Welcome
I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m Dolly… a Functional Menopause Coach and board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner.
I help women navigate menopause and midlife changes by looking deeper than symptoms alone to understand what may be changing beneath the surface.
Because when the things that once worked suddenly don’t, it may not mean you need to try harder. Your body may need something different in this season.
Here's my story
Like many people who enter healthcare, I started with one simple goal:
I wanted to help people.
For more than 30 years, I worked in traditional healthcare as a nurse and nurse practitioner. Over time, I began noticing something difficult to ignore…
So many women were doing everything they had been told to do and still struggling with weight, sleep, energy, digestion, hormone changes, and a body that suddenly felt unfamiliar.
Then eventually, I became one of them.
After an unexpected hysterectomy, I kept one ovary and was told I shouldn't go into menopause. But my body had other plans.
Sleep changed. Hot flashes appeared. Weight became harder to manage. The things I had always relied on stopped working.
And despite my medical background, I realized there were important pieces of the puzzle I had never been taught.
That experience led me deeper into functional medicine, metabolic and hormone health, integrative nutrition, gut and microbiome science, and the many signals that influence how our bodies respond during midlife.
It also changed the way I support women today.
I don’t believe every symptom needs another quick fix. And I don’t believe every woman needs the same menopause protocol.
I believe we need to understand the bigger picture… your symptoms, your patterns, your foundations, what has changed, and what your body may be communicating.
My goal is to help you make sense of those pieces so you can feel clearer and more confident about where to focus, without constantly wondering what you should try next.
I'm on a mission...
to help women understand what’s changing in their body during menopause… so they can stop guessing, look beyond one-size-fits-all answers, and feel clearer about what they need next.
The path that shaped my work
My background is rooted in healthcare. I earned my Master of Science in Nursing and became a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in 2010, after years of working in nursing and patient care.
Over time, both my professional experience and my own journey through an unexpected menopause led me to look beyond the conventional approach. I wanted to better understand the patterns connecting metabolism, hormones, nutrition, gut health, lifestyle, and the many changes women can experience during this season.
That curiosity led to extensive additional education in functional medicine, integrative and functional nutrition, functional hormone health, microbiome health, and perimenopause and menopause coaching.
Today, I bring those pieces together as a Functional Menopause Coach, helping women look deeper than symptoms alone, recognize patterns, and better understand what their body may need in this season.
Credentials & Advanced Training Include:
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
- Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC)
- Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP)
- IAFHH Certified Functional Hormone Specialist (IC-FHS)
- Holistic Perimenopause & Menopause Coach
- Advanced Integrative & Functional Nutrition Training, IFNA (Tracks 1–5, 224 CPEUs)
- Certified Microbiome Clinical Science Practitioner (MCS-P)
Menopause changes the context.
And that changes how I believe we should approach your health.
The strategies that worked for you before may not work the same way now. Sleep may affect you differently. Your response to food, stress, exercise, and recovery may shift. And sometimes those changes happen gradually… while other times they seem to arrive almost overnight.
That doesn’t mean the answer is to try harder, eat less, exercise more, or add another supplement.
It means we need to get curious about what has changed, what patterns are showing up, and what your body needs in this season.
That is why my work starts with the foundations, looks at the bigger picture, and goes deeper when there is a reason to… rather than assuming every woman needs the same solution.
The goal is not to give you more things to do. It’s to help you understand where your attention may matter most.
If you're ready to stop guessing and start making more sense of what’s happening in your body…
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