Sydney began teaching exercise in 1987. Recognizing that nutrition was often a missing link to people’s success, she added nutrition consulting to her services by 1997.

Through a continuing education seminar she attended, Sydney learned that what she was doing was providing two of the three components of “therapeutic lifestyle change” programs aka Lifestyle Therapy for people. Lifestyle Therapy has over 50 years of  research establishing its ability to prevent or reverse numerous health conditions, so it made sense why people were getting such good health results. It became clear stress relief was needed to turbo charge the results from exercise and nutrition.

Stress relief is the third and most elusive element of lifestyle that can undermine people’s best efforts. While Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was helpful and integrated into nutrition and exercise programs, it was just not strong enough alone to combat the intense stress that people experience in todays world, especially for trauma survivors and First Responders.

Eventually Brainspotting was discovered by David Grand PHD, and Sydney quickly recognized this as the powerful tool that was needed to make the stress relief component of lifestyle just as strong as the exercise and nutrition components. She is excited to have added, Stress Relief Mapping, Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), and developed an Emotion Release & Repurposing technique to compliment other stress relief modalities and better serve people.

With an estimated 70% of obese people suffering from childhood trauma, leading to increased health challenges, and todays intense stress levels, stress relief modalities are essential to long-term weight loss, health success, and happiness.

Sydney has achieved advanced training, specializing in helping people with weight loss, athletic or career achievement, and trauma — specifically adults with childhood trauma and First Responders. She additionally holds 10 different fitness certifications, three nutrition certifications, ski instruction, and college degrees in Health Science, Kinesiology, Biology, Nutrition, Math & Science. Each of these were important components needed for Sydney to be the effective Lifestyle Therapy Practitioner that she is today.

Personal experiences help Sydney to relate to others and understand how to help them. She is the proud mother of two boys, has one grandchild, and enjoys a variety of activities including: mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, wake boarding, running, hiking, backpacking, camping and is interested in learning to kite board. Being so active, she has experienced her fair share of injuries and knows what it takes to recover.

First Responders help to make sure people have the chance to live through an emergency. The general public has very little understanding of the challenges that First Responders face and how a “normal” day for a First Responder could be someone elses worst nightmare. Sydney has a deep compassion for First Responders and is committed to helping them enjoy the healthy, happy lives that they deserve.

Sydney has had the joy and privilege to work with a variety of populations of different cultural backgrounds, and special differences such as blindness, dwarfism, hearing impaired, TBI survivors, First Responders (fire, military, nursing, law enforcement, corrections, mental health professionals, etc). She strives to find the best ways to help each individual to reach their health goals, and acheive greater self-acceptance. She has studied the most popular nutrition approaches and has a unique understanding of the complexities of nutrition combined with energy and performance, and how stress affects a persons nutritional needs and different areas of performance.

Sydney strives to help people build the critical foundation of health through Lifestyle Therapy, knowing that this will help them achieve their greatest genetic potential, increase or improve the outcomes of many other health or life endeavors, and provide a strong foundation for health and happiness.

Combining the most successful techniques with experience, Sydney has developed a unique, targeted, approach to Lifestyle Therapy that gets dramatic results to help provide the health needed to   support the quality of life and happiness that every person deserves.