Health Professionals in Austin, TX

Mind-body focused Registered Dietitian with a non-diet and weight inclusive approach. While I understand there is a time/place for specific medically warranted diets, I generally practice mindful and intuitive eating while seeking a deeply rooted understanding to our relationship (s) with food. We will work together to learn from a place of centeredness, capture the catalyst for nutrition changes and develop a rhythm necessary for your personal and unique lifestyle.

Vanessa uses a root cause, individualized approach to make lasting and sustainable changes. No diets or band aid fixes here! Vanessa works with you to get you off the roller coaster of symptom management and onto a path of true healing.

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.

There is so much information out there that the journey to wellness can feel overwhelming. Emily’s approach is to help her clients simplify the noise and reach individualized goals using evidenced-based practices. Becoming a partner with the client on their journey is important to her to help them build that confidence to be in the driver’s seat.

Melissa believes in an individualized approach to nutrition care. Her philosophy is that attainability, sustainability, and consistency are key in making positive health changes. If a nutrition plan is lacking in any of these areas, it should be recalibrated to better meet the individual's needs, rather than expecting the individual to "make it work". She enjoys helping clients focus on the foods that they can eat rather than giving lists of foods to avoid.

She practices through a HAES-informed lens with a nutrition philosophy that all foods fit can fit through balance, variety and moderation. Her goal is to educate and empower you to mindfully nourish your body in a way that supports your physical, mental and emotional health, understanding that this looks different for everybody, and assuring that these changes are both sustainable and accessible.

Kate believes in a functional, personalized approach to nutrition and works to look deeply into your health and nutrition choices to help you find a mindful, sustainable, and balanced way to eat while supporting your health goals. She enjoys utilizing technology and humor to help support her clients on their journey.

I am Jingyu Gu, PhD & Lic. Acu. My acupuncture practice started in 1972 in Shanghai. I founded the Taiji & Qigong Meditation Center and Wellspring Acupuncture & Holistic Health Clinic. My patients receive not only standard acupuncture and herbal treatments but also instruction on therapeutic taiji and qigong exercises. This harmonious and holistic treatment paradigm is the highest often hard-to-reach level of therapy in the TCM tradition. I taught these subjects in the Texas College of TCM (TX Health & Science Univ.) as well to acupuncturists for their CEU and served on the Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners for 5 years.

My approach to care is to meet patients where they are and provide guidance and support to making long-term and sustainable lifestyle changes to meet their nutrition goals.

Have you developed vague, chronic problems that you can't put your finger on? Are you more tired, achy and irritable? Have you gained weight that won't come off no matter what you try? Are you having stomach issues such as GI upset, constipation, heartburn, or just uncomfortable bloating? You may have developed a sensitivity to specific foods that are common in your diet. These sensitivities can cause symptoms and problems with your health that your doctor may not be able to figure out because most do not look at food as a potential cause of their patients symptoms.

Angela takes a person-centered, compassionate approach to nutrition counseling sessions. She sees each person as a unique individual on their own path to wellness. She has counseled hundreds of patients on healing their relationship with food and body image and improving their overall health and well-being.

Talking about the acupuncture, the first thing, or the only thing, that comes to most people’s minds is the pain. Acupuncture helps pain relief – back pain, shoulder pain, headache, etc. Does acupuncture treat pain only? The answer is “No.” At Guanyin Chinese Medicine Clinic, we work with all kinds of health conditions – acute, chronic (5 years, 20 years, or longer), physical, and emotional. Your condition is prudently evaluated, and a treatment plan is developed to best fit your needs.

Do you feel out of control around or controlled by food? Are you confused by all of the nutrition misinformation floating around? Are you struggling with disordered eating or an eating disorder?

I specialize in performance/sports nutrition and eating disorder/disordered eating counseling. It’s important for me to meet my clients where they are at and create tangible solutions that are specifically tailored to them. I believe in a whole foods-first approach and incorporate intuitive eating and Health at Every Size (HAES) practices. I’ve been lucky enough to work with professional and elite athletes, eating disorders at the partial-hospitalization and intensive outpatient level of care, and medical nutrition. I currently use my passion for sports nutrition as a contract sports dietitian for USA Track and Field.

Food and movement are the two of the biggest joys of life, and I love sharing that with others and individualizing care to help you experience the those joys in ways that matter most to you. As an empathetic person, I deeply care about who who are as a person first, then what your health goals are, which I explore through asking questions to understand, drawing connections, and coming alongside you to empower you to be the best version of you! I view food and movement as medicine, especially in treating and preventing chronic disease.

Morgan practices from health-at-every-size roots, and believes nutrition-related goals are just part of the overall picture. Sleep, stress management, lifestyle, and work (to name a few) all factor into your health and nutrition! It is so important to Morgan that you feel heard and supported throughout your journey together. Morgan will provide compassionate care and empathy while emphasizing nutrition expertise and evidence-based approach to interventions and nutrition care.

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.

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.

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.