Massachusetts

I work with parents and children to support them through adolescence to adulthood. I teach children how to be aware of diet culture and to respect their body, and act as a resource to help parents navigate their child's changing body.

I have 23 years of working in the field of eating disorders, so I approach talking with parents about food and feeding with a preventative angle and use HAES-informed and intuitive eating principles.

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.