What my clients say
“I am so glad that I have had the chance to work with Tracy as I transitioned into the next phase of life after retirement.
In just a few short sessions, Tracy was able to help me identify where my interests and passions were focused, and how to incorporate simple strategies to move forward with the next steps of what I wanted to achieve. Her overall encouraging personality, ability to be a great listener and provide guided feedback at just the right time, as well as her follow-up from session to session, make her an amazing life coach. Thanks, Trace!”
K-M. B.
“Tracy sincerely believes in the strengths of the ADHD mind, and wants to help us all find and unleash it.
I’d become paralyzed by my undiagnosed ADHD for many years when I started coaching with Tracy. She has supported me in my entire journey since then, from accepting and understanding the diagnosis and myself, to helping me get moving again in my life. She appreciates individualism and your unique mind, offering genuine support and creative solutions for the obstacles you face.”
E. W.
“Working with Tracy is a journey of healing at a deep soul level, and I am infinitely grateful.
Finding Tracy has been a true blessing, and one of the brightest lights to come out of a pretty challenging and heavy season of life. Being diagnosed with ADHD at 43 was not something I ever imagined I’d be navigating, yet now it makes so much sense! Since being diagnosed, I have been on a rollercoaster of emotions - relief, grief, and everything in between. I can’t imagine how I would have made it through this past year without the compassion, lived experience, and skillful guidance that Tracy provides. When I read her About page, it was like reading my own story…it was like she took my internal world and laid it out so eloquently on the computer screen. I spent my entire adult life trying to “fix” myself and what I perceived to be defects and “weaknesses” in my character, psychology, physiology, spirituality, etc - so that I could be successful, and finally achieve this sense of “normal” that had so far eluded me. It felt like I had been living 2 totally different lives…the one on the surface that people saw as confident, joyful, accomplished, inspiring and powerful - and the one under the surface that felt like an impostor and a failure, flaky, insecure, always struggling to keep up, and full of anxiety about everything - especially the thought of any one ever seeing what was under the surface! Tracy provides a safe and compassionate container where I can bring my full self, lay all the masks down, and begin the journey of integration. Through this process, I am reclaiming parts of myself I had disowned, forgiving myself, understanding myself, and loving myself more and more every day.“
C. M
“I'm grateful for how Tracy opened my eyes to my own power.
I was resistant to coaching at first, perhaps afraid of the ‘big reveal’ and Tracy picked up on that right away. It is exactly this fine-tuned intuition that makes her such an excellent coach. With thoughtful guidance, non-judgmental and low-pressure sessions, we partnered as a team to recognize patterns that were holding me back. We came up with solutions together to help me resolve obstacles in dealing with these patterns. Her support continues to shape how I approach anything that I am grappling with, and we are all usually grappling with a lot!!”
E. P.
“Working with Tracy for coaching has been a wonderful experience. I can always rely on her to be present, always smiling and compassionate, and bringing a clear enthusiasm for the coaching relationship and process.
I engaged in coaching because I was interested in making progress on some personal goals. It seems that a big factor for me in pursuing my goals is figuring out how to carve out time from my already busy life to actually practice and learn new things. I suspect that this is a common challenge for many of us.
Tracy has been patient, accepting, kind and curious, as she helps me explore ways that I could modify my schedule and my structure of my week. She's been crafty about helping me identify my own notions for solutions, and how I might bring them to fruition. At times when I felt like maybe I should just let go of my goals for a while because I felt too busy to make changes, she was able to patiently ask just the right questions to keep me engaged and to want to hang in there to figure out how to grow my goals in the midst of an already full life. This is a challenging work-in-progress and I appreciate her skillful support!”
S. S.
“My coaching sessions with Tracy were impactful and practical. She is a wonderful listener, creating a safe and comfortable energetic space for her client to be vulnerable, authentic, and open enough to be able to ‘dig deep’ into whatever issues are at the forefront in their lives.
Tracy brings such deep presence to help the client find a path forward, towards more mindful living and being in the world. Her wisdom, peaceful demeanor, and keen guidance were all very helpful. Wholeheartedly recommend her coaching sessions.”
K. S.
“I've experienced a few coaches over the years, and Tracy fits right in there with the caring ones you want to be coached by!
She knows your answers are within you, so she doesn't try to tell you what you should think, feel, or do, and I love that she's not afraid to let you sit in silence, even though it can feel like you're stewing in your own juice. I remember one session I went into with Tracy where I'd had a big week and I really didn't know what I was going to talk about, but before long she had directed me to a profound insight and I had to stop and quickly write it down. I've not experienced her speech therapy skills, but I'm sure the insight she has gained into the human soul through helping young and old alike with the emotions that arise with expressing themselves through speech has set a magnificent foundation for her evolution into coaching.”
D. B.
“Through my coaching with Tracy, I have the courage to be brave. I have lived with the shame and guilt of ADHD my entire life: Why can't I "get it together?" Why can't I stop procrastinating? Why can't I stop being so scattered, cluttered, and have one million things to do that I think about constantly yet my brain can't do them? Why is everything so hard?
It wasn't until my mid-thirties that I was diagnosed with ADHD and I spent three years in therapy understanding how my ADHD affects me and how I have developed coping mechanisms for it my entire life. My therapist was the first person to celebrate my ADHD by helping me to recognize all I have accomplished while undiagnosed, things that challenge even neurotypical people, and I succeeded. It was my first breakthrough that my ADHD can be celebrated, and that the coping mechanisms I felt deep shame and guilt about were instrumental in my success and those skills are valuable.
I began encountering areas in therapy that I needed additional help and I have experienced the value of mental health peer support with bipolar disorder, so I was curious to find if there was similar support from someone with lived experience with ADHD. Through the ADHD Coaches Organization, I found Trace Elements and was so captivated by Tracy's introduction that I wanted to speak with her. I didn't know what to expect with coaching (maybe my laundry problems will finally be solved!) but I was excited to find out. I do remember the feeling of relief of finally talking with someone who "gets it."
Each week, Tracy held space for reflection and celebration: Some weeks we celebrated that I answered a handful of work emails that I had been dreading and others celebrated that I would be flying in a Boeing 737 Max training simulator! I would express a frustration and Tracy would provide invaluable insight that would change how I viewed or felt about my ADHD and then how we could work with my brain on these frustrations, not against it. I learned to accept that my ADHD brain will always work differently and that the ways I cope are acceptable and help me to be successful. My first breakthrough with Tracy was about my guilt and shame with laundry: Where do these feelings come from? When did they start? What is your system now? What works for you? Through our session, I recognized that the guilt and shame came from childhood expectations, the current system that I use works for me, and we identified additional solutions that work with my brain and my system, not a solution to fit me into neurotypical expectations. My "laundry problem" was the pressure of neurotypical standards, and through coaching with Tracy I began to realize that it's not a problem and I don't have to carry those negative feelings any longer.
I cannot express how grateful I am for the time spent with Tracy. Shedding the lifelong guilt and shame, and accepting that my ADHD has been an incredible gift in everything I have done and will do has allowed me to be brave. If Tracy didn't spend time with me each week to celebrate my uniqueness, I wouldn't be enrolling in a ground school program to take the FAA Knowledge Exam just to say that I could! In the beginning, I thought that we would work on my laundry problem, but instead we are ending with me learning how to fly. "
C. C.
“Tracy gently and patiently walked me through the blockages within me that were affecting all areas of my life and preventing me from moving forward.”
J. V.