LAURA

Hi, I’m Laura.

If you’ve poked around the rest of my website, you know that I am a non-diet intuitive eating dietitian, chef and mom of two little kids, what I believe. and what working with me looks like.

Let me tell you a bit more about why this work is important to me, my credentials and a few other hopefully interesting tidbits.

I am passionate about practicing nutrition differently – helping my clients discover health-supporting behaviors that allow them to feel as good as possible in their bodies. I see the immense suffering that pursuing a smaller body – what “nutrition” is so often about – has caused my clients, friends, and family. And I’ve been there.

Even though I have always loved food (what brought me to this field in the first place), I was a card-carrying member of diet culture. In high school, college and much of adulthood, I experimented with calorie counting, traffic light systems to rank and choose foods, SMART goals for restricting foods, and excessive exercise to compensate for eating, among other diet-y behaviors. Much of this I learned as gold standard treatment when becoming a dietitian. (Ugh.)

But this “just enough,” rule-based eating only led to more preoccupation with food and my body. It also led to lots (and lots) of guilt. I saw this play out in my clients too. I didn’t understand why doing what we are taught works, does not work. Something wasn’t right and I didn’t feel good practicing this way. So, I stepped away from nutrition counseling and threw myself into the culinary world as a chef.

It wasn’t until discovering intuitive eating and Health at Every Size that I began the slow unraveling of how I defined nutrition and health. After a lifetime of viewing my body as something to be controlled, and an education that mostly supported that idea, the concept of trusting my body felt revolutionary. There was a lot to unpack and to learn but the freedom I gained with each step changed not only my relationship to food and my body, it changed my life.

This lit a fire in me. I now love being an intuitive eating dietitian focused on helping people develop a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. My work centers on helping my clients understand what drives their food behaviors, learn how to partner with their bodies, and reclaim the joy and pleasure of food. Being able to facilitate this work with others is a privilege.

Interested in working together?

My credentials…

Certified Intuitive Eating Professional

Member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (Health at Every Size-aligned)

Post-Grad: Master’s Degree in Nutrition Communication, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition (graduated Magna Cum Laude)

Nutrition Residency: 10-month, full-time internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (awarded Adele Dronsick Endowment Award, an honor bestowed to one “outstanding intern” yearly)

Didactic Program in Dietetics: Certificate from Simmons College

Undergraduate: Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Boston College (graduated Cum Laude)

Other stuff…

Therapeutic style: Collaborative, curious, empathetic

Personality: Upbeat, kind, patient, determined

Values: Authenticity, growth, connection, vulnerability

Favorite foods: Pizza, layered interesting salads, cookies and milk (truly all things except organ meat)

Favorite things: Family, cooking, nature, work, learning, moving my body in ways that feel good

Positionality: I am a white, cis-gendered, straight-sized, heterosexual, able-bodied, neurotypical, middle to upper class woman who has had access to higher levels of education. My lived experiences are a small and limited view of the overall human experience. Relationships to food and body show up differently in people with different identities and lived experiences. I do my best to identify my privilege and am committed to supporting people who hold identities that are routinely oppressed or marginalized.

If any of this sounds good to you, let’s connect.