Hello! I’m Abby Hand, Preconception Health Consultant, and soon-to-be published author. I help couples over 35 improve their health before trying to conceive (TTC). My process uses positive lifestyle change and health optimization grounded in current research, traditional medicine, and natural philosophies. I also incorporate biometric tracking, epigenetic data, and other valuable tools into a complex systems approach to coaching. What makes my practice extra unique is that I draw on my own autoimmune disease and pregnancy experiences to empower folks and help them navigate perinatal and chronic disease care. Preconception health is my passion and I strongly believe optimizing the health of both parents prior to conception helps build strong families and communities, creating a healthier, more resilient world.

While my own experiences inform how I work with clients, I also have an extensive formal and informal educational background. I earned my undergraduate degree from Vassar College (Geology, with a focus on Environmental Studies) and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas (with a focus on maternal health). I’ve also worked in the medical field for over 15 years, including as a nurse in Labor & Delivery, Functional Medicine, and in Precision Medicine. On top of that, I’m an Apeiron Certified Epigenetic Coach, and a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, and am currently working on my Women’s Herbal Educator certification.

Most importantly though, I’m the mom of an amazing little boy and partner to an incredible husband. Our family (including three dogs), splits our time between Austin and the Texas Hill Country, where we hone our skills of self-sufficiency and work to restore the health of our land. We believe personal health cannot be truly obtained without also addressing environmental health. I’m happiest when I’m tromping around in the woods looking at plants with my guys.

Family Health & Wellness Clinic

Integrative Family Health Specialist

April Bullock founded the Family Health & Wellness Clinic in 2018. After nearly 20 years of serving the Austin community as a midwife, April identified the need for a truly holistic family practice to serve her midwifery clients as their families grew.

With a commitment to lifelong learning and continued growth of health care knowledge, she returned to the university for her second and third degrees as a Registered Nurse then Family Nurse Practitioner.

With decades of using homeopathy and herbal medicine in women’s health care, April is skilled at integrating western medicine & pharmaceuticals into health & wellness plans.

April is offering both swab and antibody covid testing.

Erica is a dual certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years of experience caring for patients in a variety of clinical settings including primary care, women’s health, mental health and internal medicine. She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Science in Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner certification from Pace University in New York City and went on to obtain an additional Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification from the University of Texas, Austin. Erica has extensive experience in the treatment and management of adult anxiety disorders, depression, mood disorders and ADHD. She is particularly interested in and pursuing further training in reproductive psychiatry as well as new and emerging treatments for mental health concerns.

Erica approaches health from a holistic perspective and believes that “wellbeing” must include an awareness of and attention to the body and mind as well as the emotional and interpersonal lives we lead. Her philosophy, as a provider, is one of curiosity, acceptance and collaboration. Informed by evidence-based treatments and current research, Erica works with clients to develop a plan of care that is effective, appropriate and tailored to their unique needs. This plan of care may include medication, lifestyle interventions and/or therapy.

Hannah Goldberg is a board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at the Center for Green Psychiatry in West Lake Hills. Hannah embodies a philosophy of holistic and integrative care, based on the principle that health of the mind and body are strongly intertwined. Her approach is to understand and appreciate all aspects of a person, focusing not only on client concerns but also on strengths and abilities to reach optimal wellness. Hannah believes that natural empathy, compassion, and intuition form the essence of psychological healing, and this is what her practice is based on.

One of Hannah’s specializations is Perinatal Mental Health, as she understands firsthand how the pregnancy and postpartum period can greatly affect mental wellbeing, and she is passionate about providing resources and care to this population. Other clinical specialties include mood and anxiety disorders, as well as issues pertaining to adolescents. Hannah strives to create a collaborative relationship with each client that is nurturing, motivating, challenging, and authentic, and that leads to achievement of goals and positive change.

At this time, Hannah is currently accepting new patients ages 13-65 for telepsychiatry appointments.

Education

Hannah graduated with honors and received her Master of Science degree with a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner specialization from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Previously, she attended the University of California at Davis with a double major in Psychology and Music, as well as Azusa Pacific University for her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Before moving on to her Master’s degree, Hannah spent seven years as a Registered Nurse, primarily working with psychiatric and high risk antepartum/postpartum patients. Hannah is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, National Society for Collegiate Scholars, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Life Interests

Hannah maintains work/life balance by enjoying her time playing flute and violin, dancing, reading in coffee shops, being a military spouse and a mom to her twin boys, and raising two Nigerian Dwarf goats!

For more information about Hannah’s practice and approach to care, as well as contact and booking information, please visit her personal website at www.hannahgpsychnp.com.

Functional Medicine Health Coach @ Wellnessprout LLC

I have been a Registered Nurse since 2005 and a Board-Certified Lactation Consultant since 2011. Over the years, I have worked in a variety of areas including Postpartum Care, Neonatal Intensive Care and Post Anesthesia Care. I founded Mommy’s Angels Postpartum Care Services, LLC in 2010 and have been teaching mothers the art of breastfeeding ever since.

