MLC, BCC

Personal empowerment is at the core of Kristen’s focus with everyone she coaches. This includes adults dealing with life transitions and wellness issues, couples rebalancing their relationships, students thriving within their academic and social challenges, and parents wanting to optimize their children’s development.

Kristie graduated from Montclair University with a bachelors degree in Psychology, before becoming a nationally certified Master Life Coach. She also completed extensive AMS certification training at the Montessori Center for Teacher Development.

Her involvement with the perspectives and practices of Optimum Living began in the early 1990’s when she began working here as a Group Facilitator and Assistant to the Director.

Along with Life Coaching, Kristie’s professional experience has included being a FMLA Counselor and Case Manager for AT&T, a Group Facilitator for women at the Chatham Senior Center and a teacher and teacher trainer at the Montessori Children’s Academy.

Outside of her professional roles, Kristie is a beloved wife and mother, artistic, creative, a lover of nature and music, and a service-minded community volunteer. Before getting married, she spent many months providing on-site aid to villagers in Ghana.