Create the quality of life you dream of

Been there, done that.

I know what it’s like to feel unheard, frustrated, and exhausted, and to be medically gaslit—doing everything “right” but still feeling unwell, and being told that “it’s all in my head”. My health collapsed in my 20s, and after years of misdiagnoses, I became my own health detective, uncovering the root causes. I learned that true healing isn’t just about what we eat—it’s about what is also eating us…and about removing the stressors and energetic blocks that keep us sick. Through my SAGE Approach, I help others reclaim their health by addressing the various layers of well-being using my six roots of foundational health. If you're searching for real answers, I'm here to help guide your journey.

Your body doesn't lie. Trust your “gut”.

The wisdom and compassion I’ve gained from my own journey have inspired me to share my story. My mission is to empower others to reclaim their health and happiness and remember who they are—helping them become the best version of themselves and discover what it truly means to live fully in an authentic and aligned way.

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MY GOAL AS A HEALTH PRACTITIONER

To help you “just undo it”- and uncover true health

I help individuals get to the root cause of their health concerns by identifying blocks and restoring balance through practical, sustainable lifestyle and nutrition strategies. My approach promotes whole-body and mind health, focusing on gut and digestive health, circadian rhythm, nervous system regulation, and integrative healing modalities that support your body’s natural ability to heal.

With a focus on multidimensional well-being, I provide easy, practical solutions that fit into a busy lifestyle, empowering you to cultivate true wellness as a lifelong practice—not just a quick fix.

My ultimate goal is to guide you back home to your best self.

THe sage approach - transform your health from the inside out

Unlock Your True Potential

Are you ready to experience lasting transformation and reconnect with your highest self? The SAGE Approach is a multidimensional, root-cause healing framework designed to uncover and remove the blocks preventing true wellness. By aligning your body, mind, and spirit, we create a harmonious flow that unlocks your fullest potential.

What is the SAGE Approach?

My unique approach blends science, clinical expertise, and lived experience, where art meets science and evidence-based practice meets holistic and traditional wisdom—rooted in research, guided by intuition, and designed for whole-person healing.

Unlike conventional health models that focus only on symptoms, the SAGE Approach integrates Functional Medicine, Integrative Health, and may include Remote Energy Testing to address imbalances at their core. We work across the five layers of human experience—physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and astral—to restore balance and create lasting transformation.

This four-step method serves as the foundation:

1. Stress Story – Uncover your unique health history and identify key stressors.

2. Assess – Use remote applied kinesiology and/or functional medicine labs and targeted assessments to evaluate hidden imbalances affecting your well-being.

3. Get Rid Of (Blocks) – Clear physical, emotional, mental, spiritual/astral, and energetic obstacles preventing healing.

4. Enjoy – Implement personalized strategies to restore balance, alignment, and vitality.

The Six Roots of Well-Being

Your health is influenced by six essential roots, forming the foundation of the SAGE Approach:

• Nutrition & Digestion – Supporting gut health, nutrient absorption, and metabolic balance.

• Somatic Health & Physiological Function – Restoring nervous system function, movement, detoxification, and resilience.

• Psycho-Emotional Balance – Cultivating emotional clarity, resilience, and inner harmony.

• Spiritual Connection & Energetic Alignment – Aligning with higher consciousness/spirit/God & removing energetic blockages.

• Relationships & Connection – Strengthening meaningful relationships and fostering community for emotional well-being.

• Creativity & Self-Expression – Engaging in creativity as a source of healing, clarity, access to source and intuition, and self-discovery.

By addressing these six roots across the five layers of health, we create a personalized, whole-person plan that restores balance and allows healing to unfold naturally.

Healing Beyond the Physical

The SAGE Approach recognizes that while food and other lifestyle inputs are essential, healing isn’t just about what you eat, but what’s “eating” you. Many underlying issues—chronic infections, toxic exposures, emotional traumas, and other “parasitic” influences — things that drain your health, vitality, and life force — often go undetected in conventional care.

