My work was forged by what I lived through, not only what I studied.

The foundation
I hold a degree in Family and Consumer Science, the applied science of nutrition, sleep, environmental design and sustainable habit formation. I then spent a decade in Health Information Systems, which taught me to see how behavior, biology and outcomes connect as one system.

The practice
Alongside that career, I built more than two decades of martial arts training. My primary discipline is Liu He Ba Fa (Water Boxing), an internal Chinese martial art that draws on the principles of Tai Chi, Xingyi and Bagua. I have practiced it for 21 years and taught it for 9. My wider training includes Shotokan Karate, Taekwondo, Hapkido and Kung Fu, which gave me a grounded understanding of both external power and internal regulation.

The test
Then life tested everything I had learned.

A high-speed collision left me with concussions, neurological symptoms and acute stress responses, with my family recovering alongside me. I was running a martial arts center, homeschooling our child and holding our household together while my own nervous system was in crisis. When my neurologist reviewed my recovery, the advice was not a medication. It was to deepen my somatic practice.

That moment confirmed what my training had been pointing toward: in my experience, lasting recovery from chronic stress is built from the body up, not through willpower, reframing or pushing through. I combined my Liu He Ba Fa practice with my Family and Consumer Science background and rebuilt my health from the inside out.

Today
As a health coach and the founder of Holistic Sensei™, I work with executives, founders and senior leaders across the US, Europe and beyond. I help them retrain their stress response and rebuild the recovery capacity that sustained leadership demands. My coaching works alongside medical care, never instead of it.

I won’t ask you to slow down. I will help you build a system that lets you sustain your pace without paying for it with your health.

Credentials & Background

• Degree in Family & Consumer Science

• Health coach

• 21 years of Liu He Ba Fa (Water Boxing) practice and 9 years of teaching

• 21 years of American Budo Kwan practice: defensive traditional martial arts lineage

• A decade of experience in Health Information Systems

• Clients across the San Francisco Bay Area, the US, Poland and Bulgaria

• Virtual sessions available worldwide