Well-adjusted Mama

Shelby Webb is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a graduate of the American College of Healthcare Sciences in Portland, Oregon. She works with clients in person or via Skype and promotes a whole foods diet, avoiding environmental toxins, and moving more. She is passionate about avoiding GMOs, the healing power of probiotics, and eating right for your blood type. She loves helping those with hormone disorders, food sensitivities, or who have trouble losing weight. For more information, please visit her website at www.webbwellnessconsulting.com. Visit: www.HobokenChiro.comEmail: [email protected]

Jennifer Lisimachio, IBCLC, is a Partner of Mahala Lactation and Perinatal Services, LLC. and heads up the Northeast NJ and Greater NYC area. She operates the Mahala Breastfeeding Center in Hoboken, NJ. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and an accredited La Leche League Leader since 2001. Jennifer is a member of the Professional Liaison Department of La Leche League NJ, where her 14 years of professional experience and knowledge in current lactation research is used to support fellow La Leche League Leaders. She is a member of New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition, New York Lactation Consultant Association, ILCA, USLCA and IATP. She enjoys speaking at area conferences on lactation and infant development. In addition to organizing community World Breastfeeding Week events and fundraisers, Jennifer has mentored and trained Leader applicants through the application process. Jennifer is a former fashion model and studied French and French literature at L'Université Paris-Sorbonne i

Eve Prang Plews is licensed by the Florida Board of Medicine as Nutrition Counselor (LNC) and holds the prestigious title Certified Practitioner (IFMCP) by the Institute for Functional Medicine. Eve has practiced in her Sarasota clinic, Full Spectrum Health, for 27 years. She serves on the Medical Board of Advisors of the health science company Xymogen, Inc., has received the Robert Pierce Public Service Award for 24 years of dedication to the HIV support group, Healthy People with Aids, and hosts two Public Radio shows on Monday mornings: No Nonsense Nutrition on WSLR (96.5fm) in Sarasota and Alternative Health on WMNF (88.5FM) in Tampa. For more information, please visit her website at www.fullspectrumhealth.com. Visit: www.HobokenChiro.com

Riva Preil is a leading pelvic floor physical therapist. After graduating from Hunter College, Riva practiced at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center’s (SJRMC) outpatient department treating patients with various musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Riva's passion for women's health led her to create the Pelvic Floor Program at SJRMC, where she treated women with bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction. After her experience at SJRMC, Riva worked at a renowned pelvic floor physical therapy clinic in New York City where she continued to treat women with various pelvic floor disorders, including, dyspareunia, interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, pudendal neuralgia, constipation, incontinence, prenatal and postpartum conditions, pelvic organ prolapse, and chronic pelvic pain. Riva has also treated pediatric bladder and bowel dysfunction. In addition to using therapeutic exercise and manual therapy, Riva is certified in various modalities to help her patients achieve their goals. She received biofeedback certi

Dr. Vincent M. Pedre, Medical Director of Pedre Integrative Health and President of Dr. Pedre Wellness, is a Board-Certified Internist in private practice in New York City since 2004. His philosophy and practices are a blend of both Western and Eastern medical traditions. He is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as certified in yoga and Medical Acupuncture. His unique combination of medicine is best described as integrative or defined by a functional, systems-based approach to health. With his holistic understanding of both sides of the equation, he can help each patient choose the best course of action for their ailments to provide both immediate and long-term relief. His holistic approach incorporates positive, preventative health and wellness lifestyle choices. Dr. Pedre Wellness is a growing wellness platform offering health-enhancing programs, along with informative social media and lifestyle products, such as dietary supplements, books and weight loss progra

Dr. Anna Cabeca is a board certified Gynecologist and Obstetrician, as well as board certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, an expert in Functional Medicine, and an expert in women’s health. She specializes in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and natural alternatives, successful menopause and age management medicine. Dr. Cabeca earned her medical degree from Nova-Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in Florida. Since completing her residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she has maintained a private practice in Southeast Georgia. Dr. Cabeca frequently lectures nationally and internationally regarding restorative health and women’s health issues. She is a consultant and trainer for other physicians in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Functional Medicine Principles. A mother of five, Dr. Cabeca is a native English speaker who is conversant in four languages. Growing up in a multi-lingual and cultural household nurtured her love for international medicine an

Dr. Allan Warshowsky is a maverick in the field of integrative, holistic medicine. Although conventionally trained, he is a leader in the field of integrative, holistic medicine, treating men, women, and teens. In practice for over 35 years, Dr. Warshowsky’s practice combines the best of conventional medicine with the latest in integrative, holistic modalities. Dr. Warshowsky is a board-certified OB-GYN but no longer practices OB or does surgery. He is a founding Diplomat and Director Emeritus of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, a member of the American Holistic Medical Association, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a respected member of the Board of Xymogen Advisors. He was a founding physician and Director of the Women’s Program at Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health and Healing in NYC from 2000-2003.  For more information, please visit his website at www.doctorallan.com. Visit www.HobokenChiro.com Email: [email protected]

