Pronouns: she/her/hers

Emily has been a dietitian since 2019 and founded Embodied Health Counseling in 2022. Before that, Emily spent time building a private practice on the side while working at a PHP/IOP eating disorder treatment center in SF and providing short term nutrition support for The Tang Center at University of California - Berkeley, Paradigm Treatment Center in San Rafael and a local gym in the Bay Area.

Passionate about the intersectionality of public health and disordered eating, Emily aims to see all of her clients as individuals a part of larger systems. Unlike the predominant narrative perpetuated by society, she truly believes that individual behavior and subsequent health outcomes are not driven by individual choices alone. All of us are a part of various cultures, systems of influence and relationships or communities that influence our individual choices.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Dietetics - University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Master of Public Health - University of Michigan

Dietetic Internship - University of Michigan School of Public Health

Registered Dietitian - ID #86080219

Emily has completed trainings in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) & Radically Open- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT). These approaches help Emily support clients in accepting where they are, including the feelings that come with this process, while simultaneously finding actionable ways in which change feels possible.

Emily is a proud member of EDRD Pro and is currently completing hours for the iaedp Certified Eating Disorder Specialist certification. She is also completing trainings through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute to become IFS-informed. In the coming years Emily hopes to return to graduate school to grow her skill-set and scope of practice to become a licensed therapist.

Emily’s approach is patient-centered, relational and humanistic. This means that she meets her clients where they are in their healing journey, sees them as experts of themselves and their journey and are there to help guide, encourage and challenge (when appropriate) narratives, beliefs and ways of thinking that may limit the ways in which you hope to change.

Emily firmly believes in equitable access to care and challenges the notion of “sick enough” that has been created by an insurance system that makes some clients more “deserving of care”. Disordered eating is rampant in our society and more needs to be done to train providers on how to identify it among patients and refer them to resources that will support and not cause (further) harm. As a provider she also knows what it’s like to seek help as she struggled with an eating disorder in high school and into college.

Over the years, Emily has further specialized to support clients navigating the intersection of disordered eating and neurodivergence, trauma and complex chronic health issues. Emily is the right fit for you if

• You’re stuck in your healing journey and uncertain of the next step

• You’ve worked with dietitians before, been in and out of therapy or even cycled through various treatment centers

• You feel you have a lot of insight about your relationship with food, movement and body image but still feel stuck

• You’re afraid to start talking about your relationship with food or body image

• You’re taking a GLP-1 but noticing struggles with body image still and your relationship with food and movement

• You’re stuck with part of you aligning with intuitive eating and body neutrality and a part of you that struggles to navigate that day to day

Emily is particularly passionate about the intersectionality of disordered eating with neurodivergence, trauma, experiences of weight stigma/bias and individuals pre/post bariatric surgery. These groups are historically "missed" in our current treatment model and/or cycle in and out of treatment settings struggling to get better or receive the care they truly need and deserve

Emily is a midwesterner at heart — she grew up in Minnesota and since graduate school has lived in Michigan, California and now calls Brooklyn, NY home.

She is a Pisces and embraces all that comes along with her sign including a brain that loves to day dream and wander as well as a strong sense of attunement.

If she hadn’t become a dietitian she would have wanted to be a therapist and/or a psychiatric nurse practitioner.

Her favorite movie is a toss up between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.