Tuning Into the Body’s Wisdom—From Anywhere

In my work, I blend functional medicine with integrative modalities to uncover what’s blocking your healing—physically, emotionally, energetically, mentally, and astrally. I assess stress factors using applied kinesiology principles to identify imbalances that may not show up on labs. This method allows me to evaluate how your system responds to potential stressors and tailor a healing plan that’s truly personalized. Grounded in the science of quantum physics and energy medicine, this work honors the body as an intelligent, responsive field of energy and information created in the image of God—one that, when properly supported, knows how to heal itself.

Achieving Synergistic Alignment

At its core, the SAGE Approach is about alignment and freedom—bridging physical/seen and metaphysical/unseen factors to restore harmony in mind, body, and spirit. By resonating with elevated states of coherence, you reconnect with your true essence, moving through life with clarity, ease, and empowerment.

Are You Ready to Thrive?

True healing goes beyond symptom management—it’s about uncovering and releasing the barriers preventing your being from thriving. The SAGE Approach helps clear these blocks, restoring balance so you can reclaim vitality and fully align with your authentic self.

What is “Quantum Healing”?

Quantum Healing is a holistic approach to wellness that integrates principles from quantum physics with energy medicine.

Quantum Healing is a holistic approach that integrates scientifically validated principles of quantum physics with energy medicine, recognizing that healing occurs across multiple levels—physical, energetic/auric, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Just as radio waves are unseen yet measurable, the body operates within an energetic field that influences health and well-being.

Quantum physics is a well-established field of science that has demonstrated how energy and matter interact at a subatomic level, shaping the physical world—including biological systems . Similarly, applied kinesiology is supported by research in neuromuscular function and biofeedback mechanisms.

By identifying the root causes of dysfunction and restoring energetic flow, Quantum Healing promotes deep, lasting transformation beyond just symptom relief.

Key Aspects of Quantum Healing:

• Mind-Body Connection – Thoughts, emotions, and stress impact physical health. Quantum Healing helps release energetic blocks that may be disrupting well-being.

• Energy Medicine – Techniques such as energy balancing and applied kinesiology help restore harmony within the body's biofield.

• Remote Healing – Just like tuning into a radio station, distance healing works through energy resonance, allowing for effective support regardless of location.

Quantum Healing complements traditional medical care by addressing the full spectrum of health—body, mind, and spirit—empowering you to achieve optimal well-being.

About integrative nutrition & functional health

What is Integrative Functional Nutrition?

You may be wondering: What does a Clinical Integrative Functional Nutritionist do? This foundational question highlights the significance of viewing wellness through a nutritional lens, applicable to everyone—not just those looking to lose weight. Working with an integrative functional nutritionist can help you address ongoing symptoms, prevent and reverse dis-ease, and get to the root causes of less-than-ideal health.

Understanding "Nutrition"

Conventional nutrition often focuses on basic food groups—micronutrients, macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals—seeing the body as a collection of isolated systems. However, nutrition is much broader. From a functional and integrative perspective, it encompasses everything we "consume" that can either nourish or detract from our health, including:

• Food: Nutrient-rich and whole foods.

• Relationships: The quality of our social connections.

• Mindset: Our mental resilience and stress management.

• Lifestyle: Physical activity, sleep, and work environment.

• Environment: External toxins and time spent in nature.

Science shows that our health is influenced more by our environment and lifestyle choices (up to 95%) than by genetics alone. Therefore, curating a supportive personal environment is crucial for holistic well-being—mind, body, and spirit.

How Integrative & Functional Nutrition Differs from Conventional Nutrition

Integrative Functional Nutrition is a comprehensive approach to health restoration and self-care that considers interrelated factors such as food, sleep, exercise, stress, lifestyle, environment, genetics, and mindset. It focuses not on symptoms as problems, but as clues to underlying issues.

This approach is both a science and an art, utilizing up-to-date research and clinical evidence to identify root causes and develop individualized treatment plans that promote lifelong self-care.

What Does "Integrative" Nutrition Mean?

Integrative Nutrition emphasizes the importance of the practitioner-patient relationship, focusing on the whole person and utilizing all appropriate therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health. This involves integrating conventional and complementary therapies, such as:

• Medical and dental care

• Massage and behavioral therapy

• Energy medicine and acupuncture

• Herbal care, yoga, and art therapy

What Does "Functional" Nutrition Mean?

