Hello! I’m Emily (she/her).
Emily has been a dietitian since 2019 and founded Embodied Health Counseling in 2022 with the vision of creating a space where clients and clinicians alike feel safe, seen, and supported. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, followed by her Master of Public Health and Dietetic Internship through the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Before starting EHC, Emily worked at a PHP/IOP eating disorder treatment center in San Francisco and provided nutrition support for The Tang Center at UC Berkeley, Paradigm Treatment Center, and a local boutique gym.
Her work is grounded in a patient-centered, trauma-informed, relational, and humanistic approach. Emily believes that health and behavior cannot be understood through personal choice alone, but must be viewed within the larger context of systems, relationships, culture, privilege, and access. She is especially passionate about supporting clients navigating the intersections of disordered eating, neurodivergence, trauma, chronic health conditions, gender identity exploration, weight stigma, and bariatric surgery experiences, areas that are often overlooked in traditional care.
Emily is deeply committed to equitable, affirming support and challenges the harmful idea that someone must be “sick enough” to deserve care. She also brings lived experience to her work as someone who is in recovery from an eating disorder herself and a fellow ADHDer. She plans to return to graduate school to pursue mental health counseling, with the long-term goal of becoming dually licensed as both a dietitian and therapist and continuing to grow Embodied Health into a collaborative space for healing.
Originally from Minnesota, Emily is a Midwesterner at heart and has also lived in Michigan and California before settling in Brooklyn, New York. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her partner, friends, and two dogs, Murphy and Alfie, who occasionally make appearances in sessions.
Emily’s fee is $250 for 45-minute follow up sessions
*The initial intake appointment is 60 minutes and has a one time fee of $350
Emily’s Specialties
Disordered Eating in Men
Men are traditionally overlooked when it comes to disordered eating and body image struggles. Yet, nearly 1 in 3 individuals struggling with disordered eating are male.
Emily is passionate about creating safe spaces for men to talk about their relationship with food and their body, as many of the men she works with have never had that. She also supports queer and trans men in exploring the unique body pressures many in the LGBTQIA+ community experience.
Women’s Health
Emily supports women navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, PCOS, auto-immune conditions, ongoing GI issues, and other life stages that can bring shifts in identity, appetite, body image, and self-trust.
Emily is also passionate about creating safe, trauma-informed spaces for women that have experienced sexual assault or interpersonal violence. Although she is not treating the trauma herself, she has seen first hand how intersectional this can be with women’s health and disordered eating.
ADHD + Neurodivergence
Emily focuses on supporting clients in understanding their unique executive functioning and sensory needs, capacity and heightened responses to rejection, injustice or perceived failure.
As someone diagnosed with ADHD later in life, Emily brings both personal understanding and clinical insight to this work. She helps clients better understand how ADHD and ASD can shape their relationship with food, movement, and body image, while building systems and strategies that are realistic and sustainable.
Binge Eating + Disordered Eating
Disordered eating is often misunderstood, oversimplified, or treated with restriction that often makes things worse. Emily helps clients explore the emotional, behavioral, and biological factors that may be fueling binge eating and other disordered behaviors, while working toward a more stable, trusting, and sustainable relationship with food.
She also supports clients navigating binge eating in the context of GLP-1 use, body image distress, and pre or post bariatric surgery, where the emotional and psychological aspects of healing are often overlooked.
How to Work with Emily
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After a complimentary consult call to make sure it’s a good fit on both side, we will set up an intake appointment to dive more into your concerns, history and goals for our work together.
If you are just looking for a meal plan or meal ideas and think that is where the work with a dietitian starts and ends, Emily is likely not the provider for you. Emily believes that our relationship with food, movement and health as a whole is often a broader reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves. And a meal plan just doesn’t really do that justice…
Emily has spent years receiving clinical supervision and completing advanced trainings to provide specialized and highly tailored care to her clients. Having her on your team means high levels of collaboration with you and other providers and a tailored approach that is relational, humanistic and holistic in nature.
Unlike other dietitians who may hold caseloads of 30-40 different clients every week, Emily only sees between 25-30 clients at a time. Keeping her case load small allows her to provide high quality care that is tailored to you. It also means she likely will remember the names of your pets, family, what you do and that one friend that can’t stop talking about what they eat…
Emily has some spots for sliding scale clients but if she doesn’t have any openings she is always willing to support clients in finding a provider that is a better fit!
Why Clients Choose To Work With Emily
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"Emily is a godsend, and one of the main reasons I've continued eating disorder recovery this long....
What has most stood out to me is the way that Emily walks the line of what we should talk about to further my recovery whilst giving me agency in when I talk about those things. I made it clear at the onset of working with her that I do not trust dietitians, and she changed that.”
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"Emily was the first dietitian to see me and not my body....
She made me feel safe while also helping me hold space for ED thoughts.
She's well-educated, emotionally intelligent, and passionate about what she does. Those of us in fat bodies, shamed by dietitians in the past, or fearing of being judged by being honest...that stops at Emily's practice”
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"Emily is a godsend - wise, knowledgeable, compassionate and very professional.
She has the ability to get to the core of the issue with great insight. I am very grateful for her guidance, support and patience. She's awesome!!!”