Creativity needs connection.
ARTIST
EDUCATOR
DESIGNER
COACH
Create without burning out
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Build sustainable momentum
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Reconnect with your magic
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Design more human ways of working
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Learn to trust yourself
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Create without burning out · Build sustainable momentum · Reconnect with your magic · Design more human ways of working · Learn to trust yourself ·
PRACTICE
Do Something Different: A Relationship Lab
Stop repeating the same ol' patterns.
Start showing up differently in your romantic connections—in real time.
Creative work doesn’t have to happen alone.
Creative Reset Studio is a weekly gathering for thoughtful, creative humans seeking more clarity, connection, and sustainable momentum.
Through embodied practices, reflection, conversation, and accountability, we'll create the conditions for meaningful work—and meaningful lives—to flourish.
Reconnect — to yourself and your creative work
Practice — through embodied exercises and reflection
Move — forward with accountability and community
Ways to Create Together
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1:1 Creative Practice
Personalized support for creatives seeking sustainable momentum, accountability, and deeper connection to their work.
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Creative Reset Studio
A weekly practice space for reflection, embodiment, accountability, and creative community.
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Workshops
Experiences for individuals and groups exploring creativity, collaboration, and sustainable ways of working together.
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Writing + Speaking
Essays, facilitation, and conversations exploring creativity, embodiment, relationships, and modern life.
ABOUT
The conditions we create shape what becomes possible.
Our relationships, environments, communities, and nervous systems all influence how we think, create, connect, and grow. I believe creativity isn't simply a talent we possess—it's a practice we cultivate by intentionally shaping the conditions that allow us to come alive.
For the past fifteen years, I've explored those conditions through classrooms, organizations, writing workshops, design studios, and one-on-one conversations. Today, I bring those experiences together through facilitation, creative practice, writing, and guiding individuals and organizations toward more connected, sustainable ways of creating, collaborating, and living.
I've led international writing workshops, coached hundreds of individuals, and spent more than a decade designing content and learning experiences for organizations ranging from startups to global technology companies, while publishing fiction and essays in literary journals including Electric Literature, The Missouri Review, and Joyland.
More than anything, I consider myself a builder of conditions—creating spaces where creativity, connection, and meaningful work become more possible.
Practice & Experience
10+ years facilitating creative practice
3,000+ hours coaching, teaching, and facilitating individuals and groups
Coaching, Facilitation, Teaching, Design
1:1 + Group Coaching, Private Practice
The Flight School, Creativity + Relationships, Neuroinclusive Coaching
Aetna, Experience Design
Writing Workshops, Experience Leadership
University of Pittsburgh, Creative Writing
Kenyon College, Nonfiction Writing
Areas of Practice
Creative facilitation
Neuroinclusive coaching
Self-leadership
Embodied creative practice
Experience design
Storytelling
Community-centered learning
Nervous system awareness
Mindful design
Education
MFA, Creative Writing
University of Pittsburgh
BA, English Literature & Writing
University of Pittsburgh
Certifications
The Science of Well-Being
Yale University
Insights for Innovation
IDEO U
Gestalt Experience
Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
Climate Change Leadership
Cornell University
UX Design Specialization
Google
MY APPROACH
Rest
We begin by slowing down enough to notice what’s actually happening — creatively, relationally, and within the nervous system.
Reconnect
Through reflection, embodiment, dialogue, and creative practice, we reconnect with clarity, momentum, and the deeper reasons the work matters.
Reset
Sustainable creativity isn’t built through force. It’s built through supportive structures, accountability, collaboration, and repeated practice over time.
Rebuild
From there, we create differently — with more intention, connection, sustainability, and trust in ourselves and each other.
WRITING
Creative Reset, Decoded
Essays exploring creativity, relationships, self-leadership, and the conditions that shape what becomes possible.
Every piece is an invitation to reflect more deeply, create more sustainably, and build a life that feels more connected and alive.
Selected Writing
Fiction
Tonya Electric Literature
Ache Joyland
The Ass and His Masters Columbia Journal
From Where We Rush Forth The Kenyon Review
You Will Know Elasticity The Los Angeles Review
Diary of the Last Woman on Earth The Fabulist
Nonfiction
Felt The Offing
Boys: An Inventory Prairie Schooner
Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
The Suburbs Are Stunned The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook
The History of My Breasts Business Insider
Multimedia
InnerChild4U The Normal School
How to Survive a Fire The Missouri Review
FILMS
Documentary & Film
My documentary and film work explores the strange, tender ways we search for connection—and the ways we long to be found.
2022, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Outstanding Achievement Award, Microfilm, Winner