Meet Our Coaches
ZAIBA HASAN
CEO | Founder
There was no Ph.D. in parent and life coaching so she decided to create one herself! Zaiba has received training and/or certifications in the following:
Parent Coaching, from the Parent Coaching Institute with the Appreciative Inquiry Lens.
Sleep Training for ages 0-18, from Family Sleep Services
Spiritual Mediation in Conflict Resolution, from Sufi University and the Karamah Institute
Positive Discipline, The Positive Discipline Association
Adolescent Brain Cognition, from the Mindfulness Institute
Getting mothers the support they need in the workplace from a Diversity & Inclusion perspective, from Cornell University
When she isn’t serving as a coaching catalyst for her clients she can be found on the baseball fields and basketball courts of the DMV area with her four children and husband of 23 plus years.
Kelly Treibitz
COO | Director of Parent Programs
Along with a career in nonprofit work for parents of children with disabilities, Kelly had the opportunity to spend the last twenty years raising her three children. The experience of working with (sometimes arguing with) various therapists, educators, medical professionals, and administrators to ensure a successful life experience for her own children gives Kelly a strong basis from which she can positively impact others as well. She combines her experience with education and certifications to offer the following to the clients of EMERGE:
Transformational Life Coaching
Positive Discipline Certified Educator
ADHD Parent Coach
504 Assistance, ADHD
EMERGE Sleep Training for ages 2-5
College Catalyst Coaching
Kelly believes you have to listen to your own voice when it comes to what is right for you and your children. If you have a vision of what you want your family to be but you don’t have the skills to get there; I can help.
Leah Silverman
Inspired Wellness Coach | Retreat and Admin Coordinator
Leah is a certified Holistic Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, a Registered Yoga Teacher through Maui Yoga Shala and Yoga Alliance, and an Essential Oil Specialist with doTERRA. Her mission is to support clients on their journeys of transformation in extension of gratitude to all those who have contributed to her growth over the years. In her work, she aims to empower clients to develop resilience, inner calm, clarity, confidence, playfulness, and passion for life. She draws inspiration from her travels in Bali, India, and Australia, and her studies in sustainability, mindfulness, psychology, and Buddhist development. Her work is also heavily informed by her time spent living and working at Pono Grown Farm Center, an organic permaculture farm in Maui, and the relationships to food, community, and spirituality that she cultivated there. When she is not learning or coaching, she enjoys hip hop dance, adventure films, architecture photography, and math tutoring.
EMERGE Coaching Partners
Tonya S.
College Counselor
Tonya Stewart has studied humanity and the ways in which people adapt to life circumstances for over twenty years. She received her undergraduate degree in anthropology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master's in Adult, Occupational and Continuing Education from Kansas State University. She has counseled students, including first generation college students and military dependents, through selecting a university, funding their college careers, internships, designing plans for successful graduations and entering the workforce.
Tonya also holds certifications which bolster her ability to serve EMERGE clients with an emphasis on:
College Catalyst Coaching
Military and Veteran Educational and Occupational Coaching
Foreign National/Speakers of English as a Second Language Educational and Occupational Coaching
Positive Psychology and Resilience Coaching
Wendy R.
Life Coach (Positive Intelligence Expert)
Wendy is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with specialized training in Positive Intelligence and Somatic Coaching. The Positive Intelligence model helps you retrain your brain to attain greater calm, control, and positive mental fitness.
Wendy coaches stressed or overwhelmed adults who have a sense that some part of them is getting in their way. Like most of us, they don’t know how to change. Operating out of fear, our brain keeps us more reactive than proactive, living on auto-pilot, and blindly repeating old patterns. This can cause conflict, unhappiness, resentment, and confusion.
Through her own life experiences, Wendy developed a desire to help people find calm and self-compassion. Then, after being coached herself for the first time, she realized how life-changing it can be.
Wendy is a student of life who believes that our best life can be attained when we tap into and honor the best parts of ourselves – when we take the wheel of our own life.
Alexandra K.
Spiritual Modality Expert
Alexandra is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, esthetician and energetic healer that has been in practice for over 16 years. Alexandra has an undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology from Virginia Tech and a masters degree in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine with an internship from Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China.
Her mission is to give the best healing experience so that clients can walk away feeling relaxed, more grounded, and healthier in body, mind, and spirit. With every session, she teaches you techniques for relaxation to relieve daily stresses and learn the root cause of pain. Alexandra wants to give you the tools you need to continue your healing journey at home. Healing journey begins with the best support around you and she hopes to be that for you in your life.
Her motto is “your body is wise and your symptoms are your teachers”.
Batul S.
Image Consultant
Batul is the founder and owner of BHS Image Consulting where she works with women to identify their personal style and guides them in curating a fun and functional wardrobe to enhance their lives, empower their spirits, and achieve their goals. Her time spent at the Fashion Institute of Technology and San Francisco State University, combined with her experience in working with women across the United States, has shaped her perspective on the way we dress. Batul is also in tune with fashion's global impact on business, environments, and people.
When she’s not pouring through trend publications, working on closet edits, and personal shopping, Batul loves to immerse herself in historical fiction novels, kickboxing, crossword puzzles, and discovering new museum exhibits. She resides in Maryland with her husband and three children.
Trang G.
Executive Coach
Trang Gulian offers over 20 years in the talent acquisition industry where she’s led and built out world-class recruiting functions to achieve business goals. Trang has extensive experience in coaching and placing executives into their dream jobs.
Trang’s Executive Coaching Services is ideal for any executives that interested in discovering what they need in a job to be truly happy. Whether the executive wants to improve their current progression, move into another career, explore their career options, change career direction, or overcome a feeling of being “stuck” career-wise. Trang’s offers hands-on, practical, and actionable coaching for executives to define their career planning and skills to develop their personal brand.