ABOUT ANDREA

For 32 years, I taught emergent literacy—first as an elementary teacher, then as a reading specialist, and eventually as a professor at Saint Mary's College of California. I loved the work. I was good at it. And for a long time, I told myself it was enough.

But something kept nagging at me. I'd built a successful career helping others find their voice through literacy, yet I'd spent decades ignoring my own. I had the credentials, the stability, the respect—and a gnawing sense that I was playing it safe.

So at midlife, I did the thing that terrified me most: I walked away from everything I knew to pursue the work I couldn't not do. That leap led me to become a Professional Certified Coach and to create the Name, Claim and Reframe® methodology—a proven framework for helping high-achievers break through the invisible barriers that keep them stuck. My book, Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life, was featured on the TODAY Show as 2023's best motivational read.

But here's what the credentials don't tell you: I know what it's like to have the external markers of success and still feel like you're holding back. I know the weight of playing small to keep others comfortable. I know what it takes to choose growth over safety—and how transformative that choice can be.

I spent three decades helping people crack the code of print. Now I help them crack the code of themselves—guiding ambitious professionals through the same process that changed my life. We don't just talk about what's possible—we dismantle what's been holding you back and build something true in its place.

My approach combines decades of experience in education and leadership development (M.Ed. from UC Berkeley, PCC through ICF) with deep intuitive work—grounded in research, guided by intuition, always questioning what 'should' be done in favor of what's actually true. I believe transformation happens when we stop performing and start listening—to the whispers, the nudges, the inconvenient truths we've been avoiding.

I'm still in the Bay Area where I started, still married to my spouse of 36 years, still asking myself the hard questions—and helping others do the same.