Where It Started

At sixteen, I went to the doctor with gut issues and depression. I walked out with a prescription for birth control and a prescription for Prozac, and no real conversation about why a teenager’s body and mind were struggling in the first place.

That visit planted a question I’ve spent more than 20 years answering: what happens when we stop managing symptoms and start understanding them?

Two Decades in the Room with Patients

My career began in clinical nutrition and medical weight management, working directly with patients inside physician offices. Not from behind a desk, but hands on, helping people navigate weight loss, metabolic dysfunction, hormone imbalances, digestive concerns, and chronic health challenges.

For seven years, I served as a Clinical Nutritionist with Cornerstone Wellness MD, working alongside healthcare providers to help patients improve metabolic health and build practical, lasting nutrition strategies. I became one of the company’s top performing nutrition professionals, known for the relationships I built with clients and the outcomes we achieved together.

From there, I grew into leadership, eventually serving as Director of Customer Service and Lead Health Coach, where I led and mentored a team of more than 30 health coaches supporting hundreds of clinics nationwide. I built coaching systems, trained staff, and worked constantly to close the gap between clinical recommendations and the lifestyle change that actually makes them stick.

Alongside this clinical work, I spent years teaching yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and stress management as a yoga teacher and studio leader, learning firsthand how much the emotional and lifestyle side of health gets overlooked in traditional care models.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics (Chemistry, Biology, Nutrition). While my path didn’t follow the traditional Registered Dietitian route, it gave me something different: thousands of hours of real world, hands on experience with real people facing real health challenges.

My Own Search for Answers

For years, even with all my clinical knowledge, I was living my own version of “your labs are normal.” I knew something was wrong in my body, but standard testing kept coming back clean. No clear answer, no clear path forward.

It wasn’t until I pursued functional testing that I finally got one: Level 4 adrenal insufficiency. A real, measurable explanation for what I’d been feeling, hiding in places conventional labs simply weren’t designed to look.

That diagnosis changed how I practice. It’s one thing to tell clients that normal labs don’t always mean nothing’s wrong. It’s another to have lived it, and to have had to go looking for the answer myself, as a single mother trying to hold it all together while my own body kept telling me something was off. It’s a big part of why root cause, whole system testing isn’t just a philosophy I teach. It’s one I needed.

Why I Created Soma Functional Wellness

After years inside traditional weight loss and wellness models, and inside my own search for answers, I kept seeing the same thing: people told their labs were “normal” while they continued struggling. Fatigue, weight gain, digestive issues, hormone imbalances,
inflammation, autoimmune concerns, low energy. Symptoms managed without ever exploring the underlying cause.

Soma Functional Wellness exists to do it differently: personalized, root cause focused care that asks why, not just what next.

Soma means body. It’s also the bridge I work from: east and west, ancient and modern, clinical and holistic. Whole system support, not a single fix.

I believe in total system health: nutrition, movement, mindfulness, the quality of our relationships, metabolic health, and the nervous system work that traditional medicine often skips entirely. For the past several years, I’ve also been deep in a ten year shamanic apprenticeship, now halfway through, where percussion, not plant medicine, is the tool we use to work through deep healing.

And I believe just as deeply in the power of modern medicine, used well. I value having a physician partnership I can turn to for GLPs, peptides, and HRT when they’re the right tool for the moment. Health isn’t east or west. It’s both, working together.

Areas of Focus

• Weight loss and body composition

• Metabolic health and insulin resistance

• GLP-1 support and lifestyle optimization

• Functional nutrition

• Adrenal and hormone health

• Autoimmune wellness support

• Stress management and resilience

• Digestive health

• Healthy aging and longevity

• Sustainable habit change

• Mindfulness and behavior transformation

My Coaching Philosophy

Lasting change happens when people feel supported, educated, and empowered, not handed a rigid meal plan that creates dependency. My role is to help you understand your body, build confidence in your own decisions, and create habits that hold up against your real life.

I combine science backed nutrition guidance with practical coaching, accountability, and the recognition that no two people’s path to health looks the same.

A More Personal Note

I’m also a single mother, wellness educator, yoga teacher, and lifelong student of human health. I know what it is to try to hold everything together: a career, a household, a child’s needs, your own health, all at once, often with nobody holding it for you.

My own journey, including my own diagnosis, taught me that health was never just about food. It’s about how we hold stress, how we move through hard seasons, how we care for ourselves even when there’s barely time to, and how we find our way back to what matters.

My mission is simple: help people uncover the root causes of their health challenges, feel at home in their bodies again, and build wellness that lasts from the inside out.