Learn how to feel safe in your

1:1 GUIDANCE

You learned early on that food wasn’t always available. Maybe there wasn’t enough. Maybe there were rules, threats, or shame attached to your body and the way you ate.

You didn’t grow up in a home where your needs were acknowledged or understood by your caregivers. Most of your early-life experienced could be summarized as “drama and trauma.”

And somewhere along the way, you started to believe your needs were too much. You started to believe that you and your body were too much.

Over time, your body stopped feeling like a place you could trust. You did what you had to do to survive: you numbed out, shut down, and disconnected. You told yourself you just had to “push through” and “get it together.” You tried your best to figure it out on your own because no one else seemed to know how to help.

You’ve probably been to more providers than you can count. You’ve done the tests, tried the diets, bought the supplements, followed the protocols, and tracked and logged all the things, with all the apps. Maybe some of it helped, but none of it ever really made it easier for you to eat well and nourish yourself.

Nothing you’ve done asked what your nervous system had been through and how it responded to keep you safe. Nothing you’ve done was built for someone who was a child who had to parent themselves, and the other adults in their life.

You want to eat well, feel better, have more energy, and take care of yourself — not just because you’re supposed to, but because you're finally ready to. But it feels hard. Overwhelming. Sometimes impossible. You know what you “should” be doing, but that hasn’t helped. You’re not looking for more rules. You’re looking for something that actually makes sense for your life, your body, and everything you’ve been through.

You’re here because you want to feel safe in your own body.
You’re here because you want to understand what’s been happening.
You’re here because you're ready to stop blaming yourself.

Because something in you is ready to be met and witnessed — not managed, disciplined, or forced into compliance with another set of food rules.

Coherence is a 3-month 1:1 program for people who want to understand why eating feels so hard — and what to do about it.

This is not another nutrition plan, functional lab analysis, or one-size-fits-all protocol. Coherence is a structured, supportive space where we explore how your history — including trauma, grief, food insecurity, and chronic stress — has shaped your nervous system, your relationship with food, and your capacity to meet your needs.

It’s built on the science of neuronutrition, trauma-informed care, and psychodynamic understanding — but at its core, it’s about making sense of your story, so food doesn’t have to feel like a battle anymore.

You’ll learn how to eat in a way that feels safe, realistic, and supportive of your body’s actual needs. You’ll start to recognize what’s yours — and what came from survival. You’ll begin to feel what it's like to be nourished without guilt, shutdown, or confusion.

This is a highly personalized process. We move at the pace your nervous system can handle.

Over three months, we’ll work together one-on-one to untangle the layers that have made eating feel overwhelming, inconsistent, or unsafe. This isn’t about forcing change or fixing you. It’s about helping you understand the why — so you can move toward what actually works for you.

We start by mapping your story. Not just your symptoms or diagnoses, but the full context: how you grew up, what you’ve been through, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve carried. Together, we’ll explore how your nervous system, brain, and body adapted to survive — and how those adaptations show up in your relationship with food.

Then, we begin to rebuild. We’ll explore new ways of nourishing yourself that are doable, meaningful, and aligned with your current capacity. We’ll use a combination of personalized neuronutrition, reflective journaling, guided inquiry, and gentle experimentation. You’ll get direct support from me every step of the way.

There’s no meal plan. No elimination. No pressure to perform.
Just a consistent, compassionate space to make sense of your story and practice feeding yourself with care.

Some perspectives that inform my work

Nutrition is the substrate of your existence.

Without the nutrients that come from nature, there would be no material basis for our cellular existence. Nutrients are the raw materials from which consciousness is made possible.

You cannot know what you were not taught.

Most of us are never provided with constructive and safe opportunities to learn how to take care of ourselves, which includes feeding ourselves in ways that meet our brain and body’s nutritional needs.

You have been conditioned to disconnect from yourself.

Amidst the collective disarray of the larger systems at play in our world, our brains and bodies have so brilliantly responded in ways intended to keep us safe. In doing so, we have become disintegrated and separated from our selves, and each other.

Your body is not trying to sabotage you.

Because we were never taught how to take care of ourselves and we have become disconnected from ourselves and our bodies, we have come to believe that the body is an endless project that requires fixing instead of noticing, tending to, caring for, and learning about. The body is always trying to protect us—even when it doesn’t seem that way.

