Our Team
Meet Our Coaches
Beth Alvarez
Certified Professional Life Coach
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Professional Life Coach through the Certified Life Coach Institute (IFC approved), and a Dr. Amen Licensed Brain Health Trainer.
I began my career as a Child Life Specialist helping children and their families adjust to being in the hospital. I went on to earn my Master of Social Work and helped children who had suffered abused and neglect. I now work with youth, teens, and adults who have experienced childhood trauma, incidental trauma, or relational trauma in my counseling practice. Through counseling others, I found not everyone needs counseling, sometimes they need a coach! I am excited to offer coaching for those feeling stuck and are seeking help navigating moving forward in areas of their lives.
I am passionate about helping others understand their inherent value and worth and witnessing my clients thrive as they transform their beliefs and change their relationship with God, themselves, and others. I desire for my clients to pursue what is life giving to them and I consider it a privilege to partner with them on the path to discovery.
I work with youth, teens, and adults who are looking to change things in their life and navigate difficulties. I consider working with women and moms in “act 2 and 3” of their lives especially rewarding! Whether needing assistance with boundaries, relationships, or challenging limiting beliefs, I enjoy witnessing clients discover breakthroughs that change the protectory of their lives.
I have been married to my husband for nearly 24 years. We have two incredibly special daughters as well as two incredibly fine young men. We have navigated seasons of joy and pain and heartache. We, too, had to learn to journey through uncharted territory and trust God in the process to carry us through. My faith in and relationship with God is paramount as are my relationships with my family and friends.
I have a tender place in my heart for the mom of a son or daughter who is struggling with mental health issues. It is my goal to partner with you, to provide a space for you to exhale, and to offer you understanding of not being able to control the uncontrollables.
Franky Centore
Certified Professional Life Coach
I am certified as a Professional life Coach through Orange County Coaching, Certified Adolescent Coach though Youth Coaching Institute, Certified Professional Brain Health Coach and Brain Health Licensed Trainer through the Amen University. I hold a Master of Addiction Counseling degree from Grand Canyon University.
I grew up in the small, picturesque town of Fryeburg, Maine, where I learned the importance of community and the support it can provide. My father, a Vietnam War Veteran, struggled with PTSD throughout my childhood and passed away when I was 18, largely due to his battle with alcohol addiction. During my teenage years, my mother faced multiple mental health challenges, which forced me to take on responsibilities I wasn’t yet ready for. These early hardships shaped my passion for helping others navigate their own struggles. I am committed to instilling the belief that everyone has inherent worth and the strength to overcome even the toughest obstacles life throws their way.
I began my career with a goal of working as an Addiction Counselor, although I loved working in this area, I saw the value and impact of walking along with my clients as partners, deciding to become a Life Coach. I work with clients and at times their current therapist to enhance and create the client’s path for successful growth and achievement. I use a collaborative process with my clients to help identify and achieve personal and professional goals. I use various techniques to facilitate and create actionable plans. Coaching emphasizes accountability, empowerment, and personal growth, guiding clients to overcome obstacles and unlock their potential and purpose.
One of my passions is to help Children, teens and young adults who struggle with ADD/ADHD. I use resources from the Amen clinic to help identify the brain systems and process to help alleviate the different areas of struggle ADD/ADHD cause. I want every child, teen and young adult to know their worth, value and potential. I help guide children and teens through the challenges of having ADD/ADHD and adolescence. I work with young individuals to enhance self-awareness, build confidence and set achievable goals, empower them to develop decision-making skills, improve communication and foster resilience. Coaching allows support in navigating this critical development phase and preparing for future challenges.
I’ve been married to my husband for 21 years. We met when I was 25, while he was an officer in the U.S. Navy Submarine Force. Our journey together has taken us from Guam, where we welcomed our son, to Laural, Maryland, and then to Katy, Texas, where our daughter was born. Over the years, we’ve faced our share of hardships, as well as many joyful moments. Both my husband and I have overcome our own childhood challenges while raising a family. We’ve navigated medical issues, learning disabilities, and countless beautiful memories along the way. When our son was diagnosed with ADD at nine, it sparked my passion for understanding ADD and ADHD. For over 10 years, I’ve dedicated myself to learning more about these conditions, which has helped my son thrive on his own unique path. Through it all, I am deeply grateful for God’s grace, wisdom, and guidance as He’s seen us through every step of our journey.
Karen Vermeulen
Certified Professional Life Coach
I am a woman full of hope. Hope for a happy contented life for myself, my family and my community. Hope for a life that is uncomplicated, untainted and a little less scary and pressurized for our two daughters who are currently in Junior High, in what sometimes feels like a turbulent and confusing stage of their lives. Hope for their peers.
I am a wife to an operations manager in the oil and gas industry, a daughter to parents that are still married after 53 years, a sister to two older brothers, and a I am a friend to many. I am a fierce advocate for the underdog, mainly because I felt like this throughout my teenage years, always feeling on the back foot trying to catch up.
I am a creative soul, very much an introverted extrovert and have an empathic nature.
I have written blogs for Houston Moms blog, I model and act with the Neal Hamil agency, I am a mental health first aider, and I am a Certified recovery Life Coach.
I grew up on a pig farm in South Africa and had an extremely tempestuous teenage hood (“just ask my parents”) which led to several hard knocks in my adolescence and many challenges which I adopted and took as baggage well into my adulthood.
These self-made decisions made for an extremely interesting life and a great many life lessons learned, which makes me what you could call a master in my own self-discovery.
In 2019, my husband and I left South Africa to start a new adventure in Lagos, Nigeria. Not only did I leave my home country, but my family, friends and a very good career in Office design and sales which I loved. This was a career that at the time defined me as a human and was able to heal some self-loathing prophesies, I still carried from adolescence.
I had the blessing of becoming a mom at age 36 to our first-born daughter and hold many of my greatest memories, life lessons and AHA moments from my time in Lagos. A foreign country that showed me warmth and inclusion, especially when I questioned myself and my life purpose, when I felt very lost in my own identity. When our kids were 3 and 4, we had an opportunity to start a fresh chapter in the United States of America and we made Katy our home. It has been a full life of school drops, lunch boxes and growth pains with all the very beautiful things in between, of watching our daughters grow and flourish and doing my best to guide them into adulthood, unscathed and confident, especially with all the challenges that our world throws their way, all whilst walking around with my own teenage traumas. It’s the skin we wear.
In my youth I struggled terribly with my grades, self-image and never feeling good enough. I developed an eating disorder combined with binging and struggled terribly my weight which led to self-harm, self-loathing and substance abuse.
These teenage traumas and a violent relationship in my past are what has led to my passion in mental health. To be a guidance for both young girls and woman who feel unsure about themselves, who feel unheard and unseen in their current lives. To facilitate a safe space and provide the necessary tools to find their own voice and personal power. To listen and to really hear, to hold space with empathy, to goal orientate and to help recover their sense of belonging and self. To learn to love the skin they wear well into their dotage.
I am a well-travelled, genuine, enthusiastic person who believes in kindness first. I lead by example, I lead through life experience, and I believe that any life can be adapted, changed, developed, reformed, re-created and reframed. There is always light in the cracks of darkness and there is always hope.
It would be my honor to work with your daughters as they carve out an authentic confident life, likewise, it would be an honor to work with any woman that wishes to reframe, reconnect or reignite and to love the skin they’re in.
With hope, love and light
Karen
