My story
I spent five years fixing my family’s health before realizing I wanted to help others in the same way.
I have ADHD, depression, and anxiety. My family has lived with those, and more. For a long time we managed the usual way. Medication, routines, willpower. It helped, but something was always still off.
The shift started with a hunch that I had celiac disease. I didn't. What I had was a mental health reaction to folic acid, added to almost every enriched flour and baked good in the American food supply. We removed it. Within weeks, our family dynamic changed in ways I hadn't expected.
That one discovery sent us down a path we haven't left since. Over the next five years, guided by our genetic data and deep research into the SNPs that affect mental health, mood, focus, and behavior, our family made change after change. With each one, something improved. I'd been on a large number of medications before this work. By the end, I was on one, because I'd learned where each of my symptoms was truly coming from. I lost 60 lbs. My wife had struggled with frequent UTIs for years. After spending hours working through her DNA file, I found that excess meat and sugar were driving them. We adjusted her diet and added D-mannose. They stopped. She lost 20 lbs of post-baby weight and started exercising regularly again.
Around the same time, I joined a health startup where I built the automated genetic analysis system powering their provider program, and began coaching providers on interpreting genetic data for their patients. Watching people recover their mental clarity, their mood, their sense of themselves, I knew I wanted to do that work for the rest of my life. Not the tech side. The people side. I’d spent 25 years in technology. I walked away.
I trained and earned my NBC-HWC credential, the gold standard in health and wellness coaching, and began health coaching at the intersection of genomic nutrition and mental and behavioral health. I'm currently pursuing a master’s degree in Personalized Nutrition with a core focus in nutrigenomics, because the science keeps moving and my clients deserve someone who moves with it. The tech background isn’t a detour. It’s part of what makes this practice different. I built my own genetic analysis tools. I read genomic research for enjoyment.
What this means for you and your family.
I began health coaching because my family needed it first. The conditions we navigated—ADHD, anxiety, depression, OCD, and autism spectrum—are the same ones I now help other families address through health coaching. Not by treating them, but by finding the nutritional layer underneath them and giving your body what it actually needs.
If you’ve been watching someone you love struggle, and you’ve had that quiet hunch that something biological is connected, you’re probably right. You’ve just needed someone to help you find exactly what.
That’s what I do.
NBC-HWC · Credentialed health and wellness coach