ABOUT TRACEY
Hi, I'm Tracey.
Licensed psychotherapist. Coach. Someone who has done this work myself and keeps doing it.
I've spent over a decade sitting with people who are smart, capable, and genuinely trying, and still hitting the same walls.
I know that experience personally.
For a long time I wanted to create big things in my life and there was this part of me that would show up every single time I got close. I'd feel it in my body before I could even name it. A flush across my face and chest, my nervous system putting on the brakes before I could put myself out there.
I tried to push through it. Outwork it. Just decide to be different.
That didn't work.
What worked was learning to slow down and actually listen to that part of me. To get curious about where it came from, what it was protecting me from, and what it needed in order to finally trust that I was okay. Once I did that, things shifted. Not all at once. But in ways that have actually stuck.
I'm also a mom of three, which means I know what it looks like to be building something real while also trying to show up fully at home. Movement has always been how I process, how I reset, how I come back to myself when everything gets loud. The women I work with are doing the same thing. Holding a lot. Trying to be present everywhere. And quietly wondering why they still feel like something is missing.
One of the things I've worked hardest on is being playful. Taking up space. Being a little silly. That sounds small but it was genuinely difficult for me and it's still something I practice. I'm a coach who has figured out a lot and still continues to grow so I can see what's at that next level.
WHO I WORK WITH
Women in their 20s and 30s who can't stop second-guessing themselves.
You've built something real. Maybe a second location. A team. Clients or social media followers who trust you. People look at what you've built and think you've got it all figured out.
But that's not what you are feeling.
Some nights you Google (or Claude these days) things like "why does this still feel so hard" or "why can't I just enjoy this." You compare your business to other owners online and somehow always feel behind, even when your numbers are good. You said yes to growing and now you wonder if you can actually handle it, or if you've just gotten lucky before.
Your team needs answers from you and you give them, but half the time you're not 100% confident in what you've said. You've put off a hard conversation with an employee for weeks because you don't know how to set a boundary without feeling like a bad boss. You're proud of what you built. You're also tired in a way you don't say out loud.
You're also young for all of this. Still figuring out who you are outside of being the boss, the leader, the one everyone looks to. That makes everything louder, not quieter.
That's not a leadership problem. That's an old part of you that never learned it could trust itself. It's been driving your decisions this whole time, even the good ones.
The work is finding that part and understanding what it's been trying to protect you from. And finally getting to a place where running your business doesn't take everything you've got left at the end of the day.
You don't need the right words for it yet. Most people don't when they first reach out.
BACKGROUND + TRAINING
What I bring to this work.
I earned my Master's in Psychology in Chicago and have been a licensed psychotherapist since 2015. I'm a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with offices in Edina and St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
Over the years I've added training that kept pulling me toward the same thing: lasting change doesn't happen by thinking your way through it. It happens when you actually understand what's driving the pattern.
That's led me to specialize in Internal Family Systems (parts work) and somatic approaches, which work at the level of the nervous system, not just the mind.
I also hold a 500-hour yoga teacher certification with a focus on therapeutic yoga and Ayurveda, which deepened my understanding of how the body holds and processes experience.
At a glance
✦ MA in Psychology
✦ LPCC — Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor since 2015
✦ 1,000+ clients supported since 2012
✦IFS level 2 trained — Internal Family Systems
✦Somatic and nervous system approaches
✦ 500-hour yoga certification - trauma informed
✦ In-person sessions available at my office in Edina or St. Louis Park
✦ Ability to come to a location convenient to you — your home, office, coffee shop or parks
✦ Virtual sessions available anywhere
UNDERSTANDING THE APPROACH
What is IFS coaching?
Internal Family Systems, developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, is built on the idea that we're not one single thing. We're made up of different parts, each with its own history, its own fears, its own way of trying to keep us safe.
Think about a moment when something small happened and your reaction felt way bigger than the situation called for. Or when you knew exactly what you should do and couldn't make yourself do it. Or when you felt two completely opposite things at the same time.
That's not you being irrational. That's different parts of you responding from different places.
Parts work helps you get to know those parts, understand what they're carrying, and create enough internal trust that they don't have to keep running old strategies that aren't working anymore.
Combined with nervous system work, the shifts don't just stay in your head. They land somewhere deeper.
There are no bad parts.
Every part of you that shuts down, lashes out, people pleases, goes silent, or pulls back at exactly the wrong moment, that part has a reason. It learned to do that somewhere. It's been trying to protect you ever since, even when the strategy stopped making sense.
The goal isn't to get rid of those parts. It's to understand them well enough that they don't have to work so hard anymore.
That's the work. And it's some of the most meaningful work I know how to do.