Twenty-one years reading nervous system signals under pressure. A creative career learning how perspective changes everything. A doctorate bringing scientific rigor to both.
Most of what people call a focus problem, a discipline problem, or a burnout problem is actually a nervous system problem. I've spent my whole adult life learning to see those patterns: first because lives depended on it, now because quality of life does.
Today I combine nervous system regulation, cognitive-profile design, and EEG neurofeedback into a single coaching practice, working with high performers running on empty, professionals whose schedules fight their cognitive design, and people referred by their therapists to build the regulation their clinical work needs.
I'm a Clinical Psychology doctoral student at Hawai'i School of Professional Psychology at Chaminade University and an ICF certified coach. The practice is deliberately small while I complete the doctorate. That's by design: depth over volume.
For 21 years in the Air Force, 8 in electronic warfare and 13 in Explosive Ordnance Disposal, I learned that complex problems require systematic approaches. In EOD work you can't afford to miss connections: every component affects every other component, and overlooking one relationship can have catastrophic consequences. Leading teams through life-or-death situations taught me that sustainable performance requires more than technical skill. It requires understanding how stress affects decision-making and how physical and mental wellness create the foundation for everything else. I was medically retired. The regulation work I teach now is the work that rebuilt me.
After military retirement I built a career in photography. It taught me something crucial: the same landscape looks completely different depending on your perspective, timing, and approach. What seems impossible from one angle becomes obvious from another. That principle, small changes in approach reveal entirely new possibilities, became central to how I help clients redesign how they live and work.
Hawai'i was my final Air Force assignment and it became much more than that. Here I encountered Indigenous Hawaiian wellness concepts that complemented everything I'd learned about systems thinking and human performance. The principle of Kukulu Kumuhana, building foundation through community and shared intention, aligned with what the science kept showing me: real wellness has to address multiple life domains at once.
The doctorate brings scientific discipline to what experience built. My clinical training includes neuropsychological assessment work, helping evaluate conditions like dementia, adult ADHD, and communication disorders, and current therapeutic-setting work with ADHD and ASD families, trauma survivors, and people navigating forced transitions. That training informs the coaching practice and defines its boundary: coaching is coaching, and anything clinical gets referred to clinical care.
I'm developing the Pinnacle Wellness Assessment, a wellness self-report that measures quality of life across 14 interconnected domains, blending Western psychological science with Indigenous Hawaiian wellness wisdom. It's currently being studied by doctoral researchers and piloted by clinicians, and has been used in settings serving neurodivergent populations, under-resourced Pacific Islander communities, and a transitional home for women and children leaving abuse.
The same instrument anchors progress tracking in my coaching practice, and every engagement contributes, with client consent and full de-identification, to the research base behind it. The Foundation of Growth is Understanding isn't just the parent company's motto. It's the method.
One complimentary 25 minute conversation answers most of it. No pitch, no pressure. That's not how this practice runs.
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