Credentials

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics {AND}

  • AND Dietitians in Medical Nutrition Therapy

  • AND Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine

• Academy of Eating Disorders {AED}

• International Foundation of Eating Disorder Professionals {iaedp}

  • iaedp Eating Disorders Treatment Facilitators 23-25’ Co-Chair

I have over a decade of feeding and eating disorder {ED} and co-occurring disorder experience. I began ED work in a community research program. I transitioned into inpatient clinical behavioral health for primary co-occurring disorders and secondary EDs in all stages of the life cycle and then into primary EDs at all levels of care including residential, partial hospitalization {PHP}, intensive outpatient {IOP}, and outpatient {OP}.

I have experience with and provide medical nutrition therapy for all ED diagnoses including avoidant restrictive food intake disorder {ARFID} and subtypes, anorexia nervosa {AN} and subtypes, bulimia nervosa {BN}, binge eating disorder {BED}, other specified feeding and eating disorder {OSFED}, unspecified feeding and eating disorder {UFED} as well as with orthorexia. Within EDs, I have worked with several co-occurring disorders such as neurodivergence (autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder {ADD}/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder {ADHD}, etc.), obsessive compulsive disorder, general anxiety and subtypes, general depression and subtypes, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, {complex}-post-traumatic stress disorder, body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, etc.

I have worked within several evidence-based therapeutic models of treatment within interdisciplinary medical and psychological treatment teams and prioritize collaboration of continuum of care as patients are stepping down from or need to step up to a higher level of care. I understand the unique ways in which EDs are developed and experienced biologically, psychologically, and socially and provide evidence-based medical nutrition therapy with an individual patient-centered approach to work collaboratively towards recovery.

In addition to EDs, I have worked within a medical system and have medical nutrition therapy experience in several medical conditions, and I understand the unique implications of the physiological and psychological interplay of nutrition and disease. I am Monash University trained in the disorder of gut-brain interaction, irritable bowel syndrome {IBS}, and I have experience in several other gastrointestinal conditions as well as with other morbidities. Many medical conditions overlap with disordered eating and EDs. I provide medical nutrition therapy and nutrition rehabilitation for simultaneous conditions.

When we understand and respect our nature, we will understand how to respectfully nurture holistic health & wellness that is sustainable.