 Judy Burgio, R.Ph., C.N., the founder of HealthSynergyTM is an Integrative Health Specialist in private practice in Mill Valley, California, for over 14 years. She has also conducted hundreds of telephone consultations with clients all over the United States, and internationally. She combines her expertise as both a pharmacist and a nutritionist in a unique way that reflects her passion for optimal health and life-balance. Because information is not enough to create change, Judy is also a trained life-coach, which enables her to help facilitate change with her clients. She believes that true healing occurs from the inside out, and works enthusiastically with clients toward bringing their actions into alignment with their vision, values and goals.
Early in her practice, Judy learned that simply having good information is not enough for most of us to make change. If it were, all the self-help books that fill our shelves would have "changed" us long ago. And, we all know, change is not so easy. Change is the process of shifting from one way of being and acting to another. The closer we get to the heart of ourselves, the more we realize that what stops us is not outside -- but within us. As a coach, she partners with her clients to help them learn how to get out of their own way. Judy not only shares her expertise, but she is constantly learning from her clients, and considers herself a repository of ideas, insights, tools and techniques, that are shared and constantly improved upon throughout her " learning" community of clients.
Judy also enjoys educating and speaking about health. As a public speaker, and workshop facilitator, she shares her passion about self-health, and ways we can take control over our health and well-being. She is a frequent, dynamic and inspirational public speaker, and has served as a consultant and educator to corporations, community groups and individuals for many years. In her presentations, she focuses on sharing the latest thinking and emerging new insights about health, as well as the very latest techniques for ensuring sustainable change.
Judy is a member of The National Association of Nutritional Professionals (NANP), The Institute of Noetic Sciences, and The Life Extension Foundation. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a B.S. in Pharmacy, as a registered pharmacist, and the National Institute of Nutritional Education, as a Licensed Certified Nutritionist.
In Judy’s Own Words. . .
"I am always delighted when I see my clients discover within themselves, previously untapped potential to take charge of their own health and well-being."
"In my work, I have a passion for making a positive difference in the lives of others, and helping to support them toward greater levels of joy and aliveness."
"My personal vision is to contribute to creating a more compassionate, collaborative and life-affirming world. My work allows me to do that one person at a time. I find that once we begin to care more about what we eat and how it affects us, we then naturally start to care more about where our food comes from, how it’s grown, and how it’s processed. Often this leads to a more caring attitude for the health of the planet, all species of animals, and the human community as well. By influencing one person at a time, I feel I’m taking one small step toward helping to create a community of people who care more deeply about making this a better world."
"I have always had a deep love of learning. My interests range from health and healing, to human behavior, communications and relationships. I’ve been privileged to learn about various cultures through a life long love of travel. At home, my learning takes many forms, from gardening and growing things, to studying Italian, to film and the arts."
"As a lover of the outdoors, I feel blessed to be living in such a beautiful community, which allows me to step just outside my door any time I want onto any of a number of stunning wilderness trails."
"I’m grateful to be "owned" by two cats that with their antics, make sure I’m frequently laughing and not taking myself, or my life too seriously."
"When it all gets to be too much, I meander on a hiking trail, take an intense spin class, or get lost in my garden for hours."
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 Dale Biron, Coach, Consultant and Change Warrior. The subject of change can seem awfully dry and academic until it’s our life, our health, our well-being and vitality that are on the line. It’s then that the conversation becomes immediate, important, and very interesting. It is at these watershed moments of personal change and transition that Dale’s coaching work most shines.
In fact for over fifteen years, Dale has been helping people in both their professional and personal lives, reach and attain their goals, visions, and higher potential. He understands the change process at a systemic level – it’s steps, how it works and doesn’t work. He knows that the greatest problem is often not the change itself, but rather the underlying transition. The difference? Simply put, change has everything to do with the outside world. We change our job, our homes, or our relationships. Or perhaps our health changes, or we injure ourselves, or experience our aging in the form of some newly recognized lessening of our physical capacities. By contrast, transitions are internal in nature. They are the internal psychological adaptation to the new situation, or desired new situation. Dale understands that the changes we make are never truly sustainable until and unless the underlying transitions are completed as well.
Dale brings a world of experience and experiences to his coaching work. Dale has coached and advised hundreds of people from all walks of professional and personal life. He has started and owned several successful businesses, written vociferously, lectured and trained through out the west. He is also a poet, poetry editor, and holds a Black Belt ranking in the martial art of Aikido.
In Dale’s Own Words. . .
""Living in the San Francisco Bay Area has always been amazing to me. While I loved where I grew up in North Carolina, I fell in love with the bay area as soon as I set eyes on it. The hiking, mountain bike riding, walks by the ocean, and just plain watching nature unfold, are all tremendous blessings for which I am most grateful."
 "When I think about all the people I’ve had the absolute privilege to coach over the years, I am awed. I’m awed by their courage, skill, persistence, and heart. Seeing people go for their highest potential, regardless of fear, regardless of both external and internal roadblocks, is nothing less than fully inspiring."
"I’m often asked what makes coaching so important. Of course there are many answers to that question, but chief among them is based upon how busy and frenetic our lives have gotten during the last decade or so. We are now so ruled by our clocks, our calendars, our to-do lists, that it has become very easy to forget what really matters to us. When we ask ourselves what we truly want to achieve and what has real meaning in our lives, and realize that we can’t even remember the last time we asked ourselves those questions, that in and of itself is quite telling. A good coach helps us believe and trust in our own ability to reach our goals, and to have our lives really mean something."
"One day you finally knew / what you had to do, and began, / though the voices around you / kept shouting/ their bad advice–– So begins Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver in her wonderful poem on change called The Journey. For me great poems make some of the best most effective coaching tools ever created. I also happen to love poetry for its sounds, metaphors, inspiration, insights, and ability to actually change our lives. I particularly love the way great poems pull the rug out from under my normal way of seeing others, the world, and myself. I read poetry every day for all these reasons. And, of course, I utilize great poems in my coaching work as well.
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