Compassionate. Mindful. Transformative.

Concierge Professional Peer Support & Coaching

Why & How My Approach is Different

  • I believe healing should be open to everyone, free from bias, and tailored to each person. I don’t work with insurance because I won’t let systems control who gets help and how. Healing is a right, not a privilege.

  • I’m not licensed by choice. I won’t support my community in a way that keeps people out or limits easy, stigma-free, people-first help. My work comes from real experience, not just ideas. I have been an awarded academic and psychotherapist since 2007.

  • I am not extreme or just a typical clinician. I have experienced mental healthcare in many ways—as a child with little access to care, as a patient facing a system that often lets people down, and as a worker dealing with moral struggles, burnout, and the loneliness caused by few resources for caregivers.

  • Knowledge is power and should be shared. The Kindred Way was created by and for our community because real healing comes from being together with people who truly understand.

Hi, I’m Bird ~

After 18 years of traditional professional clinical practice in community-based behavioral health, addiction treatment, clinical management, and executive leadership roles I am re-committing and redirecting my passion and experience exclusively to supporting societal helpers, healers, educators and heroes.

For years, I dedicated my skills to systems designed to care for people. But what I saw, time and time again, was that those same systems created more barriers… especially for the very people holding them together.

Helpers. Teachers. Nurses. Therapists. First responders. Doctors. Chaplains. Social workers.

I’ve been one of those helpers. And I’ve been a helper in need. I know what it feels like to look for support and instead find red tape, insurance battles, and the risk of being seen as ‘unfit.’

That’s why I created the new Kindred Way.

This isn’t therapy in a chair. It’s not about diagnosis or insurance forms. It’s concierge social-emotional support—discreet, anonymous, and on your terms.

I meet you where you are. In your space. Focused on your goals, your present needs, and nothing else.

Simple. Human.
Help for helpers, by helpers.

Because you show up for everyone else. It’s time someone shows up for you.