High Blood Pressure Nutritionists and Dietitians in Philadelphia County, PA

Only clients know what new habits will fit in their lifestyle. Gwen therefore works collaboratively with you to introduce gradual changes. Gwen will guide you to create a plan that is sustainable and doesn’t exclude any foods, while helping you to manage symptoms, such as elevated blood glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol or blood pressure. If desired, Gwen can also support you with triggers of mindless eating, unhelpful food-related thoughts, managing your food environment and learning to overcome lapses with self-compassion.

She uses a person-centered, weight-inclusive, holistic approach to meet people where they’re at- whether it’s healing your relationship with food and body image, looking to prevent or manage a health condition, or building healthy habits across the lifespan. She has counseled individuals and couples from all backgrounds and walks of life, and empowered them with realistic and adaptable strategies to ultimately feel better inside and out.

Vanessa uses a non-diet and inclusive approach for reaching your health and nutrition goals. Vanessa likes to use humor as well as creative ways to teach you nutrition concepts in ways that are easily digestible for you. Your goals and what you want to achieve are the priority, so Vanessa will meet you where you are at and give you tangible goals to accomplish. As a Latina, incorporating cultural foods and understanding how these foods are nourishing is also important to Vanessa. The focus will be on ways to add food instead of take away foods. Overall, Vanessa is here to guide you and be your cheerleader on your nutrition and healt

I take a compassionate, health at every size approach to care. This approach has been a way that I have seen the most success with my clients as food, health, body image, and movement can be sensitive topics. Some sessions you may find yourself emotional, other sessions you will be laughing at my idea of a joke. But overall, shame is not welcome in our session space, I want you to feel excited when you press join on zoom.

Kristine is passionate about helping her patients to become more mindful and intuitive with food with taking any health issues into consideration. Everyone is unique and different, so no one diet will work for everyone. She will support her patients to find what works for them to improve their eating habits and is very passionate about what she does.

Amy has a holistic approach when working with patients to improve their health conditions. For patients with Gut Health concerns, Amy loves to strategize with patients to find a path to feeling good in their bodies utilizing the least restrictive diet plan possible. She takes a weight inclusive, non-diet approach to helping patients improve their relationship with food and their bodies.

Natalie understands that for those working through disordered eating patterns or an eating disorder, there is oftentimes a missing mind-body connection. Natalie believes it is imperative to work with patients to reconnect the mind and body to repair ones' healthy relationship with food, and doing so in a way that aligns with their lifestyle and personal values. Natalie approaches food and eating from a non-diet perspective, using Intuitive Eating principles and works with you from a weight neutral standpoint.

Olivera Schmeelk is a Registered Dietitian who leverages her expert knowledge and compassionate, encouraging approach to empower you to develop health-promoting habits by integrating personalized strategies that center around behavioral change while building healthy relationships with food and body. Olivera is passionate about presenting nutrition solutions tailored to your medical needs which includes developing a simple plan for a flexible, balanced eating pattern that includes great tasting food and dining experiences that enrich your life.

Shely understands how important it is for people to have access to accurate nutrition information amongst all the conflicting messages out there today. She works to help others take their health into their own hands from a holistic, whole-body approach backed by scientific evidence. She believes nutrition must be enjoyable, accessible, and individualized. And of course, fun.

McKenzie utilizes science-based strategies for building habits to support her patients in making healthy changes that last. Sustainability and balance are her two guide posts when it comes to working with her patients to create change. She incorporates key strategies, such as mindfulness and self-compassion, into her nutrition counseling sessions to help patients develop a more mindful and intuitive approach to food and fitness. She also assists patients in identifying their limiting thoughts and beliefs that may be preventing them from making and maintaining the changes that they need to in order to improve their whole health.

Anne is passionate about working collaboratively with clients to help them make healthy and sustainable diet changes that support their lifestyle and hormonal health. She understands food’s crucial role in balancing hormones and believes in the power of evidence-based research to guide her practice. Anne is particularly interested in the gut-brain connection and how it influences overall well-being. She emphasizes the importance of consuming whole foods that nourish the body and believes that access to nutritious food should be available to all.

Sabrina is passionate about helping others make sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes to improve health. She uses evidence based nutrition science and follows an all foods fit philosophy as well as a weight inclusive approach to health.

Samantha combines her knowledge of functional nutrition with her passion for helping people make life-long habit changes to provide the best care possible. Samantha has helped a wide variety of people to improve their health, ranging from PCOS cases to those with heart disease.

Do you struggle with nutrition in a way that supports your physical AND mental health? Are you confused about all the misinformation you find so easily on the internet & social media? Have you ever felt out of control around food and wish you could just “normalize” your eating? Don’t know where to turn? I’m here to help!

Stephanie uses a compassionate and practical approach to empower and equip people to engage in the health behaviors that are most important to them. She believes nutrition can be enjoyable, flexible, balanced, sustainable, and body-honoring.

She enjoys working with active individuals of all ages, new moms and picky eaters, improving your meal prepping routines, working through balancing your plate and your blood sugar, helping others improve their relationship with food, and creating sustainable lifestyle changes. She takes a practical approach that is supportive, open-minded, and empowering you to reach your goals.

As a dietitian, working mom, and active adult, my approach is to help my clients find ways to consistently eat in a healthy way, while retaining the joy that comes along with eating. I love working with individuals from all different backgrounds. I enjoy finding out where my client is on their health journey and helping them reach their health goals, both big and small.

Emily utilizes a health-at-every-size approach while incorporating intuitive eating to help clients develop a healthy relationship with food and improve overall health. She has counseled hundred of clients with diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.

My education and experience allows me to have a deep understanding of complex nutritional needs and challenges faced by individuals. I take a holistic approach to nutrition care, considering nutritional needs, lifestyle, preferences and relationship with food. One of my favorite things in the world is eating, and I believe that food should be enjoyed and celebrated. I strive to help my clients develop a healthy relationship with food that allows them to enjoy eating while also nourishing their bodies.