About Holly

I’m a researcher and ground-level coach​

I’m a researcher and a coach with a PhD in public health and a long-standing curiosity about how people make sense of their lives. Long before my academic work, I was drawn to understanding what drives human behavior — how we connect, adapt, and find meaning in different circumstances.

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My work has taken me across countries and cultures, exploring how social dynamics and norms shape wellbeing, and how people prioritize connection in distinct ways. I’ve led research teams, facilitated workshops, and had hundreds of conversations into identity, values, and what it means to live well in complex worlds. Many of these discussions have centered around difficult topics because life, for many of us, can be difficult. 

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My work also draws from Ayurvedic medicine, where we see each person as a unique dynamic system of mind, body, and emotion. That framework helps clients understand their own patterns and make choices that align with how they naturally move and connect through the world.

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I call my approach Ground-Level Coaching. It starts where you actually are and works across your whole life: body, emotions, thinking, relationships, work, and meaning.

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I work with people in transition, integrating experiences with psychedelics, reimagining their careers, or simply feeling stuck in familiar patterns. I work with men expanding their emotional range, women balancing care for others with care for themselves, and professionals trying to reconnect with purpose. Humor and honesty are an important part of the process.

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At the core of my work is agency, helping people make choices that feel both true to themselves and connected to others. How do we move through the noise to uncover who we are and who we want to be? 

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Outside of work, I find grounding in nature, travel, music, and dance — all reminders that joy and connection are part of the work, too. I support people through integration and reconnection with warmth, curiosity, discernment and genuine care.​​​