About
Kymber
I’m a functional nutritionist, a somatic health coach, a fertility specialist, a trauma coach trained to work with C-PTSD, and an overall big health science nerd. I’m also a woman who’s spent most of her life navigating chronic illness, trauma, stress, and a lot of female disembodiment. And I’ve spent almost as long fitting the puzzle pieces together so that I can stop working hard for basic wellness. I’m someone who’s here to help you heal and navigate it all in ways I wish I’d had support with early on.
My work is geared towards helping women eat, feel, think, love, and live in ways that cater to greater self-nourishment, fertility, and wellness. Through my years of nutrition science education, coach training, somatic & trauma certifications, and real-world experience, I’ve found that food, relationship, and daily lifestyle choices offer THE greatest levers to the sanity and wellness we’re all seeking.
Over the past few years, I’ve also discovered some of the greatest tools for creating lasting health improvements already exist within us and can only be accessed through embodiment & safety.
I Most Value: Mother Nature and the lessons she constantly teaches us. Female physiology, fertility, and teaching women to honor the magic that nature has given us within. Embodiment, somatics, and learning how to work with my nervous system. Science and its various health applications & insights. Eating whole animals and plants like our ancestors did. Self-care rituals. Physical Intimacy and secure attachment. Moving my body and getting stronger through strength training. Feeling like a woman and embracing all that this means and uncovers. Deep connections with other humans and conversations that can change the world. Coaching women back to their intrinsic health and agency.
Human development. laughter. Coffee. YOU.
Qualifications & Training
1. Training Programs I’ve Completed
NeuroSomatic Intelligence Coaching Program
This training program was the most powerful and unique training program I’ve ever taken, and a first of its kind. It is a 3-month intensive into human nervous system functions, neuroscience, and applied neurology. The program combines neuroscience education, practice drills using applied neurology, and group discussions around ways to integrate and apply everything that we learned each week. I’ve taken this training and applied it to the private nutrition consulting and health coaching work that I do with women, to better assist them in addressing the areas of their health that are being impacted by a brain stuck in survival mode.
Somatic Attachment Coaching Certification
I completed the Somatic Attachment Coaching program offered at Embody Lab. This is a 5-month online certification program that covers all aspects of human attachment. This program addresses the many factors that can disrupt healthy attachment, from environmental disruptions in the home to biological sensitivities that affect secure attachment, to cultural and social trauma that affects healthy development and family structures. It offers a plethora of skills, practices, and tools for me to utilize to best assist my clients with their attachment needs and has brought another layer to my coaching work.
Somatic Parts Work Certification
I completed the Somatic Parts Work Certification program offered through the Embody Lab. This was a self-study course that has been integrated into my coaching and personal healing work over the past year. Derived from the IFS model, this particular training program focused specifically on how our parts show up in the body – in symptoms, illness, and bodily sensations. In the felt sense. This fits perfectly with the health coaching and other somatic trauma therapies that I apply in my work.
NARM Training & certification
NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) is a comprehensive training program designed to address Complex Post-Traumatic Disorder. It includes both bottom-up (somatic) and top-down (talk and other cognitive applications) approaches to understanding, recognizing, and working with different manifestations of CPTSD.
HTMA interpretation Certification
In 2021, I completed The Root Cause Protocol, which includes training in HTMA interpretations. After a year of working with HTMA for my clients, I wanted more perspective and training, so I completed the HTMA Practitioner Professional Training Course, and then in 2023, I completed the Malter program. Combined with years of hands-on experience and intuitive practice, I combine a lot of different approaches and certifications to offer HTMA and mineral balancing to all clients.
Integrative Health Coaching
Went through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition program. This gave me a greater sense of what it means to be a coach vs. just a nutritionist and placed a lot of emphasis on the nonfood-related aspects to healing, such as community and lifestyle choices. It also offers lectures from some of the most inspiring leaders in the worlds of health, nutrition, science, personal development, food industry, media, and business – helping us to see the common thread underlying all of these areas of life.
Holistic Nutrition Consultant
Attended the nutrition consultant program through Bauman College – a highly respected nutrition and culinary school located both in CA and online. This program provided a more scientific and comprehensive understanding of the ways which custom tailored whole foods diets can heal the human body from most chronic conditions and the ways to live a preventative lifestyle using the right foods.