Dr. Eden Fromberg is an integrative, obstetrician/gynecologist, holistic women’s health specialist and osteopathic clinical professor whose innovative and engaging approach to reframing the medical dialogue and implementing effective health and wellness strategies with her patients and clients is unique and unsurpassed. Her practice in New York City and the Hudson Valley is a sanctuary for truly holistic women’s health care.  Dr. Fromberg is also the founding director of Lila Yoga, Dharma & Wellness, where she teaches and curates programs and trainings for women. Dr. Fromberg’s extensive and diverse background, years of clinical experience, dedication to caring well for her patients, and active interest in current research and innovation give her the opportunity to sort out complex issues and offer a range and depth of options to meet her patients' needs. In addition to her expertise in integrative fertility, pregnancy, and birth, Dr. Fromberg applies a functional, structural, and biointelligent approach

After spending nearly a decade of her professional career in front of the camera as a television news reporter, Kristin Smith went on seeking to help others.  First, at the national nonprofit The Humane Society of the United States, and now with the mission-based beauty company, Beautycounter - working to get safe products into the hands of everyone. As a mom of three (all still in diapers), Kristin is so aware of the safety of the products she uses on her skin and that of her family.  And after finding out there are barely any laws regulating the multi-billion dollar beauty industry in the United States, she knew she had to take action. The things she uses need to meet two criteria. They need to work, and they need to be safe. Beautycounter products meet those with beautiful, sparkling, flying colors. And now that she knows, she wants everyone else to know too.  For more information, please visit www.beautycounter.com/kristinsmith.  

Jennifer Araneo is a graduate of Villanova with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1999. She was part of the women's rowing team as coxswain, and through her journey as a coxswain, she found her teammates responded very well to mental imagery and used the technique frequently throughout her college career. This was the beginning of her journey into realizing that the body achieves what the mind believes. After college, Jennifer taught English as a second language in the south of Italy for a year and then returned home to pursue a career. Since college, Jennifer has always known that her calling was to help people find strength within themselves to overcome obstacles and gain confidence from within. The past four years have been a particularly deep learning process and through the help of a mentor, Jennifer found her calling in Reiki. Jennifer studied Reiki at the New York Open Center and completed Reiki 3 training with Reiki Master Joanna Crespo. Jennifer serves the Hoboken and Montclair areas providing Reiki t

Kirsten Falsey was born in Elk Grove Village in Illinois and raised in Tucson,  Arizona.  She attended the University of Arizona where she was the recipient of an Alumni Scholarship.  She earned a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing and went on to become a Labor and Delivery Nurse.  She moved to California and was a Labor and Delivery nurse for ten years,  four of which she was a Charge Nurse.  She became pregnant for the first time with twins in 2010.  Then in 2011,  right before they were born,  Kirsten lost her beloved mother to cancer.  While grieving over the loss of her mother,  Kirsten gave birth to her twin daughters.  Soon after giving birth,  Kirsten started seeing a therapist, and eventually a psychiatrist,  after it was realized that she was not only grieving the loss of her mother, but that she was also suffering from postpartum depression which eventually lead to stays in a psychiatric hospital. Nearly two years after her twins were born, and with various forms of help, resources and therapy,  Kirs

Dr. Kathia Roberts takes joy in her new role as a holistic mom while continuing her passion as a healer, naturopath, medical herbalist, and doctor of integrative medicine by empowering families with healthy, holistic alternatives in health care since 2004.  She grew up in South Africa and began experimenting with herbal potions at an early age.  As a teenager, she suffered from colitis from an eating disorder and was misdiagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.  As a result, she was prescribed Prozac and Ritalin that caused multiple side effects.  This life experience inspired her to help parents be mindful of having their child (or themselves) be defined by their diagnosis and to, rather, seek a holistic, mind-body-spirit approach to address the root cause naturally instead of masking it.   She has served on several statutory councils representing allied health professionals and continues to teach herbal medicine and mind-body therapies to other health care practitioners.  She is the director of Seasonal Health Well

Nia Reid-Allen, founder and creator of the lifestyle brand Myrtle & Flossie, dedicated to helping women recover postpartum and overall women's wellness, drew from her own personal experience being a first-time Mom in creating the company.  Coming from an extensive fashion background via a fifteen year long modeling career, Nia was used to a very different, busy, and faster pace of life.  Upon getting married, moving from Brooklyn to Jersey City, NJ and having her first and currently only child, Nia had an overwhelming feeling of insecurity as a new mom. Realizing that there was a huge gap in the "maternity" industry with a very under-served market for postpartum women and its recovery period, Myrtle & Flossie was born in late 2011.  Understanding personally the mental, physical, and emotional challenges that take place after giving birth, Nia wanted to create a company where new and established moms could go for resources, information, easy transitional fashion, and postpartum/women's wellness service

Vicki Hedley is a certified professional midwife through the North American Registry of Midwives and a Certified Midwife through the American Midwifery Certification Board.  She graduated from the National College of Midwifery in Taos, NM and is licensed to practice midwifery in NJ and NY.  She has 18 years of experience having attended over 500 births in hospitals, birth centers, and homes.  She started her midwifery journey as a birth and postpartum doula, doula trainer, and childbirth educator.   Vicki is the owner of Seventh Moon Homebirth Midwifery Services with locations in Montvale and Hoboken NJ.  She also offers placenta encapsulation.  For more information, please visit her website at www.seventhmoonhomebirth.com.

