I teach the thing I live every single day.

I spent more than 15 years teaching in American classrooms, in middle schools, in private tutoring, and online. Nothing compared to the joy of watching a student finally express what she really felt, without stopping to translate her feelings first. That moment of real connection is what I built my career on.

Then I bet my own life on it. I sold everything I owned and moved across the world to Bangkok with my adult daughter, to a country where I could not read the street signs. The first time a market vendor asked me a question in Thai, I understood nothing, and I had no idea what to say back. Today I understand some of it, I know roughly what to say, and I still say nothing. My own students speak far better English than I speak Thai, and the freeze still catches me.

My students had described that exact feeling to me for years, and now I live it every day. I know how it feels to understand more than you can say, and to be a smart, funny, capable woman who sounds like none of those things in her second language.

So that is what I coach. I do not drill grammar rules or hand out word lists. I teach the real skill of getting the English you already have out of your head and into the conversation, before you feel ready. I built the Speak Freely Method around it, and I teach it from my apartment in Bangkok to women all over the world.

I hold a Bachelor of Education and a TEFL certification, backed by more than 15 years of teaching experience. My other credential does not fit on paper: I am in the middle of the exact journey you are on, just in the other direction.

I help women learning English speak up before they feel ready, because that is the only way it ever gets easier.