FIND YOUR COACH
Meet The Team of
Coaches
Our coaches have lived experience in psychotropic drug withdrawal and harm-reduction strategies, and provide guidance to those facing grief, chronic illness (including Long COVID, TMS, and mind-body syndromes), and distress. Whether you're exploring alternatives to medication, recovering from its effects, or seeking support for your broader healing journey, our team is here to walk alongside you.
Together, we aim to create a space where healing is possible, autonomy is celebrated, and informed choice leads the way.
**Informed consent, is a priority to us, so before you register for a coaching session, you will be required to complete a consent agreement. Thank you**
Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC
@angiepeacockmsw
Angela Peacock has made it her personal mission to change the narrative and reshape the culture around mental health in America and abroad. In 2022, she founded APeacock Consulting, LLC, where she supports more than 100 clients and their family members and hosts 18 support circles per month. She stands alongside survivors on their healing journeys, as a psychiatric drug withdrawal consultant and healing coach, offering guidance as they navigate the complex process of recovery.
Having navigated her own recovery journey, releasing her identity as a patient, regaining the majority of her health, and rebuilding her life after enduring trauma, Angela found the strength to turn her pain into a passion for healing. She is now a fierce advocate for informed consent and transparency in the modern mental health industry. It’s her honor to help others access their inner warrior, find their fight, and reach their potential on this journey we call life. As Angela continues her advocacy work to improve the mental health care system for veterans and civilians, she is leading by example and sharing the message that when life gets messy, you have the capacity to course correct, take control of the journey, and choose your destination—you have the power to choose how you navigate the road to recovery.
Today, you can find Angela living fully and freely as she travels the U.S. in her campervan with her service dog, Raider, writing, speaking, and often hosting in-person events for mental health consumers and professionals about informed consent, post-trauma recovery, and deprescribing.
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Thought Leader & Subject Matter Expert on Deprescribing Psychotropic Medications
Bachelors of Science in Psychology
Masters in Social Work- Clinical Mental Health & Social Policy (not a licensed or practicing mental health professional)
Certified Professional Life Coach (ICF)
1 Year Somatic Experiencing Training
ASIST Suicide Prevention Training
Wounded Warrior Project Peer Mentor Level 1 & 2, Warrior Leader, Warrior Group Facilitator, Speaking & Media Training
Extensive self-education in health & wellness, strength training, nutrition, & non-toxic living
Writer, speaker, vanlifer
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Angie Peacock, CPC, MSW, is a Certified Professional Life Coach through Recovery International, specializing in supporting individuals and their caregivers who are navigating chronic iatrogenic illness and/or psychotropic drug withdrawal. With a foundation in traditional therapy and additional training in Gestalt and Somatic Experiencing, as well as lived experience and expertise in psychotropic drug withdrawal, exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle interventions, Angie provides compassionate, non-pathologizing support tailored to each client’s needs. Her coaching empowers individuals to manage fear, chronic illness, and the challenges of deprescribing offering practical tools and guidance to foster resilience and healing.
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Individual Coaching:
Angie has some emergency sessions available but is not currently accepting new, re-occurring individual coaching clients.
To be added to Angie’s waiting list, please click here: https://forms.gle/7Th45m3rEyGCEKGt9
Support Circles, Classes & Workshops:
https://calendly.com/apeacockconsulting
Professional Consultation (for organizations, therapists, doctors and researchers): https://calendly.com/apeacockconsulting/professional-consultations
Business Coaching (for coaches in the deprescribing space): https://calendly.com/apeacockconsulting/1-hour-consultation-business
For more information about events, speaking opportunities, podcasts or other appearances:
Jennie Dalgliesh BN, RN, CHNC (NCCP)
Jennie brings 19 years of healthcare experience to her work, beginning her career as a Registered Nurse in Canada, with a clinical background in vascular surgery, pediatrics, and mental health. While her work was rewarding, she became increasingly aware of the limitations of conventional medicine, where medications were often the first and only approach. This mirrored her own experience of receiving various anxiety diagnoses and medication prescriptions, but little in the way of real solutions.
This growing disconnect led Jennie to step away from traditional healthcare to study holistic nutrition. However, the COVID pandemic drew her back into acute care, where work-related stress led her to seek help. Unfortunately, she experienced adverse reactions to the prescribed medication, and later, a failed reinstatement left her facing the challenges of both antidepressant and benzodiazepine withdrawal—largely without adequate medical support or understanding.
