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About Me - Health and Wellness Coaching & Consulting

Hello and welcome! I’m Dr. Simarata Dhillon, a Food Scientist and Harvard-trained Health & Wellness Coach passionate about bridging science and everyday life through personalized health coaching.

Through Lifestyle Medicine, functional nutrition, Applied Neuroscience, Trauma-Informed Stress Response, and Mindset Techniques, I guide professionals in managing fatigue, stress, and chronic health conditions with evidence-based strategies that promote healing and sustainable well-being.

Educational & Professional Background:

Bachelor's in Biological Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, India (2005)

Master’s in Biotechnology, Thapar University, Patiala, India (2007)

Master’s in Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (2009)

Ph.D. in Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (2013)

With 20 years of experience across academic and corporate research, I've worked with leading universities and global organizations across technology hubs in Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco.

My expertise spans ingredient technology applications, food product innovation, and product development in good-for-you nutritional foods and fun-for-you snack food categories, clinical research, and consumer insights.

My Personal Struggle

After two decades immersed in research and having personally navigated hormonal imbalances, problematic skin, energy dips, and autoimmune conditions, I was drawn to a more personal, holistic approach to health. I saw many individuals struggling with chronic illnesses, food sensitivities, digestive and skin issues, and low energy, often overwhelmed by conflicting advice.

Training

To bridge the gap between science and practical solutions, I trained as a Health, Lifestyle & Wellness Coach through advanced programs at Harvard Medical School, focusing on science-backed health, nutrition, lifestyle, and behavior-change strategies. I am also an American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Lifestyle Medicine & Food-as-Medicine Advocate, and I’m currently pursuing board certifications to provide the highest standard of evidence-based support.

Certifications:

Functional Nutrition (Expected Mar 2026)

Board Approved Health Coach Certification Program, mindbodygreen (Nov 2025)

Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching, Harvard Medical School (Aug 2025)

Nutrition and Wellness Coaching, Harvard Medical School (Aug 2025)

Lifestyle Medicine & Food-as-Medicine Essentials, American College of Lifestyle Medicine (Aug 2025)

Health and Wellness: Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan, Harvard Medical School (Jun 2025)

What I Offer:

Today, I guide individuals to identify and break patterns that are holding them back, creating new ones that integrate lifestyle & metabolic health, neuroscience, spirituality, and trauma-informed stress response principles. My approach is practical, compassionate, and based on scientific evidence, designed to help clients feel more energized, confident, and able to live their best life.

My mission is simple: to help professionals, who give so much to their careers, reclaim their most important asset, their health and spirit, through personalized health coaching, so they can elevate their productivity and performance, and strengthen their relationships in both professional and personal lives.

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Sometimes In Life, When It Rains, It Pours

The past becomes heavy. The future uncertain.

Your body changes, and with it, the need for functional nutrition becomes clear. You can't eat the same foods and expect to look and feel great anymore.

Your sleep changes; you wake up tired, and coffee isn't the fix it used to be.

Your relationships change as situations escalate and uncertainty rises.

Your career becomes unfulfilling, and responsibilities grow, leading to increased stress.

It feels like a perfect storm.

You begin to break down—physically, mentally, emotionally.

Often, there is a lack of support and guidance, especially when it's needed the most. Personalized health coaching can be a beacon of hope in such times.

Beneath all this chaos, deeper feelings and questions begin to surface. Life was supposed to look different. What is the purpose of my life?

You find yourself searching everywhere for answers, seeking wellness coaching for a quick hack or something to numb the discomfort—a constant scroll through distractions to escape your worries.

You know something has to change.

Learn About My Approach

One Storm, You Can Weather. Three at Once? That Requires a Different Strategy.

The past becomes heavy. The future uncertain.

Your body changes, and with it, the need for functional nutrition becomes clear. You can't eat the same foods and expect to look and feel great anymore.

Your sleep changes; you wake up tired, and coffee isn't the fix it used to be.

Your relationships change as situations escalate and uncertainty rises.

Your career becomes unfulfilling, and responsibilities grow, leading to increased stress.

It feels like a perfect storm.