I lived what I thought was a healthy lifestyle and for the most part considered myself “healthy.” However, I regularly experienced different symptoms that I thought were “annoying but normal” and assumed they were “things that I just had to live with” such as debilitating pre-menstrual cramps and headaches that I managed by taking round the clock Ibuprofen. After moving to Austin, I started experiencing seasonal allergies that developed into a year-round challenge that required regular allergy medication and occasional steroid inhaler use. I also experienced extreme fatigue, which I attributed to being a working mom. When I brought these symptoms up with my doctors, I was assured that all my labs were normal and was told not to worry.

My journey into holistic health began with the devastating news of my mother’s diagnosis of endometrial cancer in 2011. I started researching ways to help her through chemo treatments. A few years later, I worked with a naturopath who helped me balance my hormones and address my gut health. After several months of working with him, I was amazed that I no longer required my regular allergy medications or Ibuprofen to manage my symptoms. I am happy to say that I have since overcome all those “annoying” issues and am living my best life!

I was so fascinated by what I learned through the years that I decided to further my education by joining The School of Applied Functional Medicine and began training to become a functional medicine health coach. I completed my studies in 2021 and have been applying the knowledge I have learned to help my clients as well as friends and families achieve great improvements in their health. I look forward to helping you on your journey to optimal health!

Board Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner @ Alive and Well Austin

Jana specializes in biomedical treatment of autism, PANDAS/PANS, ADHD, gut health, and any chronic disease in pediatrics.

She is passionate about providing holistic healthcare to children with chronic maladies through an integrative and functional medical approach. She even co-wrote and published a book about it!:

“The Parent’s Roadmap to Autism: A Functional Medicine Approach”

Available in both paperback and Kindle edition.

When your child has been diagnosed with autism (ASD), finding an effective treatment can be a complicated journey filled with wrong turns and dead ends. In this first-of-its-kind guidebook, Emily Gutierrez and Jana Roso suggest an alternate route that can lead to substantial developmental gains for your autistic child.

https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Roadmap-Autism-Functional-Medicine-ebook/dp/B07MJ9V3RX

Lyn McCright, MPH, ANP, GNP, CNS, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC is the owner and director of

Advancing Holistic Health Coaching Program

Online Health Coaching Program and Nurse Coaching Program – with National Board Certification (AHNCC)

Executive Nurse Coaching DBA

For Nurse Executives and their supervisory staff

Lyn McCright Consulting, PLLC

Private coaching practice with focus on health professionals

Lyn is a Board Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach and Advanced Holistic Nurse (American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation). With an MPH in Nursing from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, she is an Adult and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, and a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing. Lyn received her BSN at the University of Arkansas Medical Center (now UAMS).

She began coaching more than 30 years ago, teaching resilience based on the Principles of The Resilience Paradigm in her private practice in Monterey, Calif. She later founded Health Consulting and Lyn McCright Consulting in Texas.
Lyn is the leader of Central Texas Chapter, American Holistic Nurses Association.

Published Articles & Podcast

https://www.nursecoaching.com/about-us/resources/

Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Holistic Health Coach, Group Fitness Instructor, Hormone Guru

Have you ever gone to see your healthcare provider with bothersome symptoms only to be told, “everything looks normal” ? OR – you are offered an antidepressant, sleeping pill, or some other drug? Or maybe you are told, “it’s just part of life.”

There is a difference between normal and optimal. If you are not even feeling “normal”, then something is definitely off and you have the right to be heard! Your body has an amazing power to heal itself – but only when you give it what it needs and get to the root cause in a holistic way.

Megan is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Holistic Health Coach, a Group Fitness Instructor and is certified in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Mind-Body Medicine. She helps women get answers to their unexplained symptoms that are likely related to hormonal imbalances (yes, she helps men too!). Too many women are feeling symptoms such as

• fatigue,
• weight gain,
• brain fog,
• anxiety and/or depression,
• insomnia,
• digestive issues/IBS
• and many many more –

and are being told it’s part of being a woman, or they have to just live with it. They aren’t getting help.

Megan truly listens to you. She provides comprehensive testing where results are viewed from an optimal point of view. YOU are ⅔ of the picture – the lab results just help fill in the gaps. She makes sure you understand your results and what the improvement plan is every step of the way.

And, she offers free consultations so you can get to know each other first.

President, Austin PsychCare

Michelle Magid is the founder and president of Austin PsychCare, a collaborative group of psychiatrists and nurse practitioners that focus on both chemical AND environmental factors that contribute to not feeling well.

