MY TRAINING

  • Certified Holistic Health Coach
  • Board Certified by the American Association of Drug-less Practitioners
  • Professional Training and Certification Program
  • I received my training as a holistic health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s cutting-edge health coach training program.  During my training, I studied over 100 dietary theories, practical lifestyle management techniques, and innovative coaching methods with many of the world’s top health and wellness experts.  My teachers included Dr. Andrew Weil, Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine; Dr. Deepak Chopra, leader in the field of mind-body medicine; Dr. David Katz, Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center; Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of Nutrition at Harvard University; Geneen Roth, bestselling author and expert on emotional eating; and many other leading researchers and nutrition authorities.
  • Immersion Program:  Business Development & Marketing Coaching and the Science and Art of Personal Transformation
  • Professional Training and Graduate
  • Kalish Method Mentorship, Advanced Organic Acids Training, and Building a Functional Medicine Practice
  • The 3 Body Systems – Hormones, Digestive, Detoxification
  • The Kalish Method involves balancing the 3 body systems.  Your hormonal system produces your sex and stress hormones; your digestive system breaks down food for use by the body; and your detoxification system protects you from free radicals and chemical toxicity, both from your environment and your diet.
  • Areas of Learning:  Adrenal & Female Hormones, GI Systems, Detoxification Systems & The Brain
  • Specialized training in Functional Medicine Lab Testing, Protocol Design, and Case-based Learning

Functional Nutrition Labs – Full Body Systems Graduate (formerly Holistic Nutrition Labs)

  • Professional Training and Graduate
  • The full body systems training includes the Digestive system, Immune system, Urinary system, Cardiovascular System, Endocrine system, the Nervous system (Brain); Reproductive System.
  • Trained in how to uncover root causes that other practitioners have missed.
  • The anatomy and physiology needed to educate my clients and speak with authority to other practitioners.
  • Trained in working tandem with my client’s medical team.

Learned the science and clinical application of the most effective special diets, and how to recommend and employ a food strategy (or set of strategies) for each client – based on their specific needs.

  • Certified in Bio-Individual Nutrition
  • Professional Training & Certification Program
  • Comprehensive Training in the Nutrition Science and Clinical Practice of Individualized Diet and Nutrition Intervention.
  • Evidenced based diet and nutrition training that considers multiple individual variables such as underlying imbalances in immune, digestive, cellular and detoxification function.
  • Specialized training in nutrition for children, Autism, ADHD and other Special Needs.
  • Cloud-based software program that enables practitioners to easily design and deliver individualized digital nutrition programs, including recipes, meal plans, and food lists filtered to the exact needs of each client.
  • Software program that provides a web based portal through which clients can access their nutrition plans, upload their health tracking records and gain access to meal plans and recipes specific to their needs and goals.
  • Practitioner training that is cased-based.
  • Functional Medicine Lab Testing
  • Functional Medicine approach to bio-individuality
  • Nutrient Depletion and Supplement strategies for reducing antibodies
  • Know the medications when thyroid replacement is needed
  • Understand the role of thyroid antibodies in Hashimoto’s and autoimmune thyroid disease.
  • Empowering the patient to be in an objective, active, and healthy relationship with food.
  • Understand the distinction between adrenal disease and adrenal dysregulation.
  • Constipation as a common side-effect with Hashimoto’s; and how to address challenge.
  • Understand How infections can trigger Hashimoto’s.
  • Review the science behind experimental therapies.
  • Reasons why people with Hashimoto’s are more susceptible to environmental toxicants
  • Relationship and the course of disease.

FMCA-trained health coaches guide patients to optimum wellness using Functional Medicine, Functional Nutrition, Mind-Body Medicine, and Positive Psychology Coaching. A central theme of the training, positive psychology embraces and enhances people’s higher selves to achieve optimal functioning.