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If you’re here you probably want to know more about me or my journey to becoming a dietitian in this field.

As is the case with many dietitians and therapists who work in the eating disorder space, I had my own struggles with body image and disordered eating.  As someone who spent a lot of their childhood as a larger person, I encountered a lot of weight stigma and body shame that I didn’t fully understand at the time. I was able to understand though was, that my body, as it was then, was not an acceptable size and that I should do everything I could to change that.

What followed this realization was over a decade of overexercising, food restriction, binge eating and shame. I now am grateful for this experience in hindsight, as it allows me to empathize with my clients on a deeper level in our sessions.

 In college I worked for a year as a diet aide in a residential eating disorder recovery center where, for the first time, I experienced myself and my own struggles with food and body reflected back to me in the clients I saw and worked with every day. That’s when I realized how much I had been struggling and suffering and that it was not normal. This experience completely reshaped how I saw myself, how I interacted with food, my body and ultimately how I would practice as a dietitian. Through the remainder of college and my dietetic internship I worked on my own relationship with food and exercise in addition to all of my coursework and field-study. Once I became a dietitian I tried all different types of work: the hospital, a substance use rehab facility and another private practice for eating and feeding disorders. All the while, I continued to learn more about eating/feeding disorders, intuitive eating, health at every size, weight bias and neutrality, fat positivity and liberation, and how the systems we live in shape our relationship with food, our bodies and how we move through life. 

I am SO thankful now for my own journey with food and my body because it has given me the drive and the tools to navigate my own relationships with each, AND to walk with my clients through their own journey. My hope is that I–as your dietitian– can provide gentle guidance around eating, feeding and nutrition through your journey.

It would be my privilege to walk alongside you in solidarity and support as you navigate your vision of health, wellness and a relationship with food. Together, we can find a way to navigate the systems that are designed to make us feel ashamed of eating and our bodies. We can understand how diet culture keeps us occupied with our appearance. Above all else we can do more than just survive, together, we can find out what it means for you to thrive.

Ready to work together?

“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely,

that when others see us, they know exactly how it should be done.”

-Rudy Francisco

  • “Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.”

    Dr. Anita Johnston

  • “Recovery is a challenge, but it’s not as difficult as continuing to live the wrath of an eating disorder.”

    Unknown

  • “Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.”

    Evelyn Tribole, Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works

  • "If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and body shame. We are inherently worthy because we exist, not because of what we look like."

    Chrissy King, The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom

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Scope of practice - California and Oregon