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Amber V Flora, PhD

Health Coach

I have spent the last 10 years helping people understand how they can personally change their nutrition and lifestyle habits to support their ability to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle effortlessly into the future.

My background is in addiction research, which dovetails wonderfully with how I help people understand some of the underlying behaviors related to food and habits. After receiving my PhD in biomedical science/neuroscience, I worked as a hospital scientist and research scientist before becoming a homemaker for five years. Becoming a health coach was an unexpected career turn, and I love helping others!

After losing 30 lbs in four months on a Trilivy food program in 2017, with the help of Dr. Ciocchetti as my health coach, I mentored with her and learned to coach others. The weight being gone was WONDERFUL, but what I gained was life-changing...

We had struggled with infertility, and no doctor had ever recommended that I work on my nutrition or weight to help improve fertility. We had even gone to specialists, and not one mentioned my slightly-overweight BMI as something within my power to change.

While on the weight loss plan with Dr. Ciocchetti, I had three positive pregnancy results during those four months of weight loss. The early miscarriages were perhaps not unexpected, as I was 40 at the time, but the successful, healthy pregnancy was!

The unexpected benefits of losing some weight are what made me care so much about the health of others. If losing weight can help ADD something to someone's life, I want to be a part of that!

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About My Practice:

My Treatment Philosophy

I'm a cut-to-the-chase, move-beyond-the-excuses kind of coach. I am empathetic, but spending all of our productive time emoting together isn't going to get the fat off your body or your life into a manageable, healthy-weight sustaining structure. We get things done together.

What My Patients Can Expect

Patients can expect a supportive, judgment-free experience focused on understanding their habits, evaluating their lifestyle, and developing practical solutions. I help patients shift from feeling helpless or self-critical to feeling empowered, confident, and ready to take action toward lasting change.

My Favorite Treatments

Weight Loss/Management
Trilivy food program coaching
Personalized nutrition support with or without GLP-1 medications
Building sustainable eating habits
Addressing emotional eating and lifestyle challenges
Simplifying nutrition to support long-term health and weight management

Why do I work at Northpoint?

It is a true atmosphere of partnership at Northpoint. We want to help you get the results you want, and we value your input and cooperation through the whole process.

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"I would want patients to say that I helped me put to the side, all the issues I thought would always stand in the way, so I could see what my body was capable of just by doing what I recommended. Once I knew it was possible to get my weight off from doing what I had recommended with food and movement, I was more willing to then look at the issues, because I knew if my body had the ability to get healthy, I had an obligation to support that. The movement on the scale early on changed what I thought was possible."

- Amber V Flora, PhD

More About Amber

As a wife and mom, I like time with my husband improving our home or cabin and I spend a lot of time either with church or helping my sons become good, self reliant humans and I love serving at their schools to help support the things that support them. If I have any free time, I read or toss some toys with the dogs.

If I have free time, I organize things so my life has fewer messy unknowns to run into, and I read!