The Nutritional Therapy Association defines Nutritional Therapy as: The formula for reclaiming health and restoring the body’s natural function with bio-individualized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations.

I work with clients one on one to understand where the root cause of their symptoms are coming from. From there I will give dietary adjustment recommendations, as well as lifestyle recommendations to help support your body and ease your symptoms.

Short answer: no. But that’s not to say that when working with me weight loss won’t follow suit. My mission is to get you well. To educate you on how your body works and help you feel better! My main focus is not on aesthetics, though I do sympathize with those who are struggling to move the needle in that area. If weight loss is the main reason you’re wanting to work with me, I’d be happy to refer out to someone I trust that does specialize in this area. However, if you’re willing to learn and implement the foundations that I teach, it’s very likely that weight loss will follow along over time.

Every body is completely different and every person is at a different level. There are some people that just need a basic understanding and can go off on their own. There are others that need a little bit more help and accountability (no judgement, because I can be this way too). However, not much can be done in one or two months. Three months allows us to get a good picture of how the recommendations I’ve given you are working and if symptoms are improving. It also allows me enough time to really educate you on those foundational principles that are so important to good health, so that when you do go off on your own the need to hire me again will be extremely low…because ultimately my goal is genuinely to lose you as a client.

You can expect a practitioner who will listen to you fully and will believe you when you say that something is wrong. You can expect to be educated on why your body is reacting a certain way so you can fully understand how your body works and become less afraid of it. My job is to empower you and to help you trust your body again. Not give you a black and white list of do’s and don’ts, send you on your way and hope for the best. You can expect to work with a practitioner who cares…because I do.

In short: no. However, I do prefer to offer meal blueprints, meaning when we look at lunch, we’re opting for: protein + carb + crunch + fun thing. I do offer some examples and options for you to look over, but I do not set it as a hard and fast meal plan for you. My goal is to create food freedom. I will educate you on certain food varieties we want to seek out and implement regularly at home, but I will not make menus for you and tell you specifically what to have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day. It gets boring, and it can get people stuck in an all or nothing mindset.

It depends. For instance, if I find that you may be struggling with SIBO/SIFO, one of the most efficient ways to clear it out is through targeted, short term supplementation that I will strongly recommend.

For each new client, I will always recommend supplements and if you want to purchase them, you can. If you don’t want to, you do not have to. The option is always there for you and I will gladly work with whichever route you choose.

It’s best to give a new diet and supplementation a full 12 weeks before we can definitively say that something is or isn’t working, which is why I start each client with the 3 month Foundational Reset. For some people, they may see the needle move quite a bit in those 12 weeks. For others, it’s possible that the needle will have only just started to move towards the end of those 12 weeks. Each person is different, but the only thing that’s the same across the board is that healing at the root-cause level takes so much time and it is never linear.

At the moment I can order a DUTCH Test, GI MAP, and an HTMA.

Each test shows their own unique markers, so there isn’t one that’s necessarily better than another. In fact, they can usually work together and complement one another to help put the puzzle together. However, this doesn’t mean you need to buy all three. We can absolutely work together and discuss budget to figure out which test would be the best for you and your goals.

One thing that I will never do to you is guarantee any sort of outcome. In fact, my new motto is: “if there’s a guarantee, flee.” I do strongly believe that God has created our bodies to heal; however, does that mean that we are going to live the rest of our lives completely pain and illness free? No. We still live in a very broken world where our adversary is working hard to keep us sick and maintain his power in his domain. We may never be fully and completely healed on this side of eternity, but it’s because of the hope of Jesus and the blood He shed on the cross that sets us free (which is the only guarantee I endorse) and reconciles us back to God after we’ve repented that does guarantee us new life and a new, perfect body when we get to heaven. I’m simply here to point you to Christ, and to point you to the foods that God has intended for us to be eating in order to support our bodies in that healing.

God has commanded us to be good stewards of the things that He has gifted us. He has called us to steward our money well through tithing, budgeting, and investing. He’s called us to steward our time well by being productive and getting work done while the sun is up, and resting on the seventh day just as He did. He’s called us to steward our talents well by using them to serve our friends, neighbors, and the local church. He’s even called us to be good stewards of the gospel by going out and making disciples of all nations. So why would our bodies, which is one of the greatest gifts from God, be any different? He has given us everything we need in the form of animal meats/seafood, produce, and grains, and yet we essentially tell him it’s not good enough by reaching for the candy, soda, and fast food regularly. We, as a society, have not been stewarding our bodies well over the last century and we need to start honoring, obeying and showing gratitude to God by stewarding our bodies well through a strong foundational, nutrient dense diet and regular movement.