Not symptom management. Not guesswork. A root-cause approach to personalized nutrition.
At Clinical Dietitians & Nutrition Consultants, we provide evidence-based Medical Nutrition Therapy through the lens of Functional Medicine nutrition, Integrative Nutrition, and behavioral science. Our focus is to identify and address the underlying factors contributing to your health concerns while supporting metabolic health, hormonal health, digestive function, and long-term lifestyle change through highly personalized care.
Food. is. Medicine.
This Approach helps
Reduce Inflammation
Stabilize Blood Sugar
Support Hormones
Restore Gut Integrity
Whole foods are the cornerstone of our approach. Each plan is meticulously designed to optimize your metabolism, hormonal balance, digestive health, your immune system, and overall well-being.
Food is not a reward or a restriction—it is biological information. Every bite communicates directly with your hormones, gut, immune system, and metabolism. Used strategically and with intention, food becomes the most powerful clinical tool we have.
why choose us
Personalized, Bio-Individualized Care
Functional Nutrition Rooted in Science
Holistic, Systems-Based Approach
Evidence-Informed, Data-Driven Decision-Making
Empowered, Collaborative Healing Partnership
Five principles that guide every interaction.
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Meet Patients Where They Are
We provide evidence-based Medical Nutrition Therapy and patient education centered on meeting you where you are—helping you make realistic, sustainable changes that fit your health goals, lifestyle, and readiness for change.
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Make It Sustainable
We focus on long-term behavior change—not unsustainable quick fixes or restriction-based approaches. Our goal is to help you build healthy habits that support lasting health and well-being.
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Focus on Outcomes
Our north star is improving your health. We measure progress through your symptoms, laboratory results, body composition, energy, and overall function to support meaningful, lasting improvements.
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Collaborate with the Clinical Community
We coordinate care with your healthcare team to support a seamless, integrated approach. Your physician, specialists, and dietitian working together—not in silos.
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Improve and Innovate
We are committed to continuous learning and refining our care based on clinical research, patient feedback, and emerging evidence. We embrace personalized nutrition and use the best available science to guide your care.
Two Approaches.
A Different Depth of Care.
Both Registered Dietitians and Functional Medicine Dietitians are grounded in evidence-based nutrition science. Functional Medicine nutrition builds on that foundation with a more comprehensive, systems-based evaluation that explores how multiple aspects of health may be connected. Understanding the distinction can help you choose the level of support that best fits your needs.
Conventional Dietitian Approach
Provides evidence-based Medical Nutrition Therapy using established clinical guidelines and nutrition recommendations. Care may include condition-specific nutrition counseling, healthy eating strategies, meal planning, and lifestyle education tailored to individual health goals.
Functional Medicine Dietitian Approach
- Detailed medical and health history analysis
- Comprehensive lifestyle, sleep, and stress evaluation
- Identification of food sensitivities and inflammatory triggers
- Assessment of hormonal, digestive, and metabolic function
- Interpretation of advanced functional lab testing when appropriate
- Nutrigenomic insights for precision nutrition strategies
- Behavioral and emotional eating pattern mapping
- Root-cause clinical analysis across all body systems
- A systems-based, root-cause approach to understanding how body systems interact to support personalized nutrition care
Food as Medicine
Whole foods are the cornerstone of our approach. Each meal is meticulously designed to optimize your metabolism, hormonal balance, digestive health, and immune system function. Food is not a restriction—it is a precision clinical tool.
Integrated Lifestyle Medicine
Sleep, stress management, movement, and recovery are seamlessly integrated into your care plan—helping you achieve balanced, sustainable health at every level. Lifestyle is not separate from clinical care. It is clinical care.
Precision Supplementation (When Appropriate)
When appropriate, only the highest-quality, evidence-based supplements are incorporated into your care—designed specifically to address nutritional gaps or clinical needs identified through your assessment. Never generic, never guessed.
