Welcome! I am a Functional Nutritionist and Restorative Health Practitioner who focuses her functional wellness practice primarily on children, women, and their families navigating health concerns ranging from gut-brain disorders to persistent immune dysfunction and complex chronic illness, including Lyme disease, tick-borne infections, and mold illness.

My journey began at just 10 years old, and it came with pain I didn’t understand.

Throughout middle school, I struggled with periods so painful that I spent more time than I care to remember in the nurse’s office, curled up and waiting for the day to end.

A few years later, I was diagnosed with endometriosis. But having a diagnosis didn’t mean having answers.

For years, the answer was birth control. Another prescription. Another way to manage what was happening without ever really asking why it was happening. Eventually, I was told I wouldn’t be able to have children.

Turns out, my story wasn’t ending there.

Years later, I met my husband, beat those odds, and became a mom! My husband has been one of my biggest supporters through it all and is always up for whatever project I dream up next or at least willing to go along with most of my crazy ideas.

Motherhood changed everything. Today, I have a son who has taught me more about determination than any textbook ever could, and a daughter who is every bit as feisty as her momma. But becoming a mom didn’t erase my own health struggles. I experienced miscarriage, gut problems, and later, mold illness.

For a long time, I accepted that this was simply the body I had been given. Until I got damn tired of accepting it.

Then my son was diagnosed with epilepsy. And if I thought I knew what it meant to search for answers before that, I had no idea. We saw neurology. We did the testing. Medications were prescribed. We even sought a second opinion through a specialty hospital, hoping someone would look at the bigger picture or offer another path forward. The answer was essentially the same - medication was the only way through. Diet didn’t matter. Lifestyle didn’t matter. Other factors weren’t relevant.

I called BS.

I wasn’t looking for someone to tell me how to manage my son’s seizures for the rest of his life. I wanted to understand why the hell they were happening in the first place.

So, I started looking for my own answers. I put myself through a nutrition program because I wanted to understand how the body worked as a whole not as separate systems treated in separate rooms by separate specialists. And I didn’t stop there. Then one certification led to another. And another. I was determined. Not because I had a plan to build a career in functional nutrition. I was a mom trying to help her son, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to take things at face value.

Because I was a mom trying to help her son. And eventually, looking deeper changed everything. Through functional testing and years of continuing to ask questions, we uncovered pieces no one had been looking for…

Lyme disease and mold illness.

Suddenly, things that once seemed random started connecting. His seizures weren’t happening in isolation. There were underlying stressors affecting his body that had been missed because no one had been looking at the full picture.

My experiences changed the way I see health today.

I know what it feels like to sit in appointment after appointment hoping someone will connect the dots. I know what it feels like to be handed another prescription when what you really want is a plan to heal. I know what it feels like to wonder if you’re asking too many questions. And I know what it feels like to finally admit that if I wanted different answers, I was going to have to look somewhere else.

In my spare time you can usually find me in the garden, fishing, outside with my family, or anywhere I can be surrounded by nature.

My own health journey and my sons have shaped nearly every part of the practitioner I am today. They taught me to question more, look deeper, and never assume a diagnosis is the end of the story.

My path has not been simple, and it sure as hell has not been easy.
But it showed me that there can be another way forward.

We found another way forward. And I believe you can, too.