Kristen’s functional health coaching approach focuses on meeting each client where they are at on their personal health journey of self-discovery and partnering with them to create lasting lifestyle changes. Kristen encourages her clients to set small, realistic, and attainable goals for achievable and optimal outcomes. She focuses on the bio individuality of each client and places emphasis on realistic sustainability as a primary component to her clients’ success.

Kristen enjoys coaching her clients around the pillars of wellness such as mindset, sleep hygiene, detox, movement modalities, ways to master functional nutrition and clean eating, and reframing stress responses to our modern world. Kristen’s coaching is also open space to defining healthy boundaries, examining the benefits of technology time outs, strength spotting, dismantling worry loops, exploring inner critics and gremlins that hold people back, identifying how PTG (post traumatic growth) creates healing opportunities, co-creating strategies and skill sets to become more resilient and identifying how overwhelm and the “automatic” hamster wheel contributes to internal and external health toxicity. 

Kristen is always encouraging her clients to show up for themselves mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually and to take the time to know that personal growth is a choice that can lead to their greatest potential. Kristen’s coaching space is warm, encouraging, open and relaxed and Kristen’s own coaching philosophy is that someone’s spirit should never be buried under obstacles and challenges that they are being faced with. Spirits are meant to soar!

Kristen lives with her dog and two children ages 10 and 13 on Cape Cod. She considers herself a lifelong learner and she enjoys spending her free time cooking, going on long walks, practicing holistic self-care, and doing yoga. Kristen supports whole body healing practices and holistic, functional, and integrative health and wellness approaches align directly with her core values. Kristen has a deep passion for holistic preventative care and women’s health and wellness. 

Kristen holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Connecticut in Marketing and Communication Sciences with a minor in Women’s Studies. She is also a graduate of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy where her training has been in all areas of functional medicine including functional nutrition, mind-body medicine, positive psychology and the art and science of coaching. After graduation, Kristen has worked for top practitioners and doctors from across the country such as Dr. Dawna Jones M.D. (Holistic and Integrative OB/GYN), Dr. Alissia Zenhausern- Pfeiffer NMD, FABNE ( Naturopathic Doctor specializing in Endocrinology), and Dr. Jessica Motalvo MD (Functional Medicine).  Kristen is also the owner of her private practice, Functional Footprints Health Coaching and she holds additional coaching certifications in personal resilience, mind and body wellness tools, executive coaching, relationship coaching and marriage coaching.