Carla Alpert

I'm a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Practitioner. My mission as a coach is to help you explore and discover solutions to live your life with renewed vitality, authenticity and purpose—without the overwhelm. Whether you’re looking for support to restore your overall health and well-being, or use testing to uncover the root cause(s) of your gut problems and other chronic symptoms—you’re in the right place!

• I'll be hosting events that will teach you about gut health and how it affects your overall health. I will present topics like using appropriate functional testing to uncover healing opportunities, as well as lifestyle tips on nutrition, rest, movement, stress reduction and general education on supplements. There will be a Q & A discussion following the presentation.
• My health journey started at six years old and continued until I found support in various ways like immersing myself in learning, becoming my own advocate, trauma therapy, coaching, and through functional medicine.
• The short version of my story is that early on, I struggled with my digestion on and off. It got worse over the years and I experienced chronic and debilitating symptoms, that sometimes left me unable to go out of the house. These chronic symptoms started to take over my life.
• On top of this, I developed many survival strategies to help me cope with growing up in an unstable environment. The physical symptoms and survival strategies created a lot of dysregulation in my nervous system, creating overwhelm and anxiety that I carried into adulthood as well. This showed up as perfectionism, over-working, people pleasing, lack of boundaries and chronic physical symptoms.
• As I began to heal, I wanted to help others do the same so I pursued studies in Functional Medicine, wellness coaching and trauma-informed modalities.
• I’m a NBC-HWC (National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach), FMCHC (Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach), FDN-P (Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Professional), IFS Informed and NARM Professional (both trauma-informed modalities). I work with clients in two ways as a Transformational Health & Wellness Coach and also a Functional Diagnostic Professional focusing on how the gut affects your overall health.
• I don’t diagnose disease or treat symptoms. Think of me like a health detective and wellness coach working in partnership with you to restore your health. I help you to stop struggling with your health so you can get back to living your best life. We work together to uncover the contributing factors to your chronic symptoms, to eat well, sleep well, move more and stress less. Through this partnership, you’ll learn how to implement lifestyle changes specific to you that will help you reclaim your optimum health!