2025 Participant Biographies

Owner of Dominion Wellness Coaching. As a home health physical therapist for over 20 years, I subscribed to the weight-centric approach to health and believed that achieving and maintaining a “healthy” weight was the best thing we could do to ensure a long and healthy life. However, as a chronic dieter, I was no more successful at losing weight than my patients or clients were and my own relationship with food and body became very disordered and dysfunctional. I became a certified Transformational Health and Life Coach through the Health Coach Institute in September 2020 in the height of the pandemic. I went on to become a certified intuitive eating counselor under the guidance of registered dieticians Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. Along the journey, I experienced profound healing and change for myself, especially in my relationship with food and my body. Now, my passion is helping others heal from disordered eating and embrace authentic health through a compassionate approach to wellbeing. As an intuitive eating counselor, I help empower my clients as the experts of their own body. Together, we create a powerful partnership to decouple self worth from body size or shape, let go of guilt and shame around food and body, and foster a greater connection with the body. Through the process of intuitive eating, my clients achieve increased energy, improved physical and mental health, greater self-esteem and positive self-regard.