GLP-1 medications have changed the landscape of metabolic and weight-related care. Reduced appetite and changes in food intake can make it harder to meet your nutritional needs, maintain muscle and bone health, and develop eating patterns that support your long-term well-being.
How Nutrition Counseling Can Help
Our work will be tailored to your needs, health history and goals. Depending on your circumstances, we may focus on:
- Nutritional adequacy and muscle health: Meeting your protein, energy and other nutrient needs despite reduced appetite, while supporting muscle and bone health and overall nutritional status.
- Metabolic and whole-person health: Considering blood sugar regulation, cardiovascular health, digestive function, relevant laboratory findings and other factors that influence your health.
- Digestive symptoms and food tolerance: Finding practical ways to nourish yourself if nausea, constipation, reflux or other gastrointestinal symptoms make eating more challenging.
- Your relationship with food and your body: Exploring food fears, body dissatisfaction, restrictive eating patterns or a history of disordered eating with sensitivity and without judgment. Mindful eating and other individualized approaches may help you reconnect with your needs and preferences as your experience of hunger, fullness and food changes.
- Long-term health and eating patterns: Building nutritional knowledge, food skills and eating patterns that support your health throughout treatment and over time, with attention to your evolving needs and goals.
Support That Respects Your Goals and Choices
People approach GLP-1 medications for different reasons and have different experiences along the way. You may feel positive about treatment, have mixed feelings, or be navigating conflicting advice from social media and other sources. Whether you’re beginning treatment, looking to make the most of it, or navigating discontinuation of your medication, you deserve nutrition care that supports your health at every stage.
Questions about GLP-1 nutrition support?
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DIABETES, PREDIABETES and INSULIN RESISTANCE
An elevated A1c, a diagnosis of pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or concerns about insulin resistance can leave you wondering what to eat and which changes will make a meaningful difference. Conflicting nutrition advice can make it even harder to know where to start.
How Nutrition Counseling Can Help
Together, we’ll explore how your eating patterns, physical activity, sleep, stress and other aspects of your health influence your metabolic function. We’ll develop practical strategies that fit your preferences, lifestyle and medical needs—without relying on rigid food rules or a one-size-fits-all diet.
Depending on your needs, our work may include:
- Prediabetes and diabetes: Nutrition strategies to improve blood glucose and A1c, support diabetes management, and reduce the risk of progression from pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes.
- Insulin resistance and metabolic health: Understanding the factors that influence insulin sensitivity and identifying individualized approaches to support metabolic function.
- Food and blood sugar: Exploring meal composition, carbohydrate quality and quantity, meal timing, and the role of fiber-rich, minimally processed foods.
- Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM): When appropriate, using glucose data to explore patterns and better understand how meals, movement and other daily factors affect your blood sugar.
- Lifestyle and whole-person care: Considering sleep, stress, physical activity, digestive health and other relevant factors as part of your personalized plan.
A Personalized, Practical Approach
My goal is to help you understand your body’s needs, feel more confident in your food choices, and make changes that are realistic for your life. We’ll focus on evidence-based strategies, build on what is already working, and identify manageable next steps.
Questions about nutrition support for metabolic concerns?
Contact me at 805-448-8461 to schedule a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Call.
PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE
Perimenopause and Menopause can bring changes in sleep, energy, digestion, body composition, blood sugar and cholesterol. You may be wondering what is changing, which nutrition recommendations are worth following, and how to support your health as your needs evolve.
How Nutrition Counseling Can Help
Your needs during midlife are unique. Together, we’ll look at your health history, current concerns, eating patterns, lifestyle and relevant laboratory results to identify practical ways to support your health.
Depending on your needs, our work may include:
- Blood sugar and cardiometabolic health: Supporting blood glucose regulation, insulin sensitivity, cholesterol levels and cardiovascular health.
- Muscle and bone health: Exploring nutrition, protein adequacy, calcium, vitamin D and other factors that support healthy aging, alongside appropriate physical activity.
- Digestive and gut health: Addressing digestive concerns and exploring how food choices and lifestyle factors support digestive function and the gut microbiome.
- Sleep, energy and daily well-being: Identifying nutrition and lifestyle strategies that may help support sleep, energy and overall well-being.
- Personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies: Developing realistic approaches to food, movement, sleep and stress management that fit your preferences, health needs and daily life.
Questions about nutrition counseling?
Contact me at 805-448-8461 to schedule a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Call.
DIGESTIVE HEALTH
Digestive symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, irregular bowel habits, heartburn and reflux can affect daily comfort, food choices and quality of life. Conflicting advice and increasingly restrictive diets can make it difficult to know what to eat or how to find relief.
How Nutrition Counseling Can Help
Digestive concerns have many possible contributors, and effective nutrition care starts with understanding your individual symptoms, medical history and nutritional needs.
