Extreme cases of disordered eating are defined as Eating Disorders. Eating Disorders are serious medical illnesses marked by severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors and can affect people of all ages, racial/ethnic backgrounds, body weights, and genders.

How I Help:

I provide in-depth nutritional counseling, in-office food exposures and restaurant outings in a manner that traditional day programs are unable to provide

Restore physical and nutritional health by stabilizing and/or restoring one’s biologically appropriate weight, normalizing food habits, creating food variety, changing attitudes and beliefs, and correcting misguided notions about eating, food, body shape and size

If appropriate, collaboration with a client’s family on meal planning and establishing a supportive environment to promote weight restoration (if needed) and to help decrease eating disorder behaviors within the family dynamics

Individualized care plan depending on each person and eating disorder characteristics

Eating disorders in athletes have a higher overall prevalence than in the general population. Estimates vary greatly from study to study as the athlete type and sport is not consistent across the studies.

Strives to create a connection between sports, body image, and a healthy relationship

Providing athletes with necessary nutritional support to return to competition after a client is well enough with renewed energy, pursuing their sport in a healthy, balanced way

Aim to avoid the deficiencies or excesses that can hinder performance and general health while attaining the necessary energy intake for an athlete and to provide proper balanced nourishment of all macro and micronutrients

Create individualized meal plans for nutritional requirements which vary depending on age, gender and body composition, intensity, frequency and duration of the physical activity