Areas of Specialty
Intuitive Eating & Anti-Diet Nutrition
Abby specializes in finding peace with food and body. Helping clients to eat intuitively, trust hunger and fullness, allow forbidden foods, and end diet-cycling.
Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating
Unhealthy relationships with food come in all body shapes and sizes. A person may not have an eating disorder diagnosis but feels like food, dieting, or weight loss is taking up 100% of their thoughts and may be negatively impacting life.
Nutrition for Alcohol and Drug Recovery
Transitioning back to normal, healthy eating with all of life’s triggers can be challenging in recovery. Abby offers assistance navigating relationships with food during your sobriety journey.
Binge Eating Disorder
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following: Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating.
Bulimia
Potentially life-threatening eating disorder. People with this condition binge eat. They then take steps to avoid weight gain. Most commonly, this means vomiting (purging). But it can also mean excessive exercising or fasting.
Orthorexia
Characterized by an obsession with “healthful” eating. And unlike most eating disorders, orthorexia focuses on the quality of food over quantity. Often, it starts with the desire to eat “clean” but then spirals into a more rigid form of eating. Because people with orthorexia are so fixated on what they eat, they begin to crowd out other activities and relationships.
Compulsive Exercise
Disorder in which exercise is used to maintain or modify body shape that becomes obsessive and unhealthy. Compulsive exercise is joyless, inflexible, typically does not allow rest days and often used to punish or compensate for calories.
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Characterized by a lack of interest in eating or food, avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food (e.g. textures), or a concern about aversive consequences of eating (e.g. fear or vomiting, choking or abdominal pain).
Anorexia
Characterized by a distorted body image, with an intense fear of gaining weight. Anorexia can be diagnosed in people of ALL BODY SIZES. Symptoms include trying to maintain a below natural weight through starvation and or too much exercise.
Nutrition for Diabetes
Education for maintaining healthy blood sugars, carbohydrate counting without dieting. Please seek a certified diabetes educator for insulin-dependent diabetic education and or information about glucometers.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
A condition that affects a woman's hormone levels. Women with PCOS produce higher-than-normal amounts of male hormones. This hormone imbalance causes them to skip menstrual periods and makes it harder for them to get pregnant.
Nutrition for Celiac Disease
An immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Abby specializes in helping people with this diagnosis enjoy food with confidence.
