About Colleen

You're doing so much, so why don't you feel better?

Maybe you're eating well, exercising, and taking supplements, but your energy, weight, sleep, or focus still isn't right. Maybe you've been told your labs are "normal," or that it's just stress or age.

What's really going on isn't always obvious. Symptoms don't always show up where we expect, and the body's systems are more connected than we often realize.

I help you look at the whole picture, uncover what may be driving how you feel, and focus on the changes that will make the biggest difference, now and for years to come.

Why this work is personal

Early in my health coaching career, I noticed something was bothering my young daughter. Her symptoms weren't typical. She couldn't tolerate anything fitted and wore the same few loose outfits on repeat. For ballet class, she wore a big t-shirt and baggy shorts instead of a leotard.

My instincts told me to test for celiac disease. At a leading children's hospital, I was told she was probably just constipated, that her clothing sensitivity was unrelated, and that I should try occupational therapy. They ran the celiac test anyway. It came back strongly positive, and an endoscopy confirmed it.

Two weeks after going gluten-free, she came running to me in tights, ballet shoes, and a leotard, prancing around with a huge smile and saying, "The clothes feel good!" We started calling it gluten freedom.

That experience led me deeper into functional medicine. I became a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, which partners with the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), trained with Dr. Terry Wahls, and worked alongside Dr. Amy Myers. Today my daughter is healthy, active, and thriving, and that experience is why I believe in listening closely, looking beyond the obvious, and doing the detective work together.

We do the detective work together

You know your body better than anyone, and your instincts deserve to be taken seriously.

Together, we look closely at your health history, symptoms, lab results, lifestyle, and goals to find patterns and connections that may have been missed. I'll help you understand what your results mean, ask better questions, and have more productive conversations with your doctors.

Then we keep it simple. Once we know what matters most, you don't need dozens of supplements or a complicated protocol. You need a clear, practical plan that fits your life.

My MBA and background in corporate leadership shape how I work: gather the right information, focus on what matters most, and put your energy where it will make the biggest impact.

Experience you can trust

For more than 15 years, I've helped people make lasting changes through nutrition, movement, and lifestyle, including:

• Working alongside physicians in concierge medicine and in my own private coaching practice
• Working at Fountain Life, a leading-edge, physician-led longevity and precision health practice, helping clients make sense of advanced health assessments and turn recommendations into lasting habits
• Bredesen Protocol® Trained Health Coach — trained in Dr. Dale Bredesen's ReCODE 2.0 approach, which addresses how metabolic health, nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle shape brain health as we age
• Wahls Protocol® Health Practitioner, and training in functional medicine protocols for autoimmune disease and chronic health conditions
• More than a decade teaching group fitness, so movement is always part of the plan

A little more about me

I live in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with my husband, and we have two grown children. Most days start with a walk in nature with my doodle, Finn, my sidekick and very persistent accountability partner.