Welcome. Something in you already knows the territory has changed. The old map doesn't quite match what you're standing on. That's usually when people find their way here.
transitions and terrain is a coaching and death care practice. I work alongside people moving through life's passages: careers that no longer fit, identities that are shifting, leadership roles asking something new, and the particular weight of dying and grief. These are the moments that ask us to slow down, read the landscape honestly, and find our footing for what comes next.
Coaching and end-of-life work both give us space to explore these crossings with curiosity and intention. Together, we’ll navigate the messy middle where uncertainty, possibility, and growth intersect so you can make choices that feel aligned with your values and true to who you are. Let's explore the terrain that is authentic, spacious, and fully yours.
my background
For more than twenty years, I led technology teams at Etsy, Spotify, Universal Music Group, and EMI. What drew me to that work was never the technology. It was people, and the question of what it means to show up for them in complexity. I've been in rooms where a lot was at stake, and I've learned, repeatedly, that how we move through uncertainty matters as much as what we decide.
I carried all of that with me when I left. I'm a certified Co-Active coach, a trained death doula, a hospice volunteer, and a Reiki practitioner. I'm also an artist, and queer, and someone who has lost family and friends. That grief lives in this work. I'm not standing outside life's passages as a neutral observer. I'm someone who has been in them, and keeps being in them.
The thread running through everything I do: transformation happens by composting what's already there. The past isn't something to discard, it's material. What has already happened in you is what makes the next thing possible.
If you are navigating a transition, know that you don't have to do so alone.
Walking What We Carry:
A Spring Grief Walk at Pachaquack Preserve
When: Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Where: Pachaquack Preserve, Valatie, NY
What: A grief walk is a slow, facilitated walk in nature with a small group who are also in the midst of loss. Walking does something that talking in a circle often can't. This isn't support, therapy, or a hike. It's a deliberate slowing down, of being in your grief without having to perform being okay, or not.
Join us for the first in a series of grief walks. This in-person event is all about moving through grief together in nature. Come as you are, carry what you need, and connect with others on this gentle walk.
Grief doesn't sit still in the body and sometimes the most honest thing we can do with it is move. Walking What We Carry is a gently facilitated outdoor walk for anyone navigating loss of any kind: a person, a relationship, an identity, a season of life that has ended.
No agenda. No fixing. No pressure to speak. Just the trail, the spring air, and a small group of people who understand what it is to carry something heavy.
Suggested contribution: $20, sliding scale. No one turned away for inability to pay.