What Ashley helps you accomplish

• Stronger executive functioning and focus through calming, culturally relevant tools that support heart-brain connection and stress regulation.
  (Ideal for improving attention, impulse control, and task management in busy or overstimulated environments.)
• Increased confidence and key life skills by guiding children through goal-setting, strategic play, emotional growth, and self-awareness practices.
  (This leads to greater motivation, self-trust, and academic or social readiness.)
• A more energized and optimistic mindset by helping kids reframe challenges as stepping stones toward personal success and meaningful growth.
  (They begin to see themselves as capable problem-solvers rather than overwhelmed perfectionists.)

Ashley helps children and teens become happier, more resilient, and faster learners by transforming how they relate to their emotions. Through emotional growth and resilience-building practices, young people develop the 5 Cs—creativity, communication, comfort zone expansion, physical coordination, and collaboration—essential skills for thriving in an overstimulating world.

Using her signature S.H.I.N.E. framework, Ashley designs engaging, supportive environments where kids build tolerance for challenge, improve focus, and gain mastery over their emotional and cognitive lives. As their adaptability and problem-solving skills grow, so does their confidence and capacity to lead themselves with intention.

At the heart of Ashley’s approach is a belief in the power of purposeful play—a dynamic, joyful way to spark multidimensional growth. When children flourish, so do the families, schools, and communities around them.

Ashley has worked with hundreds of children and families from a variety of backgrounds in the past 16 years. Her previous experiences include serving as a Family Support Specialist in San Francisco Unified School District; a Case Manager and Program Coordinator at Hunters Point Family; a Children's Ministry Director at Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco; and an Afterschool Teacher and Tutor at Alice Fong Yu Elementary.

Ashley is a San Francisco native with Garifuna roots in Trujillo, Honduras. She is an optimist; a nature lover; a proud Alumna of Howard University and Brown University; and an enthusiastic educator at Meadows Livingstone School in San Francisco, CA.