Individualized Help For:
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Identifying food and lifestyle factors that may contribute to bloating, abdominal discomfort, constipation or diarrhea. Depending on your symptoms and needs, we may explore a structured approach such as the low-FODMAP diet, or focus on the gut-brain connection and targeted dietary adjustments with minimal food restriction. I’ll help you find an individualized approach that best supports your symptoms, nutritional needs and quality of life.
- Acid reflux and GERD: Identifying individual food triggers and exploring meal timing, portion size and other lifestyle factors that may help reduce reflux symptoms, in coordination with your medical care.
- Celiac disease: Supporting a nutritionally adequate, strictly gluten-free diet, helping you navigate food choices and label reading, and addressing nutritional deficiencies when indicated.
- Gut health and the microbiome: Exploring the role of dietary fiber, food variety and other relevant factors in supporting digestive function and the gut microbiome.
- Individualized nutrition and supplementation: Assessing nutritional adequacy and discussing evidence-informed dietary supplements when appropriate for your symptoms, needs and medical history.
An Integrative, Individualized Approach:
My goal is to help you find a more comfortable and confident way of eating while avoiding overly restrictive food protocols. We will work together to identify practical strategies that fit your life, support your nutritional needs and complement your medical care.
If you have questions about nutrition for digestive health:
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MENTAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH
What you eat, how you sleep, how you move, connect with others and how you manage stress can all influence your emotional and cognitive well-being. I help clients explore these connections and identify practical, evidence-based ways to use diet and lifestyle to support mood, cognitive function and overall well-being.
How Nutrition Counseling Can Help
My approach combines current nutrition science with an integrative perspective, looking beyond individual nutrients or isolated symptoms to consider the broader connections among diet, lifestyle, mental and cognitive health.
Questions about nutrition support?
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Weight Concerns and Your Relationship With Food
If you’re concerned about your weight, frustrated by years of dieting, or looking for a different approach to your health, you deserve nutrition care that meets you where you are.
With over 30 years of experience in nutrition and women’s health, I bring an individualized, weight-inclusive perspective to care. If weight loss is among your health goals, we can explore nutrition and lifestyle strategies to support that goal without relying on rigid diets or one-size-fits-all rules. If your priorities are improving metabolic health, feeling better around food, or caring for your health without focusing on weight loss, we can work toward those goals, too.
Our work is guided by your health needs, preferences and personal goals—not assumptions about your body or pressure to pursue a particular path. Together, we’ll focus on evidence-based nutrition, practical changes that fit your life, and a healthier relationship with food.
Questions about nutrition counseling?
Contact me at 805-448-8461 to schedule a complementary 15 minute discovery call.
PMOS (previously known as PCOS)
Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), previously known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is a complex hormonal and metabolic condition that affects multiple aspects of health. The name change reflects growing recognition of the important connections among metabolic function, hormones, reproductive health and overall well-being.
Personalized Nutrition for PMOS
With over 30 years of experience in women’s health and advanced training in Integrative and Functional Nutrition, I bring a comprehensive perspective to PMOS care. My approach combines current evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle recommendations with individualized support tailored to your health history, symptoms, laboratory results and goals.
Our work may include:
- Metabolic health and insulin resistance: Personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies to support blood glucose regulation, insulin sensitivity and cardiometabolic health.
- Individualized supplementation: Evaluating nutritional needs and discussing evidence-informed supplement options when appropriate, considering your health history, medications and laboratory findings.
- Food and lifestyle strategies: Developing practical approaches to eating, physical activity, sleep and stress that support metabolic health without unnecessary restriction or rigid food rules.
- Body image and your relationship with food: Many women with PMOS experience weight-related stigma, body dissatisfaction or a difficult relationship with food. My decades of experience working with body image and weight concerns allow me to address these issues alongside your metabolic and nutritional needs, with sensitivity and respect.
Whole-Person Care That Goes Beyond a Diagnosis
PMOS is more than an ovarian or reproductive condition. Understanding the connections between metabolic health, hormonal function, nutrition and emotional well-being can help guide a more comprehensive approach to care.
My goal is to help you identify meaningful, realistic steps to support your health while respecting your individual needs and relationship with food. We will focus on evidence-based strategies rather than fad diets, unnecessary restrictions or a weight-centered definition of success.
Questions about nutrition support for PMOS?
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EATING DISORDERS
Eating disorders are on the rise in many populations including men and middle-aged women. I have extensive experience working with eating disorders as they manifest in both men and women and throughout the life cycle. I will meet you where you are with your eating disorder and help guide you to a more holistic and internally centered place with food and your body. I can help replace rigid, restrictive or chaotic eating with a structured meal plan that can gradually evolve into a more internally led pattern of eating that is intuitive, healthful and mindful. Additionally I can help in creating balance in the other aspects of your lifestyle, including exercise and stress management, which will support you in your recovery.
My goal is to work with your therapist and/or physician to create a unified approach that is best for you. My practice is LGBTQ friendly!
Questions about nutrition counseling for an eating disorder?
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