About this Service

🌀 Integrative Health Coaching: (Mind-body coaching, behavior change, resilience building, life transition support)

At Root to Fruit Health & Well-Being Coaching, I offer a trauma-informed, culturally responsive coaching experience that helps clients reconnect with their own wisdom, strengthen their resilience, and cultivate meaningful change across all areas of well-being.

Through a whole-person approach rooted in the Duke Integrative Health Coaching Model, clients are supported in clarifying what matters most, identifying small but powerful action steps, and retraining the brain and body toward habits that align with their unique values and vision of well-being.

This is not a prescriptive model. Together, we co-create a brave, nonjudgmental space to explore how you can thrive—not just survive—in a world that demands so much from caregivers and changemakers like you.

I work with clients virtually, so I can meet you where you are, regardless of where you are in your journey or where you reside geographically. Reach out to inquire about in-person workshops.

About this Lister

Hi, I’m Tab Lopez, an Integrative Health Coach and creative wellness practitioner based on the East Coast (New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Southwest Florida).

I’m deeply passionate about supporting those who pour into others—caregivers, educators, artists, activists, and social service providers. After navigating burnout and job loss myself due to funding cuts in the nonprofit sector, I turned toward coaching as a way to heal, grow, and offer grounded support to others walking similar paths.

I believe in coaching as a sacred partnership that honors each person's lived experience and deep inner capacity for transformation.

Background and Expertise

I’ve been holding space for individual and collective transformation for nearly a decade now, beginning in community-based arts, education, and nonprofit leadership. My journey into Integrative Health Coaching began as a response to burnout and a deep desire to more directly support the well-being of those working at the frontlines of social, cultural, and emotional labor.

I hold a Master of Arts in Applied Theatre, and this foundation continues to shape my coaching in powerful ways. Applied theatre taught me to listen deeply, center imagination and embodiment, and engage people as experts in their own lived experience—all practices that mirror the core principles of health and well-being coaching.

Early in my career, I focused on train-the-trainer type work using theatre-based tools to support Master of Social Work students in developing cultural responsiveness, empathy, and critical reflection. These same tools—creative inquiry, role play, visualization, and embodied learning—are now part of my evolving coaching methodology, allowing clients to engage change not just cognitively, but somatically and emotionally.

I am a Duke-trained Integrative Health Coach, and I’m honored to be mentored by instructors and practitioners at the forefront of whole-person care, including those whose work bridges behavior change science, mindfulness, and trauma-informed practice. I’m especially grateful for the teaching lineage of Duke Health & Well-Being, and for my colleagues in theatre and community-based cultural work who have helped me envision a practice rooted in creativity, justice, and healing.

Today, I bring this hybrid skillset into my work with caregivers, cultural workers, and community-based professionals—guiding them to rediscover their own resilience, clarify what matters most, and create meaningful, sustainable transformation in their lives.