I am a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, trained and certified by the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. Additional training in the specialty of ADD coaching has come from years of workshops, courses, and presentations offered by such leaders in this field as Nancy Ratey, Sue Coleman, and Sue Sussman. I have been coaching professionally since 1996, both privately and as a part of the Duke University Academic Resource Center, where I established a co-active coaching program for undergraduate students in the fall of 2002.
I am a member of the Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), Children & Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD), the National Center for the Study of Gender Issues and AD/HD (NCGIADD), the International Coach Federation, and the American Coaching Association.
I bring to coaching an extensive background in education, including many years as a classroom teacher and, since 1990, as a learning skills and strategies instructor at Duke University where, in addition to offering ADD coaching, I also serve as an academic advisor.
I live with my husband in Durham, North Carolina, and have two grown daughters and two foundling cats. I am a publishing poet, swimmer, and lover of diverse music. As MS has put my husband on wheels, I have a lively interest in the issue of universal accessibility. And I am very much at home in a family given to dark humor, where the coffee table books are John Callahan, Gary Trudeau, and The Far Side, and the calendar on the kitchen wall comes from Despair.com.