About Us
Navigate. Grow. Thrive.
We are licensed professionals who bring both extensive professional expertise and personal life experience to every coaching relationship.
What is Coaching?
A different kind of support — built for where you are right now.
Coaching is not therapy, and it's not advice-giving. It's a forward-focused partnership designed to help you gain clarity, build confidence, and take meaningful steps toward the life you want — even when everything feels uncertain.
You bring what's on your mind
Each session begins with you. Whether you're processing a major life change, feeling stuck, or simply craving more clarity — we start exactly where you are, without judgment.
We explore together
Through thoughtful questions, reflection, and compassionate challenge, we help you uncover what's really going on beneath the surface — and what you truly want moving forward.
You gain clarity and direction
Coaching helps you reconnect with your own inner compass — your values, your strengths, and your vision — so you can move forward with intention rather than fear.
You take action — supported
Between sessions, you move. We help you identify small, meaningful steps that build momentum and confidence, so change doesn't feel overwhelming — it feels possible.
Coaching is not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you are in crisis or need clinical support, we will always help you find the right resources.
Who We Are
We didn't come to this work from a textbook alone. As women navigating life ourselves, we came to it through our own journeys — through seasons of profound loss, identity shifts, and the quiet courage it takes to dig deep and rebuild yourself from the inside out. Our team of licensed professionals bring together decades of clinical expertise, professional excellence, and the wisdom of real experience-offering compassionate guidance to help women navigate life's transitions with confidence, clarity and hope. We believe every woman has an inner compass. Our role is to help you feel it, trust it, and follow it through every season of life.
Our Approach
Our coaching team is passionate about helping women navigate the many moments that leave us asking, "Who am I now?"
Deep Listening
We listen not just to your words, but to what lives beneath them — the fears, the longings, the wisdom you haven't yet trusted in yourself.
Compassionate Presence
There is no part of your experience that is too much, too messy, or too complicated. We hold space for all of it, without judgment.
Your Inner Compass
Our role is to help you reconnect with your own knowing — the quiet, steady voice inside you that already knows the way forward and the trust that you will handle anything life throws at you along the way.
Clinical and Personal Wisdom
As licensed professionals with our own lived experience, we bring both clinical knowledge and genuine human understanding to every session.
Meet the Team
Each of us brings a unique path — and a shared commitment to walking alongside you with both clinical skill and genuine human understanding.
Kristin O'Rourke, LCSW
Founder & Coach
Our founder, Kristin O'Rourke, brings more than 20 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has spent her career helping hundreds of women navigate anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, major life transitions and personal growth. After establishing a successful therapy practice in 2012, she recognized that many women don't just need healing-they need support as they rediscover who they are and confidently step into what's next. As a mother and Breast Cancer survivor, she understands firsthand how quickly life can change and how overwhelming it can feel to navigate motherhood, life and uncertainty. Kristin struggled to balance life when her children were young and often felt incredibly overwhelmed by the demands of it all. She understands how the mental load can impact our relationships and day to day functioning. Kristin is particularly passionate about empowering women to dig deep and "remember who they are" after a challenging phase of life that may have caused them to forget. Her personal journey, combined with decades of clinical expertise, inspired the creation of Aligned Compass Wellness and Coaching-a place where women are supported not only through hardship, but toward a life of greater purpose, resilience, and fulfillment. Through encouragement, empowerment and validation, Kristin strives to provide a judgement free environment in which her clients feel supported and thrive.
Areas of Focus
Sheila Cory, LCSW
Coach
For more than 20 years, Sheila has had the privilege of walking alongside individuals and families during some of life's most tenuous and vulnerable moments. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, her work has evolved to focus on the unique needs of women as they navigate life's transitions, the many roles they hold, the expectations they place on themselves, the expectations placed upon them by others, as well as the adaptations required to thrive. Sheila offers gentle support for women navigating life transitions, whether entering motherhood, adjusting to changing family roles, or rediscovering themselves in a new chapter of life. Sheila has a special passion for supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and the ever-changing seasons of motherhood. Her work holds a special place for mothers who are navigating parenthood without the support of their own mothers, whether because of death, estrangement, or complicated family relationships. As a motherless mother herself, she understands the unique emotions that arise when the joy of motherhood exists alongside the absence of your own mother. She helps to address the challenge of what it feels like to pour so much love and nurturing into your children while quietly longing for that same nurturing yourself. Her hope is that the women who work with her feel deeply understood, supported, cared for, and connected.
Areas of Focus
Silvia Henry, LCSW
Coach
As a Licensed Clinical Social worker, Silvia Henry came to the profession as part of her own career transition. With over 40 years of professional and personal life experiences; she is able to help women navigate life transitions focusing on empowerment, resilience, strength and skills. Silvia is a warm, genuine and compassionate coach. She understands the need for personal growth, self reflection and ultimately our own definition of being at peace with who we are. Silvia's clinical expertise can help women filter what is at the forefront of their issues. If there is any concern that therapeutic support is needed, she will guide her clients to these resources. As a mother of two adult children, Silvia understands how challenging it can be to nurture our families, while pursuing our own interests, striving to maintain balance and prioritize our own self care. Motherhood is a complex part of many women's lives. As a coach, Silvia can help us explore the opportunities that exist alongside our ever changing roles as mothers. At some point in our lives, women may be facing the possibility of a separation or divorce. It takes great courage and strength to navigate these life changes. Silvia's respectful approach and positive perspective focuses on supporting the family unit and ensuring women have a safe space and emotional support to navigate their next steps. Utilizing a coaching plan that is unique to each woman's needs, Silvia can help you create a plan designed to achieve your specific personal and professional goals. We will work together to help you feel grounded and fulfilled. .
Areas of Focus
If any of this resonates with you, we'd love to connect.
A discovery call is simply a conversation — a chance to meet, share what you're moving through, and feel into whether we're the right fit. No pressure, no obligation.