"With humor, warmth and compassion Donna creates and holds safe spaces for girls and young women to become the best version of their authentic selves. Using an integrative approach blending holistic modalities and her own varied life experience, Donna has created a unique coaching program for individuals and groups that focuses on education, self-compassion, relationship building, and stress management. 

Neurodivergent young women who have low support needs and are extremely talented may appear to have it all together on the outside but burn-out, limiting beliefs and unhealthy patterns often emerge as a result. That’s why having someone on their team like Donna to help support them in their pursuits and teach healthy coping skills is so vital.

Neurodivergent herself and trained in supporting neurodivergent clients, Donna provides non-judgmental support and practical strategies for staying grounded and productive."

-Alessa Rogers, Corps de ballet, The Royal Swedish Ballet- 

⭐ Donna is an awesomeness accomplice.

Before offering one-to-one and group coaching, she was supporting young humans as the Academic Support Counselor and Wellness Lead at Rowland Hall, the director of the teaching and learning center and adolescent health education program at The Orme School, the campus wellness coordinator, residential student wellness educator, and adjunct instructor of Stress Management for Stage Managers at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and before that, living and working with young artists at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Arts Academy and Summer Camp. Her interest and study of Girls Education started when she was teaching at an all-girls school in Western Australia and her work with young women was presented at the National Wellness Conference where she also completed her certification as a holistic stress management instructor. Her Girls Group program was why she was selected as one of three Young Women's Health & Wellness Mentors for the state of North Carolina by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women's Health, focused on improving the health of U.S. women and girls through policy, education, and programs.

⭐ She is highly skilled in developing positive rapport and seeing the potential in others.

In her work she draws from a depth of experience and training in learning theory/education, mindfulness, holistic stress management, instructional coaching, curriculum development, social emotional learning leadership, diversity studies, equity & inclusion, motivational interviewing, adolescent development, body image media literacy, cognitive coaching, arts & the humanities, and years of providing compassionate support to highly sensitive, creative, high achieving, big idea, deep thinking, weird, funny & neurodivergent brains.  

⭐ Her work with clients focuses on co-creating meaning, inner resources, personal development, self-awareness and organizational practices that reduce stress and overwhelm and increase self-awareness, decision making, skills to evaluate "norms" and other unexamined beliefs to increase feelings of competency and self-advocacy skills.

⭐ Current and former clients report that they feel deeply cared for, seen and supported in all aspects of their daily life and often refer to feeling that she "gets it".

⭐ She likes 80's music and movie references, doing kind things for others (the real punk rock), time with animals, science fiction, poetry, watching stand-up comedy, making art, connecting with friends, exploring new music, listening to TED talks, napping with her toothless rescue siamese cat, baking, finding rocks and big sticks, sitting on a dock dangling her feet into the water and watching the minnows swim around, savoring the way light comes through trees and being out in nature, connected to all of her relations.