I’m so glad you’re here! I’m guessing you’re ready to make some changes. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious about your eating, feeling out of control around food, or stuck in “analysis paralysis” about what to actually feed yourself everyday. Maybe you’re tired of the running tape inside your head berating your food choices or your body shape and size. Perhaps you’ve dieted on and off for years and you’re over it - you want to figure out how to nourish your body without counting and measuring your food and living by the number on the scale. You want anxieties about your body and food to take up less space in your brain so you can focus on what really matters to you. Perhaps you’re navigating life in a larger body and need a safe space to explore the complex emotions that entails. Maybe you’re curious about whether you have an eating disorder, or you’ve already been diagnosed with one and you know that having a nutrition professional on your team is crucial to your recovery.
I would love to offer my help and support. I’m a registered dietitian nutritionist (RD, or RDN - same thing!) specializing in working with disordered eating and body image concerns. I provide individualized, trauma-informed care aligned with the principles of Health at Every Size® and intuitive eating. My counseling approach is weight-inclusive, which means I don’t consider a person’s weight as a proxy for health and well-being, and I work with clients to feel better and build health-promoting habits in ways other than the pursuit of weight loss. I believe all foods fit, and that the majority of us can nourish our bodies adequately, peacefully, and joyfully by building trust in our own internal cues of hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and pleasure.
If you choose to work with me, you’ll be entering into a compassionate and collaborative relationship with a trained food and nutrition professional here to support you in making lasting changes to your eating habits and your relationship with food and your body. Together we’ll explore the roots of your beliefs and feelings around food, and we'll experiment with strategies for overcoming the barriers keeping you stuck, helping you build a lasting and trusting connection with your body (your home!). In addition to unbiased, science-based nutrition education, I draw from a variety of counseling approaches and techniques including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, somatic therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO-DBT), and internal family systems therapy (IFS).
At times, this can be difficult and uncomfortable work, but making peace with food may also be the most rewarding experience you allow yourself.
And yes, you deserve it.
A little more about me…
I’m a Philly native and that’s where I currently live, but both Pittsburgh and Atlanta have little pieces of my heart. I earned my bachelor’s degree in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. After working for several fun years in the field of restaurant operations for a restaurant group in Pittsburgh, I went on to earn my master’s degree in Human Nutrition from Drexel University in Philly, and I completed my dietetic internship at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, GA. I love cooking and trying new restaurants, and I’m an avid reader (I’m in two book clubs!). I love to travel, and recently cavorted with sheep and sipped pints of Guinness through Ireland. When home, I spend most of my free time snuggling and playing with and generally obsessing over my beagle, Frankie.
