Shine Skills for Life

At Shine Skills for Life our focus is facilitating your growth, inspiring your confidence and empowering you to discover what has always been inside you. Each person is unique therefore the support is tailored to resonate with who you are!

I specialize in resilience building, self regulation, executive function and effective communication coaching for children, teens and adults.

Together we create "potential plans" using art, creative expression, academics or other areas of interest or need to develop the skills for an authentic and fulfilling life. Services are offered for individuals, families and schools. 

Customized Resilience Coaching

Private Sessions
Ages 8 - Adult

Executive Function and Regulation skills provided under the umbrella of individualized Resilience coaching. Modalities and strategies tailored to fit your style, your needs and your personality. Facilitating growth, inspiring confidence and empowering you to discover what is inside you with your personalized 'Potential Plan'.

Family Programs

Grow and Learn Together. Develop the skills and strategies important to your family through engaging, relatable and practical methods. Direct coaching and modeling during sessions help you realistically generalize practices at home. Increase appreciation and compassion for differences and establish Family Plans and 'Agreements' around:

Small Groups
Ages 5-17

Small Groups are back! 
Fun and engaging ways to practice skills including but not limited to::

Workshops & Consultations

Business Review

• "Maria has worked with all three of my children for various needs. She is energetic and engaging and can create calm when appropriate. She made a huge difference in our lives."
• "I’ve never raised a concern with Maria that she wasn’t able to help me with her response is always “we’ll let’s figure this out together”. It’s nice to talk to someone but it’s so good for me to have someone to make a plan and get out from feeling like there’s a huge problem. And having a way to address it as a manageable challenge."
• "We love Maria! She has excellent attention to detail. She made acute observations with how we interact as a family and with some tweaks, what a positive change! Her habit and accountability support has been most valuable to us. As we reduced sessions the daily reminders as checkins made sure we kept up with the strategies. Sometimes when we have a problem my daughter says “maria can help us find a solution to this challenge!” When we contacted Maria she said “yes and I will help you learn how to be a solution finder too!”
• "Maria is a lot of fun. She can drive you crazy sometimes but I know she is really doing it to help me. She showed me how much progress I made and I didn’t realize how much I’ve changed and when I look back I am feeling a lot better and things I thought were hard are much easier now." ~13 year old
• "I have been seeing Maria since I was a kid. I’m in high school now and I don’t think I would have made it this far without her help. She is taught me so much about my brain and how to take care of myself. I am more confident and believe in myself now." ~17 year old