ABOUT TERI
There’s a version of me that grew up dreaming in color.
I was the girl who studied dance and music and art, who wanted to live in France and spend her life making beautiful things. I was curious, creative, and completely alive in ways I didn’t yet have words for. Life felt full of possibility.
And then, the way it happens for so many women, I slowly began to disappear into the roles I thought were expected of me.
I married young. I built a life around others and poured my creativity into different expressions — working as a high fashion model with one of San Francisco’s top agencies, and later as an interior designer, where I graduated with the Award of Excellence and was invited back to teach.
But there was also a long season of losing myself in ways I didn’t fully recognize until I was standing in the aftermath, wondering who I actually was.
After my second marriage ended, I found myself in a place so many of my clients know intimately — depleted, disoriented, and quietly desperate to feel like myself again.
The creativity and passion I once had felt buried under grief. I didn’t know who I was anymore or what I wanted — only that I needed to find my way back to myself.
Something in Me Opened
Healing took time — more time than I thought it should, and more time than I wanted it to. But somewhere in that long, slow journey back to myself I found what I had been looking for.
It came through soul searching, through reading, through sitting quietly with myself until something shifted. I remember the moment clearly — after reading Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God — when something in me simply opened. I made a quiet promise to myself and to God that I would no longer accept less than I deserved. That I would only welcome a man into my life who could prove through his actions that he was truly worthy of my time and my heart.
Within months I reconnected with an old friend from high school. His name is Michael. He is a musician, my greatest companion, and my best friend. We have been together ever since.
Through him, I found my way back to performing — something I had dreamed of as a girl and quietly set aside for decades.
That decision — to love myself deeply enough to wait for what I had always deserved — changed everything. Today, that lived experience is the foundation of my work as a transformational coach and hypnotherapist. I help my clients reconnect with themselves, rebuild their confidence, and create lasting change from the inside out.
The work
Not long ago I was performing on stage with Michael when a woman approached me afterwards. She told me she wished she had the confidence to do what I had just done — to stand up there and sing her own songs in front of a room full of people.
I understood exactly what she meant. Not because I had always been confident. But because I remembered what it felt like not to be.
That moment captured everything I do in my work. I help women who have quietly set themselves aside — through loss, transition, or simply the slow erosion of living for everyone else — find their way back to who they actually are. Not a reinvented version. Not a better, optimized self. The woman who was always there, waiting.
Through transformational coaching, hypnotherapy, and NLP, I work with the whole of you — the conscious mind that wants to change and the deeper patterns that have been running quietly underneath. Real shifts happen when both are addressed together.
Teri is a Certified Hypnotherapist trained under Paul McKenna, a Certified NLP Practitioner through the Association for Integrative Psychology, and a graduate of both The Institute for Woman-Centered Coaching and the Institute for Coaching Mastery.
If you’re feeling disconnected from yourself — if something in you knows it’s time to stop waiting and start finding your way back — I’d love to walk that path with you.
You can explore my PRIVATE COACHING or HYPNOTHERAPY offerings to learn more, or simply take the first step.