objectives and life goals. You may also access a workbook that helps you figure out your genuine values and purpose while building self-awareness and understanding your personality type.

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Stress Types, Triggers and Reactivity

Identify where you are stuck on "autopilot" repeating maladaptive coping behaviors and reactions, such as self-medicating, people-pleasing, self-sabotaging, perfectionism, emotional eating, etc. Learn about the Four Stress Reaction Types: Fight, Flight, Fawn and Freeze. With awareness you gain the power to ideally respond to triggers, process painful feelings and resolve stress, rather than react.

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Emotional Processing, Self-Care and Self-Worth

Learn to process even the most painful emotions. Experience the profound benefits and fulfillment of working with your emotions, instead of depressing, getting overwhelmed or maladaptively reacting to them. Incorporate evidence-based practices for balanced self-care and self-discipline to heal, alleviate anxiety, increase motivation, oxytocin production, goal-achievement, self-trust and self-worth.

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NeuroSensory and Calming Skills

Understand nervous system science and how neurosensory exercises spark up your vagus nerve for calm and focus. Alleviate anxiety and the effects of chronic stress like inflammation. Discover sensory and mind-body-environment connection. Discover your super sensory needs or sensitivities, especially if you are highly empathic, hypervigilant, have OCD or AD(H)D. Learn how to activate your energy or calm yourself to quite literally walk yourself through any painful emotion or stressor.

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Balanced Boundaries and Self-Protection

Boundaries draw a 'line in the sand.' Without boundaries our Sense of Self gets lost and enmeshed in the expectations of others. Boundaries also provide self-protection and foster healthy, trusting relationships. We can't really love until we have boundaries as we're loving out of compliance or guilt. And we can't really be productive at work without boundaries as we're so busy following others' agendas that we lose our sense of purpose and fulfillment.

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Inner Work and Shame Detox

Gaining awareness of your self-talk and the "story" you are telling yourself is profound and transformational work. Learn to mentor your inner critical thoughts and nurture your Inner Child's needs with Wise Mind. Without awareness Inner Critic triggers shame and stress hormones as if you are facing a real-life threat. Over time, Inner Critic causes anxiety disorders, shame attacks, reactivity, self-hate, sabotaging, depression, substance-use disorders and negatively impact every aspect of your life.

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Connection and Communication Tools

Learn assertiveness and communication tools to feel seen, heard, respected and valued. Communicating our needs, wants and limits opens us up to receiving, although this can feel vulnerable at first, it gives others the opportunity to love, respect and care for us. Feeling connected is a human need. Without genuine connection we have symptoms like anxiety, insecurities, emptiness and depression.

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Attachment Styles and Relationship Skills

Are you repeating painful patterns with your family, friends or partner? There are four attachment styles: anxious-preoccupied, avoidant-dismissive, fearful-avoidant and secure. Attachment injuries, despite best intentions can hijack relationships, causing outbursts, sabotage, insecurities, resentment and more. The ability to resolve conflict and form secure, enjoyable relationships is possible with awareness and skills.

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