Kaela Pivnick

About Kaela

Throughout her Dietetic career, Kaela has passionately specialized in Diabetes management, sports nutrition, and sustainable weight management. Kaela believes that a positive nutrition experience stems from a positive food relationship to yield empowering, achievable, sustainable, and beneficial lifestyle changes to improve current and future quality of life.

Approach to care

Kaela combines evidence-based nutrition science and a compassionate approach to counseling patients to increase nutrition knowledge and increase one's self efficacy to promote desired health outcomes. Kaela utilizes behavioral theory to promote optimal health and wellness via mindset shifts for sustainable lifestyle changes. She has personally counseled thousands of patients ranging from newly diagnosed patients with Diabetes to collegiate athletes.

Your first session with Kaela

Kaela enjoys fostering partnerships with her patients to increase trust and comfortability to cultivate productivity and progress in the telehealth space. Kaela will guide you through discussing the different facets of health including food, hydration, sleep, stress, gut health, and previous attempts to reach your stated goals. In doing so, she will gather necessary information to understand what worked and what didn't work (and why) so you both can collaborate to create an effective and efficient approach to care with individualized, prioritized areas of health.

Location

📍 Dallas, Georgia

Education

Masters in Health Promotion, Mississippi State University; Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Southern Mississippi

Hobbies

Playing soccer, DIY-ing, dancing (to country or Latin music), chasing her two young kids, couch lounging with her dogs

Licenses and Certifications

CDCES - Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist

LD - Licensed Dietitian

MS - Master of Science

RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist