Intensive Diabetes Care Program

Struggling with Blood Sugar and A1C Levels?

Are you facing challenges with your blood sugar and A1C levels? Have you tried numerous strategies without success?

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at the age of 16. My dietitian advised me that my issue stemmed from overeating. Through determination, I discovered effective ways to reduce my weight and gain control over my blood sugar levels. For over a decade, I have managed to maintain my A1C below 5.7%.

I understand that diabetes distress is very real, and I empathize with your journey.

Allow me to support you through this 12-week program.

Why work with me?

I know what it feels like to be handed a diagnosis and sent home with a pamphlet.

I was sixteen years old when I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
My dietitian told me I was eating too much. That I needed to change my diet and exercise more. Simple enough advice — except she never asked how much I was already exercising. She didn't know I was already trying desperately to lose weight. She didn't know that what I needed wasn't a shorter food list. I needed someone to actually understand what was happening in my life.

What happened next took me years to untangle.
I developed a complicated relationship with food and exercise. I used movement as punishment and researched weight loss obsessively. I was looking for answers anywhere I could find them — and the ones I found weren't always safe. I didn't have the language for what I was experiencing at the time. I just knew I was terrified of my own body and that food had become the enemy.

What I needed was a dietitian who understood that diabetes doesn't exist in a vacuum. That a sixteen-year-old girl sitting across from you is carrying a lot more than a glucose monitor and a confused food journal.

It took me more than ten years to figure out how to work with my diabetes instead of against it. To find my way back to food as something that nourishes, not something to fear. To understand that movement is a gift — not a price you pay for eating.
I became a dietitian because I didn't want anyone else to spend ten years doing that.
And I became a diabetes specialist because I know something else too: the earlier someone gets real support, the less of that ten-year road they have to walk.

Why work with me?

If you've been told your numbers are "a little high" — this is for you too

Pre-diabetes is one of the most mishandled moments in healthcare.

Most people hear "your A1C is 5.8" and get told to lose some weight and come back in a year. No roadmap. No specifics. Just a vague warning and a follow-up appointment that feels more like a countdown than a plan.

Here's what I wish someone had told me at sixteen: what you do before a diagnosis matters enormously. Pre-diabetes is not a waiting room for Type 2. It is a window — and it is absolutely possible to improve your numbers, protect your metabolic health, and change the trajectory without medication, without restriction, and without spending the next decade figuring it out the hard way.

I work with pre-diabetes clients who want to take that window seriously. Not with fear, not with a crash diet, but with a real, sustainable plan built around how their body actually responds to food and movement. Because the best time to get good diabetes care is before you need it.

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My clients are people who have often already tried the standard advice and found it incomplete. People who are tired of feeling like they're failing at something that nobody properly taught them.

You haven't been failing. You've been under-supported.

Why work with me?

The "why" behind the credentials

I'm a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), a Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist (LDN) in Pennsylvania and Oregon, and a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). I also hold a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification — because I've been passionate about fitness since high school, long before I understood the science behind it.

I started personal training as a side job in college, working with clients while I figured out the very things I was studying. I've lived the gap between what the textbooks say and what it's actually like to stand in a grocery store aisle trying to make the "right" choice when your blood sugar and your relationship with food are both a mess.

That's why I built a practice that holds all of it — nutrition, movement, and the reality of living with diabetes in a real body, with a real life.

What working with me actually looks like

I am not going to tell you that you're eating too much.

I'm going to ask what your day looks like, what you enjoy eating, what kind of movement feels good versus what feels like punishment, what your CGM is showing us, and what's actually getting in the way. Then we're going to build something that fits your life — not a theoretical version of it.

I work with adults at every stage of the glucose spectrum:

Pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome — using the window before diagnosis to build habits that protect long-term health
Type 2 diabetes — whether newly diagnosed and overwhelmed, or years in and frustrated that nothing has clicked yet
Type 1 diabetes — navigating carb strategy, CGM patterns, and exercise in a body that doesn't give you much margin for guesswork
PCOS and insulin resistance — addressing the hormonal-metabolic connection that most standard advice