Health Professionals in Austin, TX

Mariel is a compassionate and empathetic nutrition counselor. She understands that each person's experience is unique and she believes in the importance of a collaborative and individualized approach to health. She is committed to helping her clients by applying non-diet approaches to nutrition and utilizing intuitive eating principles to improve their overall health and relationship with food.

I use Motivational Interviewing to really get to know you and what your needs are and help you accomplish your nutrition goals in a way that works with your lifestyle. I collaborate with you to create small goals at each session to use as stepping stones towards your long term goals. I'm passionate about sustainable behavior change, Intuitive Eating, mindful eating, food freedom, anti-(fad)diet and I'm HAES (Health at Every Size)-aligned.

It’s no secret that food is fuel for your body and ultimately impacts the way you feel. My goal is to help you develop the tools you need to choose foods that will give you energy to live vibrantly. First, I will take your individual needs into consideration. Then, we can work together to develop a plan for you to create lasting healthy habits. These are the lifestyle changes you WANT to make and will continue when you FEEL the difference.

Renae is passionate about helping individuals improve their health—particularly with cardiometabolic conditions including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Her philosophy is a whole foods, non-diet approach emphasizing simplicity. She helps people move toward their nutrition goals by meeting them where they are.

In addition to her extensive professional experience, Alyssa brings a unique perspective to her role as a healthcare professional. Personally living with a rare chronic illness, she understands firsthand the challenges and complexities that her patients face on their health journeys. This experience has fostered a deep sense of empathy and compassion within Alyssa, enabling her to provide exceptional care and support to patients who are desperate for answers. She strives to empower people to improve their health and quality of life despite the obstacles they may encounter.

Ruth’s approach is personalized, collaborative, and non-judgmental. She enjoys supporting and guiding people as they work toward their goals to improve health and enjoy delicious food in ways that are realistic and sustainable. Ruth takes an additive approach to food and nutrition – while working with you to ditch feelings of deprivation and guilt. Her mission is to help you become your own health expert by discovering the skills and strategies which work best for you, growing those skills into lasting habits, and celebrating your successes with you along the way!

Linda will meet you where you are, helping you implement change, one step at a time. She believes all foods can fit into a healthy diet and helps to include these into a plan designed for you and your needs. She will help you feel empowered and confident as you learn realistic techniques you can implement in your daily routine. Linda will offer accountability and encouragement as you make long lasting lifestyle changes, rather than a quick fix that is not sustainable.

Marie is passionate about enhancing her clients health and happiness by using whole nourishing foods, a non-diet approach to meal planning, suggestions for addressing each concern, and targeted supplements that accelerate progress. She excels at listening to what’s important and creating customized plans. No judgement here; just an understanding that every challenge is an opportunity to problem solve together, with the goal of lasting results. Marie will lead you in baby steps (or faster, if you’re the all-in type), to have satisfying meals that reset your metabolism and energize your body and mind.

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.

Elise uses a functional and integrative approach with a focus on implementing sustainable and realistic nutrition changes to improve both mental and physical health. Her nutrition philosophy is rooted in a holistic and individualized approach with an emphasis on assuring that food remains enjoyable.

Kinsley is very passionate about people & food. She believes food is meant to provide both nourishment and pleasure. Kinsley practices a flexible, non-diet approach, weight-inclusive, utilizing the intuitive eating principles to achieve an individualized, sustainable healthy lifestyle. Kinsley provides a non-judgmental approach with warmth, compassion, energy and support to all of her clients while helping them gain insight, develop self-compassion and repair the relationship with food while also healing the mind, body & soul.

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.

Caitlin is a non-diet dietitian with a food first philosophy. She believes all foods fit and utilizes a Health at Every Size approach when working with patients. Her goal is to help clients reach their health and performance goals while teaching them how to fuel their bodies and foster a positive relationship with food.

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.

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.

Carla believes that a personalized approach to counseling helps to create a partnership in helping clients work towards their goals. She encourages clients to focus on foods that can be added to their diet rather than foods to restrict. Carla believes in flexibility in the path to change since everyone has a different journey to travel to work towards their goals.

Julie addresses your concerns in a comfortable small-steps approach, with the understanding that many factors play into food choices. She compassionately weaves evidenced-based nutrition information and intuitive eating strategies when working with clients, also paying close attention to other important factors - physical activity, sleep, stress, and the whole person. She believes that healthy behaviors can develop at any size; that while we all have room for improvements unique to our own self, we also have the capacity to take life-giving steps that can snowball into life-long change and better quality of life.

Mattie combines evidence-based nutrition science with a compassionate, whole health approach to counseling patients to deliver health outcomes and improve patients’ day-to-day lives.

Kelsey practices a health at every size (HAES), non-diet, and weight inclusive approach to care by utilizing intuitive eating principles.