Meet the Health Coach Institute Team

Alyssa is an executive coach and a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach specializing in leadership development and performance, with a strong emphasis on communication and emotional intelligence. As both a private coach and corporate consultant, she empowers professionals to manage stress effectively and increase self-awareness. Her work helps individuals bridge generational communication gaps, foster psychological safety, and promote overall well-being.

Her coaching style is grounded in building trusting relationships, offering honest feedback, and encouraging deep self-reflection. Alyssa is committed to continuous improvement and transformation, both in professional and personal settings. She is also a co-author of The Successful Mind: Tools to Living a Purposeful, Productive, and Happy Life, available on Amazon.

Priscilla Benavides, originally from Santiago, Chile, is a Life Transformational Coach and Energy Healer. She helps highly sensitive people, empaths, seekers, and coaches reclaim their energy, embrace their sensitivity, and live authentically. Using a holistic approach that integrates ancestral wisdom, the Enneagram, breathwork, meditation, and energy healing, she guides deep transformation and self-discovery.

Since 2017, Priscilla has inspired and guided numerous students at the Health Coach Institute, empowering them to unlock their full potential as transformative coaches. In addition to her mentoring work, she runs a private practice where she supports clients on their transformational journeys. Now based in the Pacific Northwest, she enjoys hiking, playing music, reading, writing poetry, and spending quality time with loved ones.

Sage Lee, Community mentor for Heart Warriors has spent a lifetime building communities. Sage has helped hundreds of business owners and entrepreneurs to create powerful, world-class brands. He also helps coaches create successful, sustainable businesses for themselves. Through The School for Wizards, helps individuals create more powerful and meaningful lives through the study of the Western Mystery Tradition. He has mastery of multiple coaching modalities, the study of metaphysics, and tarot archetypes, and uses these tools to help people understand the deepest levels of spirit and psyche and how they can be used to solve life’s most intractable problems. Sage is also an artist and writer, spending any spare time creating art.

Stacey Morgenstern is a Master NLP Practitioner and a leading figure in the coaching industry. With a passion for personal development and transformation spanning three decades, Stacey has been a full-time professional coach for 17 years, helping over 3,000 individuals achieve their health and wellness goals.

As the co-founder of Health Coach Institute and co-creator of Become a Health & Life Coach, Stacey’s influence in the industry is far-reaching. She founded and co-founded five successful coaching businesses, including Empowered Education, Holistic MBA, and Five Point Wellness.

Stacey’s expertise has earned her recognition from top publications such as Forbes Magazine, Yahoo, and Bustle. When she’s not coaching, Stacey wears many hats as a mom, yoga teacher, food lover, author, and spoken word artist. She resides on a beautiful 2-acre farm in the San Francisco Bay area, where she finds inspiration for her work and continues to make a positive impact on the world.

Carey Peters is the co-founder of Health Coach Institute, a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner. Since becoming a full-time professional coach over 17 years ago, Carey has channeled her passion for personal development into founding and co-founding 6 coaching businesses, helping to grow them to 6-figure, 7-figure and 8-figure revenues.

Carey guest starred in 25 episodes of the Yahoo web series “Reluctantly Healthy,” hosted by actress Judy Greer, and has been featured in Forbes Magazine, New York Magazine, Fitness Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, and more.

Prior to becoming a coach, Carey had a 15 year career as a professional actress and is a graduate of the prestigious Theatre School at DePaul University. When she’s not coaching, Carey loves theater, improvisation, and stand-up comedy. Carey lives with her husband and daughter in Chicago.

Brooke Jeffries is the Lead Instructor and Program Director of the HCI Pathway Program. She is also the lead instructor of Master Your Stress: Find The Calm Within. With a wealth of knowledge in nutrition, health, and coaching, Brooke is a Certified Nutritionist, National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and an advisor on the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching Program Approval Commission. Her passion for personal growth is infectious, and her expertise is unparalleled. Before joining HCI in 2019, Brooke managed a team of dietitian coaches, ran a successful private nutrition practice, and worked in corporate coaching. Over the past decade, she has mentored countless coaches in building robust coaching and clinical skills.

Brooke currently lives with her husband and son in the Houston area.

Andrea Nakayama is the founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance and guest expert in Master Your Stress. Andrea Nakayama is a renowned Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner (FNLP).

Andrea is an internationally known Functional Medicine Nutritionist, educator, and speaker who is leading a movement to transform the health industry into a system that works. She’s a Certified Nutrition Educator (CNE), Certified Nutrition Counselor (CNC), Certified Holistic Health Coach (CHHC) and provides her expertise on stress and its impacts on your body in this course.

Andrea currently resides in Portland, OR.