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.
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.


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
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

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