Welcome

Do you spend more time thinking about food or your body than you would like? Does your body image or fears about weight and eating keep you from fully engaging in life? Or maybe you are just confused by the plethora of nutrition "facts" all around you. Do you wonder what is accurate? If carbs are fattening? How many calories you really need? Have diets failed you?

Welcome to "newtrition" counseling. May this be your first step towards a new relationship to food, body and Self. 

I am a registered dietitian with a private practice on the central coast of California specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. Some of my treatment approaches include exchange system meal planning, dismantling diet myths through nutrition and metabolism education, intuitive eating and the non-diet approach. I offer text, e-mail and meal support when needed. I can guide parents of younger eating disordered clients through the Maudsley Method and support them through this difficult process. I communicate and work closely with your individual therapist, physician, and any other health care provider involved in your treatment. 

Although I specialize in the treatment of Eating Disorders,  I also offer medical nutrition therapy. Some conditions I can effectively help improve include:

  • Overweight or underweight including obesity 
  • Diabetes 
  • Hypertension 
  • Elevated Cholesterol/heart disease 
  • Vegetarianism 
  • Sports Nutrition 
  • Reflux
  • Gastrointestinal Disorders 
  • Food allergies 
  • Night eating 

 

Marlena

Marlena has been an irreplaceable asset to my recovery. She is an empathic, available and highly-involved person with the wisdom that is born of first-hand experience. Marlena continues to be a beacon of hope on this difficult journey; the road to recovery is often dark and seemingly untraversable, but Marlena sheds light both on the footprints she has left there and the space among them where I will leave my own.  -Rose

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