Health coaching is differentiated from Wellness coaching, in that, health coaching is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical interventions and strategies to actively and safely engage client/patients in health behavior change. Health coaches are certified or credentialed to safely guide clients and patients who may have chronic conditions or those at moderate to high risk for chronic conditions.

Wellness coaching is a process that facilitates healthy, sustainable behavior change by challenging a client to develop their inner wisdom, identify their values, and transform their goals into action. Wellness coaching draws on the principles of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry, as well as the practices of motivational interviewing and goal setting.

I spend time with my clients, listening to their histories, mapping their personal timeline, and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex chronic disease, this is why our first client session is 1.5 hours. I do not interpret, order labs or diagnose, I educate and coach my clients on what has led them to where they are today, and help plan for where they would like to be in the future! This is also why my clients are asked to fill out paperwork 3 days prior to our session, so I can plan and review whatever is sent, so we have an effective and rewarding first session. My goal is simple: wildly satisfy each client!

Perhaps you have experienced being examined by your doctor, having blood tests done, x-rays or other diagnostic tests taken, only for your doctor to report back that “all your tests are normal”. Yet, both you and your doctor know that you are unwell.

Unfortunately, this experience is all too common. So, I aim to reduce this problem by applying a new model from Functional Medicine Coaching, that focuses on your body as a whole system, to identify the causes not only the symptoms, that sees the body as a whole organism, rather than simply a collection of organs dissected into individual parts. This emerging model is – called Functional Medicine better matches the need to improve the management and prevention of chronic disease. I work with client’s who suffer from complex, chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, and autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis. If your concern is not listed, please do still feel free to reach out, and I can refer you to a trusted colleague. There is nothing worse than thinking you have found someone who can help you, and hundreds or even thousands of dollars later, your concerns have still not been solved, I was in that same position myself with my own health situation, so I only refer to competent individuals, as my referral is also my reputation.

By changing the disease-centered focus of traditional medical practice to this client-centered approach, I am able to educate and support the healing process by viewing health and illness as part of a cycle in which all components of the human biological system interact dynamically with the environment. This process helps to seek and identify genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that may shift a person’s health from illness to well-being.