Years of studying and teaching in the field led her to build the Integration Model, an original framework for understanding how the self develops, fragments, and finds its way back to coherence. It draws on Dan Siegel's work in interpersonal neurobiology and Nathaniel Branden's research on self-esteem, applied to the two things she's found matter most: how people relate to themselves, and how that shapes every relationship that follows. She holds a conviction that a growth model is only as good as its consistent, systematic, reproducible results.

She's the developer of three programs built on the model: Centered Sense of Self, Rupture and Repair, and The Ground Floor, along with essays exploring the same ideas in shorter form.

The shape of the work

This is the foundational curriculum. Rupture and Repair builds directly on it.

The first stretch of weeks builds the foundation: how attachment and self-worth form, what activation actually is, and the mechanism behind what you're organized around when things feel destabilizing.

From there, the course moves into structure, boundaries, values, and how attraction itself works, before turning to application: what it actually takes to stay connected to yourself under real pressure, and a working framework for high-stakes decisions.

It closes by bringing the work back into relationship, what genuine repair requires, and what accountability and forgiveness actually mean once they're coming from an integrated place.

The shape of the work

The first four weeks are the same foundation taught in Centered Sense of Self, adapted for this work. From there, the course is built specifically for infidelity.

After the foundation, the course reframes the question most people arrive with, moving from a moral or random-chance frame toward understanding what actually preceded the affair, the template each partner carries, and what the relationship itself did over time.

It then moves into the aftermath directly: betrayal trauma, what trust actually requires to rebuild, and the real difference between guilt, shame, and responsibility.

The closing stretch assembles everything into a usable pattern, works through what genuine repair requires, and addresses the stay-or-leave decision directly, discerning whether it's coming from integrated values or from compulsion, before closing with what it takes to build stability that isn't borrowed from the relationship itself.

The shape of the work

Each week teaches a parent's own pattern alongside what that same pattern is building in their child. The course opens with a parent's own foundational material before turning to the child's developing brain and what that means for discipline and repair.

The first stretch is your own foundation: template, self-worth, activation, drift, and boundaries, using the same lens on your own patterns that the rest of the course applies to your child.

From there, the course turns to your child's developing brain directly, what's actually possible for a child to do and regulate at different stages, and what that means for discipline and staying present as a parent under real pressure.

The closing stretch turns forward: how a parent's own relationship to effort, pride, and mistakes shapes what a child absorbs about their own, and what it means to close the course still building rather than finished.