Co-Founders
The Lifestyle Medicine Collective is founded by licensed clinical psychologists specializing in the intersection of neurobiology, behavioral science, and physiological healthspan. Our approach translates clinical frameworks into sustainable, daily habits that reduce chronic systemic friction and restore autonomic safety.
Our Origin: A 15-Year Dialogue
The Lifestyle Medicine Collective began long before it had a name. Our dialogue on what drives effective behavioral change started in 2011, during early morning commutes from Menlo Park to Berkeley. Over the next fifteen years, that conversation evolved alongside our lives—as we raised families and built independent clinical practices focused on mood, anxiety, eating disorders, and life’s transitions. Working in the trenches of clinical care, we continually confronted a recurring friction point: the persistent gap between medical knowledge, psychological insight, and sustainable daily habits.
The chaotic early days of the pandemic laid bare the need to move from individual clinical observations to a shared mission. We found our answer in an emerging specialty: Lifestyle Medicine. It provided the precise intersection of nervous system regulation, preventative care, and the psychology of sustainable behavior change. After becoming board-certified as Diplomates of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), those fifteen years of dialogue found their formal structure.
Rather than imposing rigid, top-down behavioral directives, we believe in evaluating health through a singular metric: Does this moment-by-moment choice reduce internal friction and restore biological homeostasis? We propose practical tools and insights that can help guide you away from chronic distraction and "functioning burnout" toward systemic congruence across six essential lifestyle medicine pillars: your relationship to food, physical activity, sleep, stress, connection to self and others and avoidance of risky substances. And we propose that the answer lies in mending the relationships, specifically our relationships to these pillars. This is the mission of this Lifestyle Medicine Collective.
We are currently distilling this 15-year dialogue into our upcoming book—a definitive psychological guide to mending these six essential relationships and reversing chronic systemic friction. we are actively sharing chapters-in-progress, raw research, and behavioral blueprints with our collective.
