Portrait of Tori McVay in a textured cream jacket and brown top
About Tori

Meet Tori.


Registered Nurse. Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. Founder of The Pathway Method™. Business Consultant. Model and Creator. Wife and Mom.

My mission: to help you stop guessing, understand your body, and move forward with confidence and clarity.

Tori is a Registered Nurse with over 11.5 years across clinical settings: critical care, urgent care, management and leadership, occupational health and safety, and functional medicine health and wellness. That experience still shapes how she approaches everything else — health education, patient experience, and what wellness actually looks like for the person in front of her.

Over time, her professional interests widened into whole-person health: foundational wellness, functional medicine education, and health coaching. She became a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach to work with people on the everyday side of health — habits, patterns, and the questions worth bringing to their own medical providers.

It’s an addition to conventional care, not a replacement for it. Coaching is education and support; diagnosis and treatment stay with a client’s medical team.

A laptop, notebook and books on The Pathway Method and functional medicine

Over time, Tori’s work expanded beyond individual health. Working inside healthcare and wellness businesses made her increasingly interested in what happens behind the scenes — patient experience, clinical workflow, communication, service design, and the systems that either make good care easier or get in its way.

That perspective now informs her independent consulting work with wellness businesses and the development of The Pathway Method™.

Creativity has always had a place alongside Tori’s clinical work. Modeling, beauty, lifestyle and content give her a different way to communicate — one that feels just as natural as the health and business side.

Today, she’s developing that work more intentionally through commercial and lifestyle modeling, wellness and beauty content, on-camera opportunities and select brand collaborations.

It’s not a separate persona. It’s another part of the same one.

Outside of all of it, Tori is a wife and a mom. That context isn’t incidental — it’s central. The work she does in health coaching, in consulting, in building The Pathway Method™, is informed by what it actually takes to live well when life is full.

She’s not selling a version of wellness that requires a cleared schedule and a private chef. She’s building something that works in the middle of everything else. Because that’s where most people actually live.

Tori McVay with her husband and son

Work With Tori

Health coaching, consulting, casting, or a collaboration — whatever brought you here, this is the place to start.