About Coach Winona

I’m Winona Israel-Roberts, known in my work as Coach Winona, founder of IndigoKoi Wellness, LLC. I am a Certified Trauma-Informed Integrative Wellness Coach and Grief Counselor. My work brings professional training together with lived experience of autoimmune illness and grief.

I understand how illness can change more than your health. It can reshape your routines, independence, relationships, and the way you recognize yourself. For nine years, I lived with disability while navigating autoimmune disease. I learned to pay closer attention to my body, ask better questions, and understand wellness as something broader than symptoms, appointments, and diagnoses.

The experience behind my work

That experience helped shape IndigoKoi Wellness, LLC and my commitment to whole-person care. Nourishment, rest, emotions, relationships, environment, and daily habits are connected. When one part of life changes, the effects can reach much farther than we first realize.

My story is one experience; yours deserves its own understanding. We consider your circumstances, preferences, capacity, and the support already available to you. You deserve to be heard carefully and supported without being rushed.

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How I support you

I support adults navigating autoimmune and chronic illness, grief, caregiving, prolonged stress, emotional exhaustion, and changes in identity. Our work may include nutrition and lifestyle education, sleep and restorative routines, environmental wellness, reflection, boundaries, and rebuilding trust in yourself after illness or loss.

You decide what you are ready to share and which changes feel realistic. Together, we identify practical next steps that fit the life you are actually living. Support is available through individual wellness coaching, grief support, workshops and community programs, and guided journals and educational resources.

A different kind of wellness support

I do not believe people need more pressure disguised as wellness. They need information they can understand, guidance that respects their circumstances, and room to make thoughtful decisions without feeling that healing depends on doing everything perfectly.

Your experience matters. Illness, grief, and difficult transitions deserve acknowledgment without becoming the only way you understand yourself. Our work can help you recognize where you are now, what may support you, and what your next good decision might be.

Why a blue fish?

The name IndigoKoi Wellness, LLC carries a personal story about illness, change, and renewal. It reflects the experience that helped shape this practice and the hope I bring to the work.

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Begin where you are

You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin. If something in your health, your grief, or your life has been asking for more attention, we can begin there and consider the support that makes sense for this season.

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IndigoKoi Wellness, LLC provides wellness coaching, education, and grief support. Services are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace medical, psychological, or other licensed healthcare services.