Certified Mind, Body, Eating Coach – the Institute for the Psychology of Eating

My coaching philosophy around health, wellness, nutrition, and eating is that often times issues around losing weight really has nothing to do with food. As someone who has suffered from disordered and emotional eating for most of my life, I came to this realization the hard way. True fact: I used to joke about wishing I could be anorexic because then at least I’d be skinny. That, my friends, is not funny and certainly no joke, but I know that a lot of women feel the same way.

It has taken me YEARS to really come to terms with this and I couldn’t have done it without therapy tools and a life coach. It was through my own struggle and desire to help other women come through this as well that I decided to get into coaching. I have loved learning about the connections between our physiology and psychology.

I recently completed a certification that perfectly bridge the gap between my professional coach certification and my transformational nutrition certification.

What do you do as a Certified Coach in Mind Body Nutrition and Dynamic Eating Psychology?

The Coaching I have been trained in is an exciting and cutting edge approach developed by the
Institute for the Psychology of Eating. It effectively addresses weight concerns, binge eating,
overeating, body image challenges, and various nutrition related health concerns. My approach
is positive and empowering. I don’t see your eating challenges merely as a sign that “something
is wrong with you” – but as a place where we can more fully explore some of the personal
dimensions in life that impact food, weight and health. Oftentimes, our eating challenges are
connected to work, money, relationship, family, intimacy, life stress, and so much more. By
working on the places that are most relevant for you, success is more easily achieved. I look to
support you with coaching strategies and nutrition principles that are nourishing, doable,
sustainable, and that yield results.

How is My Approach Different?

For far too long, we’ve been inundated by negative messages about food, weight, and diet.
We’ve been told that we’re willpower weaklings or that we need more control. The majority of
nutrition experts promote conflicting advice. The result is people are confused about what to
eat, and how to have a happy relationship with food and a healthy metabolism. In my
professional practice, I combine many of the best strategies from nutrition science and eating
psychology. By eliminating all the “shoulds and shouldn’ts”, I focus on what’s right for your body
and your personal style. As we work together in this way, eating and health issues become a
place of exploration. Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities
for growth and self-improvement. In my training at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating,
I’ve learned to help clients reach their highest goals not by strategies that punish, but through
strategies that nourish.

About My Training

I trained at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, the world’s leading school in Nutritional
Psychology, where I received my certification in Mind Body Nutrition and Dynamic Eating
Psychology. In IPE’s internationally acclaimed program, I learned powerful cutting-edge tools
and protocols that enable me to work with weight issues, body image challenges, overeating,
binge eating, and a variety of nutrition related health concerns, such as digestion, fatigue, mood,
immunity, and others. My work combines the powerful fields of Dynamic Eating Psychology and
Mind Body Nutrition. The skills I use from this Training are a combination of practical coaching
techniques, results-oriented psychology, clinical nutrition, body-centered practices, mind body
science, and a positive and compassionate approach to challenges with food and health.

What is Dynamic Eating Psychology?

Dynamic Eating Psychology is an important new field originated by Marc David, Founder of the
Institute for the Psychology of Eating. It’s a positive, empowering, and transformational
approach that’s designed for anyone who eats. Each of us has a unique, fascinating, and ever
changing relationship with food. Dynamic Eating Psychology affirms the primary importance of
this relationship. It sees our challenges with eating, weight, and health not as an indication that
we’re broken, but as a beautiful opportunity to grow and evolve. Previously, eating psychology
has been limited to those with clinical eating disorders. Dynamic Eating Psychology, though, is
for everyone. It affirms that our relationship with food has important lessons to teach us if we
choose to listen. And it recognizes that our challenges with eating, weight, and health are
intimately connected to other primary life dimensions – relationship, family, work, sexuality, our
search for meaning and fulfillment, and so much more. Dynamic Eating Psychology is a powerful
breakthrough approach.

What is Mind Body Nutrition?

Mind Body Nutrition is an exciting and timely new field that advances the practice of clinical
nutrition by exploring the psychophysiology of how thoughts, feelings and beliefs impact
nutritional metabolism and health. Originated by Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the
Psychology of Eating, it goes far beyond classical nutrition by focusing on the fascinating
connections between brain, body, and behavior. Simply put, what we eat is only half of the story
of good nutrition. The other half is who we are as eaters. Mind Body Nutrition reveals how
stress physiology, the relaxation response, breathing, awareness, pleasure, meal timing, and
much more profoundly influence digestion and calorie burning. And it offers practical and
results-oriented strategies for the most commonly seen eating challenges and health issues of
our times.