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Specializing in optimizing nutrition for mental health and mood disorders using a Functional Medicine, evidence-based approach.

*Now accepting clients in CO and MA!*

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10/09/2026

Have ADHD and feel exhausted ALL the time, even when you’re getting enough sleep? Your ADHD might not be the whole story. 👀

Let’s talk about ferritin, iron deficiency, and the ADHD symptoms that can overlap with low iron stores.

Because iron plays a role in brain function and dopamine signaling, researchers have been exploring the relationship between iron status and ADHD.

Does low ferritin cause ADHD? No, we don’t have evidence to support that. But iron deficiency can contribute to symptoms like fatigue and difficulty concentrating, potentially making an already challenging day feel even harder.

If you have ADHD and experience:
🧠 Persistent brain fog or fatigue
😴 Restless legs or disrupted sleep
🩸 Heavy menstrual periods
🥩 Limited intake of iron-rich foods

It may be worth talking with your healthcare provider about checking your ferritin and other iron markers.

Because having ADHD doesn’t mean every symptom you experience is necessarily caused by ADHD.

And THIS is why nutrition deserves a seat at the table in mental healthcare.

💬 Have you ever had your ferritin checked, or were you only told your iron was “normal” based on your hemoglobin?

📌 Save this for your next healthcare appointment and share it with someone who needs to hear it!

We weren’t born counting carbs.We weren’t born believing dessert had to be earned, hunger meant we lacked self-control, ...
10/07/2026

We weren’t born counting carbs.

We weren’t born believing dessert had to be earned, hunger meant we lacked self-control, or a changing body was something to fear.

And we definitely weren’t born believing that a smaller body would make us more worthy of being seen, photographed, loved, or included.

Somewhere along the way, we learned.

We learned which bodies were considered “good.” We learned to attach morality to food. We learned to second-guess hunger, criticize photos that captured incredible memories, and sometimes miss out on our actual lives because we were too busy worrying about how our bodies looked while we were living them.

That little girl didn’t look at pasta and see carbs.

She didn’t look at cake and see guilt.

She didn’t look at her body and see something that needed to be fixed.

She was hungry. She was growing. She was excited to see her friends. She wanted to travel. She wanted to grow up.

Maybe healing your relationship with food and your body isn’t about learning to love every part of yourself every second.

Maybe it starts with questioning when you learned that you weren’t allowed to.

What would your younger self say back to the way you speak to yourself now?

The blood sugar and anxiety connection gets oversimplified online, so here’s the nuance.When blood glucose truly falls t...
10/07/2026

The blood sugar and anxiety connection gets oversimplified online, so here’s the nuance.

When blood glucose truly falls too low, the body mounts a counterregulatory response designed to restore glucose availability. That response includes sympathetic nervous system activation and hormones such as glucagon, epinephrine and norepinephrine.

Some of the resulting symptoms, including tremor, palpitations and feeling anxious or nervous, overlap with symptoms we associate with anxiety.

That does not mean anxiety is caused by unstable blood sugar, that every “crash” is hypoglycemia, or that balancing your meals is an anxiety treatment.

But it does mean nutrition, medication, eating patterns and metabolic health can sometimes provide useful context when we’re trying to understand how someone feels.

And THAT is why I want dietitians included in more mental health conversations.

General nutrition education only. Individual symptoms and suspected hypoglycemia should be discussed with your healthcare team.

10/05/2026

Nutrition counseling does not have to feel intimidating, judgmental, or like someone is grading everything you eat.

As a mental health dietitian, my goal is to make nutrition feel more human, realistic, and actually supportive of your brain and your life.

Also… apparently this is how I decompress between clients now. 10/10 recommend the tiny trampoline 😂 Best Facebook Marketplace purchase of my adult life.

Your brain doesn’t exist separately from the rest of your body.It needs consistent energy, protein, fats, vitamins, mine...
10/02/2026

Your brain doesn’t exist separately from the rest of your body.

