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Riana is a Functional Medicine nutritionist that helps her clients make lasting and positive change toward a healthier life. She provides individuals with the essential tools to strengthen and heal from imbalances and build a nourishing relationship with food.
Believing that food is a powerful medicine, Riana infuses evidence-based nutrition with the healing power of simple whole foods into your nutrition care plan. Food is personal, and no one way of eating works for everyone. Riana’s approach to nutrition is holistic in nature: she looks at each individual as a unique being with distinct innate and personal needs. Her focus is on long-term positive transformation through offering client-centered nutritional counseling, education, mindfulness tools, and emotional awareness. With the goal of achieving optimal health, Riana seeks to motivate and empower her clients to not only lead a self-fulfilling healthy lifestyle, but also achieve a relationship with their bodies and food that is nourishing, flexible, peaceful, sustainable, and balanced.
Riana’s clinical focuses are:
Sustainable weight loss
Metabolic conditions (Type II diabetes, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, PCOS)
Cognitive health
Digestive disorders
Healthy aging and anti-inflammatory diets
Women’s health (pre- and postnatal care / fertility / menopause)
Therapeutic cooking and diets (including MIND, GAPS, low FODMAPs, SCD, GF/CF, elimination diets, etc.)
Intuitive and mindful eating
Riana is also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She is a member of the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics and the Center for Mindful Eating. She has 15+ years experience working in the nutrition field in the areas of healthy weight management, inflammatory diseases, blood sugar management, metabolic disorders, child and family nutrition and culinary education.
In her personal time, you can find Riana biking around Seattle, playing frisbee with her dog, dancing around her kitchen while cooking up a new seasonal recipe, and savoring dark chocolate.
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