HEALTH COACHING FOR PARENTS TO SUPPOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH

WELCOME! I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE.

Hello! I'm Valerie and I work with parents & caregivers seeking to improve their child's overall health holistically through diet and lifestyle.  ​​

Why work with me?

People hire coaches mainly for the accountability that comes along with coaching. When you work with me, you'll also benefit from my training and life experiences as a parent, teacher, herbalist, nutritional therapy practitioner and functional medicine health coach. You'll have someone in your life you can talk to about food, sleep, exercise and other lifestyle factors who actually cares about every single detail. Having a coach who understands your struggles and is there for you talk to can help you weed through all the noise in your head and focus on making important changes, one step at a time. 

Whether you're new to this idea or have been working on diet and lifestyle factors in the past,  you'll know that as your Functional Medicine Health Coach,  I'll be of like mind in supporting you in your dietary and lifestyle choices. 

How can a Functional Medicine Health Coach help you?

  • You want to take steps to improve diet, sleep and environmental factors holistically.
  • You have a goal or more than one, that you want to meet but feel overwhelmed and have a hard time getting started or following through. 
  • You're interested in natural and holistic ways to restore balance to physical, emotional and mental health.​
  • You're ready to get help planning and carrying out the steps for you reach your goals and stick to them.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO IMPROVE?

  • maximizing nutrition
  • reducing processed foods & sugar or junk food
  • improving digestion and the gut/brain connection
  • ​addressing picky eating or overeating
  • boosting immunity
  • drinking more water
  • improving sleep 
  • establishing a regular bedtime schedule 
  • getting more activity and exercise into each day
  • reducing stress 
  • reducing allergies & sensitivities in food and the environment
  • addressing a specific health concern, diagnosis or disease​
  • something else...
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Working to tackle just one of these goals can make a big difference in improving overall health,  but getting it done can be overwhelming!  And that's where a coach can help!

OTHER SYMPTOMS THAT CAN BE HELPED BY FIXING THE ROOT CAUSE

Is your child experiencing allergies,  ADHD, ASD, anxiety, learning & behavioral challenges, mood disorders, poor digestion/elimination, food sensitivities, rashes or other diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions? 

Did you know that you can help to bring about better health by addressing these symptoms through making dietary & lifestyle improvements? 

When you work with a functional medicine health coach, you'll have support to holistically help address the root causes that commonly lead to these symptoms and over time effect overall health.
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HOW DOES COACHING WORK?

When you work with me, you get weekly guidance to help you with prioritizing, setting, planning and achieving your goals.
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Through the coaching experience, you'll become empowered as you learn how to take control of your own and or you child's physical, emotional & mental health one step at a time. Your coach serves as your personal nonjudgemental sounding board to help you identify and prioritize what goals you can work on that will fit into both your and your chid's life, NOW. 
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Often, we set out to meet goals and later realize they aren't working or don't fit into our lives right now. That doesn't mean we should give up, it means reworking our goals to work within our lives today.

​Working with a coach can help you to figure out how to modify these goals or choose new ones that will work better for you and your family.
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THE FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE HEALTH COACH'S ROLE:

  • To help you explore how diet, sleep, stress and other lifestyle factors may be contributing to the root causes of specific symptoms or chronic illness.
  • To provide education and guidance in dietary and lifestyle factors. I don't devise a specific plan for clients to follow but help them to make a plan that best suits them, their child and family. 
  • To work together clients to identify the nutritional & lifestyle factors that they want to implement to help bring their body systems back into balance, such as diet/nutrition, movement, sleep and stress reduction.
  • To consider the whole person and respect them as an individual with individual genetics, history and personal needs.
  • To listen fully to your past experiences and current concerns regarding your health and your goals.
  • To serve as a personal nonjudgmental sounding board to help you identify and prioritize what goals you want to work on that will fit into your life NOW. 
  • To believe in each person's ability to decide what changes they want to make for themselves and or their child and family and when to make them and am here to support their choices.