About me

I graduated with my BSN, RN from BYU in 1993 and practiced inpatient Pediatric 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.  One day, in frustration I blurted out "you just need some care coordination!"  Somehow I also knew she needed to change her diet, but I didn't have the tools back then, and my mother died from those health issues and my heart broke that I couldn't help her more.

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 become my mother!  I instinctively understood two major influences affecting me--genetics and inflammation--but my Western medicine community was not equipped to help me know how to deal with the third--digestion. 

In the meantime, I found a healthy way to lose weight, and in 2015 I became a COPE Certified Health Coach and in turn helped many clients achieve their weight goals.  But I kept encountering clients who had deeper health issues that interfered with their progress and needed addressing.  But once again, I didn't have all the tools for them.  

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. I am so excited to finally have powerful tools to help my clients find the help 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.  My aim is always to "back it up" to find out what is truly "going on in there" and addressing the root causes for disease.  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.