Specialties
- Weight stabilization
- Thyroid disorders
- Diabetes or prediabetes
- Sports & performance nutrition
- Disordered eating
- Eating disorder
- General health
- Emotional eating
- Heart health
- Help gaining weight
- Pediatric nutrition
- Liver disease
- Gut health
- Food allergies
- Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED)
- Binge eating
- Anorexia
- Bariatric surgery
- Bulimia
- IBS
- High cholesterol
- Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
- High blood pressure
- SIBO
- Prediabetes
- Hypothyroidism
- Type 2 diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Ulcerative colitis
- Crohn’s disease
- Type 1 diabetes
- GERD / Acid reflux
Approaches
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Intuitive eating💛
Relationship with food⭐
Weight-neutral🤝
Accountability
Identifies as
- Christian
- Female
Cuisines / Diets
- Italian
Minimum patient age
About Melinda
Kind and compassionate professional. Worked as a figure skating coach before I became a dietitian. I heard a lot of misinformation so I wanted to find out the truth about nutrition. Wow, is it complex! After completing graduate school, I spent my time at an outpatient eating disorder clinic helping clients from all different walks of life helping to heal their relationship with food. Now, I am happy to expand my horizons at Nourish to help others reach their best selves. I am a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS). I have experience working with anorexia, bulimia, ARFID, RED-S, etc. My specialties are sports nutrition, eating disorders and Intuitive Eating.
Approach to care
Care is personalized and compassionate. I am an all foods fit dietitian and emphasize honoring your health at every size. Together we will come up with nutrition solutions that best fit you and your lifestyle. I will be there to coach you every step of the way. We will be making life long sustainable changes.
Your first session with Melinda
We are going to build rapport! Expect to get to know each other and go through a bunch of questions. No worries if we don't get through all of them the first time. There is always next time to finish up. I want to know as much about your as I can in order help you and your health care needs.
Location
📍 Buena Park, California
Education
BS/MS Nutrition and Dietetics 2021, BS Health Sciences with Minor in Japanese 2012
Hobbies
Figure skating, cooking, hiking, jpop and kpop fan, amateur gardening
Licenses and Certifications
CEDS - Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist