MEET THE TEAM

WELLTHY SOUL CARE TEAM

YOUR PERSONAL WELLNESS ADVISORS

Layne Bruner, the founder of Wellthy Soul, uses her positive energy to inspire, motivate, and teach others how to fulfill their lives through health and joy. Layne is an American Council of Exercise Certified Health Coach and has teaching certifications for various branches of exercise. She uses this title to educate people about health and fitness topics through public speaking and publications in magazines, such as Austin Fitness Magazine. Layne holds a unique coaching style as she heavily incorporates mindful and spiritual practices. This approach stems from her belief that we cannot heal on the outside before we heal on the inside. Wellthy Soul ensures that wellness starts from within. This approach is how Layne has successfully helped clients lose 20 pounds in 8 weeks.

After 20+ years of professional dancing, Layne battled insecurity and self-doubt coupled with disordered eating. She broke this cycle with therapy, prayer, and soul work. Today, Layne uses this experience, combined with years of nutrition and fitness education training, to help people transform their lifestyles and live with more mobility, vitality, and fewer prescription drugs.

Today, Layne lives in Austin, TX, with her two boys and their dog. She spends her days coaching clients, teaching fitness classes, and spending time with family at the baseball fields or walking the trails.

Emily Parker, RDN, RD (Registered Dietitian nutritionist/Registered Dietician) is a nutritionist at Wellthy Soul. Emily writes individualized meal plans based on a client’s blood work panel and is available to educate and walk with our patients as their needs change from weight loss to maintenance to create long lasting lifestyle changes and help prevent lifestyle diseases. She joined the WS care team 2 years ago and loves assisting our clients with education and support. Emily studied Health Science with a focus in Nutrition at Keene State College. An avid sports fan, she was on the lacrosse team at Keene, so it’s no surprise that she continued her education by completing a Sports Nutrition rotation at Dartmouth College. Emily also has clinical experience from York Hospital in Maine, where she assessed nutritional needs for patients with a variety of conditions. In these and other experiences, Emily has worked with interdisciplinary teams to create nutritional plans, provide education and provide patients tools they can implement in their own self care.Emily loves to spend time outdoors running, hiking, and enjoying nature. She is a dog mom, a cat mom, and wants to rescue every fur baby she sees on the street.

MEDICAL CARE TEAM

Dr. Tenesha Wards, founder of the Infinity Way healing process and Medical Director at Infinity Wellness Center is a Holistic Doctor who concentrates on Fatigue, GI Issues, Women’s Hormone Issues from Pre/Post Menopause to Infertility, Headaches, Burnout, and Insomnia.

Dr. Wards is a published author, public speaker, wife, and mother while she runs her business healing women and men all over the world. Dr. Wards’ work is based on a fundamental principle that promoting health and wellness has no boundary. From earthquake relief work in Haiti to Cancer survivors in Guadalajara, Dr. Wards is committed to not just practicing locally, but globally. In addition to promoting health and wellness of the body, Dr. Wards also supports her community through leadership roles with the Texas Women in Business, and is a Guardian Angel for the Center of Child Protection.

Julie Bennett has been in the medical field for over 25 years. Specializing in Pediatric Oncology during the first decade of her career, she perfected the art of caring for the person as a whole. Julie also worked as an infusion nurse at the sub-specialty offices next to Dell Children’s Hospital, perfecting her skills for starting peripheral IVs on difficult and tiny veins for the next decade of her career. Julie found herself involved in “the world of aesthetic lasers” by 2009, starting her leap into aesthetics. Julie is a nurse trainer for a large aesthetic laser company and travels the United States teaching physicians how to use lasers.

Graduating in 2019 with her Masters of Science in nursing in the specialty program of Family Nurse Practitioner, Julie expanded her work in the anti-aging and wellness arena. Gaining certifications through Elite Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Julie is able to draw blood work, interpret values, and implement wellness plans that incorporate both traditional and functional wellness programming.