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WHO I AM AND WHAT I DO
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WHO I AM
My name is Mekenzie, and I am a therapist and nutrition provider that specializes in helping people heal their relationship to food and body. Like many in this field, my call to this work came from my own long journey with mental health, body, and food and I do this work now in hopes to walk alongside others as they discover their body is not the problem either, and other truths on their unique path to healing.
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WHAT I DO
I offer both mental health therapy and nutrition counseling separately, or a combination of both services. This means you can see me solely as a therapist, for any mental health need (not just eating disorder, body, or food related issues), as a nutritionist for many different nutrition concerns, or utilize a combination of both services to support your goals. Although I specialize in body and food concerns, disordered eating and eating disorders, I also enjoy working with many other mental health and nutrition concerns and am training as an EMDR provider for mental health. You can find more about my specialties, modalities, and offerings on the SERVICES page.
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In all of my roles, I am client centered, and a body autonomist, meaning I believe that people can do what they want with their own body, but help them sift through the data, past trauma, society myths, gentle nutrition information, and more, in order to find the best balance for them.
CREDENTIALS
I am a Certified Nutritionist in Washington state, click here to read more about what it means to be a nutritionist and what we can work on together.
I am also a LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) which means I have completed the required 3000 hours of supervised counseling work after graduating. I graduated in 2020 and became fully licensed in 2023.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
+Master of Science in Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology degree from Bastyr University.
+Level I EMDR trained, in supervision for EMDR work, hoping to eventually become a certified EMDR therapist
+ Certified Body Trust® Provider from The Center for Body Trust
+Certified Be Body Positive Facilitator
+Completed nutrition, counseling, and group counseling nutrition shifts at The Bastyr Center for Natural Health
+Completed counseling internship at Rooted Heart Healthcare with focus on Health at Every Size mental health and eating disorder care
+RYT-200 Yoga Teacher from Yoga Now (Omaha, NE) and the Bihar School of Yoga (Bihar, India)
+Completed Yoga For All training with focus on accessibility.
+B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Western Washington University.