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 * Title: About – Story & Philosophy
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<div class="wp-block-group alignfull has-background-light-background-color has-background" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><!-- wp:columns {"verticalAlignment":"top","style":{"spacing":{"blockGap":{"top":"48px","left":"clamp(64px,8vw,120px)"},"margin":{"top":"0","bottom":"0"}}}} -->
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<p class="has-primary-color has-text-color has-inter-font-family has-caption-font-size" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase">My Story</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-heading-text-color has-text-color has-fraunces-font-family" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:24px;font-size:36px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1">From clinical practice to coaching</h2>
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<p class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-inter-font-family has-body-md-font-size" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.7">I began my career in a community mental health clinic in Brooklyn, where the days were long and the conversations were unguarded. I learned to listen, to slow down, and to trust that the body knows things the mind hasn’t named yet.</p>
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<!-- wp:paragraph {"style":{"typography":{"lineHeight":"1.7","fontStyle":"normal","fontWeight":"400"},"spacing":{"margin":{"top":"0","bottom":"16px"}}},"textColor":"paragraph-text","fontSize":"body-md","fontFamily":"inter"} -->
<p class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-inter-font-family has-body-md-font-size" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.7">Over the years I moved into private practice, then into trauma-informed work, then into coaching. Each shift was an attempt to make depth work more accessible — to meet people earlier, before crisis, with practices they could actually use.</p>
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<p class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-inter-font-family has-body-md-font-size" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.7">TherapyCoach is the culmination of that arc. A small set of carefully designed programs, supported by real one-on-one sessions, held inside an environment built for confidentiality and ease.</p>
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<li class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-link-color" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400">Awareness without practice fades. Practice without awareness exhausts.</li>
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<li class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-link-color" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400">The nervous system learns through repetition and safety — not insight alone.</li>
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<li class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-link-color" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400">Therapy works best when it includes the body, not only the story.</li>
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<li class="has-paragraph-text-color has-text-color has-link-color" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:400">Healing is not a destination. It’s a relationship you build with yourself.</li>
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