Empower Your Healing Journey with Personalized, Holistic Care
We specialize in offering integrative services that go beyond traditional approaches, providing you with a more holistic path to healing. Our evidence-based practices are designed to address your whole self, ensuring deeper, more sustainable outcomes on your journey to wellness.
the spirit of integrative care
Mind-Body Balance
Gut-Brain Axis
Mind-Body Connection
Somatic Release
Mind-Body Healing
Immunity + Detox
fUNCTIONAL HEALTH COACHING in louisville, ky
Heal from Within: Unlock a Healthier Mind and Body with Expert Guidance
Your health isn’t just physical or mental—it’s the connection between the two, working together to create balance and harmony. Functional health takes this whole-person approach, offering a path to healing that many traditional methods overlook. It’s about addressing the root causes, not just the symptoms, so you can take charge of your health and wellness.
Imagine this:
You wake up daily feeling energized, focused, and in control of your body.
The stress, fatigue, and emotional weight you’ve carried no longer define your days because your mind and body are finally in sync.
Instead of chasing quick fixes, you experience real, lasting change—grounded in thoughtful adjustments to your lifestyle, nutrition, and overall health.
This journey isn’t just about feeling better; it’s about feeling empowered. With expert guidance, you’ll create a plan that works for you, unlocking a healthier, more vibrant version of yourself—one step at a time. Sustainable wellness starts here.
Does this sound like you?
✓ You’ve been struggling with persistent anxiety or stress, and it feels like no matter what you try, relief is always just out of reach.
✓ You’re tired of feeling sluggish and rundown, battling low energy, poor digestion, or chronic inflammation that keeps you from living life to the fullest.
✓ You’ve noticed that your mood and mental clarity fluctuate with your diet, but you’re unsure how to make sustainable changes that really stick.
✓ You’ve tried different approaches to improve your health, but you haven’t found the comprehensive support you need to make lasting progress.
✓ You’re ready to dig deeper, to understand the connections between your gut, hormones, and mental health, and to take control of your well-being in a meaningful way.
I’ll give you the keys to understanding exactly what your body needs to function at its best—how to reduce inflammation, balance your hormones, and support gut health, all while boosting your mental clarity and emotional well-being.
With Functional Health Coaching, you’re not just treating symptoms; you’re addressing the root causes of your health challenges to create lasting change.
Gain a knowledgeable partner on your journey to optimal wellness.
90% of Serotonin is Produced in Your Gut—Transform Your Mental Health with Functional Nutrition
Your gut is often called your “second brain” for a reason—its health profoundly influences your mental state. With 90% of serotonin produced in your gut, what you eat doesn’t just fuel your body; it shapes your mood, anxiety levels, and overall mental clarity. Functional Health Coaching taps into this powerful gut-brain connection, offering tailored nutritional guidance to help you achieve a balanced, healthier mind and body. Don’t just manage your symptoms—transform your life by nurturing your second brain.
Here’s What’s Included
Personalized Health Assessments
We start with a comprehensive health assessment to understand your unique needs. This includes a deep dive into your current lifestyle, diet, mental health, and any specific concerns you may have.
Mind-Body Integration
Our approach integrates somatic practices, including breathwork and mindfulness exercises, to help you manage stress and regulate your nervous system. This holistic approach supports your body's natural healing processes and promotes emotional balance.
Gut-Brain Axis Focus
Our coaching emphasizes the crucial link between your gut and brain, known as the gut-brain axis. By focusing on improving gut health, we work to reduce inflammation, minimize anxiety, and boost your overall mental and physical well-being.
Collaborative Goal Setting
During our coaching sessions, you'll be empowered to take control of your health. We’ll work together to create a plan that aligns with your wellness goals, with specific, actionable steps to help you achieve lasting change.
Virtual Accessibility
All coaching services are available virtually, ensuring that you can access support from the comfort of your own home, making the process convenient and adaptable to your schedule.
*Flexible scheduling available*
YOU-Centered Approach
Our coaching is all about you. We provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore your wellness journey at your own pace, with guidance and support tailored to your individual needs. Staying curious about you is a mindset we support and encourage.
Tailored Nutrition + Lifestyle Strategies
Together, we'll develop personalized strategies that focus on anti-inflammatory nutrition, mindful eating, and sustainable lifestyle changes. These practices are designed to help you achieve better health outcomes and enhance your quality of life.
Ongoing Support +Accountability
Regular sessions ensure you stay on track, with each session focusing on your progress, overcoming obstacles, and adjusting goals as needed. We’ll also use techniques like motivational interviewing to help you stay motivated and committed to your wellness journey.
Time Investment:
3 Month Minimum
Your journey to better health is personal. You deserves a compassionate, empathetic, and nurturing approach. We understand that making a commitment to change can feel daunting and sometimes intimidating, but it’s also the first step toward a more vibrant, balanced YOU.
