I’m a professional climber, Licensed Professional Counselor, and mental performance coach. I work with climbers and other adventure athletes who want to build a stronger relationship with their minds, bodies, and sport—whether they’re navigating fear, self-doubt, pressure, setbacks, motivation, or a big performance goal.

My approach draws from my background in counseling, adventure-based work, and Somatic Experiencing®, as well as my own experience as an athlete and outdoor professional. I’m interested in what happens in our bodies and minds when we’re under pressure, and in finding ways to work with those responses rather than simply trying to push through them. I work collaboratively and am less interested in giving you a formula for performing than in helping you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and discover what actually works for you.

Climbing has been one of the places where I’ve learned the most about myself. It has been a discipline that has supported me through difficult times, given me a place to practice meeting fear and uncertainty, and empowered me to do hard things in the rest of my life. When we spend years doing things that are difficult, uncertain, and sometimes scary, we get a lot of opportunities to notice how we respond to challenge—and to practice responding differently. I’m interested in climbing not just as a sport, but as a way of learning about ourselves: our bodies, our minds, our relationships, and the ways we show up when things don’t go according to plan. What we learn on the wall doesn’t have to stay there. It can change how we approach difficult conversations, unfamiliar situations, failure, uncertainty, and the other hard things that are part of being human.

My work as a therapist has given me extensive experience supporting people who have experienced interpersonal violence, trauma, grief and loss, identity exploration, and major life transitions. My work in the outdoor community has brought me alongside athletes, guides, and other outdoor professionals navigating the psychological demands of their work and their sports. These experiences have shaped my belief that our capacity to meet challenge is deeply connected to our relationships—with ourselves, with other people, and with the communities we are part of.

Climbing has also been an important part of my activism and my work in the outdoor community. I’m interested in the barriers that can interrupt our ability to feel connected to our bodies, ourselves, and one another—and in what it takes to create spaces where more people can experience belonging, agency, and connection. My work has included exploring practical, somatic approaches to building resilience within outdoor communities, particularly for the people who are carrying the cumulative stress of demanding work, interpersonal harm, and systems that were not designed with them in mind. I’m interested not only in how we support people when something goes wrong, but in how we can build communities with the capacity to care for themselves, support one another, and keep doing the work they believe in. For me, that work is connected to the same questions I explore through climbing: How do we build the capacity to meet what is difficult? What helps us stay connected to ourselves and each other when things get hard? And how can what we learn individually ripple outward into the communities we are part of?

Ultimately, I’m interested in more than helping you perform better. I want to help you develop a relationship with your sport that gives you more capacity to meet challenge, more freedom to be yourself, and more opportunities to bring what you learn there into the rest of your life.