Her extensive research and lived experience, along with her dedication to supporting others in an online community have given her a unique perspective on psychiatric drug withdrawal. She now runs a private nutrition practice offering an alternative approach to managing mental health, while advocating for and raising awareness about safe deprescribing. She is dedicated to supporting others facing similar struggles, providing empathy, validation, and practical tools.
Outside of work, Jennie enjoys spending time with her husband, two kids, and their dog and cat. An avid outdoor enthusiast, she’s gradually easing back into family activities like traveling, hiking, camping, and cross-country skiing, with a renewed appreciation for the little things. A lifelong learner, Jennie is also expanding her expertise in functional lab testing to better support her clients.
You can learn more about Jennie on Instagram @innerwhisperswellness, or hear a more in-depth version of her story here.
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Diploma in Natural Nutrition
Mental Health and Addictions Certificate
Bachelor of Nursing Degree
Tapering Off Psychotropic Medications Integrative and Naturopathic Strategies Certificate: Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine.
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Group Coaching: The Mind-Body Kitchen
In this monthly group coaching session, we’ll explore various nutrition-related topics in the context of mental health, tapering, recovery and beyond. Potential topics might include foundations for overall mental health, digestion, food sensitivities, hormone health, understanding inflammation, non-toxic living and gut health. Each session will include a presentation, followed by an opportunity for discussion, insights and questions. Suggestions for new topics are welcome. You can explore our upcoming class schedule and discover the topics we’ll be covering here.
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
If none of the available time slots fit your schedule, please reach out to Jennie directly at jennie@heartcorecollective.com.
1:1 Nutrition & Support Coaching
Jennie’s nutrition and lifestyle coaching services offer a holistic approach, connecting the mind and body, with food and lifestyle, grounded in key pillars of wellness: balanced nutrition, quality sleep, stress management, social connections, and daily movement.
Jennie conducts a comprehensive assessment of dietary choices, lifestyle habits and symptoms to identify root imbalances such as nutrient deficiencies, imbalanced digestion, poor gut health or inflammation. From this foundation, sustainable diet and lifestyle practices are layered over time and aimed at strengthening both body and mind to help clients achieve their health goals.
* The first session is information gathering, with initial action steps if time permits.
1:1 Nutrition Intake
55-minute Nutrition Intake (initial consult) https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/55-minute-nutrition-intake-jennie
1:1 Nutrition Follow-Up
55-minute Follow-up 1:1 Nutrition Coaching with Jennie
https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/55-minute-nutrition-follow-up-jennie
1:1 Support Coaching with Jennie
Jennie’s lifestyle and coaching services provide a safe and supportive space for those navigating the ups and downs of recovery. She offers validation and emotional support for individuals in both acute and protracted withdrawal while focusing on non-pharmacological coping strategies and stress management techniques, including breathwork, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, movement, and cultivating a positive mindset.
25-minute 1:1 Support Coaching with Jennie https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/25-minute-support-coaching-jennie
55-minute 1:1 Support Coaching with Jennie https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/55-minute-support-coaching-jennie
Michele Waterman
BA, CPC, MSW (in progress)
Michele Waterman is a nonprofit business strategist, professional coach, host of the Courage Unlocked Podcast, and a mental health and disability justice advocate. She coaches and empowers visionary leaders in business and consults and strategizes with nonprofit and B Corp founders and cofounders. Her mission in life is to help individuals cultivate the courage and confidence within themselves to create lasting change.
Michele is a best-selling author, a public speaker, a Hypnobreathwork facilitator, and a 3x founder of nonprofit organizations advancing equity for people who identify as neurodivergent. She has 35 years of experience in leadership, sales and marketing, community organizing, and mobilizing grassroots.
Michele’s current venture is launching Use Your Voice for Good, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based on the core values and guiding principles of social work. UYVFG’s macro-based initiatives will include continuing education conferences for mental health professionals, a nonprofit leadership academy (The Founder’s Way), and crowdfunding with and for other nonprofits advancing social change. Michele is currently pursuing her Master’s in Social Work at The University of Denver.
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Masters of Social Work (in process)
Certified professional coach
Certified Life Coach
Certified Master Practitioner of NLP and hypnosis
Certified HypnoBreathwork Facilitator
BA Speech Communications San Jose State
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Rebuilding Your Life After Meds & Labels with Michele Waterman
Join us every other week for a supportive exploration of neuroplasticity, nervous system regulation, and anxiety recovery, where we embrace a "challenge by choice" approach. This class is open to anyone in any stage of recovery from psychotropic medications or those seeking ways to avoid them. Together, we'll rebuild how you show up for yourself and the world, empowering you with tools to foster resilience, self-compassion, and sustainable healing. Whether you're beginning or well along your recovery journey, this class offers a safe space to nurture growth and recovery at your own pace.
