Functional Nutrition Therapy

Our Training

Functional Nutrition Therapy is a mouthful of words, and yet it doesn’t quite draw the picture of what we practice. As nutritionists, our training and education focused on the science of nutrition: How food and the nutrients within contribute to the function and structure of the human body.

Nutritional therapy dives into how food can heal (or harm) our bodies, how changing biological needs require nutritional responses or temporary therapeutic approaches.

And yet, there are natural prerequisites to us taking steps toward nutritional health. We need an environment that supports change and choice, we need an understanding of the ways in which our history impacts our sense of self-worth and self-care, and we need tools to integrate that learning into new ways of being.

This is why we employ a holistic approach in my work with clients. Our relationship with food is a representation of our relationship with self.

Often, both need a little repairing.

 

Our approach

The Body

We use a variety of nutritional and supplemental resources to support, manage, and mitigate health issues that range from general wellness to chronic conditions.

To support these efforts, we sometimes use advanced laboratory testing with reputable labs to evaluate nutritional deficiencies, gastrointestinal function and the microbiome, hormone levels, food or environmental allergies, and exposure to toxins.

Our goal is always to bring the body to a state of vitality and health through nourishment. While supplementation can be essential to that path, our aim is to provide patients with the tools and education to meet their physiological needs with robust, varied, and delicious foods.

We are not physicians or doctors, but we love collaborating with yours for comprehensive care.

The Mind

We are a practice that specializes in understanding how our past can impact our present. We approach nutrition and health by including consideration of patient history to create safe and sustainable change.

Our approach does not support fad diets, disordered eating patterns, or food dogma. These publicly celebrated trends often lead to temporary success, socially acceptable anorexia or orthorexia, and painful failures, not to mention metabolic damage and our ever-solidifying beliefs that we will never change or lack the “self-control” to be consistent.

When we take time to understand why we formed a pattern or how we developed our relationship to food (friend/foe/fuel?), then we can re-evaluate, discard beliefs that no longer serve us, and make lasting change.

We are not psychologists or mental health specialists, but we love collaborating with yours for comprehensive care.

Are we a good fit?

  • Curious

    If you have been on this journey for a while, if you are curious about how you got where you are, and why habits, diets, and plans don’t last, then we might be a good fit.

  • Committed

    If you have a health condition that impacts your daily life and you want to learn how to guide your body toward health and vitality long into the future, then we might be a good fit.

  • Compassionate

    If you have a history of disordered eating, childhood or adult trauma, addiction, or mental health struggles impacted by food, then we might be a good fit.

To be clear…

While our practice helps patients navigate a comprehensive approach to health, we are not a replacement for qualified mental health professionals and physicians. We are a cooperative practice that aims to collaborate with patients’ existing health care practitioners, or guide them in establishing those essential relationships to ensure all their healthcare needs are safely met.