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Why Work With a Functional Health Coach for Lyme, Mold & CIRS?

Mold Illness & CIRS
November 28, 2025•2 min read

Why Work with a Functional Health Coach for Lyme, Mold Toxicity, CIRS, and Other Complex Illnesses by Heather Sunderland

When you’re dealing with complex chronic conditions like Lyme disease, mold toxicity, or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), healing isn’t always straightforward. Sometimes, hidden pieces like H. pylori or SIBO and unknown toxins from water-damage exposure can quietly sabotage progress. The traditional healthcare model often overlooks these nuances, but a functional health coach is trained to see the whole picture.

Root-Cause Approach

Rather than chasing symptoms, functional health coaches dig deeper to uncover the underlying causes of illness from immune dysregulation, toxic overload, gut infections and dysbiosis, nervous system imbalance, and stealth pathogens.

Personalized Support & Strategy

No two healing journeys are alike. And who better to guide you than someone who has walked through this journey? A coach crafts a customized plan that can include:

  • Nutritional guidance

  • Detox and drainage support

  • Lifestyle adjustments

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Gentle, targeted protocols for hidden infections

  • Supplement timing and tolerability

  • Mindset support and shifts

  • Education around your labs

  • Guidance on testing your home and body for mold

Time & Attention You Deserve

With more time to listen, educate, and support you, coaches provide the safe space many chronic illness clients have been missing.

Gentle, Sustainable Healing

Sensitive or reactive clients benefit from a slow, step-by-step approach that minimizes setbacks while steadily moving toward health.

Education & Empowerment

You’ll understand how your body works, what’s driving your symptoms, and how to be an active partner in your recovery rather than just following generic protocols.

Consistency & Accountability

Healing is a process. A coach keeps you on track with ongoing support, encouragement, and adjustments as your body’s needs change.

Mind-Body Integration

Addressing the emotional toll of chronic illness is essential. Coaches incorporate mindset work and nervous system regulation to support whole-person healing.

The Bottom Line

If you’ve addressed mold, Lyme, CIRS or other complex chronic illnesses but still feel stuck, there may be missing pieces like hidden infections standing in your way. A functional health coach helps you uncover and address these layers with strategy, compassion, and hope, walking with you every step of the way.

And who better to walk alongside you as a guide than someone who has walked through this journey already and restored their health from 22 years of undiagnosed Lyme, Bartonella, and a lifetime of unknown mold exposure.

If you are ready and 100% committed to your healing journey and are looking to move the needle in your journey, schedule a complimentary strategy call.

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Heather Sunderland

Heather Sunderland is a board-certified Functional Health Coach, founder of Health Coaching by Heather, LLC, and co-owner of Navigating Mold and CIRS, LLC. After spending nearly three decades searching for answers to her mysterious symptoms, she later discovered she had undiagnosed Lyme disease and mold toxicity. She now dedicates her work to helping others shorten that journey. Her mission is simple: to bring hope, clarity, and direction to those facing complex chronic conditions and to help them reclaim their health by removing blocks to healing and restoring balance, step by step. Heather specializes in supporting individuals who feel dismissed, overwhelmed, or stuck in their healing process due to mold toxicity, Lyme disease, or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Her approach focuses on nourishing the body, supporting drainage pathways, regulating the nervous system, restoring mitochondrial energy, promoting gentle detoxification, gut repair, and addressing the body’s full pathogenic load, so clients can finally understand what’s happening in their bodies and begin to feel like themselves again.

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