Meet Jessica
Using the menstrual cycle as a 5th vital sign
Physical Therapist / Certified Holistic Nutritionist / FAMM Certified Practitioner
Jessica's first love was sports and competition. She was a collegiate level soccer player, honored as a 2-time Division I All American, and then transitioned to become a triathlete, completing several half-ironman competitions. This love of fitness drew her to the field of physical therapy, in which she has been happily employed over the last 25 years.
Jessica is fascinated by the body's amazing ability to heal when given the nutrients for optimal energy production while addressing stressors that are depleting these energy reserves. This led her to study holistic nutrition through the Energetic Health Institute. It was at this time that Jessica began to focus on the idea of using nutrition to optimize fertility. Through her studies with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, Jessica has learned the power of using a woman's menstrual cycle as her 5th vital sign. It is a window into her overall health and an amazingly sensitive measurement of real time healing.
Jessica has been able to combine her love of fitness and athletic competition with her skills as a physical therapist, her knowledge and love of holistic nutrition, as well as her training in menstrual cycle charting, to help women and girls who have either lost their period or have irregular periods due to hypothalamic amenorrhea. Some women don't know why they no longer have a period, and Jessica can work with them to determine the root cause of this issue and develop a strategy to address the cause or causes in order to restore a regular period.
Training & background
Four disciplines behind every conversation
Clinical practice, holistic nutrition, fertility awareness, and elite sport — the reason Jessica can look at a missing period and see the whole picture rather than one piece of it.
- 25 years Physical Therapist
- A quarter century in clinical practice, treating and rehabilitating real bodies.
- CHN certified Certified Holistic Nutritionist
- Trained through the Energetic Health Institute in whole-body, root-cause nutrition.
- FAMM practitioner FAMM Certified Practitioner
- Trained under Lisa Hendrickson-Jack in fertility awareness and cycle charting.
- 2× All-American Division I athlete
- Collegiate soccer, then triathlon — several half-ironman competitions finished.
The terms
What hypothalamic amenorrhea means
In hypothalamic amenorrhea, stressors — under eating, over exercising, and stress — disrupt the communication between the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the ovaries.
The full explanation — primary, secondary, and hypothalamic amenorrhea, the early signs, and how cycle charting guides recovery — has a page of its own.
What is hypothalamic amenorrhea?
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