About Ms Zarling
I have been the counselor for last names L-Z at Frontier since 2014.
I grew up in Renton and went to Western Washington University. I got a BA in History and became a high school teacher. I also met my husband in teaching school.
Right after college, my husband and I decided we wanted to teach in adifferent state. We got jobs in Salinas, CA and lived 30 min. away in Monterey, right above the beach. I taught high school history and government. After 2 years there, we decided we missed our families too much and we moved back to Washington.
When we came back to WA, we landed in Kingston, WA. My husband taught at Bainbridge High School and I taught at Olympic High School. After a year, I decided to go
back to school to get my Masters in Social Work so I could work withstudents in a different way. My husband decided to get his Masters in School Administration.
In 2007, my husband got a job as an Assistant Principal at the middle school he went to, Hudtloff, as a kid in Lakewood. We moved to Tacoma and had our daughter, Harper, a year later.
I stayed home with Harper for about a year and then became a part-time counselor in Clover Park SD, working in the EBD rooms helping students with high emotional needs.
Once Harper was old enough for Pre-K, we decided we wanted to try something different. We moved to the country of Trinidad in the Caribbean. I taught 6th grade Humanities and Photography. My husband was the principal of the middle school. Trinidad is the most Southern Caribbean island and the temp never got below 85. We spent a lot of time at the beach
and fell in love with Trini food. But yet again, we missed home.
We moved back to Tacoma in 2014. My husband became a principal in Lakewood again, this time at Lochburn, and I got this job working at Frontier. Since then, my husband has gotten his PhD in Educational Leadership; I am very proud of
him. He decided to be our daughter's middle school principal at Mason, in Tacoma, which she loved (not really). When she went to high school, he moved to work at Tacoma district office, where he has a job where I don't really understand what he does.
In 2023 I finished up everything I needed to do in order to become licensed as a therapist (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker technically). I don't currently do private practice therapy now, but maybe in the future.
We have 2 dogs: a HUGE great Dane, Nora, and an old, fat basset named Henry.
We have a cabin on Hood Canal that we spend almost every weekend and I stay at all summer. I am happiest when I am sitting on my deck there with people I love in front of a bonfire under the stars.
