Archives: Team Members

Pamela Melson

Pamela Melson is a long-time activist and earth momma. Pam began her journey in holistic health care prior many years to her nursing career, serving as a lay midwife and natural healer in her community. She had been reticent to look to an allopathic medicine career, until delving into the life and times of Florence […]

Holly Kapusinski

As a young girl, Holly was drawn to nature and helping others. She volunteered as a candy striper where she enjoyed interacting with patients and families. This fueled her desire to study nursing. After attending Purdue University for three years studying the natural sciences, she fulfilled her dream to become a nurse and proudly graduated […]

William Rosa

Billy Rosa is a speaker, author, and nurse practitioner. His specialties include palliative care, global health, and holistic nursing. He is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, PhD Program, Philadelphia, PA and former Nurse Practitioner, Supportive Care Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY […]

Deborah McElligott

Deborah McElligott is an Adult and Holistic Nurse Practitioner, and Integrative Nurse Coach.  She holds certifications in many Integrative Modalities including, Reflexology, meditation, AMMA massage and Integrative Imagery. Her nursing career includes experience in surgery, integrative medicine, administration, education and consultation.  Deborah now focuses on health promotion, wellbeing and healing through individual and group coaching. […]

Denise Ervin

Denise Ervin RN, BSN, NC-BC, is Michigan’s premier certified Integrative Nurse Coach. She was the first in Michigan to be certified through the International Nurse Coaching Association (INCA) in 2014. An Integrative Nurse Coach implements a whole person model of care. She focuses on the eight dimensions of health and wellness, including life balance/satisfaction, relationships, […]

Barbara Dossey

Barbara Dossey is an internationally recognized integrative, holistic nursing pioneer, a nurse theorist (Theory of Integral Nursing; co-author, Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching), and Florence Nightingale Scholar. She is Co-Director, International Nurse Coach Association (INCA) and Core Faculty, Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (INCCP), Miami, Florida; International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH); and […]

Janet Booth

Jan has focused her nursing career of over 34 years on quality of life and wellbeing, primarily through the lens of end-of-life care and health promotion. Within end-of-life care, her past nursing work includes inpatient hospice, palliative care within a major medical center, employee health and wellness for a large hospice organization, and community end-of-life […]

Karen Avino

Karen Avino is the Director of Education for the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy and the International Nurse Coach Association providing online and onsite continuing education programs for nurses. As a consultant, Karen helps healthcare organizations create optimal healing environments, integrate holistic nursing into practice and develop integrative health centers. Karen is faculty at the University […]

Nicole Vienneau

Nicole Vienneau is the founder of Blue Monarch Health, PLLC, a Nurse Coaching practice led by Registered Nurses who create actionable wellness plans to make brains and bodies feel alive. She believes each person holds their own wisdom and power, and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare, which is why she is so […]

Ronald Kanka