Specialties
- Healthy aging
- Help losing weight
- Heart health
- Kidney disease
- Diabetes or prediabetes
- Liver disease
- General health
- Weight stabilization
- Nutrition support
- High cholesterol
- IBS
- Type 2 diabetes
- Bariatric surgery
- Gestational diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes
- High blood pressure
- GERD / Acid reflux
- Ulcerative colitis
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- Tube feeding (EN)
- Help gaining weight
- Pre or postnatal nutrition
- Cancer
- Celiac disease
- Crohn’s disease
Approaches
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Intuitive eating💛
Relationship with food🔍
Research-focused🤝
Accountability
Identifies as
- White
- Female
Minimum patient age
Patient reviews
“Amazing dietitian to help me get started. She listened to all my needs and help me to develop a plan of action to take before our next meeting“
July 25th, 2024“As always, Dena was able to answer my questions, address my concerns and reassure me that that I was doing well. She gives me good, easy to follow strategies that I can implement easily.“
August 16th, 2024“As always, Dena was reassuring and helpful. I feel we are making definite progress“
June 28th, 2024
About Dena
Dena has been a Registered Dietitian for over 11+ years with nutrition experience in clinical, outpatient, community, long-term care and hospice settings. She is passionate about providing evidence-based nutrition guidance to her clients in order for them to find their balance to improve their overall quality of life. Her different experiences in nutrition have helped her skill sets on using motivational interviewing, active listening, and stages of change model to provide impactful nutrition counseling and education to her clients.
Approach to care
Dena is an advocate of individualized nutrition care and education for her clients. She wants to provide realistic, “non-diet” approach, mind-body connection approaches for her clients to meet their nutrition goals. She uses evidenced-based practices to develop nutrition plans or goals that are practical and tailored to meet the needs of her clients’ daily lives. She has her clients start on making simple changes first to add to meet their long-term goals with their dietary lifestyles. Dena will work to create a sustainable plan that works for you. Dena is a busy mom herself who understands the complex nature of eating well and balancing all that life throws at us on a day-to-day basis.
Your first session with Dena
The goal of the first session is to get to know you and what brings you to see me for nutrition counseling. You can expect your session with me to be a non-judgmental, relaxed, and supportive environment. Dena will ask about your medical history, nutrition history, current eating patterns, lifestyle and most importantly, what your expectations and hopes to achieve from a health and nutrition perspective. She hopes to dive deeper into nutrition education and your nutrition goals in the sessions to come. Dena would love to be a partner in your journey in health and wellness.
Location
📍 Georgia
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences - University of Arizona Completed up to thesis portion of Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition - Rutgers University School of Health Related Professions
Hobbies
Spending time with my husband, children, and two cats, swimming, kayaking, hiking, being at the lake, going to lunch/dinner dates with friends