IWA Instructors & Team
Our team is passionate about helping you transform lives.IWA instructors have extensive training and certifications in integrative healing modalities such as life coaching, health, wellness, nutrition, business, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Clearing Method (ECM), Somatics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and other healing modalities. Our team is passionate about helping you become a successful integrative practitioner.
IWA Instructors
Dr. Rachel Eva Dew
Founder & Head Instructor
Rachel is a board certified Doctor of Natural Medicine, an international speaker, self-development author, and leader in integrative wellness. She is founder and head instructor for the Integrative Wellness Academy (IWA) where she trains and certifies students as integrative life coaches in order to help people transform their lives. Rachel developed the proprietary Integrative Life Coaching Model over 15 years, which integrates diverse training in life coaching, wellness, psychology, behavior modification, and diverse healing techniques. Her integrative approach uniquely helps clients make changes at a deeper level for more lasting changes.
Rachel Eva is an Integrative Life Coach who is certified in over 20 healing modalities that support her integrative approach to life coaching, self-development, and integrative wellness. She is board certified through the Association for Integrative Psychology as a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), master practitioner of NLP, practitioner of Mental Emotional Release® (MER), and clinical Hypnotherapist. She was also trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Rachel is a master trainer of Integrative Coaching and certified as a personal trainer and yoga therapist. She has received certifications in ERYT yoga, sports nutrition, somatics and sports therapeutics.
Rachel believes that your past does not define your future and you can be empowered to live the life you desire. Her work is designed to support coaches and clients create the change they seek and the life they want!
Dr. Lourdes (Lula) Madrigal
Instructor
Lula takes a holistic approach in the understanding, healing and transformation process towards embodiment. Lula is a Doctor of Acupuncture, and holds a Masters Degree in Creative Arts Therapy and a Bachelors degree in Dance movement therapy and Psychology. Lula is a Creative Arts Therapist – specializing in Dance/Movement therapy, somatic healing and holds additional certifications in various healing arts therapies that she combines in creating specialized programs for the communities she serves. Lula specializes in providing accessible therapies, education and retreats that are uniquely catered to the individual, focused on creating wellness plans that are in alignment with the dynamic process of life. Her current passion is in Women’s empowerment and Teen life-enhancement programs.
Lula believes we are perfect as we are, and sometimes we need someone to remind us and bring us back to our true expression of beauty within. Taking in mind the mind/body/spirit connection a person can start wherever they are – be it on the physical, emotional or spiritual level.
Debra Heslin
Instructor
Debra holds numerous credentials including Doctor of Philosophy, emphasis in Metaphysical Counseling, Master Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) & Time Line Techniques, HeartMath® Certified Trainer (Resilience & Coherence Advantage), High Performance Coach, Master Hypnosis Trainer, Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner, Huna Practitioner and Integrative Fitness.
Her work is grounded in a simple truth: insight alone does not create lasting change. Sustainable transformation happens when people understand the emotional drivers shaping their reactions, decisions, and leadership style and learn how to work with them intentionally. She integrates neuroscience, emotional regulation, and structured behavioral frameworks.
Debra is also author of Decide to Believe: Rewrite the Story of Your Life, exploring how beliefs shape experience and how conscious awareness creates choice
Debra is extremely patient with students and she has a calming effect that resonates with everyone. She is inspirational and has a positive infectious energy. She believes these powerful coaching tools and techniques can transform a person’s way of thinking and processing forever.
Andrea Leda Wilborn
Instructor
Andrea Leda Wilborn is an integrative life coach, speaker, and IWA instructor. She brings a deep understanding and practical application of powerful coaching, journal therapy, and mental and emotional release work. She is dedicated to helping coaches understand that we don’t interact with our world by watching it, we create our world by how we see it.
Andrea has been an integrative life coach and speaker for over six years. She has powerfully impacted the lives of hundreds of clients and students across the country. Andrea believes that we can end suffering by changing our individual relationships to struggle. She believes that by supporting people to heal from within we can heal the world.
Andrea has a B.A. in Social Work and graduate work in Systems Counseling. She is a Certified Coach and Certified Journal to the Self Instructor, and a Master Practitioner of NLP. Andrea has over 1,000 hours working with individuals and groups.
Brad Berger
HLP Instructor
Brad is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional, author and coach who has over a quarter of a century of comprehensive financial planning experience. Previously, Brad served with an international financial-planning firm, starting in private practice and culminating a 17-year career as the Director of Advisor Operations. Recognizing he wasn’t living the advice he routinely gave to both clients and advisors to maintain a balanced and high quality of life, he decided to return to private practice in 2008 in order to spend more time with his family and in his community and joined a financial planning firm that is more holistically aligned, where he is currently a partner.
Brad’s own journey towards balance and self-development led him to expand his own tools. Brad became a Certified Integrative Life Coach and a Master Integrative Life Coach through Integrative Wellness Academy. He is the author of the book, Stop Trying to Keep Up with the Joneses: They’re Broke Anyway and is passionate about equipping people to live their ideal life. Brad is the head instructor for IWA’s Holistic Life Planner Certification Course.
Garett Larson
Business Development Instructor
Garett is an IWA graduate, additionally trained in numerous holistic modalities. His background in business and marketing is extensive. He is an entrepreneur who has founded several companies, consulted for numerous businesses ranging from private practices, non-profits, tech health to the entertainment industry over the last 12 years. Garett’s specialty is helping business owners clarify their vision, brand development, process improvement, growth and business design strategy.
As a chronic illness patient and advocate for people, Garett is passionate about helping individuals overcome obstacles and achieve their goals. His personal experience has taught him the value of resilience, adaptability, and empathy, which he brings to all of his work with students and clients. Garett thrives on combining his passions and skills to solve complex business problems, creatively and practically.
Nathan Hansen
Longevity Chef & Wellness Culinary Practitioner Instructor
Chef Nathan Hansen is a simple luxury Private Chef who is known for his delectable, healthy cuisine. To date, Chef Nathan features a 20+ year background within 5 star and bib gourmand kitchens across the country. Enjoys every moment leveraging his rich expertise to not only meet expectations but exceed them. Throughout his professional career, he has built a strong inventory of successes that has led to his current standing. Part of this stems from his dexterous abilities in the kitchen and the other from his innate passion for how healthy, delicious meals with cultural twists could instill happiness in others.
With this as his base, he ultimately followed his admiration for cooking, starting out as a cook on Nantucket and later became an executive chef in the New York restaurant scene. Infatuation scored his fun and dynamic restaurant, Prospect, an 8.4. Since leaving the restaurant scene, he has become a heavily respected private chef, proactively bringing incredible cuisines from across the world right to your table.
Overall, nothing makes Chef Nathan happier than being able to leave lasting impressions for everyone that he serves. Whether it be Italian, Thai, New American, Peruvian, Spanish, Mexican, Vietnamese, Japanese, or even farm-to-table meals, he demonstrates his devotion by delivering intensely flavorful cuisine that provokes responses. This, in conjunction with his passion for explosive flavors is what has positioned him to become the accredited Private Chef he is today – one who continuously strives to raise the dining experience.
IWA Student Ambassadors
Dr. Elizabeth Jennings
Student Ambassador
Lisa Tran
Student Ambassador
Dr. Adrianne Pinkney
Student Ambassador
IWA Team
Courtney Dade
Marketing
Courtney Dade is a marketing professional with 17 years experience in product development, strategic marketing, project management, and leadership. She has a masters degree in Business Administration, with a focus on marketing and project management and a B.A. in broadcast communications.
Dortha Hise
Administration
Dortha L. Hise is an International Bestselling Author, Coach and Administrative Guru who supports students at IWA as well as plays a vital role in the schools administration.
Both her personal and professional journey makes her a valuable asset to the IWA team. Dortha has over 20 years of administrative leadership experience as well as a personal transformational journey that adds so much value to what we do at IWA. After enduring multiple devastating personal setbacks Dortha lost her voice, literally. She thought it was a simple case of laryngitis or bronchitis…as it turns out, it was not simple… She was diagnosed with a neurological condition called Abductor Spasmodic Dysphonia (“AB SD”). AB SD prevented Dortha from using the phone or speaking normally or being easily heard in a room with a lot of ambient noise. While this presented challenges to Dortha, she is grateful for this experience as it has heightened her sense of hearing, most importantly, her ability to listen deeply.
Dortha now a certified coach, teaches others to do the same and bring about entire mind shifts and personal transformation of those who lead, helping them serve the world at their best.
Helen Saltzman
Accounting
Helen Saltzman is an accounting professional. She loves bookkeeping and keeping track of important numbers that can affect personal finances and business success. She holds a Tax Preparers License. Helen finds great joy in finding solutions through a holistic approach to bookkeeping.
Lilly Faith
Student Support and Social Responsibility Coordinator
Lilly comes to us with a background in psychology and work experience in the nonprofit sector. She has a passion for lifetime-learning, self-care and social and racial reconciliation. As our Student Support and Social Responsibility Coordinator she turns those passions into actions, helping our students to access support, holistic learning and service opportunities for our community.
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