This isn’t a quick fix or a temporary solution. Real, lasting change takes time, and that’s why we ask for a minimum three-month commitment. In these three months, you’ll receive the tools, strategies, and support needed to transform your life from the inside out. We’ll work together, step by step, to build new habits, heal old wounds, and create a foundation for long-term wellness.
You don’t have to do this alone. We’ll be by your side, offering expert guidance and a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore what wellness means to you. This journey is about more than just feeling better—it’s about becoming the best version of yourself.
Are you ready to take the first step toward the care you deserve?
Let’s start this transformative journey together.
mLD sessions in louisville, ky
Feel Lighter, More Balanced, and Rejuvenated with Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)
Experience a therapy that not only detoxifies your body but also leaves you feeling deeply refreshed. Whether you’re recovering from surgery, dealing with chronic inflammation, or simply craving a way to reduce stress, MLD offers gentle relief. By activating your body’s lymphatic system, MLD reduces swelling, boosts your immune system, and encourages deep relaxation. Imagine walking away from each session feeling lighter, more balanced, and completely in tune with your body. Let MLD support your journey to better health and overall well-being.
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MLD is good for:
Detoxification
Reduction of cravings due to addictions
Reduced swelling
Pregnancy
Pre/Post Op
Bariatric
Joint replacement
Sports related injuries
Breast Cancer Reconstruction
C-Sections
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Auto-immunity
Allergies
Lipoedema
Lymphedema
Stress and Mental Health Symptoms
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Sessions last a duration of 60 minutes.
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(5) 60 min session: $575
(10) 60 min sessions: $1150
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While I do not take insurance, I do accept HSA. If you are coming to me as a result of a car accident, I can provide an invoice you can submit for reimbursement or I can bill PIP directly.
Reduces Chronic Inflammation:
If you’re dealing with chronic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis or autoimmune disorders, inflammation can make everyday life uncomfortable. MLD gently stimulates your lymphatic system, helping your body naturally flush out excess fluids and toxins that contribute to inflammation. With regular treatments, you’ll feel the relief as your body finds balance and eases the burden of chronic inflammation.
Boosts Your Immune System:
Your immune system is your body’s first line of defense, and MLD helps give it the support it needs. By improving the flow of lymph fluid, MLD strengthens your body’s natural ability to fight off infections, leaving you feeling healthier and more resilient. It’s a simple, gentle way to keep your immune system functioning at its best.
Ease Stress and Anxiety:
Feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety? MLD’s gentle, rhythmic motions activate your body’s parasympathetic nervous system, which helps reduce cortisol levels and bring on a sense of calm. After each session, you’ll leave feeling more grounded, relaxed, and ready to take on whatever life throws your way.
Supports Post-Surgical Recovery:
Recovering from surgery can be tough, but MLD can help. Whether you’ve had a joint replacement or a cosmetic procedure like liposuction, MLD is a proven way to reduce swelling and speed up your body’s natural healing process. You’ll feel more comfortable and recover faster, so you can get back to feeling like yourself again.
Glow from the Inside Out:
Looking for clearer, healthier skin? MLD helps your body detox by flushing out excess fluids and waste, giving your skin a natural boost. Say goodbye to puffiness and dullness as your complexion becomes brighter, your skin tone evens out, and you feel more radiant from the inside out.
Relief from Fatigue and Fibromyalgia:
Living with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia can be exhausting. MLD offers gentle relief by easing muscle pain, stiffness, and fatigue through soothing stimulation of your lymphatic system. You’ll feel lighter, more energized, and better equipped to manage these conditions.
Calm Your Nervous System:
Feeling overwhelmed or emotionally on edge? MLD helps regulate your vagus nerve, the body’s stress manager, to calm your nervous system and bring emotional stability. This gentle therapy can offer much-needed relief for those dealing with PTSD or trauma-related stress, helping you feel more balanced and resilient.
Safe Touch for Trauma Survivors:
Healing from trauma can make physical touch feel challenging or unsafe. With MLD, you’ll experience a gentle, non-invasive form of therapeutic touch that’s designed to be calming and supportive. This nurturing approach allows you to gradually rebuild a sense of safety and trust in your own body, fostering emotional healing in a way that feels secure and empowering.
Take the first step—book a consultation now and discover how MLD can improve your overall feeling of health.
somatic therapy sessions in louisville, ky + virtually
Deep Relief Through Breath, Movement + Touch
Somatic Breathwork and Manual Lymphatic Drainage work hand-in-hand with mental health therapy, enhancing and often accelerating your healing process. By combining these approaches, you get well-rounded care that supports both your mind and body, fostering deeper and more holistic healing.
