After high school - and still in my own eating disorder - I completed my undergraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and my Dietetic Internship & Master’s Degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center. 

 

After I completed graduate school, I worked for several years in weight management before I really realized that the systems I was trained in were riddled with weight bias and in helping people manage their health with black and white rules that I believe promote eating disorders.

 

I  was horrified to realize I was part of the problem with the way we approach nutrition and health in our culture.  So, I returned to my roots and made a shift into working with eating disorders, disordered eating, and exposing diet culture for what it is — an insidious, money-hungry system that capitalizes on our insecurities and perpetuates the faulty belief that health and happiness are size-dependent.

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Now, I am a proud Health at Every Size (HAES®) practitioner, trained as a master’s level Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C) & am co-founder of BeyondWell KC, a private practice dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating in Kansas City.

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As a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant, I am able to combine my knowledge and passion for this work with my love for teaching to guide other dietitians in gaining the knowledge and expertise needed to effectively treat eating disorders.​