Why This Work
For over 20 years, I've been a registered nurse, caring for people through some of life's most vulnerable moments. My background includes a Master of Science in Nursing in Midwifery and Women's Health. I've supported people through birth, death, illness, and the tender transitions in between. These experiences taught me that healing happens when people feel truly seen, safe, and held with compassion.
I'm trained in Internal Family Systems, which informs how I work with the different parts of ourselves that hold pain, protection, and wisdom. I'm currently completing my certification in Sex, Love, and Relationships coaching through Layla Martin's VITA program, which draws from both modern science and ancient wisdom traditions.
What I bring to this work is not just training, but my own lived experience of transformation. I know what it's like to feel broken, disconnected, numb - to try everything and have nothing work. And I know what it's like on the other side - to feel alive in your body, to experience pleasure and authentic connection, to come home to yourself. I know the path because I'm walking it myself.
I live in Vancouver, WA with my husband of 11 years and our two children. After years together, we continue discovering new depths of connection and intimacy as we both do our own work.
My intention as a coach is to create a safe, welcoming space for you to explore your desires and engage with the inner work needed to come home to yourself. This isn't about fixing what's broken - it's about uncovering the wisdom and wholeness already within you. Authenticity, love, respect, and curiosity guide everything I do. I'm here as a support and resource in service of your thriving across all dimensions of life - body, mind, heart, spirit, sexuality, and relationships.
My Journey
I'm Angela - a registered nurse, mother, wife, and coach passionate about the transformational power of love in guiding people home to connection with themselves and greater intimacy in their relationships.
I grew up learning to disappear myself to survive. In a chaotic home, I became the caretaker, the fixer, the one who made sure everyone else was okay. I carried those patterns into adulthood - over-functioning, over-giving, existing to prove my worth through what I could do for others. Even as I built a good life, I was disconnected from myself in fundamental ways.
By my mid-30s, I had a better life than I had ever dreamed of - a meaningful nursing career, a loving marriage, two beautiful children. Yet I was still disconnected from my body in fundamental ways. Sexual disconnection became the doorway I walked through to explore what was keeping me from experiencing the aliveness and intimacy I was longing for - both within myself and in my relationship.
Through somatic practices, breathwork, energy work, and parts work, I began uncovering layers I hadn't known were there. What started as addressing sexual disconnection opened into recognizing deeper patterns - ways I had learned to abandon myself, to disconnect, to exist in service of proving my worth rather than from a place of genuine aliveness.
The healing journey became about coming home to myself across all dimensions - body, mind, heart, spirit, sexuality, relationships. Learning I wasn't broken and never had been. Reclaiming my voice, my boundaries, my desires. Discovering that I'm allowed to exist for myself, not just for others. Learning to access aliveness, pleasure, and genuine connection from wholeness rather than depletion.
This transformation continues. My husband and I still have conversations where we uncover patterns we didn't realize were there - dynamics that felt normal but were actually keeping us from deeper connection. As I've become aware of what was keeping me from thriving and brought consciousness to those patterns, I've experienced profound shifts. There's a restoration of aliveness in my body, deeper intimacy in my relationship, a sense of being at home within myself that feels truly meaningful.