Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
In-Network Insurance Companies:
- BMI
- BUPA
- SALUD S.A.
- ASK YOUR BROKER IF YOUR IC IS OPEN TO NUTRITION CONSULTATIONS SO I CAN HELP YOU.
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Vegetarian and Vegan /Plant based
- Intuitive eating and HAES approach.
- Conventional diet (with animal foods)
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- Health conditions: insulin resistance, Diabetes Mellitus 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cholesterolemia, thyroid pathologies; etc
- Digestive pathologies: Irritable bowel syndrome, constipation; gallbladder, fatty liver, etc.
- Female gender / hormonal health: menstrual cycle, polycystic ovarian syndrome, pregnancy and postpartum.
Age Groups Served:
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- LGBTQIA+
- Vegan, antifatphobia and feminist activist
- I have some congenital and health conditions throughout my life: Necrotizing enterocolitis and septicemia when I was born at 6 1/2 months and clubbed fingers that are cause recurrent infections and limit my quality of life and practice sometimes. Furthermore, I had important knee surgeries till 2014 such as fulkerson osteomy and with all this I had to learn to walk again. I also had brain surgery for Arnold Chiari and Syringomelia decompression on Nov.2020. For which I think it has made me very empathetic and sensitive since I was little for those of us who got out of the molded ´´normal´´, and we have gone through, bullying, pain, discrimination and that despite everything we are still here fighting it and enjoying as we can the privilege of having life.
- Primary child caregivers
Languages Services Offered In:
- English
- Spanish
- English
- Spanish
My Philosophy of Care
I have a respectful eating approach applicable to people with or without added health conditions.
Working on the relationship you have with your diet and body image in my office is vital.
You will learn to incorporate more nutrients into your diet by promoting a neutral relationship with food, without restrictions and from an intuitive, flexible approach and without obsession or rules. (conscious, connected and respectful eating)
Please be assured and proper guidance if you are vegetarian/vegan/plantbased. You can safely take this type of diet at any stage of life.
I do NOT work on body modification, my consultation is not weight-centric (I am not guided by a % or number of a scale) there can be health in all sizes.
I don't diet. Neither restrictive / hypocaloric / nutritional deficit. I do not impose diet plans or portions.
I will provide you with tools / resources so that you can improve autonomously and add self-care habits, to give more variety and structure to your diet if the diet-therapeutic picture so warrants.
My approach is a process and as such for each patient it will be different in time and methodology used according to what we are gradually addressing.
About Me & My Practice
Born Feb/04/1988. I´m a animal rights advocate and now have 2 cats at home, feed and help and sterilize the cat colony in my community. I love doing Pilates and I like to stay at home, watch series and movies. I give my time to things and people who nourish me, who respect and who I love.
On the other hand, I'm Nutritionist, dietitian since 2012. But I never felt capable of sending people on diets and that I could make them lose weight, so I didn't practice my career till 2017 when I made my specialty in Plant-based diet. This branch is full of compassion for other beings, focuses on replacing and adding foods to avoid deficiencies. If you have a more plant based or animal intake, I can help you, discrimination free space here :D.
However, from 2017 to the beginning of 2020 I suffered from orthorexia, so I did promote disordered behavior without knowing it :(, so I can help you If you are going through this.
I begin to recover when I start my deconstruction, at mid 2020, when I was faced with intuitive and mindful eating, Well Now, HAES, aesthetic violence, trauma, neurodivergent and minorities, etc. I could understand that there can be health in all sizes, that health is totally out of our control, it was the final goodbye to the diet culture. And this is only bringing benefits for both, myself and for my patients/community.
Accessibility Considerations
Disclose: In the clinic where I attend consultations in person, have weight centered approach. At the premises there are practices use as the norm on the other patients such as requiring weigh-ins (so there is going to be a scale that you will see) , flagging certain BMIs in the chart, surgeries, food portions, etc. That are out of my control, and I always will have a not diet and non weight center with you. That's why in most of my patients the online consultations are the most used and recommended cause for many could be uncomfortable or triggering.