Reform is a Christ-centered wellness practice dedicated to helping you reclaim health as the state of your body and soul.
We help you build the foundation for a life that is whole and holy—the life of abundance for which you were made.
We provide Christ-Centered Care
Reform is a Christ-Centered Wellness Apostolate and Functional Health Practice rooted in Christ. We are a team of naturopathic doctors, educators, creatives, and religious, who are dedicated to helping you reclaim health as the state of your body and soul. We abide by all of the teachings of the Catholic Church, without exception.
Many of today’s wellness practices overemphasize physical health—nutrition, exercise, and body composition—without addressing an individual’s mental or spiritual state. Sometimes their recommended practices are in conflict with the teachings of the Church, making them contrary to our true health and well-being.
At the same time, some members of the Church prioritize the care of their soul while neglecting their physical health. Because God has made the human person a composite of body and soul, we know that true health will involve not merely a balance of both body and soul, but their harmony.
When it comes to wellness, Christ must become our “why,” so that all aspects of our life are rightly ordered.
Through the Years
Our Team
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Reform was founded and started by Jackie. She now serves Reform as Chief Executive Officer. After years of tireless striving, stress, and compromised health as a result of her lifestyle, Jackie found her identity, healing, and wholeness in God. She found a more simple way; a way centered in faith, wellness, and freedom. Now, she is devoted to helping others find the same.
Combining her passions of wellness, faith, and education, Jackie works with clients locally and around the world. Along the way, she discovered that one of her greatest passions was helping others build stronger connections to themselves, their health, and their faith through wellness at every level: physical, emotional and spiritual.
Through working with a variety of individual clients, religious orders, corporations, and educational institutions across the globe and observing a number of habits and cultures, Jackie found the common denominator: others were striving to find their way to be fully alive in Christ, in body, mind, and soul. Her personal practice grew into Reform.
As a holistic nutritionist, wellness practitioner and experienced educator, Jackie has paired her personal experience with her professional knowledge to create a program that innovatively merges faith and functional health. The information and tools she shares grows from her life experiences and education: Master of Business Administration, Master of Secondary Education, Bachelor of Art in Languages, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Nutritionist Consultant, former NYS Certified Spanish teacher.
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Dr. Bridget is Reform’s Chief Wellness Officer. As a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine with an undergraduate degree in philosophy, Dr. Bridget educates Reformers on holistic health and the true integration of body and soul through online courses, webinars, and seminars. Bridget was drawn to natural medicine by her desire to honor the glory of God’s creation and the wonder of the human body.
She first discovered her desire to serve others through caregiving, a skillset she learned growing up in a family of nine siblings. She is passionate about helping others discover sustainable ways of living in accord with the rhythms of nature.
Dr. Bridget was trained in an integrative primary care setting with a focus on the management of pediatric and women’s health concerns.
“I believe Christ-centered wellness is the only way to truly be well. We cannot be well apart from Him. He invites us to more and desires for us to live whole and holy lives with Him.”
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Maura is the first person that clients encounter when they inquire about Reform and supports and encourages Reformers throughout their time in the community.
Maura’s chief focus is helping to guide clients through Reform's offerings and assisting them in discerning the best next steps for their well-being.
Maura is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, and she was a Reform student before joining the team. All of this means that she is more than equipped to help community members with their journey toward whole-person health.
“I believe that we were created to live life in abundance. Living with Christ at the center of our lives is the only way to find the meaning, healing, and restoration that each of us deeply desire.”
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Anna supports Reform’s day to day business operations, including backend processes, financial analysis, forecasting and reporting as the Finance Manager. In a word, her behind-the-scenes work ensures that Reform can continue to deliver wellness resources of the highest quality to this community.
Anna has an accounting and business degree as well as a CPA certification. Before joining Reform, she worked in finance in a corporate setting, and most recently, owned and operated her own fitness studio. In addition to her work at Reform, Anna is a wife and mother to three daughters.
“I am drawn to Christ-centered wellness because any sustainable change and true healing has to be rooted in Him. When we strive for the world, we come up empty.”
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Camille is the creative behind Reform’s marketing and design. If you are moved by the beauty of a Reform’s email, social media post, or product, she’s had a hand in creating it.
Camille has a B.A. in communications with a specialization in digital media, branding, and design. Before joining Reform, she worked in corporate marketing and has supported a variety of organizations offering online education.
As a designer, wife, and mother of a toddler, Camille says that living the Reform way of life is a dance but is encouraged that reformation happens “little by little.”
“I am drawn to Christ-centered wellness because I have encountered the Lord. I’m a better wife, mom, daughter, and human being when I am growing and contributing in every area of my life. I believe we are entrusted with crafting our own lives into a work of art. Christ-centered wellness is the road there.’
Our Spiritual Advisors
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Fr. Innocent Montgomery is Reform’s Chaplain and a Reform Leader. He was instrumental in Jackie's journey to build Reform even as he experienced his own reformation. Outside of his work with Reform, Fr. Innocent serves with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal as the Local Superior for St. Joseph Friary in Harlem, NY.
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Prior to priestly life Fr. Barry Braum worked as an artist and graphic designer. Following his ordination, he served as a retreat director and has given many Eucharistic parish missions across Europe, Australia, Africa, and the United States. He earned an STL in Dogmatic Theology and is working on his doctoral dissertation through the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He also serves as chaplain to the Tyburn convent in London.
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Fr. John is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and served in the United States Navy Reserve. He was ordained in 2005 and currently serves as the General Vicar of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in the Bronx, NY. After experiencing brain fog and low energy following a 12-year assignment in Central America, Fr. John became a Reformer and experienced his own physical and spiritual transformation.
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After graduating from The Catholic University of America with a degree in nursing and working in intensive care, Sr. Agnus Dei entered the Sisters of Life in 2007. She and her sisters care for women who are pregnant, support those in crisis, and foster a Culture of Life through evangelization and retreats. Sr. Agnus Dei currently serves as the postulant director.