Hi, I’m Elise. ♥

I’m a coach, facilitator, embodiment guide, dancer, and lifelong student of what it means to be human.

At the heart of my work is an invitation: to come home to your heart, your body, and the deepest truth of who you are.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by people — how we think, feel, love, hurt, heal, and grow.

That curiosity led me to study Psychology and Communication at Stanford, into 13 years of leadership at Google, and through decades of therapy, personal growth, spiritual exploration, and embodiment work.

But some of my greatest teachers have been the experiences I never would have chosen.

The body has always been part of my story.

I started dancing when I was three. It was where I felt most alive, expressive, and free.

Then, at 17, I suddenly lost feeling in my legs and became paralyzed from the waist down from a rare neurological disorder.

When doctors told me they hoped I would walk again, my first question was:

“When can I dance again?”

I did walk again. And I danced again.

That experience began a lifelong relationship with the resilience and intelligence of the body — one I would come to understand much more deeply over time.

At Stanford, I immersed myself in psychology, neuroscience, emotion, relationships, and human development. I also served as a Health Educator for a residence of 120 women, supporting peers through relationships, mental health, body image, substance use, and wellbeing.

After graduating, I joined Google.

Over 13 years, I built a career at the intersection of leadership, communication, culture, and human potential, ultimately serving as Global Head of Women’s Community.

I led Women@Google — a global community of more than 60,000 people across 52 countries — developing programs to help women grow and thrive, coaching and facilitating leaders, and helping create environments where more people could belong and lead.

It was meaningful work. And life was also calling me deeper.

Some experiences break us open.

In 2014, my younger brother, Wiley, died by suicide.

His death shattered the world as I knew it.

Grief brought me face-to-face with questions achievement never could:

What makes a life meaningful? What actually matters? How do we stay open to love when life breaks our hearts?

Losing Wiley became the beginning of a deeper spiritual path.

Through grief, therapy, community, movement, prayer, and years of inner work, I began finding my way toward a relationship with God and a way of living that felt more present, awake, and true.

Over time, I found myself increasingly drawn out of my head and into my heart and body.

Dance became more than something I loved — it became a way of listening, expressing, releasing, and reconnecting with myself. Embodiment became a way of bringing what I understood intellectually into how I actually lived.

And my definition of a meaningful life began to change.

Less about achievement for its own sake. More about presence, connection, love, freedom, service, and feeling fully alive.

Eventually, that evolution led me to leave Google and follow a calling that had been quietly growing for years.

This is the work I bring into the world.

Today, I bring together the many worlds that have shaped me: psychology, leadership, emotional intelligence, embodiment, dance, spirituality, grief, relationships, and lived experience.

I believe deeply in the power of insight — and in what happens when insight moves beyond the mind and becomes something we can actually feel, embody, and live.

I work with people navigating transition, growth, loss, or simply the quiet knowing that there is more of themselves waiting to be lived.

Together, we create space to reconnect with what is true, deepen self-trust, listen to the wisdom of the heart and body, and move toward a life that feels more alive, loving, liberated, and fully your own.

Because ultimately, I don’t believe our work is to become someone else.

It’s to come home to who we already are.

When I’m not coaching or facilitating, you can usually find me dancing barefoot, practicing yoga or lifting weights, swimming in the ocean, gathering people I love around a table, reading about psychology and spirituality, or soaking up the wild beauty of my home on Kauai.