Behavioral transformation & nervous system support—essential, not optional.
Behavioral Change Techniques
Sustainable health begins with sustainable behavior. Drawing on evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and habit science, we help you develop the skills and mindset needed to create lasting lifestyle changes.
- Emotional eating and self-sabotage patterns
- Cognitive distortions and limiting beliefs
- Craving management and habit formation
- Motivation and long-term adherence strategies
- Goal setting and self-monitoring techniques
- Stress management and healthy coping strategies
- Identity-based behavior changes
Sleep Optimization Techniques
Quality sleep is essential for metabolic health, hormone regulation, energy, and overall well-being. We help you identify factors affecting your sleep and develop practical, evidence-based strategies to support restorative, consistent sleep.
- Sleep hygiene and healthy sleep habits
- Sleep schedule and circadian rhythm support
- Stress reduction and relaxation techniques
- Sleep environment optimization
- Nutrition strategies to support healthy sleep
- Identification of lifestyle factors affecting sleep
- Personalized sleep improvement strategies
Core Functional Medicine Principles
The clinical framework behind everything we do.
Systems Biology
The body functions as an interconnected system—hormones influence metabolism, gut health affects immune function, and stress impacts digestion, blood sugar, and weight regulation. We take a systems-based approach to understand how these factors interact and support personalized nutrition care.
Root-Cause Medicine
We ask why symptoms are happening, not just what they are. Common root causes include chronic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, hormonal disruption, insulin resistance, environmental toxin exposure, and stress dysregulation.
Food as Medicine
Food is biological information that communicates with every cell in the body. The foods you eat can influence inflammation, blood sugar regulation, hormone health, gut function, and brain health—making nutrition one of the most powerful tools for supporting long-term health.
Bio-Individualized Nutrition
No two nutrition plans are ever the same. Your care is personalized based on your unique biology, medical history, genetic predisposition, metabolic and hormonal health, digestive function, lifestyle, stress, and health goals.
Gut–Immune–Hormone Connection
The gut plays a central role in whole-body health. Gut microbiome balance, intestinal barrier integrity, gut–brain communication, and immune function all influence metabolism, hormonal health, and overall well-being. These interconnected systems are an important part of our personalized, systems-based approach.
Lifestyle Medicine Integration
Healthy nutrition works best when supported by healthy living. Stress management, restorative sleep, regular movement, and circadian rhythm alignment are essential components of long-term metabolic health, resilience, and overall well-being.
Behavioral Science & NLP
Sustainable health begins with behavior change. We integrate Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), habit science, Motivational Interviewing, and strategies for emotional eating to support lasting, personalized lifestyle change.
Advanced Functional Testing
When clinically appropriate, we may review or recommend advanced testing to provide additional insights into your health. This may include gut microbiome analysis, metabolic and inflammatory markers, hormone testing, targeted digestive assessments, and nutrigenomic information to help guide personalized nutrition care.
Iterative, Dynamic Care
Functional Medicine is an ongoing, personalized process—not a one-time plan. We continually evaluate your progress, review laboratory findings when appropriate, and adjust your nutrition and lifestyle strategies as your health, goals, and needs evolve.
Tools we use
Every Behavior Has a Story
Every eating behavior and health challenge has underlying influences. By understanding the thoughts, emotions, habits, and life experiences that shape your choices, we help you build a healthier, more sustainable relationship with food—and with your body.
Intrinsic Motivation & Positive Psychology
We build on your unique strengths, values, and motivations to create meaningful, lasting change. Rather than relying on willpower alone, we help you develop habits that align with your goals, lifestyle, and long-term vision for health.
NLP, CBT & Motivational Interviewing
We integrate Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing to help you overcome limiting beliefs, strengthen self-efficacy, improve emotional eating patterns, and support lasting behavior change.
Habit Architecture & Behavioral Systems
Sustainable health is built through consistent daily habits—not quick fixes. Together, we design practical routines and behavioral systems that fit naturally into your life and become easier to maintain over time.