Reverend Wendy Jo Cole, MSW, MSED, Spiritual Director/Companion, Interspiritual Minister
Wendy Jo Cole supports individuals and groups to heal and accept their journey through companioning and connection. Her own journey brought her through the lived experience of benzodiazepine withdrawal. The immense difficulty of this time, the symptoms, the aloneness, and the stigma call her to give back to the community through support and advocacy. Wendy has served as admin and mod for the Benzo Warrior Community, where she moderates and facilitates groups.
Wendy Jo has spent much of her career working as a director of a preschool in Brooklyn, where she learned to understand and value our inner child and bring play into even the hardest of places. She believes in welcoming, standing up for, and protecting each other, and that we all belong and we can come as we are.
Currently, Wendy Jo substitutes and consults in early childhood, supervises students at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and is finishing up her final year at the Ackerman Institute of Family Therapy. Wendy has a Masters Degree from Bank Street College in Early Childhood Leadership, an MSW from the University of Minnesota, and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.
Wendy Jo lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner David (aka the Tulip King), his mom, and different constellations of diverse and beautiful adult birth and chosen children.
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Administrator, Benzo Warrior Community
Ordained Minister
Certificate in spiritual direction
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Sanctuary Sundays
Sanctuary Sundays is a spiritual community where we create sacred time and space each Sunday together. We are a sanctuary of and for survivors/thrivers from all faiths and traditions who come together to share prayers, poetry, verses, stories, and songs that connect us to spirit. We will have a topic each week that supports all of our healing, including nurturing ourselves, radical acceptance, little love notes, turning over anger, beloved community, the extraordinary in the ordinary, and more. We believe that our spiritual connection to the divine and our heart’s full connection to each other furthers our healing. We invite you to come to our gathering each week just as you are.
To welcome everyone, Sanctuary Sundays is offered on a ‘pay what you are able’ basis, with a minimum donation of $1. Our suggested contribution is $25.Caregiver Support Circle with Wendy Jo:
For any spouse, caregiver, friend, or other carer who is supporting someone coming off or healing from psychotropic medications.
Individual Spiritual Guidance Sessions w/Reverend Wendy Jo Cole, MSW, MSEDIf none of the available time slots fit your schedule, please reach out to Wendy Jo directly at wendyjo@heartcorecollective.com.
Spiritual Guidance 1:1 Coaching with Wendy Jo
Wendy Jo offers compassionate coaching sessions to support individuals on their healing journeys. Drawing from her lived experience of benzodiazepine withdrawal and her extensive background in early childhood education, spiritual direction, and family therapy, Wendy Jo provides a welcoming, nonjudgmental space for growth and connection. Her approach blends advocacy, play, and deep listening to help clients embrace their path, nurture resilience, and find belonging. Wendy Jo believes in honoring each person’s unique journey, empowering them to heal and thrive as they are.
25-minute Spiritual Guidance 1:1 Coaching with Wendy Jo
https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/25-minute-spiritual-guidance-coaching-wendy-jo
55-minute Spiritual Guidance 1:1 Coaching with Wendy Jo
https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/55-minute-spiritual-guidance-coaching-wendy-jo
Erin Golden,
MBA, TCTSY-F
Erin Golden is a trauma-sensitive health & wellness coach and yoga & mindfulness teacher. Previously, she worked for over twenty-five years as an executive & consultant in the software and technology industry. However, at the peak of her career, Erin was sidelined for cognitive impairments and brain dysfunction that were so severe that neurologists screened her for Alzheimer’s in the middle of cancer treatment.
It took over two years before Erin finally found a neurologist who uncovered the reason for her cognitive issues—a serious brain injury resulting from side effects of long-term benzodiazepine use exacerbated by chemotherapy toxicity. Erin had initially been prescribed benzodiazepines by her primary care doctor fifteen years earlier while enduring insomnia and significant pain from severe Lyme Disease. Benzodiazepines also caused symptoms that Erin had never previously experienced, such as anxiety and depression, which led to psychiatric misdiagnosis and mis-prescribing of numerous medications.
