Once I started cycling, I dealt with heavy and painful periods that were so bad I was put on birth control at 15.  Again, no digging for the root cause. No education around how I could balance my hormones, why I was dealing with these symptoms, or how my gut issues and food choices were connected. Just another bandaid that only sort of helped the symptoms.

I remember being a kid at Disney World doubled over in pain during the parade and fireworks show. In the years that followed, my chronic gut symptoms interfered with my life on an almost daily basis. I was labeled with IBS and told I'd probably always deal with symptoms. No investigating the root causes. No discussing what I could do to heal my body. Even my questions about diet were dismissed as completely unrelated!

My own health issues + my love for helping others eventually led me to want to study medicine, but I quickly realized the conventional approach wasn't the direction I wanted to go. In my mid-20s, I found naturopathic medicine, and I was immediately hooked! FINALLY  I'd found a form of medicine and a healing philosophy that focuses on addressing the root causes of symptoms using natural therapies like nutrition + lifestyle + herbs to support the whole person and rebuild health from the inside out. Soon after, I finished yoga teacher training and moved to the West Coast where I spent the next five years earning a doctorate in naturopathic medicine (ND).

Naturopathic medicine gave me my life back and allowed me to experience freedom from my symptoms for the first time in almost two decades. Over the years, I've been able to rehab my body and create a level of health I used to dream of! I feel better now at 41 than I ever did in my teens and early 20s!

I'm passionate about helping women just like you to transform their health, so I've also added functional medicine, Chinese medicine, and Reiki to my toolbox. This additional training has expanded my understanding of the body and how to create health. I'm so grateful to have the knowledge and skillset to help you, and I can't wait to work with you to resolve your chronic symptoms!