Your Body can Lead You Towards Your Deepest Healing.

Healing is liberation.

Healing can be ongoing, non-linear, unpredictable, uncomfortable, and deeply relieving.

INVITE GENTLE CURIOSITY TOWARDS YOUR WHOLE BODY WHILE HOLDING THE TRUTH OF YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Trust that there is a more compassionate way, different from what the shame narrative tells you.

WAYS TO WORK WITH ME.

  • I provide nutrition therapy services as a registered dietitian nutritionist in my virtual practice. Added bonus, you may get to see my amazingly cool cat, Bug, who is his own little healer.

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- Sam K

“I’ve worked with Virginia for a few years now, and I am extremely proud of how far I’ve come with her guidance and support. I’ve struggled with an eating disorder since I was 12, and when I think back to my first exposure to dietitians, many caused harm by continuing the diet culture narrative because they hadn’t done their own work. It’s so refreshing to work with Virginia because you KNOW she’s done so much work on her own with her relationship to food and body, which allows her to hold space for her clients and help them unpack any past trauma around food and body. In addition to this, I recently got diagnosed with ADHD, and Virginia has been great at supporting me through figuring out the eating with ADHD realm (forgetting to eat, etc). I can always count on Virginia to show up authentically. I wish everyone had a Virginia in their life.”

- Erica L

“I began working with Virginia after I had completed an initial phase of recovery with another eating disorder clinic. At the time, I was certain that I wanted to practice intuitive eating and body trust, but also wanted additional support after a new medical diagnosis. With Virginia, I learned how to navigate the healthcare system with greater confidence and self-advocacy skills. I strengthened my intuitive eating practice including how to care for my body as it uniquely needs. Virginia also supported my exploration of anti-fat bias and its impacts within my own family system.

Engaging in therapy with Virginia remains one of the best decisions I’ve made. I appreciate the systems-based perspective Virginia consistently uses during conversation. She understands that healing is not a linear process and allowed me to take as much time as I needed for each stage of growth. I never felt rushed or pressured in my process. Virginia was trustworthy with my most vulnerable experiences. She has been an advocate with other members of my care team, and I’m immensely grateful for her support in my life.”

- Maggie M

“Virginia's approach to nutrition and body trust is exactly what I have needed: rooted in an awareness of systemic issues, centered in acceptance, infused with genuine care and compassion. In my work with her, I have learned to listen to what my body needs and wants after a lifetime of being told I shouldn't, that I couldn't trust myself around food. She has become an integral part of my care team and has helped liberate me once and for all from diet culture and self harm in the form of chasing weight loss. Thank you, Virginia, from the depths of my heart <3”

-Phyllis F

“I got put on my first diet around age 10. It was the beginning of a lifelong battle with my weight. When I got diagnosed with diabetes, the shame I’d always felt kicked into high gear. I began to see Virginia to get a handle on my diabetes. Our work together has changed my life in ways I never imagined.

Virginia is warm, compassionate, and funny. She's also highly intuitive. She fearlessly pushed me to start examining the toxic culture we live in by putting under the microscope the messages I received growing up. What has been their impact on me and the larger society?

Being alive in our culture creates trauma. There’s lots of damage to undo. How do I heal? Initially, we talked at length about valuing myself. I have inherent worth. How do I let go of the vicious way I’ve treated myself and replace it with loving kindness? What if I allow myself to experience pleasure? Can I enjoy and appreciate my body even if it doesn't conform to societal norms? Then there’s Embracing my sexuality and cultivating agency around it. We explored gender expectations, women’s roles, toxic masculinity, and how these come together to shape the way I move in the world. We talked about a lot of things before we began to focus on food.

Within the larger context we’d created, we began to look at my relationship with food and how to recreate it. Am I I eating enough? How do I let go of assigning foods as good and bad? Is it okay to eat to comfort myself? How do I define health? What do I want for myself and my body? What agency do I have in dealing with our healthcare system with its narrow view of what is healthy?

Prepare to have your world turned upside down. The work has been exhilarating, scary, painful, enraging, and oh-so worth it. Fasten your seat belt!!”

-Anja R

I have had the privilege of working with Virginia throughout all stages of recovering from an eating disorder.  When we began working together, I was critically ill and needed her support in transitioning to and from inpatient settings.  Virginia has always shone as a member of my health care team, and she facilitated prompt and clear communication between many moving parts during that era. 

While very proficient at working within the system, Virginia provided context and grace that validated my struggles.  This is another of Virginia’s standout strengths: the ability to step back and widen the lens, whether the topic is eating disorder treatment, neurodivergence, or diet culture.  In doing so, she has consistently helped me cultivate self-compassion.   

She has also been a tether to the important principles that helped me find my way in recovery. Because diet culture and disordered eating are such powerfully-held, entrenched parts of ourselves (and, as Virginia will always remind me, our whole society), it is almost impossible to let them go without something else to fill their place.  After a lifetime of hating my body, I wanted very badly for that “something” to be rooted in anti-oppressive thinking, such as the body liberation movement.  But I would not have been able to get there without Virginia’s help.  She embodies those principles with grace, wisdom and a wonderful laugh. 

By nature, I am not the most radical of individuals. I sometimes struggle to integrate new thought processes if the teaching party comes across as heavy-handed or sanctimonious. Fortunately Virginia is never that.  Instead she is exceptionally skilled at bringing her own lived experience to the table as a tool for growing and relating.   Of all the many health professionals I have seen over the years, she has achieved the best balance of effective personal disclosure and thoughtful boundary-keeping.

She is very supportive of clients’ processes and welcomes feedback.  This is a revolutionary way of building agency and personal empowerment in a treatment world that often discounts client voices.  It facilitates a collaborative, invested path towards healing.  

It has now been over 20 months since I graduated to outpatient care, which is a sentence I never thought I would write.   But with Virginia’s help, I have been able to nurture recovery even while navigating significant real-life obstacles. 

I whole-heartedly recommend Virginia if you are looking for a different kind of dietitian, one who will help you examine the systemic causes of illness while building your personal toolkit for healthy resistance. Her systems-based approach is especially well-suited for recovering individuals who are hungry for food and body justice.

-Julie W

“I have had the good fortune to work with Virginia over the last several years since finishing binge eating disorder treatment at Eating Recovery Center (ERC). I have appreciated her expertise to both continue seamlessly with the tools and concepts from ERC and offer perspectives apart from traditional eating disorder protocols. The breadth of resources she has shared with me has been immense and her training on “both sides of the fence” so to speak, continues to be valuable.
The way her Be Nourished/Center for Body Trust training has informed her work has been a revelation. I credit Virginia for starting to crack open my “failure” narrative around food and body. Admittedly, diet culture still has a grasp, but as I find my way, Virginia walks alongside with compassion and wisdom. She patiently offers that a particular choice may not be in my highest good but always with the education that those choices are often a product of diet culture, and not my personal failings.

On a lighter note, I appreciate Virginia’s “down to earth” style. She is open to sharing herself…what she is passionate about and always a good belly laugh. What a relief to be silly sometimes and even create self-care practices called “Ta-Da” lists!

What I also value is that she is committed to doing her own personal work. This work richly informs the way she supports my work. Virginia is one of the most gifted providers I have worked with over the decades and I so appreciate her!”