Mindfulness & Stress Management
Stress influences eating behaviors, digestion, sleep, hormones, and overall well-being. We incorporate mindfulness, breathing techniques, and stress-management strategies to help you build resilience, make more intentional choices, and support long-term health.
Intuitive Eating & Body Awareness
We help you reconnect with your body’s hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues while moving away from rigid dieting toward a more balanced, sustainable relationship with food.
Self-Compassion & Emotional Resilience
Building emotional resilience and self-compassion supports lasting behavior change. We help you navigate setbacks with curiosity instead of criticism—strengthening confidence, consistency, and long-term success.
SMART Goal Setting & Accountability
We translate meaningful health goals into realistic, achievable action steps. Through ongoing guidance, accountability, and progress tracking, we help you build momentum and sustain healthy habits.
Sleep Optimization
Quality sleep is essential for overall health and influences metabolism, energy, appetite regulation, and well-being. We provide practical, evidence-based strategies to improve sleep habits and support healthy sleep patterns.
Personalized Nutrition Plans & Meal Strategies
Every nutrition plan is thoughtfully tailored to your medical history, laboratory findings, lifestyle, food preferences, cultural background, and health goals. Practical, enjoyable, and designed to adapt as your needs evolve.
Understanding your body at a deeper level—guided by data, not guesswork.
As part of our individualized approach, we may incorporate advanced functional and genetic testing to better understand your unique biology, lifestyle, and genetic profile. These insights, together with your medical history, laboratory findings, symptoms, and health goals, help us develop a more personalized nutrition strategy.
Genetic and functional testing do not diagnose or treat medical conditions on their own. Rather, they provide additional information that can guide nutrition and lifestyle recommendations in collaboration with your healthcare provider.
3×4 Genetics™ Nutrition & Lifestyle Testing
3×4 Genetics™ is an evidence-informed nutrigenomics platform that helps personalize nutrition and lifestyle recommendations based on your genetic profile. Insights may include:
- Personalized nutrition recommendations based on your genetic profile
- Individual differences in carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism
- Nutrient needs and genetic variations that may influence nutrient metabolism
- Genetic pathways involved in inflammation, oxidative stress, and detoxification processes
- Lifestyle strategies that support metabolic and cardiometabolic health
- Practical recommendations integrated with your laboratory results, medical history, and lifestyle
Genova Diagnostics® Functional Laboratory Testing
When clinically appropriate, functional laboratory testing can provide additional insights into digestive health, nutritional status, metabolism, and other factors that may influence overall health. We use these findings alongside your medical history, laboratory results, symptoms, and lifestyle to personalize your nutrition care.
Available Testing:
- GI Effects® — Comprehensive assessment of digestive function, the gut microbiome, inflammation, and digestive health.
- NutrEval® — Evaluation of nutritional status, metabolic function, oxidative stress, and selected nutrient needs.
- Microbiomix® — Analysis of gut microbiome composition and microbial diversity.
- SIBO Breath Testing — Assessment for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth using validated breath testing.
- Food Allergy & Select Food Sensitivity Testing — When clinically appropriate, testing may help evaluate IgE-mediated food allergies and, in select cases, additional food immune responses as part of a comprehensive clinical assessment.
- DetoxiGenomic® Profile — Evaluation of genetic variations involved in detoxification pathways and oxidative stress to help personalize nutrition and lifestyle recommendations.
Functional laboratory testing is one component of a comprehensive nutrition assessment and is never interpreted in isolation. Testing is recommended only when clinically appropriate and is reviewed alongside your medical history, current medications, symptoms, laboratory findings, and healthcare goals. We collaborate with your healthcare team to ensure our recommendations complement your overall medical care.
Precision care. Real transformation.
Book a complimentary discovery call to learn how our Functional Medicine approach can support your health goals with personalized, evidence-based nutrition care.
