Hi, I’m Karen.

When I was struggling to integrate work and life as a busy primary care physician, I thought it was just me. That I wasn’t cut out for medicine, or motherhood, or both. That everyone else had figured it out, and I just needed to try harder.

I thought the issue was the job so I focused on finding a role that fulfilled me. I worked in pharma, medical education, urgent care, consulting, startup patient advocacy among other things. If there was a nontraditional role for a physician, I tried it.

I also did therapy. I started meds for anxiety and much later ADHD ( physicians are human, and we need to normalize our high rates of comorbid anxiety, depression, ADHD—all the things that come with stressful jobs and overachieving tendencies). I joined a gym (and never went). I signed up for guitar lessons (spoiler: hated them). ugh I thought. what is wrong with me?! (Have you ever had that thought? Turns out it is so normal....) 

None of those things helped me feel the agency, confidence or fulfillment I was craving—the sense that I could build a life that actually fit me and felt good....

Until I hired my first coach and learned the tools of coaching. (My specific method is based on a set of tools. Not just someone acting as a mentor or telling you what to do, it is a skillset you can learn. )

The coaching tools  helped me be less reactive, more grounded, and more intentional so I could kick the serious ass I was capable of (and recognizing all the ways I was already kicking ass that I wasn't giving myself credit for. Just like your proabably aren't.)

Life got so much better I knew I had to find other women that felt like I did and help them. I got certified as a coach and started my coaching business in 2020. 

Since then, I’ve helped literally hundreds of women physicians in my programs (and thousands more through speaking and social media-(follow me on IG!) learn these same tools.

I've also become a succesful entrepreneur along the way and been able to donate to important causes  like the Lorna Breen Foundation whose mission is to: reduce burnout of health care professionals and safeguard their well-being and job satisfaction.

What I teach through coaching is practical and rooted in evidence—but more importantly, it’s doable. It fits into the lives of busy women who are already carrying way too much.

I help women physicians set and hold boundaries around their work and time, finish their charts without it bleeding into the rest of their lives, navigate their career without feeling crushed by it, parent with less guilt and more connection, and fine the parts of themselves that have gone quiet.

You don’t need to overhaul your life to feel better. You just need the right support, the right tools, and a place to start.

That’s what I’m here for.