Why Women and Children First?
…A woman’s family can include any, or all, of the following with her—parents, siblings, partner, children, or close friends. A woman may put her family before herself. She may neglect some aspect of her health, even without realizing it. And, as a woman’s hormones change, her health needs can change. Helping a woman improve her health and well-being can mean helping her family.
…A woman’s family can include any, or all, of the following with her—parents, siblings, partner, children, or close friends. A woman may put her family before herself. She may neglect some aspect of her health, even without realizing it. And, as a woman’s hormones change, her health needs can change. Helping a woman improve her health and well-being can mean helping her family.
And by health, I mean physical, emotional, intellectual, social—health in its entirety.
As a certified health coach, certified ADD/ADHD coach, educational coach, and author, I focus on women and children first for these reasons. I also work with fathers along with their children.
Health coaching
I’m certified by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as an holistic health coach. This means I’m your partner, helping you set your own goals, and helping you meet them. I’m not a nutritionist or a therapist, though I’ve studied about 100 dietary theories, and have been trained by an extensive staff of physician-researchers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others.
…I usually see clients for 50 minutes every other week for six months. With children, some of my time is spent talking with caregivers. My clients’ wellness topics have included weight loss, childhood obesity, immune-system building, excessive menstrual cramping, and nutritional needs of specific diseases, and disease prevention.
ADD/ADHD COACHING
I’m certified by the ADD Coach Academy, and have worked with hundreds of learners with what’s called attention deficit disorder. This is a unique brain wiring that can allow for creativity, quick-thinking and acting, and becoming fully absorbed in an activity. Here, too, I am your partner. I work with you to help you define, set, and follow through with your own goals. We explore your talents, and find, together, ways to utilize them more fully.
…I usually see adults every other week, and children every week; each session is about 50 minutes. With children, I also work with their caregivers in using positive-reinforcement, and in continuing the focus of the session. I visit schools as often as is needed, with no additional charge. Clients’ concerns have included increasing behavior standards and grades, adjusting from private school to public school, becoming more social, understanding figurative language, and, unanimously, increasing and sustaining focus.
CONSULTING
My doctorate is in English education. I have taught all levels of reading and of writing, from pre-freshman through graduate. I have also taught teachers, and learners planning to become teachers. I ran a large learning center, seeing over 1, 000 students each year, supervising as many as 45 student and faculty tutors. I am retired from both full-time and part-time teaching, but consult with grammar and high schools, and with colleges, on topics such as learning differences—both general, and specific—such as dyslexia and ADD/ADHD; English-language learning; holistic assessment; parent-teacher relationships; and student-teacher relationships.
…Consulting includes interactive workshops for small or large groups, and speaking on a vast number of health and education issues (past topics include women and eating, student autonomy, foods that calm, foods that focus, and more).
Writing
I was asked to write How to Study: Use Your Personal Learning Styles (2nd edition, 2000, Learning Express) to help the adult learner returning to school, or the high school student, get more out of studying. Grammar and high school teachers have told me the exercises at the end of each chapter were useful in the classroom. I wrote Good Girl (2016, Lasso) to help teens better understand themselves and each other—and to be more attentive to the relationship between what they eat, and how they think/feel. As a writer-researcher, I have written articles on different aspects of learning and teaching, including understanding dyslexia and ADD/ADHD.