Lyn McCright MPH, ANP, GNP, CNS,AHN-BC, HWNC-BC is Director of Advancing Holistic Health coaching program. Her MPH in Nursing is from the University of MN, and her BSN from the University of Arkansas.

Lyn is an Adult and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, and a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing.

She began coaching in 1986, , teaching resilience based on the Principles of The Resilience Paradigm in her private practice in Monterey, Calif. She later founded Health Consulting and Lyn McCright Consulting in Texas.
Lyn’s nursing experience includes working as a medical-surgical staff nurse, and in ICU-CCU, nursing education, public health, and as a supervisor in home health and hospice. She has also been a clinical instructor in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at El Paso.



Teresa Walding RN, BSN, Nurse Coach–Board Certified, is a faculty member of Advancing Holistic Health coaching program. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boise State University. In her early career, she worked as an ICU charge nurse, and a head nurse in rehabilitation and psychiatric units. Other experience includes working as a staff nurse, previously in pediatric home health, and currently in post-anesthesia recovery.


In the field of nursing, Teresa has been an entrepreneur, a presenter, a teacher and a bedside clinician. As a holistic nurse, she has studied and used a variety of complementary and alternative modalities for nearly two decades.

Teresa is the first graduate of Advancing Holistic Health coaching program, and she has successfully completed the Board Certification Exam in Nurse Coaching through AHNCC in 2016. Since 2011, she has served as the co-leader of the Central Texas Chapter of The American Holistic Nurses Association.