Lauren is a Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration and licensed to practice in the states of North Carolina, Maryland, and Missouri.
Lauren is located in Virginia and earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise from Virginia Tech and went on to complete her Dietetic Internship through the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She also earned her Master of Science degree in Agriculture and Life Sciences from Virginia Tech, which focused on the foundations of our food systems by understanding growing and production practices, as well as consumer attitudes and perceptions. She is also pursuing her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) certification.
Lauren has experience in residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of eating disorder treatment with clients ranging from young adolescence into adulthood. She continued with nutrition counseling in the outpatient setting because she enjoys assisting clients in reaching their goals in an environment that allows for them to be their authentic selves. She holds a passion for empowering others in building, mending, and maintaining respectful and peaceful relationships with food and their bodies while adequately nourishing themselves for life and performance.
Lauren's nutrition philosophy is based on a weight-inclusive and anti-diet approach. She believes in assessing all aspects of a person (social, environmental, biological, and behavioral) to determine the most effective intervention and aims to meet her clients where they are in their journey through an individualized approach to nutrition counseling and education. She hopes to lead her clients to discover that unlearning deeply ingrained thoughts rooted in diet culture and finding trust with food and their body is possible, while validating the challenges of the journey all the while.
In her free time, Lauren enjoys visiting family, discovering new coffee shops, and traveling to the coasts or different parts of Appalachia to hike and camp.
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