VISCERAL.
Beneath Our Skin Lies Another World.
The Maps are Incomplete, the Reports Vague.
That’s the Territory We’re Here to Explore.
What Is Health Coaching?
Most people know what healthy choices look like—eating well, sleeping deeply, managing stress, and moving regularly. But turning that knowledge into a sustainable daily routine, especially when life gets busy or complex, is a completely different challenge.
Health coaching fills that gap.
A health coach is a trained specialist in behavior change, lifestyle modification, and human performance. Rather than giving you a generic, one-size-fits-all plan or telling you what to do, a coach works alongside you to help you clarify your goals, uncover what’s getting in the way, and create realistic strategies tailored to your life and physiology.
How It Works
Client-Centered & Personalized: You are the expert on your own life. Coaching honors your values, preferences, and schedule to build an approach that actually fits.
Evidence-Based Behavior Change: Small, deliberate shifts compound over time. We focus on habits that stick long after our sessions end.
Integrative Vision: Health isn't just one metric. We look at the interplay of movement, nutrition, sleep, stress resilience, daily energy, and more.
Accountability & Partnership: Coaching provides structured guidance, continuous feedback, and a supportive, non-judgmental space that lets you adapt as you go.
Why Coaching?
Studies have shown that coaching bridges the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, improving health markers by 300% over the conventional health care model.
How We Work
Our coaching relationship is structured to provide consistent support, research, and data tracking through the following means:
Initial Consultation: We begin with a free 30-minute call or video conference to go over the coaching process, explore your health goals, review your history, and see if our partnership is a mutual fit.
Weekly Meetings: If we proceed, we’ll meet for 45 minutes weekly to design a protocol for you, support your progress, explore challenges, and adjust the protocol. It typically takes a few months for habit change to become your new normal so you see results.
The Protocol: Customized to align with your background and preferences, your protocol may include a wide range of elements from meditation and saunas to reading and writing to addressing stress and sleep issues to setting up routines or taking on new challenges. It could also include working with a full health care team. As in all coaching work, you’ll set the goals and the pace.
Ongoing Support: You’ll have access to resources, tailored insights, and communication between sessions.
What Doctors Say About Health Coaching
"Health coaches are the missing link in our healthcare system. Doctors have the knowledge, but health coaches have the time, skills, and tools to help patients make lasting behavior change."
— Dr. Mark Hyman
Founder of the UltraWellness Center and Senior Advisor at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
"The medicine of the future isn't a pill—it's lifestyle change. Health coaches are essential because they bridge the gap between medical advice and daily life, turning recommendations into sustainable habits."
— Dr. Andrew Weil
Founder and Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
"Doctors are trained to diagnose and treat acute illness, but we are poorly equipped to help patients navigate the everyday behavioral choices that drive chronic disease. Health coaches fill that critical void."
— Dr. David Katz
Author or Co-Author of 19 Books and Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
"In medicine, we know what works—eat better, move more, sleep well, manage stress. The challenge is execution. Health coaches master the art of behavior change to make the ‘what’ actually happen in a patient's life."
— Dr. Dean Ornish
Researcher and Founder of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute
"Healthcare doesn't happen in the clinic; it happens in everyday life. Health coaches are the catalysts who help people take ownership of their health stories and reclaim their vitality."
— Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Author of Six Books on Health through Lifestyle Change andHost of the podcast “Feel Better, Live More”
"Information alone rarely changes behavior. If it did, no one would smoke and everyone would eat well. Health coaches provide the personalized guidance and empowerment that bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it."
— Dr. Frank Lipman
Founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and Integrative Medicine Pioneer
"We’re drowning in a sea of lifestyle-driven chronic disease, yet the current medical model only dedicates minutes to patients. Health coaches provide the accountability, structure, and human connection healing requires."
— Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Considered the Father of Functional Medicine and Founder of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute
"We spend billions on medical solutions for problems that stem from everyday living. Health coaches are essential because they meet people where they are, helping them transform their daily choices long before a prescription is ever needed."
— Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Author of Eat to Live and President of the Nutritional Research Foundation
Who You Are
I work with clients who:
Recognize the body-mind connection: You’re open to the idea that your symptoms, patterns, and coping mechanisms are not isolated accidents, but coordinated responses to your experience.
Value prevention: You want to improve your health before you experience symptoms and are open to exploring cutting-edge ideas about health care.
Are ready to face uncertainty and discomfort: You’re open to staying with physical and emotional discomfort in a culture built around the embrace of the positive and escape from the negative.
Have the stamina and motivation for inquiry: You are game to do challenging internal work and translate those insights into daily practice.
Are at any age or stage of life and any gender. While my training took place in a female-focused organization, the same principles apply to everyone, and we’re just now learning how young health-related patterns are set. It’s better to do this work at mid-life than in old age, better in our 20s than our 40s, and better in our teens than any of the above. But the most important time to start is now.
May have specific longevity concerns. My mother had Alzheimer’s for 18 years, so I’m particularly interested in dementia prevention and management in the early stages, when degenerative changes can often be delayed or reversed. I am enrolled in specialized training that promotes advanced lifestyle choices to address pre-dementia and early dementia, so if you want to prevent, delay, or reverse cognitive decline, Visceral Health is a supportive environment.
Ultimately, if you’re ready to dismantle your resistance to cultivating lasting metabolic, cognitive, and psychological health, welcome!
Who I Am
I’m a health coach trained and certified through the Integrative Women’s Health Institute and enrolled in a specialized perimenopause/menopause training program through the same organization. I’m in the final months of Apollo Health’s coach training, which is based on the dementia prevention and treatment protocols of Dr. Dale Bredesen, author of The End of Alzheimer’s. And I’m studying for an exam in November 2026 that will make me a board-certified coach through the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches.
In the 2000s and 2010s, I was privileged to work for a groundbreaking media company called The Intelligent Optimist and given the chance to launch online courses as they were starting to be available and popular. I hosted two year-long courses multiple times: The Metamorphosis Lab and The Transformative Medicine Program. The latter was led by visionary German physician Ruediger Dahlke, with whom I apprenticed and led workshops at the Omega Institute and the Esalen Institute.
Prior to that, I studied consciousness and behavior change in the Master of Conscious Evolution program hosted by The Graduate Institute and EnlightenNext as well as the California Institute for Integrative Studies’ Transformative Studies doctoral program.
In recent years, I’ve been a student in the nondual tradition of Jiddu Krishnamurti and have lived and worked at Buddhist centers in the U.S.
Health and spirituality have been my focus for decades, and I look forward to exploring them in different ways with you.