It’s a positive, cutting edge approach that effectively addresses weight and overeating concerns, body image challenges and various nutrition related health concerns.

Rather than seeing your patients’ eating challenges merely as a sign that “something’s wrong with them” I work from a place that solidly supports them in exploring some of the personal dimensions in life that impact food, weight and health. Eating challenges are often connected to work, money, relationship, family, intimacy, or life stress. By working in the areas that are most relevant for your patients, success is more easily achieved. As an Eating Psychology coach, I support your client with coaching strategies and nutrition principles that are doable, sustainable, and that yield results.

It’s an empowering and transformational approach that’s designed for anyone who eats! Each of us has a unique, fascinating, and ever-changing relationship with food. Dynamic eating psychology affirms the primary importance of this relationship. It’s sees your patients’ challenges with eating, weight and health not as an indication that they’re broken, but as a beautiful opportunity to grow and evolve.

Previously, eating psychology has been limited to those with clinical eating disorders. Dynamic eating psychology is an updated approach for everyone, affirming that a relationship with food has important lessons to teach us if we choose to listen. It recognizes that any challenges with eating, weight and health are connected to some other primary life dimensions – relationship, family, money, work, sexuality, and our search for fulfillment.

Mind body nutrition advances the practice of clinical nutrition by exploring the psychophysiology of how thoughts, feelings and beliefs impact nutrition or metabolism and health. Originated by Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, it goes far beyond classical nutrition by focusing on the fascinating connections between brain, body, and behavior.

Simply put, what we eat is only half of the story of good nutrition. The other half is who we are as eaters. Mind body nutrition reveals how stress physiology, the relaxation response, breathing, awareness, pleasure, meal timing and more profoundly influence digestion and calorie burning. It offers practical and results oriented strategies for the most commonly seen eating challenges and health issues of our times.

For far too long we’ve been inundated by negative messages about food, weight and diet. Culturally we’ve been told that we’re will power weaklings or that we need more “control”. The majority of nutrition experts promote conflicting advice.

As a result, many intelligent and far from lazy individuals are profoundly confused about what to eat or how to have a relaxed and enjoyable relationship with food and body and a healthy metabolism. In my professional practice, I combine many of the best strategies from nutrition science and eating psychology. By eliminating the “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts”, I focus on what’s right for your patient’s body, their personal style and their current life circumstances. As we work together in this way, eating and health issues become a place of exploration.

Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self- improvement. I’ve learned to support clients in reaching their highest goals not by strategies that punish, but through strategies that sustainably nourish.