Holistic Health Practitioner Program
Upon leaving college in my early twenties, I moved to San Francisco and went through a year-long holistic health practitioner certification program. This program provided me with the foundations for everything from holistic paradigm shifts in our ways of viewing health to nutrition, aromatherapy, herbal therapies, and touch therapies like massage.
Associates of Science (AS)
With the intention of transferring into a dietetics program and going on to receive my dietetics license, I went through the required science prerequisites, which included two years of basic and advanced anatomy & physiology, biology, chemistry, and genetics classes and lab work. Upon time to begin applying to programs, I had a change of heart and chose a private nutrition school instead. However, these science foundations have proven invaluable in understanding and applying all nutritional theories hereafter.
Bachelor's in Early Child Development
Although this may seem unrelated to my current work, my previous education and career background in early child development and childcare/birthwork have been foundational for the work I’m now doing with adults. Alongside my degree, I also hold certifications and have years of experience working with children with special needs and newborns as a postpartum doula. Although our cellular bodies age with time, we all age psycho-emotionally at different paces and with varying developmental disruptions. Disruptions in early life development form the basis for the complex trauma patterns that I work with in adult women.
2. SEMINARS I’VE ATTENDED
Vagus Nerve Decompression Course With Melanie Weller
Polyvagal Theory: Neural Exercises for Safety and Connection with Dr. Porges
IHH-UCSF Symposium on the Paleo Approach and Functional Medicine
Microbiome Medicine Summit
3. ONGOING EDUCATION
One of the most exciting aspects of my work as a healthcare practitioner is the pace at which science is evolving and the access I have to brilliant out-of-the-box experts, past & present, whose work continues to inform and broaden my own. Below are a few of these experts who have contributed immensely to my personal understanding of health.
Peter Levine, PhD
Ray Peat, PhD
Morley Robbins, MBA, CHC
Broda Barnes, MD
KYMBER’S CORE VALUES
What I Stand For
God
This is a new value for me. My use of this word encompasses spiritual, relational, sensual, and intellectual aspects. Although I’m exploring God through the lens of Judaism, I’ve lived my entire life as a spiritual yet secular agnostic. There was even a period of time when I called myself an atheist. Through my experiences working with health, trauma, loss, grief, and so much layered complexity within human existence, I’ve grown to recognize the human need to surrender control to something deeper and bigger than our individual selves. I don’t expect all my clients to value or need this, but for those whom do, I’m happy to support.
Health
Healing from chronic illness has been one of my greatest teachers and I believe good health is the access point to all growth. I find a lot of value in applying an evolutionary perspective to health, behavior, and cultural issues. I believe it’s our birthright to feel good and to function optimally. Chronic illness and mediocre genes does not have to be our destiny!
Depth
We’re all onions. We need all of our layers. The most shallow person has depths we may not be able to see and the most deeply felt person can still focus on shallow concerns. I bring depth to the table and feel most alive in environments where I can access any and all layers necessary. A lot of healing involves digging below the surface – biologically, historically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically.
Nature
A lot of problems in health and society come when we remove ourselves from nature and forget how much we need the earth and natural elements. We need them for basic biological health, but also for psychological and spiritual health. We need the soil, the sun, clean waters, open spaces, trees, rain, healthy oceans, and a connection to the animals we consume.
Devotion
As with God, this value has only grown louder within me as I’ve gotten older and have come to face more of what truly matters to me and more of what I cannot control. I view devotion as a combination of love, commitment, and focused attention. When we devote ourselves to a path, person, project, or idea… we let it transform us from the inside out. It becomes one of our core priorities in life and a natural direction our heart takes us. Devoting ourselves to what brings us joy, peace, healing, and character tends to be good for everyone around us as well.
Self-Awareness
I see that in this culture we’re constantly pulled outward and told what to think, buy, say, do, believe. What is normal, what is acceptable, what is right, appropriate, normal, healthy. Indoctrination from such an early age that before we know it, we don’t know what we truly stand for! Self-awareness is not a destination, it’s an infinite process and healing requires a commitment to this process.