What Is a Holistic Health Coach?

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What Is a Holistic Health Coach?

June 13, 2025

My Journey to Becoming the Practitioner I Couldn’t Find

There may be a thousand definitions of what it means to be a health coach, and a million different ways people practice it. But to me, a Holistic Health Coach is someone who walks with you toward wellness—through every layer of your being.

Not just the physical symptoms.
Not just the lab numbers.
Not just what Western medicine is trained to address.

To me, holistic health is about working with the whole body, the mind, the spirit, and even the environment we live in.

My Journey Didn’t Start With Wholeness

I had two young children, a thriving nursery design business and a body that was on the brink of utter collapse – I was 27 years old.

It didn’t start as a slow decline, more like a free fall.
Fatigue that felt like I was carrying 400 lbs.
Neurological symptoms that terrified me—twitches, numbness, severe muscle weakness.
I struggled to breathe, to swallow, to walk.

And then there was my brain.
It felt like it was shrouded in smog. A thick, unrelenting fog I couldn’t think my way out of.

I was miserable. And I was desperate.

Doctors, Diagnoses, and Dead Ends

What seemed like endless tests—bloodwork, urine samples, imaging, specialists. Every test came back “normal,” so I was sent to a neurologist.

Because my symptoms were intermittent but my gait reflected muscle weakness, they finally gave me a label: “We think you have Multiple Sclerosis.” Though I had suspected this, I assumed there would be some type of support system.

They said:

“You’ll need better insurance. The future will come with a lot of medical bills.”

There was no hope. No clear treatment. Just wait and watch for decline.

I walked out of that medical building in despair. My children needed me, and I had my whole life ahead of me. I started to cling to my own inner strength. From this would emerge a purpose I hadn’t touched.

I remember what I told myself that day:
“This will not be my life.”

The Inner Fight That Became My Mission

I had to give up—give up the beliefs and patterns that were holding me in survival.

I learned to stop fighting—though it felt like my body was failing me, I started to trust that it was working desperately to heal.

There was only surrender to the long, messy, sacred process of healing, self-discovery, and redesign of my whole life.

The First Pivot: Foot Zone Therapy

My turning point came through something I never expected—Foot Zone Therapy (also known as Reflexology). What did I have to lose?
The hands of a skilled practitioner moved through sequences and motions that made no logical sense to me—but my body understood them. I felt things shift, as if the switch of my body’s innate wisdom was getting a download that it had permission to ‘heal’. I’ll never forget that after my first foot zone, I went home and could actually sleep. Being in a state of tired and wired for so long, this was beyond incredible.

This wasn’t just another therapy. This was the beginning of real healing.

I now see Foot Zone Therapy as a form of bio-intuitive communication—a way to read the body’s deficiencies, stress patterns, and needs. It’s a powerful technology that seems to reprogram the body when used intentionally.

I’ve experienced this firsthand. And I’ve seen it help countless others, too.

That’s why I still practice it, teach it, and continue to learn from it.

Becoming the Practitioner I Couldn’t Find

In those early years, I practiced on friends and family who came to me with everything from digestive issues and migraines to fertility challenges and autoimmune flares. That’s when I realized:

👉 I was meant to help people find their own healing.
Not just hand them a supplement protocol.
But to help them tap into their body’s intelligence.
To reconnect them with their innate ability to heal.

That’s why I became a Certified Holistic Health Coach. And that’s when I began adding more tools to my practice.

What I Offer Today

Over time, I’ve added a variety of modalities that help me support each client from the ground up:

🔹 Functional Nutrition Coaching – Understanding how food and lifestyle shape your biology and healing
🔹 Genomic Analysis – Using your genes as a roadmap to tailor your nutrition, detox pathways, and stress responses
🔹 Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release, and Lymphatic Work – Addressing physical tension and supporting detox at the structural level
🔹 Cognomovement – Helping rewire nervous system patterns that keep the body stuck in chronic stress or trauma
🔹 AO Scan Biofeedback – Using non-invasive frequency technology to read patterns of imbalance and bring the body back to harmony
🔹 Custom Coaching Programs – Tailored to your goals: from hormone balance and digestive healing to emotional regulation and fertility

I offer this work in completely individualized coaching packages that meet you where you are, so you’re never overwhelmed, but always supported. Many of the tools I use become daily support for my clients as they ease their way into using them for their own healing. This creates a lasting system that adapts as needed.

My coaching is not typical—I do not start with diet. I focus on restoring breath and nervous system flexibility. These are the foundational steps I highlight in my free ebook, The Five Essential Steps to Vibrant Health. Before we ever talk about food, we address the deeper patterns that influence energy, stress, and healing at the root. You can get yours here.