coach. educator. WRITER.

I believe in people. I support the people who make up the parts of a team as well as the parts that make up each person as a whole. Clients experience powerful transformation when, as an objective and experienced coach, I hold and protect a space for them to honor feelings, identify needs, name values, set intentions, face challenges, discover strength, cultivate agency, take action and claim what they crave. Clients emerge from coaching with me stronger, clearer, and more aligned with what matters most to them. I feel called to this work of empowering my clients to lead wholehearted, connected, dynamic and meaningful lives.

“Abby truly has a natural gift for this work, which is the reason she is at the top of my referral list.”
— Robin Wein, Psychologist

ABOUT ME

I live in San Francisco with my husband, son and dog. The Bay Area has been my home for over two decades. Other places I have been lucky enough to call home include New York, Oregon, The Netherlands, Santa Cruz, Maine, Boston, and Eleuthera (a small island in the Bahamas). When not coaching, writing or leading circles, I can usually be found hiking the Lands End Trail with my dog, cold plunging into the Pacific, belting karaoke ballads that are way out of my range, and exploring with my family in our VW Westfalia. 

I am a middle child, a Cancer, and an Enneagram Two. In past lives, I was a summer camp director, college soccer player, ocean lifeguard, school teacher, and national ultimate frisbee champion! Each of these past lives and roles influence and inform my current ones as a coach, educator, writer and mother.

A lifelong athlete of team sports, I spent my initial "retirement" years missing my team, getting dirty, sweaty huddles, and the feeling of a scrappy comeback. I found what I was missing when I became a parent. Parenthood forced me to get scrappy, dirty, and sweaty. In my family, friends, clients, and circles, I found my huddle, my team.

 

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & TRAINING

  • CTI Co-Active Coach

  • IFSI Trained Coach

  • M.A. Tufts University

  • B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Professional Training & Development

    • Internal Family Systems Foundations for Coaches

    • The Body Speaks: Embodied Healing in Working with Trauma

    • Mediate Your Life: Building a Culture of Compassion in Life and Work

    • Leadership + Design Leadership Training: Leading from Middle

    • Blink: Critically Rethinking Diversity

    • All Kinds of Minds

    • Developmental Designs

    • BATC Effective Advising

    • Facing History & Ourselves

  • 2+ decades of experience in education and coaching

  • One Fifty Parker Avenue School Board of Directors