Holly Teal Bridges Lifestyle Education and Clinical Care

For ACHS alumna Holly Teal, the journey into holistic well being was each deeply private and profoundly purposeful. Holly graduated from ACHS with a Certificate in Wellness Consulting, Diploma in Herbal Studies, Diploma in Holistic Health Practice, and a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Sciences. With a robust want to bridge the hole between way of life training and whole-person wellness, she turned to ACHS to assist deliver her imaginative and prescient to life.

What stood out instantly to Holly was ACHS’s science-focused, accredited curriculum, which seamlessly integrates pure well being ideas with evidence-based studying. “The fact that ACHS is accredited speaks volumes to the quality of education,” she shares. “Each class built upon the next, giving me practical tools I still use with my clients today.”

Building a Wellness-Centered Business Model

Today, Holly co-leads a wellness consulting apply Hephzibah Health Solutions, LLC, which blends her partner’s skilled background in Clinical Pharmacy along with her background in early childhood training and neighborhood wellness consulting. Hephzibah Health Solutions provides holistic way of life training, empowering purchasers to domesticate stability in each thoughts and physique. Services embody wellness consulting, way of life steerage, natural drugs, aromatherapy, and consulting and training, in addition to research-based assist plans tailor-made to every particular person. 

Rather than a one-size-fits-all method, her work facilities on partnership. “I see myself as a co-pilot,” she explains. “The client is in the driver’s seat of their wellness journey, and we navigate the path together.” By integrating consulting and training, purchasers are supported in constructing sustainable way of life habits, the inspiration of lasting wellness and transformation.

Education That Turned Into Community Impact

Even earlier than enrolling at ACHS, Holly had the concept for a life-style training program. What ACHS supplied was the construction, confidence, and instruments to broaden that concept right into a significant neighborhood useful resource. Through coursework, case research, and hands-on assignments, many centered on holistic stress administration, Holly developed a complete instructional program rooted in motivational interviewing, individualized care plans, and sensible workbooks. 

Her program started as an extension of prior work and grew right into a collaborative effort with a neighborhood nonprofit. She just lately launched a Holistic Lifestyle Education program, that includes her on-line Stress Resiliency course, out there on her web site. She additionally provides small-group and individualized wellness training, with plans to incorporate reside neighborhood courses and workshops sooner or later. “It’s about sewing seeds into people’s lives,” she says. “We ask thoughtful questions: what feels hardest, what feels easiest, and why does this matter to you? That’s where real motivation lives.” 

Foundational coaching in aromatherapy and herbalism, mixed with teaching expertise, allowed her to design wellness plans that mirror real-world case research, personalized, compassionate, and grounded in real care. 

A Student Experience Rooted in Resilience

Her ACHS expertise was formed by actual life. As a stay-at-home mother of three, balancing a toddler, preschooler, and preteen on the time, college required dedication, flexibility, and perseverance. “Almost every paper I wrote centered on holistic stress management,” Holly displays. “I was building tools to help myself, and in the process, I was building tools to help others.”

That dedication paid off: Holly graduated with a 4.0 GPA, deeply appreciative of ACHS’s supportive studying surroundings and sensible assets. She continues to reference assignments, quizzes, and course supplies in her skilled work as we speak.

Advice for Future ACHS Students

Her recommendation for present and potential college students is heartfelt and sensible:

“Jump into your classes with both feet. Every assignment shapes your professional style. Take BUS 101. It completely transformed how I structured our business. Write down your vision and your ‘why,’ because you’ll need it when things get hard. Learn from others who have gone before you. Mentorship is invaluable.”

Holly’s story is a robust instance of how ACHS alumni are reworking training into impression, bridging science, compassion, and lifestyle-based care to assist true therapeutic, restoration, and hope.