About Jess
What She Saw
Jess works as a speech pathologist in a skilled nursing facility. Most people picture a place like that full of people who are simply old. They aren’t. Every resident is there because something happened: a stroke, a fall, a serious illness, a neurological event that took away the ability to live independently.
When Jess started paying attention to the charts of the residents she worked with, a pattern showed up. Nine out of ten were living with type 2 diabetes, or the damage it had caused after years of going unmanaged. Heart problems. Nerve damage. Strokes. The slow loss of independence.
These weren’t people who lacked willpower. They were busy, tired, and eating the way everyone around them ate, thirty years before Jess met them. Nobody had connected the dots between how they ate in their 40s and where they might end up decades later.
Most told her nobody ever helped them see it coming.
Jess can’t promise anyone they’ll never develop type 2 diabetes. Nobody can. Genetics, age, and factors outside anyone’s control all play a role. What she can do is help you build daily patterns around food, blood sugar, and energy that stack the odds in your favor.
How She Got Here
In high school, Jess’s best friend’s father was diagnosed with ALS. She went to college planning to research a treatment and spent three years working on nanoparticles that could slow the disease. She was ready to pursue a PhD when her professor talked her out of it. The competition would be fierce, the debt would be heavy, and she had no backup plan.
She took a job as a behavior interventionist, working with children and young adults on the autism spectrum. It wasn’t the path she had pictured, but she showed up and she learned.
Then, in 2016, her father had a stroke and lost his speech. The person she admired most couldn’t tell her what day it was or that he loved her. A speech-language pathologist helped him get it all back. His recovery was so complete that the hospital asked him to be the spokesperson for their stroke unit. Jess knew what she wanted to do next.
She went back to school, built her prerequisites, and applied to NYU’s graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology. She got the acceptance letter, called her dad, and told everyone she knew. Three days later, NYU called back. They had made a mistake. She wasn’t admitted.
She didn’t quit. She shadowed SLPs, built her experience on top of a full-time job, and reapplied the next year. When admissions called with good news, she asked them to confirm it twice before she believed it. She started at NYU in January 2020.
“She Asked Them To Confirm It Twice Before She Believed It.”
What Changed Everything
Jess chose a skilled nursing facility so grandparents and parents could keep talking with their families for as long as possible. What she found there changed her direction.
Type 2 diabetes is acquired. It builds for years, sometimes decades, through blood sugar patterns most people never learn to notice. It opens the door to heart disease, kidney disease, neuropathy, and a long list of conditions that quietly take quality of life.
Jess kept coming back to one question: what if someone had reached these people earlier? What if the information and support they needed had been there in their 40s, when there was still time to change the pattern?
So she went back to school once more, this time through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, to become a certified health coach. She built Coach2Control to reach women before they end up where those residents did.
If you’re a professional woman in your 40s or 50s, doing your best for your work and your family, and you’ve started to wonder where your current habits are heading, this is the place Jess built for you. No cookie-cutter plan. A private, one-on-one coaching relationship built around your blood sugar, your schedule, and what you actually want.
Education & Credentials
Speech-Language Pathology
New York University
One of the Top 10 Programs in the Country
Behavioral Neuroscience
St. Lawrence University
Integrative Nutrition Coaching
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Jess is not a registered dietitian and does not provide medical nutrition therapy or diagnose or treat any medical condition. She works with clients as a health and nutrition coach, supporting sustainable lifestyle changes, energy management, and personal wellness goals. Coaching does not replace care from your doctor.
Jess lives in Burlington, Vermont. She works full-time as a speech pathologist and runs Coach2Control on the side, which means she genuinely understands what it feels like to have a demanding schedule and still want something more for yourself.
She has a boyfriend, a teenage cat who creates chaos on a schedule, and a firm belief that sustainable change is a lot more interesting than dramatic transformation.
She is not a wellness influencer. She does not post daily content or sell a lifestyle. She takes on a small number of clients at a time and works with every single one of them personally.
The 90% Warning is a free guide and workbook that shows you the signals she learned to spot, and gives you a simple way to start reading your own.
The 90% is free, one-on-one, and there’s no pressure to do anything but talk.