Functional Nutrition, part of the Functional Medicine paradigm, identifies underlying root causes of dysfunction and disease through clinical assessments and targeted therapies. It views the body as an interconnected system, focusing on interactions between the environment and bodily systems related to diet and nutrition.

Core Practices of Integrative Functional Nutrition

Integrative Functional Nutrition employs a "food first" approach, prioritizing simple, organic, and unprocessed foods to prevent and reverse chronic health conditions. Food serves as medicine, fuel, and information for the body.

Additionally, it recognizes the concept of "Soul Food," emphasizing the significance of mental, spiritual, and emotional nourishment. How we eat is as important as what we eat, and practicing mindful eating enhances our ability to assimilate nutrients and fosters overall wellness.

Why Symptoms Are NOT the Focus

Symptoms are not the root problem; they are often the result of deeper issues. Integrative nutrition uses a systems biology approach, allowing practitioners to investigate hidden causes rather than just treating symptoms.

Nutritional assessments identify healing opportunities and support the body's innate healing capacity. By removing triggers of dysfunction, we can naturally restore balance. The ultimate goal? To cultivate optimal health, where symptoms diminish as the body receives what it needs.

Key Tenets of Clinical Functional Integrative Nutrition

• Prioritize a patient-centered therapeutic relationship.

• Focus on the whole person and lifestyle.

• Use diverse assessment tools and therapeutic approaches.

• Recognize bio-individuality and client uniqueness.

• Consider environmental influences on health.

• Address root causes of nutritional imbalances.

• Aim for optimal health, defined as a comprehensive state of well-being.

• Acknowledge the "snowball effect" of minor imbalances leading to chronic illness.

• Promote restoration of function alongside symptom management.

My Credentials

The art + science of creating health from the inside out.

• I have an undergraduate degree in Expressive Visual Arts (Fine arts and therapeutic arts major)

• I graduated as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2015

• I am a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN-P) practitioner

• I am a certified Integrative Health Practitioner (Level 2)

• I am a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP)

• I am a member of the NANP National Association of Nutrition Professionals

• I completed my Master of Science graduate degree in 2020 at the Maryland University of Integrative Health in Integrative Health and Human Nutrition, fine-tuning my expertise in evidence-based functional medicine-based clinical nutrition practices.

• Toxic Mold Training with Bridgit Danner, 2023

• Private Mentorship with Dr. Myriah Hinchey, Lyme Literate Practitioner, 2024

• Private Mentorship and ongoing Apprenticeship with Dr. Jeff Wulfman, Quantum Parasite Protocol Practitioner, 2024

• I am a member of The Center for Mindful Eating, whose mission is "to help people achieve a balanced, respectful, healthy and joyful relationship with food and eating. As a practice, mindful eating can bring us awareness of our actions, thoughts, feelings, and motivations, and insight into the roots of health and contentment."

Drawing on this knowledge, I will help you create a completely personalized comprehensive multi-dimensional, multi-factorial truly holistic integrative health and functional nutrition therapeutic plan that suits your unique body, lifestyle, preferences, and goals.

My approach is evidence-based and clinically proven to restore health, vitality, and longevity, and prevent, mitigate, and reverse chronic health complaints regardless of any diagnosis or label.

I am passionate about using my life experiences and relying on a strong educational foundation in functional medicine and mind-body-medicine principles. In this way, I use my expertise in the art and science of health to guide others through their healing process for life-long results.

community + creativity = healthy living

My creative community

Community, belonging, and strong social connections are essential for overall health, happiness, and longevity. As an advocate for human connection and creativity, I founded Silver Circle Gallery in Northeastern CT in 2008 and later established Block 134 Arts & Wellness Collective in 2018—spaces dedicated to fostering healing, self-expression, and community well-being.

Creativity and community—two of my six essential roots to well-being—connect us to source, foster resilience, and enhance health. Even the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2025 Rx prioritizes social connection for vitality. As the founder of these grassroots establishments, I bring these principles to everyday life.