Release Stored Trauma + Reconnect with Your Body
Trauma has a way of sticking around in your body, showing up as tension, pain, or feeling disconnected. Somatic Breathwork uses guided breathing techniques to help you tap into and release those stored traumas, rebuilding a sense of safety and resilience from within. It’s a gentle and supportive process that lets you heal on a deeper level, helping you feel more comfortable in your own skin and find lasting emotional balance.
Increase Your Self-Awareness
As you explore somatic breathwork, you’ll start noticing how your body reacts to emotions and stress. This awareness gives you the power to break out of old habits and start making choices that feel true to you.
Restore Balance + Calm to Your Nervous System
Chronic stress and trauma can keep your nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight mode. Somatic Breathwork helps bring your system back into balance gently and naturally. By focusing on your body, you’ll learn how to calm yourself, ease stress, and find a deeper sense of peace and relaxation in your everyday life.
Collaborating with Your Therapist for Complete Care
Somatic Breathwork pairs perfectly with mental health therapy, complementing and often speeding up your healing process. This collaboration helps ensure you get well-rounded care, addressing both your mind and body for deeper, more holistic healing.
Heal Gently + Safely Without Re-Traumatizing
Somatic Breathwork helps you work through and release trauma by focusing on what your body is feeling, instead of digging back into painful memories. This gentle method lets you heal without having to relive the past or retell your story, creating a safe and supportive space for deep emotional recovery.
Unlock Complex Hidden Emotions
Sometimes, the emotions we hold onto go deeper than words can explain. Somatic Breathwork helps you release those feelings that might be stuck in your body without you even knowing. This gentle, body-focused practice lets you express and heal in a way that feels natural, bringing a sense of deep relief and freedom.
Discover the Deep Healing Power of Somatic Breathwork
Achieve lasting emotional health by integrating Somatic Breathwork into your wellness journey. Whether you’re struggling with trauma, chronic stress, or anxiety, this body-centered approach can unlock the deep healing you’ve been searching for.
Sessions Open 2025
The Integrative Process
Collaborative Care with Privacy at the Forefront
While Embodied Health and Wellness works with individuals, we specialize in ensuring seamless collaboration with those in your care while prioritizing your privacy. We can work closely with you and your practitioner(s) to integrate holistic strategies into your traditional healthcare treatment or as complementary care to strategies you’re already employing, all within a framework that respects and safeguards patient confidentiality. We follow a streamlined process to work together striving for lasting outcomes.
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HIPAA-Compliant Consultation
You provide signed authorization to talk to your practitioners. We establish a secure and compliant partnership that ensures client confidentiality.
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Custom Integrative Wellness Plan
We go in-depth to develop a personalized wellness plan that aligns with your therapeutic goals and any input from your existing care team.
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Ongoing Collaboration and Updates
We provide regular updates and adjust the wellness plan as needed, with continuous communication that respects HIPAA standards.
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Final Review and Continued Support
We’ll review the overall progress and outcomes, ensuring the integrated approach has met you and your practioners goals.
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"Working with Brooke is one of those experiences where you feel so much better, you think “I can’t believe I was living like that for so long when I didn’t have to.” Brooke gets it and gets me—I like that. I feel lighter in ways I didn’t think possible.”
Does this sound good, but…
You’re looking for more personalized, in-depth guidance that goes beyond just physical health?
Lifestyle Coaching offers a high-touch, personalized, supportive approach to help you navigate stress, find balance, and create routines that fit your life.
Whether it’s:
Managing emotional overwhelm
Setting meaningful goals
Carving out time for yourself amidst the chaos
We’ll build a solid plan that fits into your life. With guidance from someone who understands the day-to-day juggling act, you’ll feel empowered to make sustainable changes and reclaim your energy, time, and smile.
FAQs
Functional Health Coaching
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Coaching is not therapy, psychotherapy, or personal training.
Functional Health Coaching focuses on the connection between the gut and brain, addressing overall wellness through personalized nutrition, lifestyle strategies, and mind-body integration. It’s designed to complement mental health treatments by reducing inflammation and improving emotional resilience.
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Unlike traditional therapy, which often addresses past traumas, Functional Health Coaching is a forward-looking approach that emphasizes self-discovery, empowerment, and sustainable lifestyle changes.
Unlike a nutritionist, functional health coaching approaches holistic practices like nutrition and breathwork to support overall mental and physical health.
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Clients can expect a supportive partnership where they are in control of their wellness journey.
We’ll create a personalized plan focused on their goals, with ongoing sessions that include mindfulness exercises, breathwork, and progress reviews to help them achieve lasting change.
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I will never tell you what, when or how much to eat.
Depending on what is going on I can provide guidelines, suggests, our talk about different food philosophies (gluten free, paleo, intermittent fasting, etc.)
Ultimately, because you are in the driver seat, you get to experiment what foods are best in your body.
