I am dedicated to helping clients cultivate more connected, compassionate, and easeful relationships with food and their bodies. ​ I work with a variety of folks, some of whom are seeking to heal from an eating disorder, manage a health condition, or generally nourish their bodies with more care, trust, and respect. Nutrition therapy is nuanced, personal, and political, so each relationship and care plan is unique.

I provide trauma-aware and compassion-centered nutrition therapy. I partner with clients to develop sustainable behavior changes in an effort to move towards greater food freedom, health and well-being. I am passionate about using a social justice informed Health at Every Size® approach when working with folx and applies a combination of motivational interviewing, body image healing, somatic-based inquiry and self-compassion techniques during sessions. I love being able to assist clients as they learn to reconnect and care for their bodies and eat in a balanced way that is pleasurable. I specialize in mindfulness-based solutions for individuals in eating disorder and/or substance use recovery, those struggling with body image, perinatal nutrition, and family feeding dynamics.

As the nutritionist at Community of Hope's Family Health and Birth Center I am responsible for providing coordinated and quality nutrition counseling services to patients of all ages. There is an explicit focus on providing trauma-aware, compassion-centered and justice-enhancing services to women ages 18-45 living with or at risk of developing nutrition-sensitive chronic conditions.

Based in Washington D.C., I worked within CARE’s Policy and Advocacy Team to enhance CARE's global food and nutrition security policy and advocacy agenda. As Global Nutrition Policy Fellow, I conducted a global nutrition landscape analysis and supporting the nutrition policy and advocacy efforts of CARE’s country offices.

Based in the CARE Zambia Country Office in Lusaka, I worked as a Nutrition Policy and Advocacy Advisor. My work focused on raising the profile of nutrition as a development priority in Zambia through effective advocacy strategies and activities for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Fund. In this position I encouraged multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition through stakeholder mapping and the development of advocacy tools; completed targeted policy analysis and champion nutrition policies that support nutrition-sensitive, climate-resilient, gender transformative agriculture; developed tools to monitor advocacy achievements; improve government accountability by measuring the delivery of nutrition pledges and services from a community and national level; and collaborated with key partners to build leadership for nutrition in Zambia.

Trained in the nutritional assessment of infants, children and adolescents with a variety of chronic diseases, growth faltering and malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, pediatric overweight and obesity, critically ill neonates and critically ill infants and children through independent assessment, case studies and presentations.Completed total supervised practice time of 1404 hours, including 684 hours in clinical acute care covering the required areas of general medicine, gastroenterology, renal, oncology, critical care and staff relief.

-Reviewed initial data from the M & E reports and consulted with the WFP team to become familiar with the programme, and the data regarding programme participation, use of LNS, and IYCF.-Developed a protocol for data collection and analysis, focusing on qualitative data collection, which will inform the programme regarding beneficiary knowledge, attitudes, and practices to IYCF, and identify barriers to and opportunities for enhanced IYCF to inform the roll-out of the nutrition education module on IYCF practices.-Identified barriers to achieving dietary diversity for IYCF-Implemented the protocol, analyze data, and prepare a report including results and recommendations for WFP, the cooperating partner, and the government of Malawi.

-Assisted with the revision, finalization, and dissemination of an integrated curriculum focusing on nutrition, food security, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) efforts for Bangladesh, Zambia, Benin, and Ethiopia.-Created content and improved communications efforts for a range of online media, including the Nutrition at the Center website, Wiki, and blog.-Designed attractive marketing collateral including infographics for culturally diverse audiences.

-Provided engaging nutrition education to low-income children and at-risk youth throughout the Washington, D.C. area -Coordinated operations of providing food through USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program and Free Summer Meals Program -Facilitated and organized DC Central Kitchen’s Truck Farm visits for youth agencies and schools to deliver interactive lessons about the benefits of nutritious produce and urban agriculture

-Worked with rural health clinic to improve maternal and child health, malaria education and prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention and sensitization, and sanitation-Promoted social and behavior change through the strengthening of peer groups focusing on gender equality-Enhanced the organizational capacity of partners providing health services