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 that fully abides by Catholic teaching. 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.
Through years of working with individual clients, small groups, schools, religious orders, and businesses, we have demonstrated that building a solid foundation in Christ always leads to the reform of soul and body. He must become the “why” in any journey toward healing and wholeness for true reformation.
Many wellness practices overemphasize nutrition, exercise, and body composition as though divorced from mental or spiritual health—or even in ways that conflict with Church teaching and our true well-being. At the same time, some Catholics prioritize soul care while neglecting physical health.
Yet God has made us both bodies and souls, each intended to support the other harmoniously. Our center must be Christ, so all life aspects are rightly ordered.
When it comes to wellness, Christ must become our “why,” so that all aspects of our life are rightly ordered.
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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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.
Board of Directors
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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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Bob has spent more than 30 years in the business world and has held leadership roles at startups. In 2015, he joined the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, and later served as Vice Provost. In 2021, he joined John Paul the Great Catholic University as Chief Academic Officer.
Bob now is focused on advising spiritual entrepreneurs and guiding these transformational leaders on their own journey. Bob earned his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife are co-founders of The Human Flourishing Project: Catalysts for the Next Apostolic Cycle.
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Cassie Panzenbeck MBA, AAMS™, CPFA® is a Catholic, wife, mother, and professional Financial Advisor. Cassie joined the Reform Board of Directors in 2024, and is an enthusiastic advocate for Christ-centered living.
Cassie lives in Woodbridge, Virginia with her husband, Bobby, and their three children (and counting…). When not spending time with her family or supporting Reform, Cassie can be found serving on the Board of Hearts of Joy International, volunteering with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church and the Junior League of Washington, and enjoying the company of her fellow Chi Omega alumnae.
Professionally, Cassie has a passion for teaching others how to be strategic with their financial resources. Clients look to Cassie for comprehensive financial plans to reach their goals - whether growing a business or non-profit, moving into their prime earning years, preparing for the reward of retirement, or focusing on their lasting legacy. Her areas of expertise include private and institutional investing, cash management, retirement plan management, exit/succession planning, and estate planning. Cassie holds multiple professional designations and is an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma (BBA) and the University of Texas at Austin (MBA).
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Ryan is proud to be a member of the Reform Alms Board and serves as the Board's secretary which coincides well with his day job as a partner with a government contracts boutique law firm. While it is one of several Catholic charitable boards to which Ryan offers his time and talents, Reform Alms is his favorite. He is especially excited about the possibility of a Eucharistic Wellness Center. In all of his free time, Ryan is a voracious reader, avid outdoorsman, mediocre woodworker, and rabid Notre Dame football fan.
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Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., is a professor of dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an assistant director of the Thomistic Institute.
The author of Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly, he holds a doctorate from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and regularly contributes to the podcasts Godsplaining and Pints with Aquinas.