In 2015, in the hope of healing her brain injury, Erin stopped taking benzodiazepines and all other psychiatric medications, which caused her to suffer unimaginable benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms for months. Although some benzodiazepine-related side effects still persist today, Erin was fortunate to heal her mind and body–supported along the way by loved ones, trauma coaching, and her mindfulness and yoga practice.
When Erin felt well enough, she embarked on a new path, focusing on the interrelated fields of trauma therapy, mindfulness, yoga, and coaching in areas where she has significant experience and expertise. Erin is passionate about sharing what she’s learned to help others navigate their own healing journeys and feel happier, healthier, and have more wellbeing.
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Yoga Alliance (RYT-500)
Kripalu Yoga Teacher (KYT-200hr)
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSYF-300hr)
Oncology Yoga for Cancer (Y4C-75hr)
Significant training with certifications of completion in mindfulness, nonviolent communication, and trauma healing
Mindfulness & Yoga Teacher since 2015
Life, Health, and Wellness Coach since 2021
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Individual Coaching
Erin offers 1:1 personalized coaching to support clients on their own healing journeys with a focus on challenges. Erin draws from a deep understanding from significant experience and training to explore an individual’s unique situation and identify priorities and address urgent needs, such as insomnia, anxiety, trauma, medication withdrawals, immune system recovery, brain health after COVID, Lyme, cancer, and treatment side effects. Using a tailored, practical approach, Erin provides tools, techniques, and resources to help individuals heal in the "now" while creating a clear roadmap for their future. Her goal is to empower others to make conscious, supportive choices, build resilience, and rediscover hope, happiness, and well-being—no matter the past or what lies ahead.
If none of the available time slots fit your schedule, please reach out to Erin directly at Erin@heartcorecollective.com.
25-minute 1:1 Coaching with Erin https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/25-minute-coaching-erin
55-minute 1:1 Coaching with Erinhttps://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/55-minute-coaching-erin
85-minute 1:1 Coaching with Erin
https://calendly.com/heartcore-collective/85-minute-coaching-erin
Melanie Taylor
Peer Guide
Mel Taylor resides in Lancaster, UK, and hosts art groups to explore mindful creative activities, process art, painting, sculpture, poetry, and anything else. No skills are needed to join in with this group as most of the focus will be on the process of creativity rather than the outcome, although surprising results often happen when we’re experimenting! If you are an artist and you’re looking for more focus or inspiration, Mel can work with you on this, too.
“Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” - Thomas Merton.
Mel’s creativity has always been an integral part of who she is, however, there have been long periods of time whilst medicated and during the withdrawal process where she wasn’t able to access her creativity at all. There were times when she had not been moved by music or the visual arts, and the opposite happened too, where she felt completely overwhelmed by music, books, art, nature, or film, and had to avoid them at all costs!
In her experience, gradually and gently reconnecting with her creative side has been such a powerful tool during her own withdrawal journey. It is both distracting and empowering and has even allowed her to explore and process her feelings and experiences, rediscover her personality, her relationship with nature and spirituality, as well as her relationships with other people whilst going through what felt like such an isolating time. Family and friends have been on the receiving end of her poetry and collages! It was the voice she was able to use when she had lost the art of conversation and meaningful connection.
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Masters in Fine Art - Chelsea College, University of the Arts London
1st Class BA Hons in Art and Design
Foundation in Art and Design Course
Level 3 Adult Safeguarding
Level 3 Counseling Skills
Level 2 Counseling Skills
Suicide Awareness Certificate
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We regret to inform you that Mel’s class, Art & Creative Expression, is currently on hold. If you're interested in participating, please fill out the form below, and we will keep you updated on any changes to its status.
INTEREST FORM
Brandalyn Morris
Peer Guide
Brandalyn Morris draws on 25 years of lived experience with psychotropic medications—through taking, tapering, and recovering from their effects. Having been off these drugs for 2½ years, she is now pursuing a bachelor's degree in Behavioral Neuroscience at Grand Valley State University. Brandalyn is actively involved in undergraduate research focusing on psychiatric iatrogenic injury and neuroregeneration. In addition to her academic work, she is a former peer support specialist certified in the state of Michigan.
She facilitates the Antipsychotic Tapering Support Circle, serving as a supportive guide who has successfully deprescribed and is now thriving and fully re-engaged in life.
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Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor of Science, Grand Valley State University (in progress)
Peer Support Certificate, the state of Michigan
Associate of Arts, Grand Rapids Community College
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