About me

 I graduated with my BSN, RN from BYU in 1993 and practiced inpatient Pediatric and Adult Med/Surg nursing on and off as I raised 5 children. I have always been interested in holistic and integrative medicine approaches to health to get to the "root causes" of disease and find true healing, rather than just treating symptoms.

My journey to Functional Nutrition really began by watching my mother struggle with MULTIPLE health issues for the last 20 years of her life that I knew were rooted in inflammation.  I tried to help her navigate the frustratingly complex, confusing and disconnected health care system with multiple specialists all vying for priority.   Somehow I also knew she needed to change her diet, but I didn't have the tools back then.  

A few years later I found myself gaining weight, sluggish, tired, with emerging inflammatory issues and it spurred me to action--I was not going to go down the same path!  I instinctively understood my Western medicine community did not have the answers I needed, which fueled new research into Functional Medicine and Nutrition.

During this time my own health declined, despite being at a healthy weight and having a healthy diet and lifestyle--or so I thought.  My body crossed into a state of autoimmunity that led me to find healing through a functional medicine practitioner, and to, ultimately, become a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor.  In addition, I have become a Certified Bowenwork Practitioner--a gentle, effective therapy that stimulates the body to do the work of healing on its own.

 I am so excited to finally have powerful tools to help my clients find the healing they have been longing for!

The body is an amazing, integrated, connected, and functional group of systems! Imbalance and dis-ease in one system has downstream effects in other systems.   I am passionate about treating a person as a unique and individual whole with compassion and empathy and to help them understand their own body and the terrain in which their chronic issues exist, and then working as a team to find deeper, lasting healing.