Whole person. It is the focus and care of the entire individual in all forms of well-being, including physical, psychological, and social. Your health is a sum of all of the pieces that make the whole of you. Things such as your career, relationships, and spirituality all affect your overall health.

Learning to integrate and care for all of those pieces will lead to optimal health, vitality and happiness.

Each client receives support sculpted to them, honoring their singular life. No theory or formula will work for everyone, and no easy fix will dig deeply enough to prepare a complete and fruitful garden. Every client is a new beginning and every course of action will vary.

I believe that each of us has our own path, and being chosen to be a part yours is a gift of trust and honor.

Whole person. It is the focus and care of the entire individual in all forms of well-being, including physical, psychological, and social. Your health is a sum of all of the pieces that make the whole of you. Things such as your career, relationships, and spirituality all affect your overall health.

Learning to integrate and care for all of those pieces will lead to optimal health, vitality and happiness.

Each client receives support sculpted to them, honoring their singular life. No theory or formula will work for everyone, and no easy fix will dig deeply enough to prepare a complete and fruitful garden. Every client is a new beginning and every course of action will vary.

I believe that each of us has our own path, and being chosen to be a part yours is a gift of trust and honor.

First, read my story. Can you relate to any of that? Did you find yourself saying, “That sounds like me?” Second, whether or not my story is anything like yours, do you feel like you would like to know a little more about me, or what health coaching is all about? Call me. We will just talk, and I can answer your questions, then you can decide if I’m the right coach for you.

After you have had your initial coaching session and you’ve decided that coaching is for you, you will fill out a complete health assessment. This assessment will honestly tell you and me, your coach, where you are right now. Health coaching is a partnership. In our first session, we fully explore your vision of you and what health goals you are looking to achieve. We will discuss your values, such as independence or relationships, and how they connect to your vision of you. Each session after that, you will choose a focus and we will explore where you are, where you want to be, and figure out how to move forward with realistic, achievable goals.

No. The focus in therapy is on inner change, while the focus in coaching is on movement toward making and achieving realistic goals that become regular sustainable behaviors. In coaching, we explore your overall vision, whether this concerns professional advancement, changing habits, working towards optimal health, decreasing stress, improving relationships (remember, this all affects your health). Coaching focuses on achieving dreams, taking action, creating momentum, deepening self knowledge yet always in service of increasing forward movement and stretching further than before. In working with a coach, you may refer to the past or have tearful emotional moments, but they are brief points in the process of moving forward and taking action rather than the focus of the session. You will put events in a healthy perspective, and not have past define present or future. Personal exploration happens in coaching too, but typically the emphasis is less on gaining extensive insight and more on action and taking the learning into one’s life soon.

If you opt-in to coaching, we decide on an appropriate package.  Coaching sessions are 50 minutes long.  The exact number and frequency of these sessions depends upon the package you purchase.  Most clients opt for sessions every 2 weeks over the course of 3-6 months.

Because I truly believe it takes three months for this work to begin to take root, and six months to become solid, I do not work with clients for less than this amount of time, except returning clients looking for a jump start.

We can talk on our computers via Zoom or the telephone. I work with clients globally and provide virtual coaching so you can meet at a nice cafe you love, or your home

Change is not something that can be done passively. You must have a desire to change. I expect you to be “present” for our meetings and your life. Optimal health is a journey rather than a destination. There will be frequent reassessing and rebalancing along the way.  Before our first session, there will be some forms for you to fill out and before each follow-up session, a few questions to think about. Finally, this is not about what I think you should do or what your doctor thinks you should do, but what you want to do.  Because it is only when you truly want something to change, that it will.

No. Weight Watchers is a diet program that has been designed for you, not by you. Their program is structured around calorie restriction and is solely about weight loss. You do not receive coaching at weigh-ins. Holistic Health Coaching looks at your life as a whole. For example, if you are chronically stressed, restricting calories probably won't help you lose weight. You must first deal with what is causing the stress in your life.