I am a Motivational Interviewing trainer specializing in helping fitness, nutrition, and health professionals build stronger, more effective coaching relationships with their clients. My background combines over 17 years of practical coaching experience as a personal trainer and nutrition coach with extensive training and professional involvement in Motivational Interviewing training and coaching.
I am trained in the MITI and MICA fidelity coding instruments and currently serve in my fourth year on the coding team for the Training and Practice Implementation Institute (TPII), affiliated with the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University.
I am also a member of the Brief Action Planning (BAP) Professional Network and am certified in the BAP Core Competencies. I serve on the Network's Community Outreach and Content and Standards and Credentialing Committees. I have also contributed as a co-author to a chapter in the latest edition of The Clinical Interview for Relationship-Centered Care: The Three Function Approach, published in July 2026.
Currently, under the supervision of Steven A. Cole, MD, MA, I am collaborating on BAP-MI, a novel stepped-care integration of Brief Action Planning and Motivational Interviewing designed to increase the applicability and accessibility of these approaches across healthcare disciplines.
My current focus is bringing Motivational Interviewing to the fitness, nutrition, and health coaching fields, making MI practical and relevant to the real-world conversations coaches have in their daily work with clients.
