Functional Nutrition Health Coach

Bernadette will help you take manageable, low stress steps to help you identify and reach your optimal health. She believes in the concept of Food as Medicine but just as the food we eat can nourish, it can also deplete depending on the current state of your health. This is the idea of 'Bioindividuality' - One person's food can be another's poison. Bernadette works with people that are interested and motivated to help themselves and will give you the tools and resources you need to make the decisions that are right for you and your family. By working together, she will help you identify and remove the toxins from your home and your food to help keep your immune system strong, reduce the risk of chronic disease and help keep your weight where you want it.

By learning to listen to your body and make small sustainable changes to your diet and lifestyle - and teaching your children to do the same - you can take control back and reclaim your health.

Bernadette recognizes that valuing the whole person beyond just the collection of symptoms and a diagnosis code can be the key to restoring and maintaining good health. She is a Functional Nutrition Health Coach certified by the Functional Nutrition Alliance, and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has training through the School for Applied Functional Medicine and a Certificate Course in Environmental Health.

A foundation of functional medicine is the use of food as a first line therapy, then focusing on foundations of health. As a functional nutrition coach, my role is to assist you in understanding what’s happening in your body, identify root cause of imbalances, and help you identify any potential triggers of symptoms, then set and reach your own unique health goals. Because suboptimal nutrition, stress, and toxicity are at the root of most chronic illnesses, symptoms like fatigue, headache, brain fog, overwhelm, and digestive upset can be eased with individualized lifestyle and nutritional changes. 

Sorting through confusing and conflicting information can be overwhelming without support. Using a whole body, whole person, whole lifestyle approach Bernadette guides and supports clients through the process of identifying simple and sustainable steps to stay out of overwhelm and optimize their own environment for healing. 

Bernadette  specializes in helping to clear the home and body of environmental toxins, anti-inflammatory practices, and whole food nutrition.