Integrative Medicine goes beyond healing disease—it’s about enhancing life.

When it comes to acute illness and injury, conventional (Western) medicine has much to offer.  Unfortunately, most of the health problems we currently face are chronic conditions that don’t have clear solutions.  In conventional healthcare, patients look to doctors and pharmacists for answers.  However, healing chronic disease and maintaining wellness requires a multi-faceted approach, with the individual as the director of their health.  Well-being is a personal journey of the mind, body, and spirit.   Integrative healthcare brings together the best practices of self-care, conventional medicine, complementary and alternative modalities.  This collaborative, individualized approach allows for a broader understanding of the nature of illness, healing, and wellness.  Integrative medicine makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches and evidence-based global medical modalities to heal root causes of disease and achieve optimal health.

Integrative Health Coaching is a client-driven partnership with the goal of achieving sustainable changes that move the client toward their health goals and life vision.  Integrative Health Coaches use coaching principles and healing practices that integrate body-mind-emotion-spirit-environment-community.  A coach is like a personal trainer, except the aim is to achieve optimal health by looking at all contributing factors.  A coach does not diagnose, prescribe, or provide medical advice.   Instead, they specialize in healthy behavior change, with a focus on the practicalities of implementing lifestyle practices.  The client is honored as the expert on their own life, and the process is tailored to the individual’s needs, preferences, and values.  The coach partners with the client to develop and achieve their health vision through inquiry, personal discovery, and accountability.  In addition to addressing the root causes of illness, Integrative Health Coaches focus on prevention through the development of self-care practices that will provide life-long benefits.

Yes!  Integrative Health Coaching is a proven method of creating sustainable changes that enhance quality of life.  Studies have shown that the structured partnership between client and coach leads to improved health outcomes.*  Most chronic health problems can be prevented or controlled with lifestyle choices.  While you may have some limitations that you cannot change, your thoughts and habits play a pivotal role in your health-span and quality of life.  Change is a process of discovery, reflection, refinement, and practice.  Setbacks become teachers as you learn what works best for you.  Your confidence and motivation will increase as you progress and feel the positive impacts in your life.

* Studies on the benefits of health coaching:

• Harvard Medical School: Health coaching is effective. Should you try it?
• NIH: Clinical Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Coaching
• Four Reasons to Consider Seeing an Integrative Health Care Provider
• Your patient should get a health coach. Here’s why.
• NIH: The effects of health coaching on adult patients with chronic diseases: a systematic review
• BJGP: Motivational interviewing: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• NYT: We Could All Use a Health Coach

Are there health changes that you want to make but either haven’t known how or have struggled to maintain? Has a health concern surfaced that you want to pay attention to? Do you feel that your health needs haven’t been met though traditional approaches?

Anyone who is struggling with a chronic condition or who wants to prevent illness and optimize wellness can benefit from working with an Integrative Health Coach.  If you want make lifestyle changes, I will partner with you to set a goal, work toward it, and maintain your progress.

Integrative Health Coaching is ideal for individuals needing 1-on-1 support with:

• Managing complex or chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, autoimmune diseases, or cancer
• Losing weight and increasing fitness
• Modifying diet to include more healthy, nutritious food
• Managing stress and achieving better work/life balance
• Improving communication and relationships
• Quitting smoking or other harmful habits
• Developing spiritual, mental, and emotional insight and alignment
• Transitioning through life’s stages and navigating new challenges
• Ensuring well-being is prioritized before, during, and after a pregnancy
• Building healthy family foundations
• Identifying root causes of disease and gaining motivation to meet wellness goals

Together, we’ll identify obstacles and create strategies for working around challenges.  I will help guide you through the process of change, provide relevant information, support you in tracking your progress, and hold you accountable to your goals.  When needed, I offer additional resources and link you with other healing modalities to create the best team for your needs.  I am here to help you feel your best and live fully, no matter where you are on your health journey.

“Readiness is when action in the direction of change feels like relief relative to stasis.  It’s the moment when continuing to do what you’ve been doing hurts too much and moving in the direction of change feels better.”                     

-Love is Medicine Project

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Health coaching is a client-driven partnership that is tailored to your specific needs, lifestyle, and values.

The 3-Month Coaching Package includes 6 individual sessions, plus an initial consultation.  The consult provides an opportunity to meet each other, discuss what to expect, identify your needs, and ensure that health coaching is the right fit for you.  Our work together will begin with some assessments to take stock of where you are now compared with where you want to be.  As needed, we’ll explore aspects of your personality type to determine how to best motivate and implement personal changes. We’ll identify what’s working for you, what’s causing stagnation, and what you changes you want to make.  Your intuition and values will serve as guides as you cultivate new rhythms and habits that support your long-term health and fulfillment.

We’ll explore the following areas of your life:

• Movement & Fitness
• Nutrition & Digestion
• Stress Management
• Relationships & Community
• Sleep & Rest
• Physical Environment
• Vision & Fulfillment
• Mental & Emotional Well-Being

Partnering with a health coach has been shown to make a significant difference in changing behaviors and improving overall health.  Substantial change generally takes 3 – 6 months to take root and to see results.  That period provides enough time to overcome obstacles and develop lasting habits.  I cannot promise that your health or circumstances will improve; the outcome depends largely on your engagement in this process.  As your coach, I will help you clarify your health goals and support you in reaching them.  Our partnership will serve as a springboard for you to forge a path into confidence and success.  Once you start to feel improvements, your commitment to your goals will grow.  My hope is that you will gain abundant momentum to continue your progress long after our work together.  You are embarking on a journey of creating sustainable health practices that will serve as the foundation to reach your fullest potential.