Hey, I'm Amy.

Recovery from anorexia started with my older sister dragging me to a dietitian in 2017. A doctor looked at my labs and told me I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have had a heart attack years earlier.

That was the moment my years of lying, pretending, and trying to "perfect" myself finally caught up with me. I ended up leaving college so I could focus on recovery. Without getting into all the details, I'll just say those months were some of the hardest and most meaningful of my life. They forced me to rethink everything I believed about discipline, self-worth, and control.

A lot of the work I do with clients today touches those same themes — the inner critic, perfectionism, and the pressure to prove our value through what we produce. I know that terrain from the inside.

If you're navigating something similar — whether it's a diagnosed eating disorder or just a difficult relationship with food, your body, or your sense of achievement — you're in the room with someone who understands that world. When it's helpful, I also work alongside therapists and dietitians as part of a broader support team.

You know the type. The teacher’s pet. The gold-star chaser. The one who somehow had a full résumé of accolades before most kids had learned long division.

I was that kid. A Dance Moms-esque competitive dancer. The student who once cried after getting a 96 on a chemistry test (I know…truly unhinged behavior). I prided myself on working hard 24/7, saying yes to everything, and getting as close to perfect as possible on very specific, very measurable tasks.

But the hamster wheel of achievement eventually came with inevitable crashes and burns. Anxiety. Depression. Eating disorders. Panic attacks. Those experiences forced me to start questioning the system I had been running on for so long.

Part of what I bring to coaching is a firsthand understanding of what it's like to be high-achieving and still feel like it's never quite enough.

If you're the person who has checked every box and still feels oddly empty, or who can't stop moving long enough to figure out if any of this is actually what you want — that's a conversation I know well. We'll figure out what it looks like to make choices from a different place than fear or external validation.

I love my parents fiercely. I also know they sacrificed so much to build a life here (I write extensively about them in my book). Like a lot of kids in that position, I grew up with an unspoken understanding that I was supposed to make their sacrifice "worth it." Work hard. Be responsible. Don't waste opportunities.

There's a lot in that upbringing that I'm deeply grateful for: resilience, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility to be something bigger than myself. But it can also come with pressure. The feeling that your choices carry more weight than just your own happiness. The quiet question of whether you're living your life, or the life that makes the most sense to everyone around you.

That tension between gratitude, responsibility, and figuring out your own life is something a lot of us carry. And I'm ready to talk through it with you when you are.

I've spent most of my career as a leadership development facilitator and social impact consultant, working with governments, the UN, NGOs, and companies on change management, impact strategy, and systems leadership. Outside of work, I dance (contemporary, hip-hop, and a lot of things in between). I paint, write, and read. I also play lots of video and board games.

All of this shapes how I coach. My consulting experience brings structure and research-backed frameworks, while creative arts and gaming add focus, presence, and play. I combine visual mapping, meditation, and other hands-on tools with traditional coaching frameworks to help clients think differently and gain clarity. If you value rigor but want to explore new, interactive ways of problem-solving, you'll feel at home here.

I wrote a book for young adults who are navigating the messy middle between who they were told to be and who they actually want to become. It's part memoir, part workbook, part honest conversation about the things adults don't usually say out loud to young people — about identity, failure, direction, and what it actually means to build a life that's yours.

It's available through my website and at select events. If you're someone who processes best through reading and reflection, it's a good place to start — whether or not you ever book a coaching session.

I know — most people don't say this. But I genuinely love being in a room with people who are curious and a little bit unsettled. There's something about a live audience that sharpens the conversation in a way that's hard to replicate.

I speak at high schools, colleges, conferences, and organizations on intentional decision-making, identity, life transitions, and what it means to build something real in a world full of noise. My talks aren't motivational fluff — they're designed to make people think, and hopefully leave with a question they'll keep turning over for a while.

If you're an educator, counselor, administrator, or organizer and this sounds like something your community needs, I'd love to talk.

Curious what my speaking style is like? Here's a sample — my commencement address for NYU's Classes of 2020 and 2021.