Christa Nagel Bell
Christa, a native of Germany, married an American and moved to the United States in 1994. She lives in Fort Worth,Texas with her husband and two children. She has extensive training in yoga and nutritional counseling, and is now bringing her expertise together to create healthy lifestyle programs for men and women in the prime of their lives. Read More…
Galina Bouvile
After moving to the US and many years of balancing a successful corporate career, raising two children, she realized that many American families were enrolled in the daily convenience of fast foods which lead to digestive problems, weakened immune system, and thyroid issues for their children and adults alike. Through a considerable change in diet and lifestyle combined with many years of self study in the area of Holistic Health, she decided to pursue her original passion in the area of nutrition and wellness… Read More…
Megan Brown
Megan is a certified health coach, blogger, cook, vegetable connoisseur and chocolate lover. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in business, Megan returned to her hometown of Dallas to work for EDS and then Hewlett-Packard. She now works in healthcare marketing in addition to practicing as a health coach. Megan completed her training and graduated in 2010 from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York. Read More…
Barbara Capasso
Barbara has always had a strong interest in learning about food and nutrition. However her interest became more serious when in 2006 her son was in 5th grade and diagnosis with IBS. His symptoms varied from diarrhea to gas and bloating, he was thin and pale. Doctors recommended elimination diets that would sometimes help, removing dairy, processed foods, fast foods, but what worked one week didn’t always work the next and symptoms continued. Read More…
Judy Dedmon
Judy Dedmon grew up in a military family. Her early exposure to different cultures, foods and ideas influenced her worldview. After a career in law and business, she retired to reduce the stress of corporate America, get to know her family, and take care of her health. It was this interest in food and health that led her to the program in health and nutrition at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Read More…
Daniel Gomez (Danny)
Danny is a Certified Health and Nutrition Coach. His passion for health and wellness began at a young age during his late teens upon learning of his father’s diagnosis of diabetes and heart disease. He ultimately took on an active lifestyle including many forms of physical activity. Suffering multiple injuries during his late teens and early twenties mixed with an interest in health and wellness would eventually land him a career in physical therapy.Read More…
Ruthie Guten
Ruthie Guten is a writer, certified health coach, essential oils custom blender, and a professional engineer. She is a wife, daughter, sister and a mother of three. As a health coach, she is an advocate for living an energized and passionate life.
Ruthie practices a holistic approach in everything she does, whether as a health coach, lifestyle educator or as an engineer who is known for her efforts to promote regional sustainability and quality of life. Read More…
Chelle Knijnenburg
Chelle is passionate about empowering others in choosing to care for themselves in an holistic manner.
She started her journey as a young teen attending Earth Day events in school and dreaming about caring for all of nature’s creatures through Scouting Programs. Before she was 20, Chelle was diagnosed with hyperthyroid disease and was taking about 13 pills a day. At age 18, She had car accident and her first NDE (near death experience). Nine months later, she had my thyroid removed after radiation protocol. Chelle later found out it had been unnecessary to remove her over-active thyroid and it was that event that became the catalyst for her interest in finding alternative methods to standard health care. Read More…
Vicky Little
Vicky is a Professional Health Coach certified through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in NYC. Vicky is passionate about promoting health and happiness by supporting individuals who want to transition from the Standard American Diet to a healthy lifestyle that may also include a gluten-free diet (her specialty). Having overcome her own gluten and food allergy challenges, Vicky is committed to helping people rediscover their own health and happiness by making small but meaningful changes to their diets and lifestyles. Read More…
Lauren McNeese
I am a Certified Health Coach, an opera singer and the founder of A Healthy Edge. I am also the Holistic Health Coach for Hart Yoga in Frisco, Texas as well as an Independent Executive for Zrii Ayurvedic supplements. As a Holistic Health Practitioner I am a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and accredited through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP).Read More…
Holly Plant
Holly’s journey began many years ago. She has battled the diet war since she was 10 years old. She has tried every diet that is out there and even had extreme weight loss surgery. In her years at war with the scale she has learned a lot about herself and her body. She decided she wanted to try something a little different and turned to a more organic approach. She began healing through foods and making positive changes in her life. She wanted to take this knowledge and share with the world but was not sure where to begin. Read More…
Brenda Spencer
Brenda has studied diverse fields: commercial design for offices, photography, and sacred geometry and architecture. In an early career, she worked as a “space planner” including helping to organize, design and oversee the move of the corporate headquarters for American Airlines from New York to Dallas. She also worked on I. M. Pei’s One Dallas Centre. Then deciding to take a creative leap, she returned to SMU and completed her MLA degree. Read More…
Lisa Staffelbach
Lisa is the owner of 24 Carrot Health. She is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Natural Chef. She is excited to be back home in Dallas, TX after extensive traveling and living in Boston, MA and Chicago, IL. She attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City and completed their program in 2009. To further her holistic knowledge and interest in Chinese medicine she studied with Paul Pitchford, expert in food as medicine and author of Healing With Whole Foods Asian Traditions Modern Nutrition, in Bali, Indonesia in 2010. Read More…