It needs consistent energy, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and adequate overall nutrition to support things like neurotransmitter production, focus, memory, mood and stress regulation.

That doesn’t mean food can “cure” anxiety, depression or ADHD. It means nutrition is one piece of mental health care that deserves a seat at the table.
We talk a lot about therapy, medication, coping skills and nervous system regulation. We should also be asking: is this person’s brain consistently getting what it needs to function?

I will continue to not shut up about this as a mental health dietitian. 🧠✨

10/01/2026

As a registered dietitian, I use medical nutrition therapy to support people with ADHD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and disordered eating. That can include addressing inconsistent eating, dopamine-seeking behaviors with food, body image concerns, nutrient adequacy, GI symptoms, blood sugar regulation, metabolic health, and other factors that can influence mood, cognition, focus, and energy.

That does not mean dietitians replace therapists, psychiatrists, or other mental health professionals. It means we bring a clinical lens to the team that is often missing.

And yet, dietitians are still so often reduced to meal plans and weight loss and discredited for our expertise.

We complete master’s level education, supervised clinical training, a national board exam, and ongoing credentialing requirements. But because anyone online can talk about nutrition, the depth of our training and scope can easily get lost.

My practice has spent nearly six years challenging the idea of what a dietitian “does.”

So I’ll ask again:

Do dietitians belong in mental healthcare?

RDs especially, I want to hear from you. What do you wish other healthcare professionals understood about what we actually do?

Not every nutrition problem needs a more advanced solution.Sometimes it needs a microwave.Or a frozen dinner.Or grocerie...
09/30/2026

Not every nutrition problem needs a more advanced solution.

Sometimes it needs a microwave.
Or a frozen dinner.
Or groceries delivered.
Or paying slightly more for pre-cut vegetables because otherwise you will not eat them.
Or NOT eliminating another food group.

There is a tendency in wellness culture to assume that the more specialized, expensive or complicated an intervention is, the more effective it must be.

Cortisol testing.
Greens powders.
Probiotics.
Collagen.
Elimination diets.
Strict eating plans.
Very specific “anti-inflammatory” protocols.

Some of those tools can absolutely have a place.
But when we’re talking about nutrition that supports mental health, I never want the search for the “best” intervention to distract from the things with the biggest return:

Enough food.
Regular food.
Dietary variety.
Carbohydrates, protein + fats.
Plants.
Omega-3-rich foods.
Adequate hydration.
A reasonable relationship with caffeine.
And a way of feeding yourself that still works when you’re tired, depressed, anxious, busy or experiencing executive dysfunction.

Sometimes buying the frozen meal IS the nutrition strategy.
Sometimes paying for meal delivery IS the accommodation.
Sometimes using the microwave IS the thing that allows you to eat lunch.

Healthy eating that only works when you have unlimited time, energy and money isn’t very useful.
Make nourishment easier to repeat.

09/29/2026

Your client’s therapist, dietitian, and prescribing provider may each be seeing a completely different piece of the same puzzle.

Nutrition can affect mood, attention, energy, sleep, and medication tolerance. Mental health can affect appetite, eating patterns, executive functioning, and someone’s ability to care for themselves. Medications can change the picture again.

Yet too often, each provider is working in their own lane.

For ADHD, anxiety, OCD, depression, eating disorders, and other complex mental health conditions, multidisciplinary care gives us the opportunity to put those pieces together.

Not to blur our scopes, but to understand each other’s perspectives, communicate better, and give our clients more connected care.

What could mental healthcare look like if collaboration became the standard instead of the exception?

09/28/2026

We have more access to nutrition information than ever before, yet so many people feel more confused, anxious, and disconnected from food.

More information isn’t always the answer. Sometimes we need less noise, more context, and nutrition guidance that actually considers mental health, real life, and the person behind the plate.

Eating shouldn’t feel like a full-time job.

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