Amanda has extensive professional and personal skill at self-mastery.  Amanda can help you overcome a plateau, procrastination, frustration, stagnation, stuckness, or simple inability to get going.  Do not let "one of these days" become none of these days.  Amanda leans  into the pain of discipline to overcome the pain of regret. With great passion and ultimate desire for you to succeed, Amanda will use every technique, tool, skill, and strategy to help you achieve your personal goal. It is her delight to witness your success. 

She completed a year long running streak, ran an IronMan, competed in the USAT National Triathlon competition, and wrote two books.  A long the way she picked up several tools for self-discipline and motivation that she brings to bear in motivating you!  

Amanda is a certified Herioic Coach. Amanda won't ask you to do anything she hasn't tried herself. She will coach you in skills of self-mastery grounded in stoicism and postive psychology.  These are not techniques she just read about in some book somewhere or a theory she heard. She will help you do what works. 

Amanda is particularly skilled at marriage and affair repair.  Amanda uses her professional experience and training, blended with her own artful empathy, to help couples reconnect, establish trust, and move forward to a better future. She teaches an effective, solution focused approach to achieve results quickly and build upon those gains to establish a lasting, firm foundation for a new baseline of happiness.  She is Level II DivorceBusting trained and a former DivorceBusting telephone coach.

Parenting is a passion. Amanda has developed skills across the spectrum of parenting from young children to dependent adults.  Amanda uses positive parenting techniques to support parents in raising their children.  Amanda sought out and was personally trained by Noel Janis Norton in the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting programme.  Most recently, Amanda has studied, written, and presented about her work with emerging adults and their parents.  She helps parents help their dependent adult children motivate and move on with their lives so they can, too. 

Widowed in 2006, Amanda sold her home in Los Angeles and moved with her two young daughters to Williamsburg, Virginia.  There she enrolled in The College of William & Mary to complete her Masters Degree in Family Counseling and opened her own private practice which grew to include several other therapists with multiple specialties.  

Coaching is education, encouragement, and expectation that enables you to achieve your goals. Coaching can help you address the subpar or unfulfilled aspects of your life. Do not let "one of these days" end up being "none of these days." Time to make a change and coaching can help. 

Coaching with Amanda is a direct, one-on-one, tailored experience with a professional who is trained in evidenced based motivation and relationship skills. Together you and Amanda will identify "you-specific" steps to take toward improvement. You will work to establish habits and automatic responses that make it faster and easier to move you and/or your relationships closer to success. Stop the sabotage or stagnation. Amanda can coach you to efficiently improve your connections and motivation. 

Coaching is not therapy. Therapy addresses a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression. Some coaching techniques are therapeutic, but the goal of coaching is not to treat a mental health disorder. As you achieve your coaching goals you may find your mental health challenge is alleviated. Behavioral science shows solving your problems can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Coaching can help solve your problems.