My Story

Although I am a native New Yorker, I have lived in various parts of the USA and in Paris, France.  I have always been a writer, publishing a memoir and poetry, and I have been an actress as well, appearing on stage and screen at various times of my life.  While I have always been immersed in the arts, I have also been passionate about helping people.  In 1981, I was raped in NYC at gunpoint in Central Park. I ended up in Denver shortly after that event and was lucky enough to find help from a wonderful organization called Ending Violence Effectively. When I returned to New York a year later, I decided to enter training and certification programs at St Lukes-Roosevelt and St. Vincent’s Hospitals in NYC, so that I could become a volunteer Rape Crisis Counselor in the Emergency Rooms at both hospitals.  

Since that time, and during the period in my life that I was living in Los Angeles and acting, I took the plunge into the Martha Beck Life Coach Training Program, and I became a Life Coach.  I continued with Intensive Grief Training with Our House in Los Angeles and earned my certification as a Grief and Loss Counselor.  This brought new meaning to my life.  I had experienced tragic loss in my own life and wanted to help people live with grief and still be able to live full and happy lives.  My sister died at age 33 of breast cancer and my mother suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease for 11 years before she died. I wrote a book about my sister called My Sister’s Picture, which was published by Simon and Schuster in 1986.

MY CREDENTIALS

Our House/Grief and Loss Certification
St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital Crime Victims Treatment Center/Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Advocate Certification
Martha Beck Life Coach Training