Philosophy
I practice a holistic approach to health and wellness.
This means that I look at how all areas of life are connected. Food is really a secondary factor to making a healthy change. Lifestyle is really the primary factor to creating optimal health and wellness and most often needs addressed. Does job stress or toxic relationship(s) cause emotional eating? Does lack of sleep or low energy prevent exercise? These are just a couple examples on how I assess life and their impact on health as a whole.
I work with clients to get in touch with their body's needs because I understand that life happens and personal needs will change. I equip my clients with self-awareness to make decisions aligned with their goals for any given circumstance. I believe each person is fully capable of making well-informed decisions from an internal perspective and can act as their own expert.
I help clients define what they value most for their well-being, which includes a clear vision in order to motivate specific strategies that bring them closer to where they want to be. I do not dictate a diet or lifestyle approach, but instead allow individuals to tune into themselves to explore why some foods or actions make them feel better than others. From this point, individuals have a foundational starting point and and a functional understanding of how to strategically use that feedback and apply it to their own life.
While I am currently not accepting new clients, I hope this space will help your define what you need to achieve your health and lifestyle goals.
The Process
Tired of one-size-fits-all approaches to dieting?
Drained from toxic relationships?
Overwhelmed by stress at work?
Fed up with those nagging cravings?
Want to feel great in your body?
Ready to accomplish your goals in a way that's empowering and exciting?
It's rare for anyone to get an hour to explore their wellness goals with a trained professional. As an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, I create a supportive environment that enables my clients to articulate and achieve their goals. Throughout my education, I have been exposed to the most innovative dietary theories and studied highly effective coaching techniques to help clients find the right lifestyle that works best.
Most approaches to healthy eating dwell on calories, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Instead of creating lists of restrictions and good and bad foods, I coach my clients to explore basic improvements and implement gradual changes during our work together. As these pieces accumulate, my clients find these changes collectively creating a much larger impact than they originally anticipated.
Through working together, I help clients:
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Envision their wellness goals and provide the tools to achieve them
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Create a sustainable, personalized blueprint
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Decipher their own body's unique needs
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Set personalized goals that work with their life
Services provided to my clients:
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One-on-one phone conference
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Weekly support
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Email accountability and recommendations
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Tailored recipes
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Handouts specific to individual needs and goals
TRAINING CERTIFICATION
I received my training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where I studied a variety of dietary theories (Ayurveda, gluten-free, Paleo, raw, vegan, macrobiotics, and everything in between) and practical lifestyle coaching methods. I studied with the world's top health and wellness experts including:
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Joshua Rosenthal, founder of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
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Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, chair of nutrition at Harvard University
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Andrew Weil, MD, director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
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Gabrielle Bernstein, bestselling author and life coach
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Susan Blum, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Mark Hyman, MD, founder of The UltraWellness Center
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Deneen Roth, bestselling author and expert on emotional eating
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David Wolfe, raw food leader and nutrition expert
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Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, professor at New York University's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
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Mark Bittman, food writer for The New York Times and bestselling author
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Joel Fuhrman, MD, family physician and leading expert on nutritional healing
My education has equipped me with extensive, cutting-edge knowledge in holistic nutrition, health coaching, and prevention. Drawing on my expertise, I work with my clients to help make lifestyle changes and choose health-promoting ways that produce real and lasting results. My clients develop a deeper understanding of food and lifestyle choices that work best for their unique life and improve their overall energy, balance, health, and happiness.
As an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, I am a guide and mentor who empowers others through ongoing support and guidance. I actively listen to help navigate the world of contradictory nutrition and health advice to explore what truly works for my clients.
Each session leaves my clients feeling inspired and motivated. We talk about things beyond food, seeking to bring balance to important elements of life such as love and relationships as well as career and finances. I personally and carefully guide clients to make simple, small changes that can be sustained in order to transform their life.
With my knowledge and client's input, together we co-create completely personalized actions based on individualized needs to move them toward their ideal vision of health.
As a coach and recipe developer, I put the power back in my client's hands.