Counseling, Coaching & Editing for Creative, Purpose-Driven Women
Being human is an art and you are innately capable of mastery. It's time to center yourself in your story & claim your calling.
i was born ready
YOU ARE WORTHY OF LIVING BEYOND THE MARGINS
You are worthy of feeling
I believe that you were put on this earth with a purpose only you can fulfill, and that you and you alone can claim your right to serve that purpose well.
It begins with a radical belief in the unprovable and indisputable fact of your inherent worthiness.
By believing in what you cannot yet see, you unwrite the stories you tell that keep you small and fearful and dependent.
And you emancipate yourself from that I'll-prove-myself-to-you way of striving to the easeful abundance of living into your calling.
*Note that as a Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern in the state of Florida, I practice as a pre-licensed clinician (No 23243) under the licensed supervision of Hayne Steen (No. MH16012). For a detailed explanation of the regulations governing my practice, please review the statuates.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS YOU CAN TRUST
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EDITING
COACHING
COUNSELING
You're a creative force of genius. Whether re-writing the story of who you are to reflect what you were created for, or revising your creative-nonfiction essay collection, you're the expert. Me? I'm the expert listener, here to cup my ear to what you've been trying to tell yourself all along.
GREENS DRINKING, JESUS BELIEVING, ANTI-PERFECTIONISM ACTIVIST HERE FOR those "ugh-you're too deep" conversations that call you higher.
I'm Claire-Madeline.
The only stranger you'd trust to read your journal.
I'm a fourth-generation coastal small towner with a big-city calling and a heart that's always yearning to return home. I'm a fiercely independent go-it-alone kinda girl with a desire to sink my feet in the sand at a beach-house my one-day children will inherit....
Because it's not in seeking certainty but in living (& writing) into ambiguity that we find freedom (on the page & beyond it.)
(& I bet yours isn't either 😉)
I know, writers are about the details 🤓😉
Name:
Hyphenated first name. Madeline is my grandmother's name & I love getting to carry her legacy.
Claire - Madeline
fast facts
Current GPS:
I'm from a coastal small town and after a time, came to find that while no where in the *literal* world will make me feel at home in the way the south shore of Long Island does, it's also true that I needed to leave to fully...become. You feel me?
Coffee Order:
A little bit of steamed milk (yes, like, the OG milk, from cows) steamed to perfection (not frothy) to cut the acidity of a strong 2x shot of espresso. Unless its humid. Then iced americano all the way.
Social Cause I Care About:
I witnessed my grandmother do so much healing as she approached the end of her life and am a firm believer in the growth that is possible as we age.
Writing Process in 5 words:
I write on pieces of scrap, use voice-memos on the go, and have a notes folder in my iPhone to get sentences or paragraphs down. Bringing them all together is an intuitive process that I created structure around as I mastered it (& I teach you to do the same).
Top 3 Spotify Artists:
A little bit sad. A little bit of a teeny-bopper. A little bit Christian. Sounds about right.
for the writers
Writing Mentorship
I teach you how to study your work as if you're you're own literary hero because mastery over your process reuqires this. Developmental edits that have depth and specifciity, with a process-focused perspective you can take with you.
let's write
for the personal development girls
Virutal Psychotherapy
One-on-one psychototherapy for those in the Sunshine State (you know: Florida!). Recovery from perfectionism and burnout, the creation of boundaries needed to sustain it, and emancipation from value systems that lead to it...I'm your girl.
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YOU ARE WORTHY OF THE WORK
Working on a piece of writing and need someone to help you get to the heart of your subject matter? Get on the waitlist for my developmental editing experiences.
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Honest conversations about grief, joy, and writing, complete with writing playlists, journaling prompts, and insights from my walk through this life with God by my side. Make like it's 1998 and get exited to have mail again.
DL Your Free Writing Sessions Playlist
it's not free espresso, but it's damn close:
I'm here to bring a little more joy to your ride. DL this playlist, pep-talk, and self-reflection prompt for a dose of inspo.