Meet the Team

Leah Ruppel is an “EXPERT” in the health and fitness industry with a career spanning three decades. She uses a combination of skillsets to inspire, educate and support clients to be happy, healthy and fit…inside, outside and upside down.

Leah’s career has spanned over three decades with extensive experience in personal training, club management and ownership. Since selling her Health Club in 2013, Leah has pursued further education to better understand and service the ‘whole’ person. The majority of her work encompasses Life Coaching, Personal Training and Yoga, delving into the psychology behind lifestyle change and body transformation. She is passionate about inspiring, educating and supporting people’s journey to a healthier, happier and fitter state. Clients are sure to benefit from Leah’s expertise and energetic, positive delivery of knowledge and training principles. Success begins with the right mindset, a clear objective and consistent actionable steps, that incorporate accountability, encouragement and celebration.

• BCRPA Elite Personal Trainer/Trainer of Fitness Leaders
• Professional Life Coach, ICF
• NLP Master Practitioner
• Yoga Instructor (200 Hr)
• Course Facilitator at Infofit
• Published Author

Language: English

Specialties:

• General wellness
• fitness

Lynn loves to work with people who want a healthier lifestyle and believes that anyone can improve their health and wellbeing with skills and practice – small changes add up to big benefits!

Lynn previously worked as an X-ray tech and has Bachelor degrees in both Adult Development and Psychology from the University of Guelph. She trained to be a Wellness Coach at Wellcoaches Corporation, where they teach evidence-based methods to help clients make changes that are sustainable.

Lynn learned how to live well – mentally, emotionally, and physically – after overcoming a physical disease many years ago. She will help you achieve self-compassion and confidence so you can take care of your own health as well as you take care of others. Better health and wellbeing for you means better health and wellbeing for everyone!

Language: English

Lynn’s specialties help you to:

• Manage stress
• Set priorities and boundaries
• Be your own best friend
• Develop healthy lifestyle habits

Cynthia is a bilingual registered dietitian who is passionate to help clients improve their health and achieve their nutritional goals.

She graduated in 2014 from McGill University and received 2 bachelor’s degrees: BSc. in Physiology and BSc. in Dietetics.

Her philosophy is that healthy eating and goals are best achieved through small changes to current habits and not drastic changes. She strongly believes in breaking up large goals into smaller more manageable modifications.

Languages: English and French

Specialties:

• Weight Management
• Nutrition management of chronic health conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure
• Healthy eating habits

With over 20 years of health care experience, specializing in nutrition education, client counseling and behavior change, Anita is an energetic and skilled communicator.  Her clients describe her as a very compassionate, non-judgemental and empathetic person. 

Anita has a particular interest in motivating clients to improve their overall wellness through healthy eating, active living, and stress management strategies.   

Language: English

Anita’s specialties are:

• Weight management 
• Nutrition management of chronic health conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure
• Meal planning
• Emotional eating
• Goal setting

Meaghan is a Registered Dietitian who is passionate to help motivate clients to achieve their nutritional goals.

She is a qualified dietitian committed to helping people eat well and lead healthy lifestyles. As a dietitian, her desire is to increase public awareness that nutrition is an essential aspect in leading a healthy life. Her passion is to prevent and treat chronic diseases through nutrition.

She does not believe in diets, however, she believes in lifestyle modifications, where together we can adapt your nutritional needs to your everyday routine. It will be tailored to you! Meaghan develops and implements personal nutrition plans in order to attain fulfilling results. 

Language: English

Meaghan’s areas of expertise are:

• Weight management (weight loss/weight gain),
• Management of chronic health conditions (obesity, oncology, cholesterol, dyslipidemia, blood pressure),
• Healthy lifestyle change,
• Food allergies/Intolerances.

Sherry Matheson has coached hundreds of individuals on health and wellness.  Sherry is very passionate about coaching others who seek to live a healthy lifestyle from their strengths and to understand what gets in the way. 

She also provides motivational support with enthusiasm and education based on research along with her own personal experiences.  She assists clients in developing and implementing personal wellness plans in order to achieve long lasting and fulfilling results.

Language: English

Sherry’s specialties are:

• Stress and Time Management,
• Healthy Lifestyle Changes,
• Self-Compassion & Mindfulness;
• Emotional Eating; and
• Relationships

Jihane has over a decade of experience in biomedical research in both cancer and anti-aging research and has a PhD in health sciences. A Functional Health Coach, Jihane was trained in a healthcare model seeking to support people’s optimal biology to prevent chronic disease.

With a focus on longevity, Jihane has learned through evidence that age-related decline IS NOT inevitable. It’s the small daily actions and mindful choices that we take consistently that compound into greater health.

Curious, kind and intentional in her strategic conversations, Jihane will help you make these choices consistently so healthy habits become second nature.
She has a track record of helping busy professionals create a lifestyle that gives them the energy and the mental clarity to achieve more without sacrificing personal life.

Language: English, French

Jhane’s specialties are:

• Weight management without dieting
• Letting go of unhealthy habits
• Better handle stress
• Emotional Eating; and
• Mindfulness