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As a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, I bring over 30 years of experience in public health, including 17 years as a health and nutrition professor and 4 years as a high school health teacher. My passion for supporting individuals with eating disorders comes from both professional expertise and personal experience—having witnessed the profound impact of eating disorders on many of my loved ones.
I understand firsthand what is truly helpful in fostering healing and what can unintentionally cause harm. That’s why I specialize in supporting parents—both those who have struggled with an eating disorder themselves and those guiding their child through similar challenges.
Eating disorders often stem from generational patterns, but the cycle can stop with you. If you’re ready to create a healthier future for yourself and your family, I invite you to schedule a free call to explore how we can work together.
Let’s turn your challenges into opportunities for growth and connection. Start your journey today!
Many of us grew up with food and body image messages we don’t want to pass down to our children—but breaking these generational patterns can be challenging. That’s where I come in.
I provide personalized guidance to help you recognize and address early signs of eating disorders or body dysmorphia in your family. Through practical, evidence-based strategies, we’ll create a positive food environment, foster a healthy relationship with eating, and build confidence in your child’s body image—so that food, body image, and mealtimes become natural, stress-free conversations in your home.
I specialize in guiding clients through my 6-step Move FORWARD program, built on the foundational pillars of Family, Fit, and Flow. This approach strengthens resilience, promotes positive coping strategies, and enhances essential habits like nutrition, sleep, and stress management, helping your family move toward a healthier, more balanced life.
Let’s work together to create lasting, meaningful change.
This is my signature program that helps you, as an individual or a parent, get set up with all you need to help you or your child quickly so you can sleep at night and know you (or your child) will be okay. Move FORWARD instead of being stuck in the same unhealthy patterns.
At the end of our 6-weeks together you will have the following items in place:
A team in place ready to support you medically and emotionally with expertise and compassion.
Confidence in yourself or your child to incorporate positive coping tools necessary to beat this and thrive.
Set goals and manage your time around those goals
Define success for you and your family
Revisit family/individual values
Create a plan for building resilience!
The 3 Pillars of the Move FORWARD Coaching Plan
The Approach
Whether you are interested in health or parent coaching, coaching is a journey we take together. I like to compare coaching to taking a car ride together. As the client, you are the driver and you decide how fast we go, what direction we go, how far we go or if we need to turn around. As your coach, I sit in the passenger seat with maps, tools, and support that I offer as needed. It is your journey. I support you.
Why It Works
There is not a one-size fits all approach to living balanced, healthy lives. Due to busy, stressful, and demanding lives, many of us experience physical or mental health challenges. As an experienced health and parent coach, I will help you find balanced emotional and physical health again. Through my 6 session evidence based program, I support you as you support your loved one or yourself with health or life challenges.
How It Works
Getting started is easy! There are a couple of ways we can work together, including one-on-one or parent/child coaching, school health presentations for classrooms or group presentations. Here’s how it works:
1. Set up a free 30 minute phone call with me
2. Schedule a Health History Session
3. Make a plan of action based on your goals!
A parent coach supports parents in building effective parenting skills, enhancing family dynamics, and handling challenges in raising children.
Through evidence-based strategies, they assist with discipline, communication, emotional regulation, and mental health. Instead of offering direct solutions, parent coaches work alongside parents to strengthen their approach, boost confidence, and create a nurturing environment for their children.
Health and well-being coaches empower clients to improve their health by helping them set and achieve goals using evidence-based strategies.
Health coaching, proven effective in clinical trials, is most credible when the coach holds an NBC-HWC certification. I have my NBC-HWC and a Master’s in Public Health. I’m also a certified parent coach through the Jai Institute of Parenting.
Therapists explore emotions by examining the past to understand their origins, while coaches help clients acknowledge emotions and develop coping strategies. Therapists diagnose and guide, whereas coaches work collaboratively with clients to identify challenges and achieve goals.
Coaching focuses on action and change, aiming to boost self-awareness and bridge the gap between current reality and potential, while counseling is more reparative.
Success Stories By Our Clients
Coach Siah has helped me feel more balanced. I have learned to successfully balance home life, school and self-care. Before we began our work, I never would have imagined being able to make self-care a priority. I have learned to not run myself into the ground to feel successful. I let school and all of the other demands on me,consume me.”
“You genuinely care for those you work with and you provided me with a profound level of guidance. For this reason, I found it easy to commit to the program and our appointments. I would look forward to speaking with you.”
After a year and a half of working with Coach Siah, I feel good about where I am. My health has improved and I have more good days than bad. “
I was looking for a parent coach to help me with having a deeper connection with my son and came across Siah. I worked with her for less than two months, but she made a huge difference! Siah helped with managing and verbalizing my emotions and concerns. She also explained and provided insight into my son's behavior. Every week I had an action item to work on and new insights to consider. My relationship with my son has improved tremendously thanks to her guidance. And I have the tools to keep it that way!
Ready to begin ?
By Email : siah_fried@yahoo.com
By Phone : (925) 351-4090
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