Meet the Coach


Welcome, I'm Kirsten!


As a coach, I help people unravel awareness and acceptance, and offer support and strategies helping them make conscious choices to live authentically and thrive. Working together would allow us to uncover your personal strengths, habits, influencers, and sensitivities, and discover how those characteristics impact your day. Recognizing and integrating those facets of who you are allows you to shift and consciously choose how to interpret and create your reality. Being a part of that noticing, welcoming, and celebrating the little and big successes along the way is the transformative work of having a coach. I especially love helping people that are impacted by neurodiversity (ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia along with others) and work from a strengths based approach of authenticity.
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Before coaching, I had worked in a variety of environments with the majority of my time spent in civil engineering and middle and elementary school education. Consistent threads in my roles were authentic relationships built on trust, communication, and genuine curiosity, and working with the whole person. My work in education specifically was about empowering the whole child to learn, accept, and advocate for their needs, especially the children identified as neurodiverse. This work informs how I also work with all people.
Values that resonate most with me include building open, compassionate, and non judgemental connections while engaging in the (sometimes) hard work of self acceptance and vulnerability. I value cautious risk-taking, independence, self responsibility, and growth while choosing to maintain optimism, hope, and joy every day.
I believe in the power of being seen and accepted, doing deep work and noticing how the world shifts when you are no longer held back by fears, self-doubt, and/or limiting beliefs. If those ideas are compatible with the work you are looking to do, please contact me.
Things that rejuvenate & nourish me

The sound of song birds, the warmth of the sun, and the smell of the ocean, especially as the day awakes or moves into twilight.

Time spent with family.


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Gardening with bright colors to attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

Learning new things, and sharing them in meaningful conversations, preferably over a coffee or chai latte.


Faith in an open, all-inclusive manner of love, respect, acceptance, and kindness.


Traveling to learn and volunteer about other cultures and ways of living.

Finding heart shaped rocks, shadows, leaves, puddles, etc. in the natural world.



Creating colorful artwork with paints and fabric.



