About Me

Your Coach

Hi, I’m Kat! I am a Certified Personal Trainer and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach based out of Denver, Colorado.

 

When I was 13 years old, my dad took me to the gym and told me he was going to teach me how to lift. I learned how to use all the machines, what to do with barbells and dumbbells, and became relatively confident there. I certainly wasn’t confident or comfortable about how my body looked throughout high school and college, but I never once doubted my ability to walk into a gym and know (roughly) what to do.

 

For many people, and for women in particular, this is rare.

 

The stories of how I became a trainer and coach, and how I transformed my strength and health, are long and winding. If you’re someone who wants to work with me, you can learn as much about my path and history as you want to.

 

But ultimately, I am here for all the people who didn’t have someone show them the ropes in the gym.

 

For all the people who were never told that they deserve to take up space in the weight room.

 

For anyone who was taught to associate exercise and eating with shame and guilt.

 

For anyone who has ever been intimidated, shamed, bullied, or discouraged into feeling like they’re “not enough” when it comes to health and fitness.

 

If any of those sound like you, I want to tell you:
You are already enough.
You are strong.
You are welcome.
You belong.

 

But I don’t want you to just take it from me. I want you to know it. To experience it. To embody it. And I would love to be invited to come with you on your journey of becoming, for as long as you want me there.

 

If you’d like to know more about the specifics of my coaching approaches, read on. Or if you would rather talk to me directly, let’s set up a call!

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and Behavior
  • Master of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching

Certifications:

My Coaching Philosophy

Personal Training:

I use a highly client-centered approach to coaching. From the moment I meet you, my priority is what you want for yourself and why. I am not here to tell you that you should have different goals or that your reasons for having your goals aren’t good enough. I hope to never make you feel like you should be anything other than who you already are.

 

Aside from your goals, my concern is also for your longevity—basically, I want you getting off the toilet by yourself for as long as possible. Other than that, I try to not put anything on you that doesn’t belong to you. My only expectation is that you show up when you can and do your best, whatever that looks like that day.

 

This makes my training highly individualized. Scientific principles and biomechanics may not change, but the people behind them do.

 

I operate with two overarching philosophies:

  • Don’t do sh*t that hurts
  • Don’t do sh*t you hate

Like any human, I have my biases and favorite movement variations that will work their way into my programming more than others. But at the end of the day, if you really don’t want to do something, there’s almost always another option. If you absolutely hate barbells, I won’t try to force you under one. And if something hurts you now, maybe we can figure out how to reduce or eliminate that pain.

 

Otherwise, here are some of the common threads we’ll use to weave our way to meeting your goals:

 

  • Building strength in 6 foundational movement patterns: squat, hinge, lunge, push, pull, and carry
  • Learning how to create as much stability from your body as you need for anything you might encounter
  • Learning how your unique body proportions (like limb length and trunk length) affect your biomechanics and how to leverage that as much as possible
  • Creating strong mind-muscle connections and developing greater intentionality in how you move
  • Learning how to reduce, prevent, and move around pain
  • Developing a relationship with exercise that is based in self-compassion and fun, rather than self-punishment

Health and Wellness:

I am certified both as a Level 2 Master Health Coach by Precision Nutrition and as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Because of how deeply I love this side of coaching, and because of how easily the term “health coach” gets thrown around, I’m fairly protective of my work as a health and wellness coach and what that role actually entails.

 

My role as a health and wellness coach is one of facilitation. I am here to help support your growth and progress in any area of your life that is important to you. For many people, this involves nutrition. But this can take the form of any aspect of your health in which you wish to create positive change, whether that’s physical, mental, emotional, social, existential, or environmental health.

 

If you are pursuing a specific goal, it is one thing to know what to do. It is entirely another to know how to make it work in the context of the rest of your life. I help evoke awareness by asking questions to help you access a clearer and deeper knowledge of your mind, habits, and behavior. With some support from an experienced coach to ask questions you may not have thought of, to offer reflections and observations, and to create a space in which you feel safe to explore your inner world, you might be surprised at how many of the answers you already have.

 

Even if you need some help learning the nuts and bolts of what you need to do to reach your goals, once you’re armed with that information, your inner wisdom already knows how to move forward. The problem is we have all gotten very good at ignoring and silencing that inner wisdom. My absolute favorite part of this side of coaching is helping people learn how to reconnect to it.

 

Together, we’ll identify exactly what you want for yourself and your health. We’ll figure out how to lean on and add to what’s already working well for you, and how to let go of the thoughts and behaviors that are no longer serving you. We’ll identify the path to get you to your goals that best fits your lifestyle and allows you to feel fulfilled all throughout the process, not just at some indeterminate point in the future.

 

Your journey won’t look exactly like anyone else’s journey. What worked well for someone else may not be the best choice for you. You are a beautiful, complex human with unique experiences, perspectives, and dreams, and you deserve to THRIVE.

 

I won’t lie to you—this takes more work up front than following a meal plan or being given a prescription of macros. It can be scary and vulnerable to make the intentional choice to unlearn patterns of thought and behavior that have been trying to protect you from ever feeling uncomfortable. But if you’re ready, willing, and able to walk into that discomfort, life-long change and true transformation waits for you on the other side. I will be right there in the thick of it with you, but the choice to change is yours alone to make.

Am I the right coach for you?

If you want:

 

  • An approach to fitness and health that lives at the intersection of science, empathy, and fun…
  • To learn how and why your body and mind work the way they do and how they interact…
  • To eliminate shame and guilt from the conversation, building a healthy relationship with your body, food, and exercise…
  • A little extra structure, personalization, or accountability…
  • To get really f*cking strong—inside and out…
  • The confidence that comes from knowing what you’re truly capable of…
  • To feel like a happier, healthier, and more empowered version of yourself…

I’ve got you.

 

If you’ve been told you have to give up X activity or movement FOREVER because you have a “bad” knee/back/shoulder/whatever…let’s see if we can’t prove them wrong. There’s more options than you might think.

 

If you’ve ever been frustrated by the word “just” in front of well-meaning health advice (“just stop eating X” or “just move more”), let’s find what’s actually going to work for you.

 

Still not sure if we would be a good fit? Let’s talk about it! You can email me or DM me on Instagram, or you can sign up for a free session.

 

First sessions are always free. My first priority is making sure you find the coach that’s the right fit. (Plus, we should make sure you like me enough to commit to spending a lot of time, in-person or virtual, together!)

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