Massachusetts

I specialize in helping clients break free from chronic dieting, all levels of disordered eating, and food and body concerns. My approach draws from intuitive eating, mindfulness, non-judgment and the Health at Every Size principles. I offer non-diet and non-weight focused nutrition counseling. I help my clients understand their roadblocks and discover the inner resources that allow them to find a path forward to a healthy, sustainable and nourishing relationship with food and body. I work with parents, adolescents, young adults and adults. I support parents as the first line of support to help their children develop positive attitudes around food, activity and body.

In my practice, I provide virtual nutrition therapy and coaching for teens, adults and families in the US and Europe who are struggling with food, exercise and/or body image concerns. As a Certified Intuitive Eating counselor and student of Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility, my nutrition therapy and coaching services are rooted in a weight inclusive, Healthy at Every Size Approach. I utilize hands-on approaches like meal support, therapeutic modalities like Exposure and Response Prevention and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and nutrition education to help teens and families harness their individual and collective strengths to create a nourishing relationship with food, body and eating.

We start by unpacking the feelings and emotions attached to their child's relationship with food and body. We then start to explore health, explaining that restricting calories, overexercising, limiting certain foods, labeling foods as good vs. bad can do more harm and actually lead to poor health (mental and physical) longterm. We support our clients in finding joy in movement, practicing gentle nutrition without restrictions and shifting the focus away from the scale and perceived ideas of what their bodies are "supposed" to look like based on toxic diet culture messaging and maybe even mixed messages from their child's physician.

In my practice, I provide virtual nutrition education and medical nutrition therapy for children, adolescents and adults with a nutrition related medical or mental health concern. My specialties include eating disorders, child, adolescent and family nutrition as well as clinical supervision for healthcare providers. My philosophy is firmly rooted in Ellyn Satter’s evidence based feeding dynamics and eating competence models as well as the principles of Health At Every Size®. These are the only philosophies that offer humane, non-harming nutrition education for human beings from birth through adulthood. They are also the only philosophies where how we feed our children also reconciles with how we feed our adults of all body sizes, races and genders including those in eating disorder recovery.