About Yvette’s Education.

The Functional Medicine Coaching Academy is the gold standard of health coaching and is the ONLY program designed and delivered by the Institute for Functional Medicine where students are trained based upon the belief that there is “one condition with many causes and one cause with many conditions” so functional medicine determines how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual.

Health coaching combines mind-body medicine with positive psychology. FMCA faculty includes Mark Hyman, MD, Director the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, Founder and Medical Director of The UltraWellness Center and nine time #1 NY Time Best Selling Author, David Perlmutter, MD, FACN is a board-certified Neurologist and Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and author of Brain Wash, Joel M. Evans, MD, Founder and Director of The Center for Women’s Health, Monique Class, MS, APRN, BC, is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Holistic Health at The Center for Women’s Health in Stamford, CT, Deanna Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS, RYT, an internationally-recognized lifestyle medicine expert, creative visionary, and author of five books, additional leading researchers and authorities on nutrition plus a colorful list of featured guest speakers such as Joan Borysenko, John Maxwell, author of Developing the Leader Within You, Michael Arloski, Rebecca Katz, and Pedram Shojai.

Yvette’s HEARTMATH CERTIFICATION was earned through the HeartMath Institute. Doc Childre, Founder, and Rollin McCraty, PhD, Executive Vice President and Director of Research created the curriculum. New to the HeartMath system?

Widely used by Fortune 500 companies, the military, hospitals, clinics, schools and thousands of adults and children. HeartMath has been featured on the NBC Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CBS’ The Early Show, CNN’s Headline News, Discover.com, ARS Technica, MacWorld, Information Week, The Daily Beast, Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, Prevention magazine, Psychology Today, Golf magazine, PGA.com, Cosmopolitan, Self, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal.

Intrinsic Solutions / Totally Coached lifestyle coaching certification, focuses on intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic valuing and how they inform and influence our choices when supporting clients throughout the coach-client relationship. It was the foundation of the practice of being the best human one can be in a complex and ever evolving world.