I’m really glad you’re here.

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My path into functional nutrition grew out of personal and family health challenges that traditional approaches couldn’t fully explain. What began as a search for answers became a deeper study of how the body adapts to stress — and how often symptoms are messages, not failures.

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Early in my career, I believed that eating “healthy” was the solution. Over time, and through my work as a registered nurse, health coach, and now a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, I came to understand that food is only one part of the picture. Digestion, stress, sleep, hormones, immune health, and the nervous system are deeply interconnected — and when one is under strain, the entire system feels it.

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This understanding first led me back to school at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where I became a certified Health Coach and began expanding beyond a food-only view of health. That training opened the door — but it was through my later work and education as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner that everything truly came together.

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Through FDN, I learned — or perhaps remembered — that the body is not broken. When we identify and reduce stressors, both obvious and hidden, and support the body’s foundational systems, it knows how to adapt and heal. That framework fundamentally changed how I see symptoms and now guides every client I support.