In addition to being experts in pharmacology, Dr. Magid and her colleagues focus on the 4 Domains of wellness – Spiritual, Emotional, Physical, and Social. Within these domains, Austin PsychCare places emphasis on the following 7 action items: Increased movement/exercise, Hydration, A diet that feels good for YOU, Social rhythm, Healthy sleep, Good dental hygiene, and Reduced use in drugs, alcohol, smoking.

The Austin Psychcare providers have spent their entire careers becoming experts in both medicine and psychotherapy.

If you are struggling, we will partner with you to get you to a better place. And if you are already doing well, we offer psychotherapy to those who want to understand themselves better, and executive coaching to those who want to up their game.

We provide a one stop-shop to take care of all your mental health needs.

Integrative Health Coach

It is my goal to empower you to find a balance in your life that affords you to be your best self.Nicole Griffis

As your Integrative Health and Holistic Nurse Coach, it is my job to partner with you to find your highest potential for healthy change and realization of your life goals. This process happens through deep listening, reflection, asking many questions, and inviting you to try some exercises that can help you expand your knowledge of your strengths and challenges.

Together, we will be exploring the stories that you tell yourself and how they differ from the stories that you want to and were meant to be living. It is my duty to empower you to access your inner wisdom. By inquiring and exploring this untapped yet powerful resource within, you will find answers, direction, motivation, and new perspectives that start a healing process reaching beyond a single symptom or diagnosis.

Susan Rinkus Farrell is a Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner, Continence Specialist & Certified Health Coach and she’s passionate about breaking the silence surrounding the stigma of bladder control problems in women.

She’s the founder & owner of Healthy Bladder Solutions for Women Health Coaching.

“As a nurse practitioner health coach, I help women to recognize their ambivalence to change, empower them with knowledge through empathetic support, and guide them to create space for transformation to take back control of their life from embarrassing bladder control problems.”

Susan helps her clients address their ambivalence to change and together they create a personalized HealthyBladder program.

My personal experience of becoming my own most complicated patient, helped guide me to the path of becoming a health coach. You can read more about Susan’s journey here >>> https://www.healthybladdersolutions.com/about (Original website is offline. Left for archival purposes.)

Susan’s been an advocate for women’s health since beginning her nursing career in 1985 as a high-risk labor & delivery nurse and then opening Healthy Bladder Solutions for Women in 2007 as a nurse practitioner where she offered biofeedback and electrical stimulation therapies for women experiencing bladder control problems.

She was selected to be on the Project Advisory Council for the National Association for Continence.

Susan transitioned her clinical practice into a virtual health coaching practice where she offers private and convenient one-on-one and group health coaching sessions.

BSN, RN, NC-BC

Teresa earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boise State University in 1993. In her early career she worked in a variety of clinical areas including ICU, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, psychiatric, pediatrics and currently Post Anesthesia Recovery.

She is a Board Certified Nurse Coach on faculty at Advancing Holistic Health Coaching Program. She coaches client’s privately and in small groups using the Principles of Resilience. She is the co-leader of AHNA’s Austin Area Chapter where she is a frequent presenter for monthly meetings, annual conferences and retreats. She has been featured on podcasts, radio shows and webinars bringing the Principles of Resilience to healthcare providers worldwide.

Are you a nurse? Do you need continuing education credits?!

Check out the Virtual Conference June 2-5!

Virtual Conference

Theresa Hernandez APN/CNP, IFMCP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Functional Medicine Provider. She’s been a pioneer for Wholistic Family Care and Nursing Faculty at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

She provides individualized care for each patient and emphasizes getting to the root cause of symptoms, not just disease management. She is passionate about providing care to Pediatric patients and their families.

Veronica Max

Family Practice Specialist. Direct Primary Care Provider
Founder of UltraPersonal Healthcare

Veronica Max, APRN, FNP:

Veronica sees her role as a guide and advocate, listening attentively to her patients’ health concerns and conveying information in a clear, approachable manner. She values preventive medicine and thrives on finding the root cause of her patient’s problems. She has experience in treating all ages and stages of life, and is especially interested in treating autoimmune conditions, as well as providing prenatal and postnatal care and counseling patients in health optimization. She stays fit and active with Crossfit, and chasing after her 3 children–Bishop, Vaughn, and Deacon with her husband Tucker.

Veronica received her bachelor’s and master’s of science in nursing from Texas Tech University. She also holds a bachelor’s in biochemistry from Samford University, where she played Division I basketball. She is certified in family medicine through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Veronica was recently awarded the 2019 Austin Advanced Practice Nurse Excellence Award.

As a nurse practitioner (NP), Xenia Kempf is licensed to practice in Texas and Louisiana. She graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and went on to receive her graduate degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She is trained by the Institute for Functional Medicine.

During her medical journey, she discovered a passion for helping patients to reach optimal health through holistic and alternative pathways. She approaches well-being and vitality as a whole-body approach, incorporating diet, lifestyle, and nutraceuticals in addition to pharmaceuticals when needed.