Sarah Brannon Ph.D.: The Brain Health Coach

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Brain health science, translated into action.

You know that the choices you make today can influence your health and cognitive health as you age. But knowing what matters and knowing how to make lasting changes are two different things.

I provide individualized brain health coaching for adults who want to turn knowledge into action.

Together, we identify what matters to you, choose practical goals, and develop the skills and confidence to make changes that fit your life.

About Sarah

I am a brain-health scientist, public health practitioner, educator, and National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach.

My broader work brings together brain health science, health behavior, and public health, with a focus on translating what we know about healthy brain aging and dementia risk reduction into practical approaches people can use in everyday life.

Individual coaching is one part of this work, offering an opportunity to work directly with people who want to turn evidence into meaningful action in their own lives.

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Evidence-informed. Personal. Practical.

My approach draws on research in brain health, healthy aging, health behavior, and public health, together with evidence-informed health coaching.

I won’t give you a generic list of things you should do. Instead, we will work together to determine:

what you want to change
why it matters to you
what is realistic in your circumstances
what strategies are most likely to work for you
how to learn from experience and adapt when life gets in the way

The goal is not simply to make changes while we work together. It is to help you develop the skills to keep making healthy changes on your own.

Promoting healthy brain aging.

Research has identified a number of modifiable factors associated with cognitive decline and dementia risk. There is now a lot of information on this from a wide variety of sources. These risk factors can be challenging, but they also represent opportunities to take meaningful steps to support your brain health.

You don’t need to work on everything at once.

Coaching can help you identify the areas that matter most to you and take practical steps toward improving your health and protecting your brain as you age.

A broader aim.

Individuals, communities, healthcare.

Brain health coaching is one part of my broader work to help turn what we know about healthy brain aging into practical action.

Through The Healthy Brain Connection, I am also working to develop approaches that can help more people build the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to make meaningful changes in their own lives.

The same central challenge is at the heart of both efforts:

Knowing about healthy brain aging is not the same as knowing how to turn that knowledge into action.

Individual coaching provides personalized support for people who want to work on that challenge now. My broader work is focused on how evidence-informed approaches to behavior change and self-management can eventually be made practical, accessible, and sustainable across a wider range of settings.

These are complementary efforts. One focuses on working thoughtfully with individuals; the other looks toward building better ways to support healthy brain aging in communities and health care.

Supporting people today. Building better approaches for tomorrow.