Niva Herzig PT, BCB-PMD, CMTPT is the owner and director of Core Dynamics Physical Therapy in Englewood, NJ. Niva received her Bachelor of Science from George Washington University in 1996 and her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 2003. Niva has written several articles related to pregnancy and also to pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. She has had the opportunity to assist in several pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and pregnancy courses as well as be a speaker for grand rounds and other groups.  Niva has received her biofeedback certification from the Biofeedback Institute of America (BCB-PMD). In 2012, she became a Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist (CMTPT). Niva has attended abundant courses and conferences on pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and is always eager to continue her education. She is a proud member of the Section on Women’s Health of the American Physical Therapy Association, as well as other associations. In November 2007, she proudly opened the d

Patrick J Murray (Founder of New Motive Hypnosis) is a Certified Hypnotist / Sports Mental Performance Coach through the American Board of Hypnotherapy, as well as a graduate of the Paradox Agency for Hypnosis. A Member of the International Hypnosis Federation and the International Association Of Counselors & Therapists, Patrick is also an Exercise Specialist at Robert Wood Johnson Rahway Fitness & Wellness Center, where he is a specialist in rehabilitation training in a Cancer, Diabetes and Cardiac Program. Looking for more ways to help his clients, Patrick discovered hypnosis, which he uses to improve the mental performance of a wide variety of clients: including, professional and high school athletes, moms-to-be, cancer patients, business professionals and anyone else who is looking to improve the mental aspect of their lives. Visit www.newmotivehypnosis.com

Nancy Neiditz graduated NYU’s physical therapy program in 1989, and immediately began an in depth training of the Feldenkrais Method. Several years later she became an Anat Baniel Method for Children Practitioner as well. A modern dancer and yoga enthusiast, she appreciated the creative approach to engaging and moving Children. She started her career as an adult physical therapist at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. There she trained with some of the best neurologists and orthopedic surgeons in the country. In 1995, close to the time of the establishment of The Early Intervention Program, she began traveling throughout NYC to see children, ages 0-3 in their natural environments, the home. She mentored with the only other Anat Baniel Method Trainer, Marcy Lindheimer. Bringing some of her more severe cases to Ms. Lindheimer, she began her journey in learning how to approach and treat some of the most serious neuromuscular cases that appear in children with developmental disabilities. By 2004, with her fluency in Spa

Anne (Annie) Martens is the owner of Bella Bellies. Anne took her experience as a personal trainer, pilates instructor, child birth educator, doula, training in Midwifery Assistance and a mother of three, to develop movement programs focused on women.  Anne is a Licensed Lamaze Child Birth Educator, and has studied as a Postpartum Doula with Midwife Vicki Hedley, and a Birth Doula with Sunday Tortelli. She studied and worked one-on-one with Julie Tupler from 2005-2007 and studied Midwifery Assistance under the direction of Midwife Pamela Hunt, Midwife Deborah Flowers, Midwife UmmSalaamah Sondra Abdullah-Zaima, Midwife Carol Nelson and Midwife Joanne Santana. Ms. Martens is a certified Pilates instructor under Kathy Van Patten (2003) and Bob Liekens (2005); is a certified Pilates Method Alliance Instructor, a personal trainer, completed her B.F.A. in Dance at the Boston Conservatory, where she graduated cum laude under Emiko and Yasi Tokunaga, and completed post-baccalaureate work in chemistry at Montclair Sta

Lawrence Rosen, MD is an integrative pediatrician and co-author of Treatment Alternatives for Children, an evidence-based guide for parents interested in natural solutions for common childhood ailments. He is the founder of one of the country’s first “green” pediatric practices, The Whole Child Center, in Oradell, NJ, and serves as Medical Advisor to the Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at HackensackUMC. Dr. Rosen is a founding member and Past Chair of the AAP Section on Integrative Medicine and is appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at New Jersey Medical School. A graduate of New York Medical College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Rosen has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, and Imus in the Morning, and he is a frequently cited expert on children’s and environmental health matters. He is a contributing editor and pediatric columnist for Kiwi Magazine, as w

Alicia Diaz, MA, AHP is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and thought leader in the area of women’s health and spirituality.  Her mission is to help women embrace their divine feminine essence, unlock their inner healing power and be at home in their bodies.  She has studied in India and the U.S. under the world-renowned Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Pankaj Naram and Dr. Claudia Welch and uses the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to help women easefully align their cycles and their bodies with the rhythms of nature.  Her clients experience reduced menstrual pain, enhanced fertility and ongoing daily rejuvenation, deep fulfillment and vibrant energy.