At Head & Heart, we believe every person deserves to feel, heal, and evolve.
We provide a safe environment, affirming relationships, and science-based therapy.
In this 90-minute Assessment and Goal-setting session, offered in person or virtually, you’ll explore all dimensions of wellness in your life. You will be guided through a holistic look at your current state of well-being and generate measurable goals that can be referenced in therapy, used individually, and/or used to track progress through Health Coaching sessions.
Clarifying movement and nutrition goals
Managing chronic pain and physical limitations
Recovering from Diet Culture & disordered eating
Honoring psychological and body diversity
Weight-neutral care management & self-advocacy
Addressing exercise resistance & fitness trauma
Our Health Coaches implement an Intuitive Eating approach, guiding clients to unlearn the shame-based rules of diet mentality and to listen to the wisdom of the body. Health Coaching clients:
Rediscover joyful movement
Tune into hunger and fullness cues
Escape the restriction-rebound cycle
Recognize emotional eating
Increase body acceptance & self-compassion
Navigate unhelpful cultural norms.
JodiAnn believes that every body deserves respect, dignity and compassion and that re/building a foundation of body sovereignty is the first step on the path toward this freedom. With her clients, she co-creates a brave space for the honest exploration of the internal and external sources that disrupt our ability to be friendly and loving toward our own bodies. JodiAnn trusts every client to be the world's number one expert on their own body and life experiences and sees it as her primary duty to listen deeply, witness, and support that innate wisdom.
To help guide her clients on this journey, JodiAnn offers integrative, holistic Health At Every Size ®️ aligned Health Coaching that includes weight-neutral programming and Intuitive Eating® guidance. She re/mixes motivational interviewing, reflective dialogue, education, practical trouble-shooting, humor, compassion, arts-based expressive activities, body awareness exercises, and other techniques to meet her clients where they are and support their work in moving closer to where they would like to go.
Born in Traverse City and raised for the first part of her life in Northern Michigan, JodiAnn has lived all over Michigan and the Southwestern and Northeastern United States and for two years in Poland as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She returned to Northern Michigan in 2016 with her small family because no matter where she went, nothing ever felt more like home than Lake Michigan, and its dunes and woods.
JodiAnn is eager to help you craft your own unique definition of health and be a witness to your reclamation of body respect.
“My favorite thing about health coaching with JodiAnn is that it opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about my body and to be loving and kind to myself... Her coaching made me feel understood. I felt that I was safe and could express my true feelings of shame, difficulty with food and body image... It was easy to trust and feel supported. JodiAnn’s health coaching is boot camp for the soul. I would recommend it to anyone. I was sick and tired of diet culture and how I felt about food and my body. Working with JodiAnn has made me realize food is just food and my body is beautiful just as it is right now. I have learned that I am worthy of love and worthy of a peaceful, happy life.”
““JodiAnn’s health coaching is a total change of scenery. It’s like breathing for the first time when you didn’t know you were choking. Thanks to this program, I gained confidence in my ability to feel my body, its limits and needs. I feel strong in the face of the bombardment of the messages that I must be other than my body is.””
