It's my passion to train and empower people to learn how to get to the root cause of personal obstacles that prevent them from thriving in every area of their life. My approach is extremely relational and integrative in that I work closely with my clients to develop a life wellness plan according to what their individual needs are as we are all uniquely created. 

Furthermore it's my desire for everyone to thrive in every area of their lives including physical, nutritional, environmental, relational, emotional, mindful, and spiritual health. I accomplish this goal with my clients by working closely with them and providing resources to equip them with what they need in order to be successful. It is a blessing to be able to share my knowledge and expertise as well  as help my clients develop their gifts and talents. 

I encourage, educate, and equip clients how to improve their overall lifestyle and health choices in order for them to be empowered to live abundantly. In whatever you are experiencing, the key to wellness is discovering the cause and not simply covering up the symptoms to recover wellness. 

Background: It has been my privilege to work in healthcare since 1984. During high school and college I worked in nursing homes and home health care. For a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, I trained as a holistic health nurse at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My career as a registered nurse led to working in hospitals, hospice and as a school nurse. I have been using my nursing training and experience in coaching others since 2001. My nursing education along with my own personal experience in recovering my son's health led me down a path to help peo ple discover the root cause of symptoms that create obstacles in their lives and coach people in overcoming them using what their body, soul and spirit needs most. 

Continuing Education Includes: Hospice nurse certification, Certified Coach, Nova Vita Center for Natural Healing, Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis, Functional Endocrinology, Reading the Signs, Linking the Signs. Numerous natural health conventions, educational seminars and classes. Assessment training with multiple doctors and one on one training. Numerous emotional, mental and spiritual healing techniques. I continue to train with doctors and health care professionals who also have the desire to discover the cause to experience healing. 

In person and virtual sessions are offered.

     Nurse coaching is a skilled, purposeful, results-oriented and structured client interaction that is provided by Registered Nurses for the purpose of promoting achievement of client goals.

Nurse coaches:

Promote and facilitate the growth, healing and wellbeing of the whole person by using coaching principles and healing modalities that integrate body-mind-emotion-spirit-environment-nutrition.

Are required to have several years of nursing education and experience as a foundation to developing their coaching skills. 

Integrate coaching competencies to facilitate a process of change or development that assists individuals and/or groups to actualize their potential.
Are supportive and encouraging, building on the client’s strengths rather than attempting to correct weaknesses.

Provide guidance and resources to the client who is the expert on their own needs and choices.  

 Health coaching is the skillful use of evidence-based conversations, clinical interventions and strategies to safely and actively engage clients who have chronic conditions or are at moderate to high risk for developing them.

Wellness coaching is a process that challenges clients to develop their inner wisdom, identify their values, and transform their wellness goals into action by facilitating healthy, sustainable behavior change. Wellness coaching draws on principles from positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, motivational interviewing and goal setting. Wellness coaches are not required to be licensed or credentialed health professionals.

Both health and wellness coaches:
•    Partner with clients who are seeking self-directed changes
•    Promote client health and well-being
•    Display a belief in the client’s capacity

Coaching is a process of partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Coaches are experts at:
•    Identify client readiness for change
•    Identify opportunities and issues related to the client’s growth
•    Establish client-centered goals or outcomes
•    Plan and structure the coaching interactions
•    Empower and motivate the client
•    Assist the client to evaluate their progress toward established goals
Successful coaching takes place when clients mobilize internal strengths and external resources for sustainable change.

•    Coaching – Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The coach is the expert at coaching, not necessarily the subject matter expert on the client’s topic of interest.
•    Counseling – Counselors are trained to diagnose and help the client with emotional problems, their past, or their dysfunction, while the coach’s role is to assist clients with achieving what they want in the present and future.
•    Mentoring – A mentor is a trusted guide, advisor, and subject matter expert who shares their experience while bringing the “mentee” up the ranks. A coach is not necessarily a subject matter expert.
•    Consulting – A consultant is an expert who is called on for professional or technical advice. They understand the problem and present solutions. Consulting is different than coaching because with coaching, most of the answers come from the client.

However, in the last few years, these distinctions are becoming blurred.
•    Coaches are beginning to offer ideas, solutions, options, and/or advice to their clients like consultants and mentors do.
•    Counselors are using more strength-based approaches, with less analysis of the past and more focus on the client’s present, like coaches do.
•    Mentors are realizing they are more successful when they incorporate coaching into guiding and supporting their mentees like coaches do.
•    Consultants are finding they are more effective in guiding major change when they use a more facilitative style and a less expert-based one like coaches do.