Before there was More Than Counseling,
there was the Green Room.
When I first imagined creating my own practice in my early twenties, I called it the Green Room.
I pictured it as a space where different approaches and lenses would be available to support the human experience without needing it to be “just one way.” At the time, I thought I was imagining a place I would someday create.
Over the years, I kept learning. I practiced. I questioned. I trained. I sat with people through some of the most vulnerable, confusing, painful, funny, unexpected, and transformative parts of being human. I explored so many different modalities that ‘called me.’
Eventually, I realized: The Green Room was not a place.
I had become the Green Room.
Because there is always more to the story.
Over time, I kept returning to the same questions: What shapes the way we see ourselves, relate to one another, and respond to change? More Than Counseling grew from the belief that understanding people asks us to look beyond what is immediately visible and to make room for the full, complex, and beautiful human experience.
“People don't just need answers. They need understanding.”
More Than Counseling became an extension of that realization.
Not a place built around one prescribed way of seeing people, but a space where different perspectives can exist in conversation, allowing us to notice what one lens alone might miss.
That philosophy now lives across Counseling, Education & Professional Development, and Organizational Consulting.
Different settings. Different needs. Different conversations. And yet, through it all, the human who is be-in(g) remains at the center.
than their challenges.
through evolving.
possible in any setting.
connected tomorrow
is within reach.
adds to a more
compassionate world.
Our foundation is rooted in psychology, clinical practice, education, facilitation, and leadership.
Over time, our curiosity led me beyond those spaces into mind-body approaches, yoga philosophy, contemplative and spiritual traditions, and other ways human beings have made sense of healing, meaning, and connection.
What I discovered was that each perspective reveals something to consider. We are layered—shaped by our stories, relationships, cultures, environments, beliefs, experiences, and the meaning we make from all of it.
The question my sixth-grade teacher asked me is one I still believe is worth asking:
Who are YOU?
These questions aren’t meant to be answered right now, just held, noticed, or returned to when the time feels right.
The question that started it all is worth asking: Who are YOU?