I'm a health coach that specializes in perimenopause - Here's why it took me a while to say it out loud

For the last several years, I’ve described my work as coaching “busy, stressed-out professionals.”

As a contractor I've coached sleep clients, weight loss clients, people who are busy and stressed out and even helped people with relationships.

That statement is accurate. It just isn’t the whole story.

The whole story is that the women I’ve been most drawn to — the ones whose work I think about after our sessions end — have almost all been in their late thirties, forties or early fifties. Managing a body that started doing things they didn’t ask it to do. Waking up at 3am for no reason they could name. Feeling like they were running a performance review on themselves every single day and somehow still coming up short.

I know that feeling. Because for the last few years, it’s been mine too.

WHAT CHANGED

Perimenopause walked in uninvited and started rearranging things. My sleep. My patience. My body composition, despite nothing changing in how I ate or moved. It made me question who I was, which was the part that caught me off guard.

I’m an ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. I know the science of what’s happening. Estrogen and progesterone fluctuating. Cortisol patterns shifting. The metabolic changes that come with declining estrogen.

Knowing the mechanism didn’t make it easier to live through.  

What helped — what actually helped — was getting serious about four things: sleep, nutrition, strength training, and how I was managing stress. Not in a heroic, overhaul-everything way. In a small, consistent, unglamorous way. The kind of way that doesn’t make a great Instagram post but actually works.

WHY I’M NARROWING MY FOCUS

I’ve decided to focus my private coaching practice specifically on women in perimenopause.

Not because it’s a hot market (though it is). Because it’s the work I know how to do at the deepest level. Because I’ve been in the chair. Because the women navigating this transition are some of the most capable, hardworking, high-achieving people I’ve ever met — and most of them are doing it without adequate support, real clinical guidance, or anyone in their life who can tell them what’s normal and what isn’t.

Your doctor has about eleven minutes. I have six months.

WHAT I ACTUALLY DO

I work with women through a six-month coaching program called The Rebuild. We work across four pillars: sleep, nutrition, strength, and stress. Not one at a time. Together, because they’re connected.

The 3AM wake-up is a sleep problem. It’s also a blood sugar problem. It’s also a stress response problem. You can’t fix it by working on sleep alone. That’s the integration that’s missing from most perimenopause advice.

My approach is clinically-grounded, methodical, and built around the fact that you already have a full life. We’re not adding things. We’re figuring out what actually moves the needle for your body, and doing that thing well.

IF THIS IS YOU

If you’re in your late thirties, forties or early fifties and something has shifted — the sleep, the weight, the mood, the energy, the sense that you’re working just as hard as you always have and getting less back — you’re in the right place.

This isn’t a program about pushing harder. It’s about understanding what’s actually happening in your body and responding to it intelligently.

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