You begin to break down—physically, mentally, emotionally.

Often, there is a lack of support and guidance, especially when it's needed the most. Personalized health coaching can be a beacon of hope in such times.

Beneath all this chaos, deeper feelings and questions begin to surface. Life was supposed to look different. What is the purpose of my life?

You find yourself searching everywhere for answers, seeking wellness coaching for a quick hack or something to numb the discomfort—a constant scroll through distractions to escape your worries.

You know something has to change.

Your Path To Real Change Starts Here

1. Pattern Recognition

2. Pattern Interruption

Map the recurring patterns in your life that shape your relationships, mindset, and health

2. Pattern Interruption

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Break the mental and behavioral loops that keep you stuck in stress, overthinking, and unhealthy cycles

3. Pattern Creation

2. Pattern Interruption

3. Pattern Creation

Build new habits and ways of thinking that support lasting change and the life you want to create

The Foundation of My Work

Health & Wellness Coaching

Map the recurring patterns in your life that shape your relationships, mindset, and health through the lens of functional nutrition and personalized health coaching, complemented by wellness coaching.

Lifestyle Medicine

Break the mental and behavioral loops that keep you stuck in stress, overthinking, and unhealthy cycles through functional nutrition and personalized health coaching. Embrace wellness coaching to help you regain control of your life.

Functional Nutrition

Build new habits and ways of thinking through personalized health coaching that support lasting change and the life you want to create with a focus on functional nutrition and wellness coaching.

Applied Neuroscience

Trauma-Informed Stress Science

Functional Nutrition

Nervous system regulation through functional nutrition can help break chronic stress cycles. By utilizing neuroplasticity, we can rewire outdated patterns into new possibilities. Personalized health coaching and wellness coaching are essential to restore brain-body communication for sustainable change.

Trauma-Informed Stress Science

Developmental Conditioning: Understand how early life experiences shape current stress responses through avenues such as functional nutrition. Recognize attachment patterns affecting your relationships and how personalized health coaching can help address these issues. Additionally, explore the physiology of emotional suppression and chronic overwhelm with the support of wellness coaching.

About Simarata

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I've Lived Through My Own Storms. That's Why I Can Guide You Through Yours.

For 20 years, I lived in the world of high achievement, gaining multiple graduate degrees in science, earning credentials, working with large corporations, leading major R&D projects, and checking every box of professional success.

From the outside, it looked like I had it all together; the accomplishments, the recognition, the drive.

But on the inside, I was running on empty. I was silently burning out.

The morning I sat in the parking lot at work, unable and unwilling to go in, became my turning point. I couldn't get past that feeling of being stuck in life. It wasn't a breakdown. It was my system forcing a conversation I'd been postponing for a long time.

Through that collapse, I discovered something powerful: the same science I once used to innovate and develop products could also be used to transform human lives, beginning with my own.

I trained at Harvard in health coaching and lifestyle medicine. I studied neuroscience, lifestyle interventions, functional nutrition, trauma-informed approaches. Not to collect credentials, but to understand what was actually happening in my mind and body during massive life recalibration.

Today, I help other professionals navigate their transitions without years of trials and errors I went through. I translate science into simple, actionable strategies to prevent burnout, restore vitality, and create harmony in every area of life.

Because success shouldn't cost you your health, or your peace. You didn't come this far to spend the next chapter exhausted, stuck, or settling. Let's build something better.

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1:1 COACHING

GROUP COACHING

Personalized support for navigating career transitions, health challenges, and relationship dilemma, especially when they are all happening at once.

Work 1:1 to identify repeating patterns, recalibrate your energy, gain clarity on what matters now, and build sustainable systems for your current reality.

3- and 6-month programs available.

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GROUP COACHING

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Small-group learning with other professionals navigating major life transitions.

Break old patterns, build new habits, and gain clarity with expert guidance and peer support from people who understand what you're going through.

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About Me - Health and Wellness Coaching & Consulting

Sometimes In Life, When It Rains, It Pours

One Storm, You Can Weather. Three at Once? That Requires a Different Strategy.

Real change doesn't come from hacks. It comes from changing the patterns driving your life.