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what is holistic health coaching?

According to the American Fitness Professionals Association, “Holistic Health Coaches use an integrative approach to diet and lifestyle changes in order to improve their clients’ health. A Holistic Health Coach moves on step beyond simple health coaching by recognizing that there is more to overall health than just diet and exercise. A Holistic Health Coach evaluates their clients’ physical, social, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing to come up with last plans to change behaviors and boost their clients’ overall health.”

What is functional lab testing?

Functional lab testing is a tool used to look beneath the surface of your symptoms and uncover hidden imbalances in the body — often before they show up on standard lab work. These labs are designed to assess how your body is functioning, rather than just screening for disease.

Instead of asking “Are you sick?”, functional labs ask:

• How is your gut functioning?

• Are your hormones balanced and cycling properly?

• Is your body detoxifying efficiently?

• Are you reacting to foods or struggling with absorption?

• What’s your stress load and how is it impacting your energy, mood, or metabolism?

Using advanced at-home testing kits (stool, saliva, urine, blood spot), we gather meaningful data about your digestive health, hormone levels, liver detox pathways, inflammation, immune response, and more. From there, we create a personalized, root-cause protocol based on your body’s unique needs.

This is not guesswork. It’s a clear, guided roadmap to help you feel better — because your body is always talking, and now we’ll finally know what it’s saying.

What can I expect?

Through your experience with Emily, you’ll develop a collaborative relationship rooted in education, empowerment, and clarity. She integrates functional lab testing as a powerful tool to uncover hidden imbalances and provide deeper insight into what’s truly going on beneath the surface. Alongside lab data, Emily utilizes positive psychology and your unique strengths to support sustainable behavior change and habit transformation.

Through the lens of nutrition, exercise, stress management, self-care, gut health, hormone balance, hydration, and sleep, she’ll equip you with the knowledge to understand not just what to do, but why it matters — so you can confidently make choices that align with your body’s needs. As your partner in accountability (and your personal wellness enthusiast), Emily will guide you with motivation, structure, and support as you move toward realistic, sustainable goals.

Why is holistic health coaching important?

According to AFPA, “On an average doctor’s office visit, a patient spends only about 10-12 minutes actually speaking to their doctor. A patient often leaves the doctor’s office with information, but information doesn’t translate into behavior changes. Doctors and nurses are trained in delivering an expert model
of care, but not necessarily in explaining and encouraging long-lasting behavioral changes in order to lower stress or increase daily sleep.

According to the CDC, preventing chronic disease can be achieved by:

• Abstinence from smoking

• Engagement in regular physical activity

• Consumption of little to no alcohol

• Maintenance of normal body weight

• Proper sleep hygiene

• Balance and health-sustaining nutrition

Unfortunately, only about 6.3 percent of Americans engage in all five of these behaviors, which is why chronic disease is plaguing us all. This is why the role of a health coach is so crucial. Helping clients change their physical, spiritual, psychological, and social habits is difficult, but with the right training, tools, and experience, things can turn around.”

“One size does not fit all.” What does that mean?

Time and time again, industries are marketing dietary approaches to wellness that offer overgeneralized claims that every product will work for every individual. Unfortunately, for the consumer, this leads to money lost and long term failure as it relates to their health goals. While working with Emily, she believes in the idea of support you where you are, within your specific circumstances .

Emily spends time getting to know her clients in a comprehensive way. In doing so, her focus is tailored to your needs, your goals, your life. This is not a temporary fix. It is a lifestyle change and long term investment. That said, it must be made as accessible to YOU as possible.

What is functional nutrition?

Emily is a Functional Nutrition Expert, certified through MindBodyGreen. She utilizes this knowledge and expertise in the work that she does with clients — utilizing nutrition in a functional way to support many health conditions involving the mind and body. According to MindBodyGreen, “functional nutrition is a nutritional philosophy that looks at the body as a whole and focuses on the root causes of a condition rather than an isolated set of symptoms.” As a functional nutrition expert, Emily can explore nutrition for improved heart health, brain health, gut health, thyroid health, hormone health, and more.

why is emily’s approach different than others?

Emily approaches wellness in a way that is most accessible and digestible, regardless of where you are on your wellness journey. Emily uses this philosophy with clients: meet yourself where you are and take an inch. This means that it is imperative to your progress that we begin at step 1, and build a foundation until you reach step 50, 100, or wherever it is that you want to go. The expectation that you will ascend from step 1 to step 26 overnight is oftentimes the marketing approach to many common wellness programs out there. This ‘overnight success’ mentality, which steps away from any potential for sustainable change, is harmful. Instead, Emily knows that starting with the basics, solidifying your foundation, establishing healthful habits, and finding a rhythm that works for you and your circumstances is essential. This is where we begin. From there, we can expand, we can challenge, we can grow, we can feel better.

Emily also operates from the lens of both physical and mental health, as the two are one in the same. You are only making your way 50% if you are not considering how your physical health is impacted by your mental health, and vice versa. Emily feels confident that it is through this intersection, through the mind body, that true vitality can be achieved.

Emily marries both behavioral change and mindset into her approach with clients. This is where true, sustainable success can and will take place.

ARE YOUR PROGRAMS ‘WEIGHT LOSS’ PROGRAMS?

While weight loss can be a byproduct of working together, it is not a primary focus. In our world, we tend to be hyper fixated on the number on the scale and ‘weight loss’ as a whole that we lose sight of what it means to be ‘healthy.’ Furthermore, with this focus, we are at risk of resorting to unhealthy weight loss mechanisms in order to achieve a ‘goal weight,’ completely damaging our health along the way. Health and wellness is so much more than just weight loss. Stepping away from the focus on weight loss, and leaning into development of more health-sustaining, long term lifestyle habits, you can achieve all your goals — weight loss and all, but in a healthier, sustainable, more realistic way.

hOW WILL i KNOW WHICH COURSE OF ACTION IS BEST FOR ME?

Upon meeting with Emily during your free phone consultation, you can decide just that! Emily will offer honest recommendations based on your needs and where you’re at in your health and wellness journey. Emily is committed to offering you the best, most appropriate guidance in full transparency from a place of expertise and understanding.

Do you accept insurance?

Not at this time. However, I do offer a payment plan in order to facilitate access to my programs. Feel free to reach out to Emily directly for more information.

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