For a long time, I felt like I was on the outside looking in. As a highly sensitive person, the depth of my feelings made me feel like an alien in my family of origin. I experienced trauma and intense grief as a child and had nowhere to process my pain. I struggled to feel grounded in my body and often found my stomach in knots. In my teen years my relationship to food became disordered in an orthorexia-leaning way, and I compulsively overexercised. For me, disordered eating was one way my body was communicating to me: “Something doesn’t feel right. I am not ok.”

Disordered eating was part of what led me to study nutrition in the first place. At the time, the idea of learning everything about the subject gave me a feeling of control in my life. Gratefully, my education ended up helping me come to a more balanced place with food. Learning about physiology, biochemistry, intuitive eating and human nutrition made me want to take care of my own body and to actually eat enough. I am grateful to my education for showing me how to feed myself in a nourishing and pleasurable way.

Healing for me has taken many forms over the past 10+ years, from psychotherapy, to SoulCollage art therapy, to EMDR somatic processing, to dance, to doing a storytelling project that involved telling my story to an audience of 90 people. I am grateful to all the healers that have been in my corner.

Over the past five years I have attended my personal therapy outside and found being in nature incredibly healing. Hats off to my nature-based therapist for holding a loving space for me to heal, and for inspiring me to offer my RD services outside.

Ultimately my healing was not found in any fact I learned, any specific way of eating, or any one therapeutic technique. It has been a layered process. I have experienced first hand the value of having space to feel fully and to radically accept myself at all stages of growth. I know the power that lies in allowing re-connection to the body to happen in its own time.

I am a queer person, and love working with my fellow queers! I feel both the pain and the beauty that comes with existing in a queer body. Because of body hierarchies upheld in society, to be on the fringe comes with freedom and oppression at the same time. I can be with you in those depths as we navigate your food and body healing.

All this being said, I work with all people of all identities whether they are similar to mine or not. I will bring my curiosity to the table to understand what your unique body journey has been like- the joys and the pains of it.

When I am not in dietitian mode I love to write poetry, hangout with friends and my tuxedo cat Nori, dance, tend my garden, make fresh herbal tea, weave baskets, and swim in the sea.

My favorite animals are seals and herons. Some of my favorite flavors (hard to choose!) are elderflower, passionfruit, chocolate and lemon balm.

I care deeply about protecting the water and volunteer with several riverbank restoration and community watershed action programs.