Most nutrition behavior is unconscious.

All human behavior has neurobiological underpinnings. Your decisions, choices, preferences, thoughts, feelings, and emotions about food reflects the dynamic state, functioning, and capacity of your neuroendocrine system. The very same regions of the brain and signaling molecules and networks that regulate hunger, appetite, satiety, decision-making, and emotional regulation are those most impacted by traumatic stress.

FAQs

  • You’re not alone. Most people who come to Coherence feel this way. They’ve tried functional medicine, nutrition coaching, logging calories, supplements, elimination diets, and tracking apps. This program is different because it doesn’t pathologize you or treat your body like a machine that is in need of repair. We work relationally, slowly, gently, and in understanding of the full context of your trauma history, neurobiology, food environment, and lived experience.

    Coherence is not not a quick fix, “trauma blowout,” diet program — it’s a therapeutic space for creating safety and capacity for sustainable nourishment.

  • That’s okay. In fact, it’s expected. The pace of our work together is intended to shift based on your capacity, energy, and life demands. Rest, freeze, and overwhelm are part of the process—not signs of failure.

    You don’t need to be at your best to benefit from this work — you just need to be able to show up as you are, right here, and right now.

    We will adjust the pace based on your bandwidth.

  • Yes. I do not prescribe weight loss or use weight as a proxy for health. We can talk about your weight, body image, weight-related fears, and health goals honestly — but you will never be shamed, disciplined, or pressured to change the size and shape of your body. This space is about nourishment, not control.

  • While you don’t need a specific diagnosis to work with me, most of my clients have been diagnosed with some combination of the following: ADHD, PTSD, autism, and/or a chronic autoimmune, neurological, digestive, or cardiometabolic disease.

    It is important to me that you have the care that you need. Since this program is not a substitute for medical care and does not involve the diagnosis of any illness or condition, I do require that you have an established relationship with a primary care provider.

  • No. Instead, we’ll co-create food strategies that reflect your needs, preferences, means, capacity, and environment. You’ll receive practical ideas, structured options, and personalized suggestions, but never a rigid template or one-size-fits-all diet.

  • No. There are no required supplements in this program.

    If it makes sense to explore them, I’ll offer guidance that’s gentle, evidence-informed, and tailored to your needs — but there is zero pressure to purchase anything.

    In fact, many clients find they’re able to let go of expensive supplement routines that weren’t helping.

  • We meet every other week for a 50-minute session. Between sessions, you’ll receive reflection prompts, journaling exercises, and recommended resources — like short readings, podcast episodes, or articles that relate to what we’re exploring together.

    You’re not expected to complete a checklist. But you are invited to reflect, notice, and engage with what comes up between sessions — because that’s where most of the integration happens. What you bring into our next conversation will shape how we move forward.

    Some weeks, this might mean 30 minutes of journaling. Other weeks, it might mean simply paying attention to how you feel after eating, or sitting with a realization that surfaced.

    This program creates space — maybe for the first time — to actually think about your relationship with food, your past, and your body. The time you spend will vary based on your energy, your capacity, and what you’re ready to hold.

    There’s no right amount of time to spend; just the time it takes to meet yourself.

Some of what I do

Training

I developed the National Academy of Neuronutrition Certified Practitioner program, the first-and-only comprehensive neuronutrition certification program for mental health, nutrition, medical, fitness, and wellness practitioners. I’ve also created several other unique educational programs for practitioners.


Guiding

I provide one-on-one and group guidance through Saluto Health and my virtual practice. My books are currently closed, though I am accepting applications for new clients in Q3/Q4 2025.


Writing

I publish a bi-weekly email newsletter called Brain Fried. I will be launching a Substack soon. As an author, I am represented by CeCe Lyra at P.S. Literary Agency.


Speaking

I regularly speak on a variety of podcasts. In 2025, I will be launching my own podcast, called Brain Fried. This year, I will be speaking at several mental health organizations and events.

If this program is resonating with you,
I invite you to apply.

Coherence is an application-only program. That’s not to gatekeep, but to ensure this work feels safe and right for you, and that we’re aligned in how we’ll move through it together.

There’s no pressure to know for sure, right now. This is an invitation to explore.

The full cost of the program is $2,900.
Flexible payment plans are available at checkout through Affirm, Klarna, and PayLater.