About Unapologetic Edge
I See What You're Carrying
I've been watching competent women quietly unravel for 22 years. Not because they're weak. Because they've been running on a nervous system that was never allowed to stand down.
I've been there. Twice as a business leader. Once, as a mother navigating perimenopause while raising teenagers. Four daughters, all of them neurodivergent, late diagnosed, which meant everything I'd been blaming myself for suddenly made sense, but only after years of thinking I was failing at the thing I'm actually good at.
I watched my own body refuse to cooperate with the narrative I'd been sold: if you just try harder, sacrifice more, it'll work. That's when I understood something crucial: what we call individual burnout is actually a collision between our biology, our nervous systems, and a culture that's designed to break us.
I'm a trauma therapist. A sociologist. A published author. A speaker. A mother learning alongside four daughters who've taught me what systemic failure looks like from the inside. I've studied this. I've lived this. And I've spent two decades watching it happen to women exactly like you.
What I Know About You
You're not here because you need motivation. You need resolution.
You've tried everything: better boundaries, more self-care, productivity systems, coaching, and maybe even other therapy. You know intellectually that something needs to shift. But knowing and your nervous system actually letting go are two different things, aren't they?
You're competent. Probably too competent. You keep going long after your body's been asking for something different. You've built your life around managing what you feel, controlling what you can, and absorbing pressure that was never meant to be yours alone. That competence has saved you. It's also slowly poisoning you.
You might be in perimenopause, that threshold moment when your biology finally refuses to let you pretend the old rules still work. You might be leading a team or a business while watching everyone else struggle. You might be a parent (of neurodivergent kids or just kids navigating a culture that's fractured them). You might be all of these at once. You're carrying responsibility well, often too well. And you're tired of managing it all.
Here's what I see: Your system isn't broken. It's operating exactly as designed, to keep you safe, to keep you functioning, to keep you from falling apart. That worked once. Now it's keeping you stuck.
Why I Do This Work
I created Unapologetic Edge because this work needed to exist.
When I found TRTP (The Richards Trauma Process), everything shifted. Not overnight. Not dramatically. But my nervous system finally understood that the danger had passed. And for the first time in decades, rest wasn't something I had to fight for. It just happened.
That taught me something the psychology world doesn't always say out loud: you don't need to process your trauma endlessly. You need to complete it. Most women notice genuine shifts within 3-4 sessions. That's not because TRTP is magic. It's because it works at the level where the problem was created, in your nervous system, not in the conscious mind that traditional coaching keeps targeting.
When unresolved survival patterns resolve, everything downstream changes. Sleep. Decision-making. Emotional regulation. Relational capacity. The way you show up for your life. This is resolution work, not management work.
And here's what matters: you don't need months or years of processing to get there. You need someone who understands what you're carrying, knows how to help your nervous system let it go, and respects that you've already tried everything else.
The Bigger Picture
I'm not just a therapist. I'm someone who's spent years understanding what's actually breaking us, not as individual failures but as systemic collapse.
Burnout isn't about poor boundaries or not self-caring hard enough. That's the lie that lets toxic cultures off the hook. The truth is that isolation, perfectionism, and unsafe work environments literally reshape our nervous systems and our families.
We've built an economy that rewards self-sufficiency at the exact moment humans need connection most.
Scattered families.
Neighbourhoods where no one knows each other.
School systems that isolate parents.
Work cultures that demand presence while removing safety.
Then we're shocked when women fracture.
This is why I'm a published author. Why I speak. Why I keep researching and writing alongside my clinical work. Why I contributed to Overcoming Self-Sabotage and The Backyard Peace Project and founded Fantastic Futures, a nervous-system-based platform for parents navigating neurodivergence. Why I host The Family Architect Podcast and Unapologetic Edge: Perimenopause, Motherhood & Burnout, exploring what happens when we stop pretending we can do this alone.
It's not resume building. It's commitment. It's saying: I see the culture that broke you. I'm not just helping you survive it differently. I'm helping you understand it, get angry at the right things, and rebuild something better.
What This Means for You
You're not broken. Your system is operating to keep you safe.
And when that system finally understands the danger has passed? Everything changes.
Trauma Therapist • Life & Leadership Coach • Author • Speaker • Sociologist
22+ years understanding what happens beneath competence and coping, especially for women navigating burnout, perimenopause, leadership strain, parenting in isolation, and the aftermath of late diagnosis.
I bring clinical expertise, lived experience, and cultural truth-telling to conversations about what's actually happening, and what it takes to rebuild.
This isn’t a stress quiz. It’s a Burnout Audit that reveals the patterns keeping you stuck in overdrive.
If rest feels hard or relief never lasts, this will help you understand why.
If You're Here, You Already Know.
You don't need convincing that something needs to shift.
You need someone who understands what you're carrying, and knows how to help your nervous system finally let it go.
Beyond One-on-One: Speaking & Writing
My work doesn't stop in my therapy room.
I'm a published author, sociologist, and speaker exploring what happens beneath competence and coping—especially for women navigating perimenopause, burnout, leadership strain, and parenting in isolation.
I've also raised four neurodivergent daughters. Late diagnosis taught me what systemic failure looks like and why nervous system science matters so much in parenting, leadership, and culture.
I bring this lived experience, clinical expertise, and cultural analysis to conversations about burnout, family systems, leadership, and what it takes to rebuild connection in a fractured world.
If you're interested in having me speak, guest on your podcast, or collaborate on writing projects, head to my Media & Speaking page for my full bio, articles, and podcast episodes.
As featured in
Matters Magazine
You’re not broken. Your system is operating to keep you safe.
I was recently featured in Matters Magazine for my work helping high-performing leaders reset burnout at a nervous-system level.