I help people connect the dots between what they know and what they actually do so they don’t slowly walk their health into decline.
I’m the founder of Well Taken Care Of®️, where I integrate metabolic health, functional diagnostics, and behavior change into a structured system designed to create lasting results.
A Foundation Built on Behavior, Resilience, and Real-World Experience
My path into health and performance didn’t begin in a classroom—it began through real-life challenges and hands-on work.
After leaving high school during my junior year following a car accident (sustained a severe tibia plateau fracture requiring both internal and eternal fixators), I entered the workforce early and began working in Direct Care at May Institute supporting individuals in highly complex and demanding environments.
This experience gave me an immediate, real-world understanding of human behavior, resilience, and the importance of meeting people where they are.
I also worked as a contractor in a therapeutic setting at Confidence Connection, supporting children with autism through structured fitness and activity-based programming within an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) environment.
This experience deepened my understanding of behavior, reinforcement, consistency, and the role structure plays in long-term outcomes.
At the same time, my own recovery process deepened my interest in health—leading me to pursue my personal training certification as a way to better understand and support the body, both personally and professionally.
As I continued working at the May Institute, I was promoted into Human Resources, where I became responsible for hiring and developing individuals capable of working in these high-demand environments.
While working full-time in Human Resources, I enrolled in night school and earned my Bachelor of Science in Business Management, with a focus in Human Resource Management aligning my formal education with the work I was already doing.
During this time, I was also working as an self-employed Personal Trainer, building hands-on experience while developing a clear goal: to eventually own my own business.
From early on, my work was centered on two things:
Most practitioners develop these skill sets separately.
I built them in parallel.
My time as a Center Manager at LA Weight Loss (100 City Hall Plaza in Boston, MA) gave me a front-row view of what drives real, measurable results.
I saw firsthand that success wasn’t about more information, it was about:
That experience directly shaped what is now The Metabolic Collective™️—a structured group model designed to replicate the conditions that help people follow through.
Bridging the Gap Between Insight and Implementation
Over time, I saw that behavior change alone wasn’t enough without understanding what was happening physiologically.
This led me to expand into functional diagnostics and metabolic health—allowing me to combine:
To support this work, I pursued advanced training in behavior change, including coaching methodologies through Wellcoaches School of Coaching and certification through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
My approach is also informed by personal experience with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which deepened my understanding of emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and the real-world challenges of behavior change.
Today, I use this integrated approach to help clients understand not just what to do—but why it matters and how to actually follow through.
Movement became more than recovery — it became part of how I live.
I went from relearning how to walk…
to walking everywhere…
to hiking multiple days a week.
I joined the Blue Hills hiking community and later became involved with the Appalachian Mountain Club, where I served as a hike leader.
This phase of my life deepened my understanding of endurance, strength, and what the body is truly capable of when supported the right way.
Before fully stepping into my work in health and wellness, I worked in direct care supporting individuals with autism and brain injuries through organizations like the May Institute and Vinfen.
That experience gave me early exposure to the complexity of behavior, nervous system regulation, and the reality that health is never one-dimensional.
Even with all of that experience, something still wasn’t clicking.
I understood training.
I understood nutrition.
I understood discipline.
But behavior was the missing piece.
Everything changed when I spent a year immersed in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and later became certified through Wellcoaches and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
That’s when it clicked:
People don’t fail because they don’t know what to do.
They fail because they don’t know how to implement it in real life.
That became the foundation of my work.
Through Well Taken Care Of®️, I’ve developed a system that brings together everything I’ve learned over the past 20+ years in the health and fitness industry and over a decade in business.
My core offerings include:
I frequently work alongside physicians and healthcare providers to serve as the implementation and behavior-change arm of care.
My role is to translate clinical insight into consistent, sustainable action helping patients bridge the gap between diagnosis and outcome.
Health doesn’t decline all at once it declines slowly, through missed signals, inconsistent habits, and gaps between intention and action.
My work is about closing those gaps.
Because when you connect the dots and have the structure to follow through you don’t just improve your health.
You change the trajectory of it.
The reality:
There are a lot of personal trainers, nutritionists, and health coaches—
and some functional practitioners.
But…
Very few people integrate all of it in a way that actually gets people results.
Along my professional journey I have had the opportunity to learn from respected leaders in lifestyle medicine, metabolic health, and nutrition.
These influences helped shape my belief that lasting health change requires more than information, it requires implementation, structure, and ongoing support.
Influences include:
My work is grounded in interdisciplinary training across lifestyle medicine, metabolic health, exercise science, nutrition, and behavior change coaching. Through my aunt’s visiting nursing business, Optimum Healthcare Services, llc, I gained hands-on experience in Assisted Living and home health—stepping in as a Home Health Aide when needed and seeing firsthand how care is delivered in real-world settings.
Education
Curry College — Milton, MA
Bachelor of Science in Business Management, cum laude
Focus: Human Resource Management
Minor: Communication
B.S. in Human Resource Management completed while working full-time in a high-acuity behavioral health environment, with direct application to behavior change, motivation, and performance systems
Certifications & Professional Training
Linda frequently collaborates with concierge physicians and healthcare providers who recognize the importance of lifestyle implementation and metabolic health support.
Physicians diagnose, prescribe, and manage medical care. Linda’s role focuses on lifestyle implementation helping clients translate medical guidance into practical nutrition, strength, and lifestyle strategies they can sustain in daily life.
Linda works within her scope of practice while supporting a collaborative care model. In many cases, clients request that she coordinate with their healthcare providers so lifestyle strategies align with their broader care plan.
As part of this proactive approach, Linda may use functional lab testing to gain additional insights into metabolic health patterns. These tests often provide information beyond standard screening panels and can help guide personalized lifestyle and nutrition strategies.
Through this collaborative approach, Linda has helped clients successfully implement physician-recommended lifestyle changes that contribute to improved health markers, physical function, and overall wellbeing.
This partnership helps bridge an important gap in healthcare turning medical guidance and data into practical, sustainable daily habits.
If you’re ready to stop guessing and start connecting the dots, you can begin with the Orientation and explore what working together looks like.
