About Your Mentor

I have spent my entire professional career dedicated to the field of health promotion.  I believe in increasing access to a healthy environment and lifestyle.  Prior to my career in health and wellness coaching, I spent 14 years in Public Health as an environmental health and safety consultant.  

 

I began my journey in health coaching by becoming a Certified  Wellcoach® in 2016.  Over the next two years, I coached both private individual clients and patients of an integrative medical clinic.  I earned my National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) credential in 2018.  

 

In 2020, I shifted my career to health coaching education.  I co-created and taught an NBHWC Approved Training Program for the University of Portland School of Nursing and Health Innovations (UPSNHI).  It was in this role that I recognized how anxious my students were about accruing their 50 coaching sessions because of a lack of organized support.  Because I truly wanted to help my students achieve their career goals of becoming an NBC-HWC, I found a way to fill the gap between education and credentialling. 

I created a new elective coaching course at UPSNHI leveraging the University's connections to find willing practice clients for my students.  The course provided a framework to complete 50 coaching sessions in alignment with the NBHWC Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice while offering continued professional support and mentorship.  It was a success!  And now I get to expand this same opportunity to you!