SheWhoDares Consulting, LLC.

“You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”
Brene’ Brown

SheWhoDares Consulting holds brave, compassionate spaces where survivors and communities are met with dignity, deep listening, and unwavering care. We create trauma‑informed environments that invite healing, growth, and the reclamation of agency through radical self‑compassion, paced practices, and body‑centered work. Grounded in lived experience and somatic expertise, we partner with individuals and systems to transform pain into post-traumatic growth, offering practical tools, gentle embodiment practices, and tailored supports that honor each person’s story and pace.

I survived stage 3b metastatic colon cancer, and I live with an ileostomy named Rosita—she’s loud, reliable, and has excellent timing. Those experiences, alongside foster care, homelessness, exploitation, intimate partner violence, and more, shape my work and fuel my commitment to creating brave, trauma‑informed spaces where survivors and vulnerable communities can heal, grow, and audaciously thrive.

My Mission

SheWhoDares Consulting makes brave, trauma‑informed spaces where survivors and systems stop merely surviving and start flourishing — with a little grit, a lot of tenderness, and the occasional sarcastic laugh when the universe gets dramatic. We hold people with radical self‑compassion, paced, body‑centered practices, and practical tools that honor messy lives and stubborn hope. I survived a lot — foster care, exploitation, trafficking, intimate partner violence, homelessness, and stage 3b metastatic colon cancer — and I live with an ileostomy named Rosita (she’s opinionated). Those stories fuel this work: we listen, we steady, we teach systems to stop retraumatizing, and we help people reclaim agency — sometimes with tears, sometimes with rage, and sometimes with a snort of laughter at how absurd resilience can be.

Brave spaces. Radical compassion. Healing with a wink and a battle cry.

How this mission guides our work.

Every training, consultation, and mentoring relationship begins with listening and safety planning. We design interventions that are accessible, paced, and measurable so survivors and service systems can move from surviving to flourishing without being rushed or re-exposed. Our commitment to lived experience shapes curriculum, policy recommendations, and coaching practices, ensuring that change is both compassionate and practical.

Guiding values (how the mission shows up)

Safety first —

predictable, accessible, trauma‑informed practices so people can show up without being re‑exposed.

Radical compassion —

fierce kindness that meets pain without pity or performance.

Embodied wisdom —

somatic tools, breathwork, and paced practices that let the body teach us what words can’t.

Practical transformation —

policies, trainings, and coaching that actually change how people are treated, not just how they feel about it.

Inclusive partnership —

co‑creating with communities and systems, listening first and designing solutions that meet real needs with humility and clarity.

dark, honest laughter when it helps; solemnity when it’s needed; always real.

Humor as medicine —

Meet The Team

Consulting, Embodiment, & Wellness Coaching

Trainings that teach staff to hold safety and boundaries without becoming robots.
Consulting that rewrites policies so dignity isn’t optional.
One‑on‑one mentoring that meets survivors where they are — with pacing, tools, and permission to be gloriously imperfect.
Retreats and workshops that blend somatic practice with real‑world skills and the occasional campfire story about Rosita’s timing.

Tailored Trainings for Systems & Helping Professionals

SheWhoDares Consulting trainings are designed for professionals and organizations working at the intersection of trauma, safety, care, and accountability. Content is adaptable for frontline staff, supervisors, leadership teams, and multidisciplinary groups, with a strong focus on embodied, trauma‑responsive practice.

Child Welfare Professionals
(CPS, social workers, case managers, supervisors)
Juvenile Justice Professionals
(probation officers, detention staff, diversion program staff)
Law Enforcement
(patrol officers, detectives, task force members, school resource officers)
Victim Service Providers
(advocates, shelter staff, outreach workers, case managers)
Behavioral Health Professionals
(therapists, counselors, clinicians, social workers)
Educators & School‑Based Staff
(teachers, counselors, administrators, attendance officers)
Healthcare Professionals
(nurses, physicians, emergency department staff, community health workers)
Nonprofit & Community‑Based Organizations and Staff
Policy Makers & Systems Leaders
involved in child protection, public safety, and social services
Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs)
Human trafficking task forces
Training academies and professional conferences
Graduate students in social work, psychology, criminology, public health, or education