Work With Cindy

Patient and Professional Advocate

Throughout my career, I’ve always viewed my role as an RN and RD as being a health care advocate for my patients, who are really just trying to feel well. So many people walk away from medical appointments not feeling completely heard, often times with just a prescription in hand and still feeling poorly. So, twenty years ago, I started accompanying my patients to their doctor’s appointments-upon their request. I’ve always comfortably worked and communicated with physicians, nurses and anyone else on my client’s health care team. This step alone provided so much invaluable insight to the clinician/patient interaction—especially in the nutrition arena, but most importantly it helped educate other practitioners and best of all, helped my patients become advocates for themselves.

Then, ten years ago, I developed continuing education courses for health professionals focused around nutrition and systems biology, and offered consults for RDs and RNs to help review their patient cases. Having had that invaluable experience watching patients interact with their healthcare team, my professional consults offer another set of eyes, to help clinicians better support their patients, especially a set of eyes that encourages you to think of all systems of the body.

Today, I offer consults for individual wellness and also professional case reviews for health care professionals.

Private Wellness Consult

Cindy can review as little or as much as you like. Your session can be a Q and A if you like or a more comprehensive review of your medical, psychosocial and food/diet history including a review of labs, supplements and medications. Everyone’s biochemistry and physical make up is just a bit different. Cindy takes the best from conventional and functional medicine practice to help you achieve your wellness goals--to find the food and lifestyle choices that work best for your unique body.

Professional Case Review Consult

If you are a health professional and would like a another set of professional eyes to review one of your client cases, this is right up my alley. We can review as little or as much as is helpful to you, and always keeping in mind all systems of the body.

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Weight Control

 
 

The weight loss treadmill-losing, then gaining, over and over is a big business. There is no shortage of weight loss programs in America—a reflection of our futile effort to lose weight.  For so many, feeling unwell or unhealthy preoccupies their thoughts, choices and ultimately their body. The magic formula for weight loss seems elusive for many folks and unfortunately, many resort to GLP-1 drugs and other extreme measures. People come to see me with a range of advanced chronic diseases and weight loss is on the minds of many of my clients. Often losing weight is a major part of their improvement and without using a GLP-1 drug. 

Truth be told- the weight loss equation is not that simple and all calories are created equal, nor are any two people created equal. So, the “calories in — calories out” equation is much more complicated and very much a misnomer, especially given the research on the gut microbiome, nutrition genomics and fasting, However, your body has the tools to lose weight but it is very much an individual endeavor. Getting to the bottom of why someone feels so poorly and actually seeing their health improve is the best part of my job.