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Ashley's emotional wellbeing focus fuels her work as a Kids Life Coach, Educator, and Author. She uses her S.H.I.N.E. framework to help kids increase their confidence to organize themselves using self-awareness, play, trust-building activities, and problem solving skills offered through math.

She has worked with hundreds of children and families professionally in the last 14 years from a variety of backgrounds and abilities. Her previous experiences include serving as a Family Support Specialist in San Francisco Unified School District; a Case Manager and Program Coordinator at Hunters Point Family; a Children's Ministry Director at Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco; and an Afterschool Teacher and Tutor at Alice Fong Yu Elementary.

Ashley is a San Francisco native with Garifuna roots in Trujillo, Honduras. She is an optimist, nature lover, proud Howard University Alumna, and a proud Brown University Alumna.

View some of her previous work with women and youth here.

Click here to view pictures of Ashley's previous work with adults.

As a child, Ashley was vibrant, curious, and loving. But her own adverse childhood and adolescent experiences reduced her ability to "bounce back" from emotionally diminishing life events. This affected her into early adulthood. For this reason, Ashley thoroughly enjoys creating learning experiences that connect tweens and teens, in particular, to the joy of their younger selves. With this awareness, young people are able to connect to what Ashley calls their G.P.S., their greatest possible self. Her coaching style inspires young people to activate their autonomic nervous systems for change that is evident in their time management, relationships, grades, and school-life activities.

What Ashley helps you accomplish

• Increased confidence and competencies through emotional processing, goal-setting, play, skill-building, and self-observation.
• Energized emotional and psychological outlooks through reframing challenges as opportunities towards reaching next-level goals.
• Sharper executive functioning skills through relaxation and culturally-relevant heart-brain coherence tools.