ABOUT ME
Behind everything I do the intention is simple, bringing you back to your body.
My interest in nutrition began at 14 when I joined the cross country and track team. What started as a way to improve performance quickly became something much deeper. I began to see how food could act as medicine, not just for sport, but for healing.
From there, I became committed to understanding the body not just as something to manage, but something intelligent enough to guide us when we learn how to listen.
My formal training gave me a foundation in the physical systems of the body, from biochemistry and physiology to nutrition and anatomy. But over time, I became equally interested in how emotions, energy, and lived experience influence those systems, and how the body adapts, protects, and responds.
Today, I bridge these perspectives together through a body-led approach, combining nutrition, eastern medicine principles, and herbalism, while using the body itself as the roadmap for healing.
Health and wellness isn’t just my profession, it’s how I live. Taking care of my body is my #1 priority. I’m a runner, kettlebell enthusiast, herbalism devotee, and someone who loves spending time in nature.
I believe everything we need for health and healing exists in nature and within ourselves.
my healing journey
While my professional training shaped my foundation, my deepest understanding of the body came through lived experience.
I spent most of my life in conflict with my body. Around the same time my interest in nutrition began, I also developed an eating disorder that would span 16 years of my life. It showed up through restriction, over-exercising, bingeing, control, and a deep disconnection from my body.
For a long time, I tried to “manage” it and fight against it, until I realized healing required something different: not more control, but a complete shift in how I related to my body.
Healing required dismantling who I thought I was, rebuilding from the inside out, and meeting myself for the first time. That process ultimately led me into full recovery and a completely different relationship with myself. Healing my eating disorder was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but equally one of the most rewarding.
What I learned through this experience is that there is a difference between managing symptoms and actually healing the system underneath them. And that distinction changes everything.
my gut health journey
After my recovery, my gut health fell apart. I began experiencing symptoms including chronic acne, hair loss, fatigue, dizziness, nutrient malabsorption, and persistent digestive issues. What followed was a period of confusion, stress, and ultimately a deeper exploration into how the body responds after long-term stress and restriction.
I was trying everything I knew, but my gut wasn’t improving, and in some cases I was getting worse. So I went deeper and sat with my body. I leaned into my studies of herbal medicine, eastern medicine, functional nutrition, and more importantly, I leaned into what my own body was asking of me. And once again, my body became my teacher. Over the course of a year, I was able to restore my health.
This experience further shaped the work I do today and deepened my understanding of how interconnected the body truly is. Both these experiences required a level of connection with my body I hadn’t known was possible, and completely changed how I now approach healing.
As I began to understand what was actually happening in my own healing, I realized I had found something much bigger: a way of approaching health that worked with the body’s intelligence.
The more I learned, and the more I came to understand what my body was showing me, the more I saw how absent this way of thinking was from the health industry today.
So I went back to what had actually helped me heal. I pulled apart the patterns, principles, and practices that had made the difference, turning what my body had taught me into a framework that could be understood, taught, and applied beyond my own experience.
That became my Back to Your Body Framework. It was born from my own healing and guided by what my body taught me, but created because I realized this was the piece missing from so many health programs: a true understanding of how to work with the body itself.
professional experience & credentials
I am a licensed Registered Dietitian with a Master’s in Nutrition, Health & Longevity (USC), with clinical experience across substance use and mental health treatment centers, outpatient care, and performance settings including internships within UFC and collegiate basketball programs.
I also bring firsthand experience as a former collegiate cross country and track athlete, marathon runner, and certified personal trainer. This combination allows me to understand both the physiology of the body and the realities of performance, pressure, and body image.
I work with teenagers and adults navigating complex relationships with food, body, and health, with a particular focus on eating disorders and disordered eating, under-fueling and sports nutrition, and the physical patterns that can emerge from chronic stress, restriction, and undernourishment.
In addition to 1-on-1 sessions, I also teach nutrition groups for various facilities.
My approach is body-led and integrative, combining nutrition, herbalism, and eastern medicine frameworks. My life’s work is dedicated to understanding the body’s intricacies, guiding others on their path to healing, and deepening my own relationship with my body as I go along.
licensing & certifications
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Licensed Registered Dietitian (MS, RDN)
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Masters Degree in Nutrition, Health, & Longevity (USC)
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Clinical Herbalist (in progress)
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National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Personal Trainer
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Kettlebell Athletics Level 1
