Meet Ashle (she/her)

A nurse, professor, health and wellness nurse coach, certified personal trainer, and human being, who deeply believes in your capacity for growth and renewal.

With nearly 10 years of bedside nursing experience and a master’s degree in nursing with an adult-geriatric acute care focus, I’ve walked alongside people through crisis, burnout, and major life transitions. What I’ve learned is that well-being isn’t one-dimensional. It’s emotional, behavioral, physical, and personal.

I created The Ember Within Coaching, LLC to offer a space that meets you where you are with compassion, clarity, and actionable support. I am passionate about helping people find their embers within. Working in partnership, you’ll reconnect with your body and inner wisdom to stoke the flame and reignite passion, vitality, confidence, joy, power, and self-compassion!

Credentials & Training

  • Registered Nurse with nearly 10 years of experience

  • Masters of Science in Nursing- Adult-Geriatric Acute Care

  • Nurse Coach Program Completion at Integrated Nurse Coach Academy (INCA)

What is a Nurse Coach?

A Nurse Coach is a registered nurse who has advanced training in whole-person healing, behavior change, and supportive partnership. Nurse coaches blend clinical knowledge with trauma-sensitive, evidence-informed coaching skills to help clients make meaningful, sustainable changes in their well-being.

Instead of focusing only on goals or motivation, nurse coaching looks at the entire human experience—your nervous system, your environment, your health history, your routines, your strengths, and the inner wisdom you already carry. We explore your body’s cues, your values, your energy patterns, and the deeper layers of what you want for your life.

Nurse coaching is collaborative, regulated, and grounded in the nursing scope of practice. It supports your physical, emotional, mental, and lifestyle well-being without diagnosing, prescribing, or replacing licensed medical or mental health care.

What Makes Nurse Coaching Unique?

  • Nurse coaching is grounded in clinical knowledge, whole-person care, and trauma-sensitive support. While life coaches can be helpful, nurse coaching offers a more regulated, health-informed approach to wellbeing.

  • Nurse coaches are licensed healthcare professionals trained in anatomy, physiology, disease patterns, medications, and stress physiology. Life coaching does not require clinical training or licensure.

  • Nurse coaching supports the mind, body, nervous system, and environment—not just mindset or motivation. Life coaching often emphasizes goals and reframes but may not address physical or emotional regulation.

  • Nurse coaches are trained in behavior change science, motivational interviewing, trauma-sensitive communication, nervous-system regulation, and holistic nursing frameworks. Life coaching certifications vary widely and are not regulated.

  • As a registered nurse, I follow nursing ethics, HIPAA privacy standards, professional boundaries, and trauma-informed practices. Life coaches are not held to healthcare regulatory standards.

  • Nurse coaching honors capacity, burnout, neurodivergence, trauma history, and fluctuating energy. Life coaching can be more performance-based or future-focused.

  • You receive support that is clinically informed, gentle, collaborative, and paced with your nervous system. You are not pushed or judged—you’re supported in exploring what feels possible, safe, and aligned for you right now.

What Nurse Coaching Is— and Is Not

  • Nurse coaching is future-focused and supportive, but it is not psychotherapy. Therapy explores and treats mental health conditions, trauma processing, and emotional disorders. Nurse coaching offers grounding, insight, and behavior change support without diagnosing, treating, or processing clinical mental health concerns.

  • Nurse coaching does not replace mental health treatment or psychiatric care. If you need clinical support for anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health conditions, you will be referred to the appropriate licensed provider. Coaching can complement mental health care, but it is not a substitute for it.

  • Nurse coaching does not provide medical assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. I do not prescribe, manage medications, or replace your primary care provider. Instead, nurse coaching focuses on lifestyle, habits, nervous-system regulation, wellness, and self-advocacy—working alongside your existing medical care, not in place of it.

  • Coaching can help you understand your goals, build routines, reduce overwhelm, and make lifestyle changes that support your health. But it does not serve as medical advice or mental health treatment. Think of nurse coaching as supportive guidance that complements, not replaces, your licensed clinicians.

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