Hello! I’m Kat

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist & Nutrition Communicator

After seeing how much nutrition impacted my performance and recovery growing up in figure skating and Taekwondo, I went into nutrition studies with the hope of having the “perfect diet”. I worried about food quality, buried myself in any nutrition information I could find (some not so reputable), spent hours food and meal planning, counted every single calorie I consumed at times, and had a fear of eating “bad” foods that would contribute to sickness. I feared losing control of my intake and just wanted to be healthy. My intake was rooted in hopeful perfection and I hoped that becoming a dietitian would help me have the “perfect” dietary intake I desired.

Thankfully, ~2013 (when I was still a student) another student was talking about a book she was reading that was changing her mind about how she approached nutrition. It sounded interesting, so I decided to head over to a second-hand bookstore and bought my first copy of Intuitive Eating. I devoured the book as fast as I could and bought the audio version so I could listen to it on my trips home from uni.

While I wasn’t ready to completely give up my control around “healthy” and “unhealthy” foods the first couples times I went through the book, I listened with a desire to have the freedom mentioned throughout. Fast forward almost a decade later and I can say that I’ve not only healed my relationship with food, but I truly have deconstructed all the toxic, confusing, and guilt-promoting feelings I once had about food and nutrition. Food and eating is a joyous and nourishing event in more ways than physically, and I love being able to guide people to similar food freedom and nourishment.

Nutrition recommendations require nuance. My job as a dietitian and nutrition coach is to come alongside the client and guide them into finding, building, and strengthening their healthy relationship with food while supporting their physical, mental, and social well-being whether it’s for sport performance, digestive health, prenatal care, or just leaving toxic diet culture. I LOVE MY JOB.

Past Experience
Credentials & Certifications

Past Experience

Clinical Dietitian in a Regional Hospital
Assessed & implemented nutrition plans in ICU and med/surge patients
Dietitian at a Private Practice Clinic
Covered clinical nutrition, disordered eating, and sports nutrition
Corporate Wellness
Ran health fairs, seminars, and employee nutrition/health counseling

Credentials & Certifications

Eight credentials across clinical nutrition, sports dietetics, coaching, and digestive health.

  • A registered dietitian nutritionist is a food and nutrition expert who has met academic and professional requirements including:

    • Earned undergrad or grad. degree in nutrition. Coursework typically includes food and nutrition sciences, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology and chemistry.

    • Completed an accredited, supervised practice program.

    • Passed a national examination administered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.

    • Completes continuing professional educational requirements to maintain registration on an ongoing basis.

  • Board certification as a specialist in sports dietetics by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. The sports dietitian provides individual and group/team nutrition counseling and education to enhance the performance of competitive and recreational athletes.

  • Depending on the state, being a licensed dietitian is required for 1:1 nutrition counseling. State requirements are frequently met through the same education and training required to become an RDN.

    Kat’s Licensure currently includes: Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Maryland, Florida, Illinois

  • Personal Trainers are health and fitness professionals who perform individualized assessments, and design safe, effective and individualized exercise and conditioning programs. NASM-CPTs are prepared to design exercise and conditioning programs that are scientifically valid and based on clinical evidence.

    Personal Trainers do not diagnose or treat areas of pain or disease and will always refer clients with such needs to health care professionals.

  • The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) has collaborated with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) since 2016 to provide a robust board certification examination.

    The NBC-HWC credential represents training, education, and assessment standards, allowing for the profession to advance in all aspects of health care and wellness.

  • A comprehensive nutrition education, mentorship, and internship program based on behavior change. An approved training program by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC).

  • Learning outcomes of the course includes understanding and practical skills in the following areas:

    • The pathophysiology of IBS, including causes, symptoms, diagnostic techniques, alarm features and the role of breath hydrogen testing

    • The FODMAP concept and the FODMAP composition of foods

    • Implementing the low FODMAP diet in clinical practice, from assessment, through to education and managing the re-challenge phase

    • Troubleshooting strategies and considerations when patients are not responding well to a low FODMAP diet

    • Adjunct therapies, including hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, stress management, probiotics and pharmacological therapies

    • Other dietary approaches to IBS management, such as fiber modification, adding glucose to fructose, the low food chemical diet and the gluten-free diet

    • Other applications of the low FODMAP diet, including in pediatric patients with IBS, breastfeeding mothers of infants with colic, women with endometriosis and individuals with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.