“I contain multitudes — and that’s not a bug. That’s the feature.”

Hi, I’m Brianne.

I started out as a scientist. B.S. in Biology, minor in Chemistry. M.S. in Biotechnology, concentration in molecular biology. I spent the early part of my career doing actual bench science — nematology, molecular biology, electron microscopy — before the slow realization that the pharmaceutical industry had optimized itself almost entirely around profit, in ways that had very little to do with science or healing. I left with my rigor intact and my idealism bruised.

Then I moved into tech. A decade of building things — customer success organizations, business operations programs, product teams — at payments companies, SaaS platforms, a scientific marketplace in Palo Alto that I still think was a genuinely good idea. I got good at understanding broken systems. At walking into something that wasn’t working and knowing almost immediately where it was bleeding and why.

Along the way I got late-diagnosed as AuDHD. And a lot of things got a new frame.

The pattern-recognition. The burnout that didn’t make sense on paper. The way I could hold an entire system in my head but lose my keys every single day. The decade of performing competence in environments that were not built for my brain, and the cost of that — paid slowly, mostly in private.

I’m a certified Trauma-Informed Coach and REBT Mindset Coach. I work with neurodivergent adults — especially late-diagnosed women — who are navigating burnout, unmasking, and the ongoing project of building a life that actually fits. I bring the same systems thinking I developed in tech and science into healing work, because I genuinely believe those things are more related than most people realize.

Nervous systems are systems. Trauma responses have logic. Understanding the mechanism doesn’t replace the feeling — but it helps.

Outside of coaching, I’m co-founding Kindra Collective — a community built for neurodivergent people in tech, by neurodivergent people in tech. I’m also in the early stages of building an intentional cohousing community — a small, deliberate neighborhood designed for people who want to live differently: more connected, more supported, more human. Writing about whatever thread I’m currently pulling. Rescuing animals. Playing a truly irresponsible amount of tabletop games.

I contain multitudes. That’s not a bug. It’s the whole point.

“I believe we are all beautiful mosaics of everyone we have ever loved and every experience we have ever had.”

The mosaic

Daughter. Granddaughter. Auntie. Friend. Pet mother. Co-founder. Product Manager. Nematologist. Molecular Biologist. Trauma-Informed Coach. Actor. Writer. Musician. Animal rescuer. Dog walker. Teacher. Greenhouse gardener. Cashier. Door-to-door salesperson. All of it counts. All of it is me.

If something here resonated, I’d love to hear from you. Let’s talk →

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