It is my intention to assist you in increasing your awareness so that you can determine how certain foods affect you.
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Typically once a week. However, each client has individual needs. If we need to adjust our meetings, we can discuss it.
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Virtual Functional Health Coaching sessions are conducted via Zoom, making it easy and convenient for clients to participate from anywhere. During these sessions, clients receive the same personalized support and guidance as they would in person.
We utilize video conferencing to create an interactive experience, where we discuss goals, track progress, and engage in practices like mindfulness and breathwork. The virtual format allows for flexibility while maintaining the effectiveness of the coaching process.
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We prioritize patient privacy and adhere strictly to confidentiality protocols. Any collaboration with mental health or other health professionals involves obtaining signed authorizations from clients to share relevant information. We communicate only the necessary details to maintain client confidentiality while ensuring a coordinated and effective approach to their care.
Somatic Breathwork Sessions
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Somatic Breathwork involves using breathwork and body awareness to help clients release stored trauma and regulate their nervous system. It’s a holistic approach that doesn’t require revisiting past events but focuses on accessing and regulating stored or undigested emotions.
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Somatic Breathwork supports mental health by accessing the body’s physical responses to trauma and stress, the fight-or-flight response. Through breathwork and body-focused techniques, breathwork helps clients achieve emotional regulation and resilience, enhancing the effectiveness of traditional therapy.
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Clients typically lie down in a comfortable position while being guided through breathwork exercises. The session may involve music, light touch (with permission), and guidance on breath patterns. The goal is to help the body release stored or unprocessed energy and move into a more regulated state of being.
Somatic Breathwork assists the nervous system in moving from fight, flight, freeze to rest and digest.
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A release can be anything your body needs to do to release stored e-motion (energy in motion). That can be anything from crying to shaking. As a Somatic Breathwork facilitator, I will contain the discharge so that you never overwhelm your system.
Safe discharge is slowly letting the air out of the balloon. If the discharge is not controlled but let go in a chaotic manner, the nervous system can become overwhelmed and potentially overwhelm the client.
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Somatic Therapy is generally safe, but it may not be suitable for individuals with certain cardiovascular issues, high blood pressure, recent surgeries or are pregnant. It’s important to assess each client’s individual health status before starting therapy.
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Virtual Somatic Somatic Breathwork sessions are conducted via Zoom. Clients position their camera to allow the therapist to observe their physical state. The therapist provides real-time guidance on breath patterns and pacing, ensuring clients feel supported and safe throughout the session. While physical touch isn't possible, the therapist’s verbal cues and presence help create a healing environment.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MDL)
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MLD is a gentle, non-invasive massage technique designed to stimulate the lymphatic system, helping to remove toxins, reduce swelling, and promote overall healing. It’s particularly beneficial for clients recovering from surgery, dealing with chronic inflammation, or managing stress.
By placing a stretch on the skin, we are able to assist the capillaries and vessels open up allowing the lymphatic fluid to pass through. The lymph system does not have a pumping mechanism like the circulatory system. The circulatory system relies on heart to move blood. The lymph system relies on muscular contraction.
Normal Lymph flood moves at about 10-12 beats per minute. With MLD, we can increase the velocity up to 120 beats per minute. If there is an obstruction in the flow of lymph, it can back up creating swelling, edema, adhesions, fibroids, infection, etc.
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MLD can significantly reduce cortisol levels, which helps in managing stress, anxiety, and depression. By regulating the parasympathetic nervous system, it also aids in creating a sense of calm and well-being, making it an excellent complement to mental health treatments.
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During an MLD session, clients can choose to remain clothed or disrobe under sheets. The technique involves light, rhythmic movements that encourage lymphatic flow, with the goal of reducing inflammation and supporting the body’s natural healing processes.
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No. MLD is a very light but effective massage technique. I apply about the weight of a nickel to create a stretch on the skin. Any heavier, we are bypassing the lymph system and treating the muscle.
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People can have many different responses to MLD.
Some have a great increase of energy, some people need to take a nap. Some people don’t feel anything, that does not mean the lymph isn’t moving.
Some people simply notice an increase in urination or even an odor. Some clients might experience a headache or a relief in allergy symptoms. It really depends on the level of debris that needs to be processed out the of the body.
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MLD is most effective when performed in person due to the hands-on nature of the therapy. While virtual guidance can be provided for self-care techniques, the benefits of professional, hands-on MLD are unmatched, especially for those with trauma or chronic conditions.
Unlock Your Path to Wellness
Ready to meet wellness on multiple levels?
Don’t settle for surface-level solutions. It’s time to dig deeper and discover what’s truly possible for your health. In your personalized consultation, we’ll uncover the barriers holding you back and craft a powerful, integrative plan that leads to real, lasting change. Your journey to profound wellness starts here.