DJ is a Therapeutic Educational Consultant and Certified Coach skilled with helping clients navigate the delicate and challenging journey of supporting a struggling child.

She travels extensively, visiting programs and schools to meet with the leadership teams, therapists, staff, and students. Averaging over 60 program visits each year allows her to deeply understand and effectively evaluate programs. She also knows this territory well, having experienced it directly with her children.

DJ earned her coaching certification from New Ventures West, an International Coaching Federation-accredited program. She studies relational parenting, attachment theory, trauma, somatic healing, and childhood development with leading experts. Her consulting is influenced by her work with several spiritual teachers over the last 20 years.

DJ also attends conferences to ensure she knows the leading-edge and most effective outcome-based treatments and modalities. She is a member of the Independent Education Consultant Association (IECA), Therapeutic Consulting Association (TCA), and the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP).