Specialties
- Help losing weight
- Vegan/vegetarian
- Diabetes or prediabetes
- Healthy aging
- High cholesterol
- Type 2 diabetes
- High blood pressure
Approaches
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Elimination diet🥘
Meal planning🔍
Research-focused🤝
Accountability
Minimum patient age
Patient reviews
“Feel comfortable with dietitian and that she holds me accountable“
August 5th, 2024“Feel comfortable with dietitian feel like I can trust/be open“
August 11th, 2024“Heather Borders is knowledgeable, a good listener, empathetic, and makes excellent suggestions.“
August 17th, 2024
About Heather
Heather is a Culinary Dietitian in Florida with over seven years of dietetics experience in private practice. In addition to nutrition counseling, Heather helps busy professionals and seniors develop personalized strategies for making grocery shopping and meal prep practical and efficient. Her clinical specialties include type 2 diabetes (typically not taking clients with gestational diabetes or type 1 diabetes), cardiovascular disease, and weight management. Heather isn't taking clients with a history of eating disorders. Heather completed the Plant-Based Nutrition Program at eCornell Center for Nutrition Studies and a professional certificate in Plant-Based cooking from Rouxbe.
Approach to care
Heather takes an add-in approach to discovering a nutrition lifestyle that fits each client. She helps clients to set realistic objective- and behavior-based goals, develop systems to help achieve those goals, and evaluate successes and challenges. Her philosophy on behavior change can be summed up by a James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) quote: “Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.” Heather helps clients build new systems (i.e. routines) that will ultimately help them move closer to their health goals.
Your first session with Heather
In an initial visit, Heather dedicates time to better understand where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to be. This begins with a thorough nutrition assessment which includes learning about your medical history, nutrition and lifestyle habits, food preferences, current symptoms of concern, and health and nutrition goals. You will be able to ask questions and define what a successful counseling experience looks like. At the end of the first visit, you’ll leave with at least one actionable step to help move you closer to your health goals.
Location
📍 Florida
Education
Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering (Auburn University) Masters of Biomechanical Engineering (Rice University) Masters of Business Administration (Rice University) Bachelors of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics (University of North Florida)
Hobbies
Cooking, Hiking, Traveling
Licenses and Certifications
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist