Coach Rosie

My professional journey has been one where the work truly chose me rather than the other way around. For the past 4 years, I've served as Chief Victim Witness Coordinator at our DA's office, a role I didn't even know existed until our current elected DA asked me to come work for her if she won the election. In this position, I help victims and survivors of violent crimes navigate the criminal court process - all the legal jargon, the court process itself - while they're also trying to navigate their grief from traumatic experiences. My day-to-day involves communicating with victims and survivors, connecting them to resources including counseling, helping remove them from unsafe residences, and being that liaison between the attorneys and them. I'm their safe space when they have breakdowns, like when we're sitting in court during a trial and they see something or get done testifying and it just breaks them. Alongside this work, I've been a life coach, speaker, and grief counselor for 5 years. This path was birthed after losing my dad in 2014 and finding myself in a space of high-functioning depression. After getting in contact with a grief counselor and experiencing how beneficial it was, I knew I wanted to share that with other people. I meet people where they are, allow them to tell me what they're looking for and what their goals are, then we curate an action plan. But before we can get to the action, we dig up the root causes - how did we get here? We identify that, work towards shedding limiting beliefs, and then work towards those goals with practical steps. I work with clients for 6 weeks in my signature program, 2 hours a week, with homework to help them really engage and practicalize what we talk about. After the 6 weeks, we have follow-up sessions monthly for about 3 months, and then it's as needed based on what they desire and what chapter of life they're in.