For Healthcare Providers & Practitioners

A Trusted Coaching Partner for PATIENTS

Life 2 Unfold offers compassionate, practical, trauma-informed health & life coaching that complements clinical care, helping your patients and clients find clarity, rebuild confidence, and move forward with purpose.

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Why Partner With Us

Care That Continues Beyond the Appointment

You see it every day: patients who are physically on the mend but still feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward. Life changes, health diagnoses, burnout and transitions can leave people needing more support than a short appointment allows.

As a coach, Vanessa Dodds works alongside practitioners and insurers to provide that extra layer of support, helping clients set meaningful goals, build healthy habits and stay accountable at a pace that feels right for them.

Who we collaborate with & how We Support whole person care

Ways We Can Work Together

Flexible coaching solutions. Centered around personal well-being, health-related life adjustment, and forward movement. Coaching designed to complement the care you already provide to your patients

Healthcare Practitioners

Refer patients for whole-person coaching that supports their well-being and helps them move forward alongside your care plan.

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Insurers & Case Managers

Structured coaching programs that support return-to-work goals, rehabilitation journeys, and long-term well-being, with clear outcomes and progress updates.

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Allied Health Teams

Complement your care with whole-person coaching that helps clients move forward between appointments.

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What Your Clients Gain

Clarity

A clear sense of direction and priorities

Confidence

Renewed trust in their own abilities

Accountability

Consistent support to follow through

Purpose

Living with intention after change

What You Gain as a healthcare provider

patient engagement

Greater clarity around personal goals, priorities, and participation in life beyond treatment

self-management

Greater confidence in navigating everyday challenges and changing health circumstances

action & follow-through

Support translating goals into realistic steps and sustained forward movement

person-centered support

Nonclinical support for life adjustment, personal well-being, and what comes next.

Meet Vanessa

A Professional You Can Refer With Confidence

Vanessa Dodds is a trauma-informed health and life coach and founder of Life 2 Unfold. She coaches adults beyond active crisis whose lives have been changed or are continually shaped by illness, injury, diagnosis, or health trauma, plus parents and guardians navigating the impact of a child’s health circumstances.

Vanessa helps people reconnect with who they are beyond their health circumstances, clarify what matters now, and define what they want next as they build toward what is still possible. Her philosophy is simple: your story is still yours to unfold.

As an HCI Certified Life Coach and NBC-HWC board certification candidate, Vanessa brings 22 years of executive leadership and behavior-change experience, along with a personal understanding of navigating life through significant, ongoing health challenges since her diagnosis at age 8.

Vanessa brings professional experience and awareness of her personal health condition to her practice, helping your patients supplement clinical care with supportive services for a whole-person approach. She works with clients/patients where they are emotionally and helps align their future aspirations with what is possible and their core values to amplify lasting personal change, health, and well-being outcomes.

Is coaching a replacement for clinical care?

No. Coaching complements medical and therapeutic treatment by focusing on goals, motivation, and practical next steps. As an integrated partner with healthcare organizations and practitioners, Vanessa helps patients navigate behavioral, emotional, practical, and life changes while doctors, PAs, nurses, and PTs/OTs focus on clinical care.

How does the referral process work?

Simply email a referral directly to Vanessa at vanessa@life2unfold.com.

🏥 Step 1. Practitioner initiates referral

The healthcare professional submits the minimal referral through an approved secure channel. No medical records are required.

Referral link: Life 2 Unfold | Healthcare Practitioner Referral – Fill out form

📞 Step 2. Brief practitioner-to-Vanessa phone conversation

A 10- to 15-minute call to understand the general referral need, determine whether Life 2 Unfold may be appropriate, and clarify next steps. Securely collect patient PHI information to proceed.

🗣️ Step 3. Direct conversation with the prospective client

Vanessa calls the patient and sets up a Discovery Call.

📋Step 4. Secure client intake

After confirming fit, complete coaching agreements, privacy notices, appropriate consents, and relevant intake documentation through a verified, secure portal.

Are sessions available online?

Yes. Sessions are conducted virtually online and by phone, making support accessible wherever your patients are.