JULIE’S EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING…

Julie is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with 40 years of experience in working in the nutrition field in a variety of settings. She has worked in hospital and private practice settings, with individuals and groups, and on college and high school campuses.  She has worked with diverse individuals at all ages and stages to help them utilize the healing power of food to improve their health and their lives.

Julie originally studied nutrition at The University of Northern Colorado and completed her dietetic internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She also graduated from and is board certified by the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy. In addition she completed two esteemed Food As Medicine trainings through The Center For Mind-Body Medicine.

With this up to date, evidence-based, state of the art education Julie has found a additional meaning for the way she has always looked at “food as medicine”.

For years she has studied and integrated the psychology of eating into her work and has loved treating her patients with a keen understanding of psychological, spiritual and emotional aspects of our relationship to food and our bodies.  After decades of working with a strong psychological approach she recognized that her love of the science of nutrition was calling her back and she engaged deeply in Functional and Integrative Nutrition training.

What Julie offers is a culmination of her experience and training and a creatively integrated mix of approaches for a variety of health related issues including:

* Cardiovascular Disease, Metabolic Disease, Insulin Resistance and related disorders.

* Mood related disorders such as anxiety and depression, along with nutrition for disordered eating.

*Gut related disorders such as GERD, Celiac Disease and gluten sensitivity

*Nutrition and Lifestyle for optimal gut health as it relates to immune function, mental health, food cravings and more