Manage Your Application Stress
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or nervous to take the steps necessary to submit a stand-out graduate school application? Regardless of where you're from, what you do, or where you want to go next, the application process is stressful. Together, we'll focus on cultivating sustainable nutrition and lifestyle practices, creating health-oriented goals, and incorporating balance into both your physical body and mental health. This program is designed to provide you with the support to implement health behavior change into everyday life. Through this semi-structured program, you will receive guidance on how to thrive while deep in the trenches of essay writing, letter of recommendation seeking, and managing work and life. You will gain practical tools to overcome the obstacles disrupting your flow. You will gain a deep understanding of what adequate nutrition and health look and feel like by gaining science-backed strategies to heal wholely - no fads, just facts. What’s Included: Weekly 1:1 coaching (40-minute sessions) Personalized action plans and resources to address nutrition and symptom management Unlimited chat and email support for accountability and guidance Techniques for managing emotions, improving nutritional foundation, and building confidence to navigate self-managed care
What's included
My coaching program is dynamic, bio-individual, and tailored to meet each client's specific needs.
- Tools to identify, manage, and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety
- Identify and leverage personal strengths to build resilience and identify targeted areas for further development
- Personalized nutrition services and improved relationship to food
- Confidence to navigate transitions, change, and travel
Meet your expert
Rachel R.
Board Certified Health Coach | Functional Medicine Researcher | EMT
Welcome! I'm Rachel, a Board Certified Nutrition Health Coach (NBC-HWC) with a Bachelor's (Syracuse) and Master's in Public Health (New York University), with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Sciences. I served as a First Responder (EMT) for 12 years, and have helped patients from the frontlines, putting every skill at my disposal to use, to handle high-pressure situations for patients from all walks of life. As a health coach, I'm rapidly building my practice, working closely with dozens of individuals to find tangible strategies that unlock their health and well-being, from college students to senior citizens. My training is holistic and recommendation-focused, and I've developed research-backed expertise in nutrition and gut microbiome health, combating women-focused autoimmune disease, and helping my clients create well-rounded physical routines incorporating Pilates, yoga, and compound resistance training. And if you're starting from ground zero, I have several avenues to help you get off the ground, grow your self-confidence, and find a set of sustainable strategies that you can stick to and build upon. To give a bit more background on my professional story, my career began coming into focus during graduate school, where I worked on the research team led by Dr. Ryan McCormack, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Our work focused on studying the impact of screening for substance use and connecting individuals with substance use disorder to referral and treatment services. We also distributed naloxone (Narcan) kits and provided overdose education to patients at risk of witnessing an opioid overdose. This work deeply shaped my public health perspective, and I remain passionate about continuing overdose prevention education and resource distribution in community settings. After completing my MPH, I joined the research team led by Dr. Robert Montgomery, Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery and Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. Our research explored innovative approaches to abdominal organ transplantation, including HIV-to-HIV transplants, drug trials for highly sensitized waitlist candidates, and xenotransplantation (pig-to-human organ donation) to expand the donor pool and improve outcomes for patients in need of life-saving transplants. Through these roles, I worked with over 1,000 patients across a wide range of backgrounds, conditions, and stages of disease. What became increasingly clear was this: our crisis and acute care systems are not designed to support long-term, personalized behavioral changes - especially in areas like nutrition, stress, and daily lifestyle. These gaps create fertile ground for chronic disease and lead to the overuse of our health system built for emergencies, not prevention. As a coach, I'm here to help you build a healthy future for you and those around you. And if you're hoping to delve into a public health career yourself, I'm here to help you with that too.
