• I offer a FREE Initial Consultation
• I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
• I am insured
• My geographical area of practice is North Carolina

With 40+ years of clinical experience, Karen Sanders is a Registered Nurse with Board Certifications in Advanced Holistic Nurse, and Health and Wellness Nurse Coach. She obtained a BSN from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and an MSN from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been in private practice as a Holistic RN Patient Advocate for the last 9 years. She has had diverse clinical, education and leadership positions including Critical Care, Nursing Education, Case Management, Clinical Informatics, and Hospital Administration. With a passion for helping others, Karen helps patients and families navigate the dysfunctional, healthcare system with less stress and more peace of mind. In 2019, she started a Training Institute course to teach nurses, with at least 8 years of experience, to go into private practice as Holistic RN Patient Advocates. She has lectured nationally with presentations on “Combining Holistic RN Patient Advocacy with Nurse Coaching,” “Nurse Coaching,” and “Holistic Nurse Coaching for Nurses who have made serious mistakes.” She has taught numerous courses to elders for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC on the power of advocating for self and loved ones in the healthcare system. For the last 5 years, she has offered annual and semi-annual, 3 to 5-month, Zoom courses, most recently approved for 42.0 contact hours, by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Center (AHNCC) to nine cohorts of experienced nurses in the US, and trained these RNs to become Holistic RN Patient Advocates in private practice. She has given numerous news interviews to Asheville Watchdog, Asheville Citizen Times and WLOS News, an ABC affiliate, about patient care concerns at one of the local hospitals, in Asheville, NC.With a passion for helping others, Karen helps patients and families navigate the dysfunctional, healthcare system with less stress and more peace of mind.
Having been born with a gift for understanding and navigating through darkness, Karen is able to, and has a deep passion for supporting others as they deal with crises and life challenges. A nurse is in this position when the demands of work and life become overwhelming. A patient or their family faces this when in pain and can’t, or doesn’t know how to, get the care they need.

As a Holistic Transitions Coach to Nurses, she understands and has deep compassion for the challenges of offering support to patients in crisis while dealing with the undervaluation of nursing and walking through your own life challenges. Her approach to coaching involves helping you understand the connection between mind, body, spirit and emotions to awaken the best of Who You Are and to help you step into the signature of your own soul.