We are two nutrition therapists who can help! We have specialized in the treatment of those with disordered eating and eating disorders for the past 23 years, and have been working together since 1990. We both worked for The Renfrew Centers, nationally recognized facilities that treat women with eating disorders.
- Karin Kratina, PhD, MPE, RD, LD/N
- Karin is a Registered Dietitian and Licensed
Dietitian/Nutritionist with advanced
degrees in exercise physiology, gender studies and cognitive anthropology.
She has lectured internationally and
is well published, having written books, book chapters and articles. Learn
about
her work and credential's and why she works exclusively with eating and
weight issues.
Read about some of the books, book chapters and articles she has written.
Learn more about her private practice, Nutrition Therapy Associates, located in Gainesville, FL.
Prior to starting her private practice in 1995, Amy worked as the lead nutritionist at the Renfrew Center, a mental health facility specializing in the treatment of women with eating disorders.
To learn more about her nutrition therapy private practice, click here.
Healing Eating and Weight Issues
Our philosophy is unique because we use the nondiet approach. We are both leaders in the nondiet movement and have trained thousands of nutritionists and other professionals to use this approach to heal eating and weight issues. Karin wrote the first professional book published on this topic, Moving Away From Diets, in 1996, with a second edition published in 2003.
The two primary causes of eating problems and weight issues are emotional eating and deprivation-driven eating (which can be caused by dieting). If you suffer from either, you will experience powerful food cravings, food preoccupation and overeating. The focus of our treatment is to heal compulsive eating through a process called attuned eating (or intuitive eating).
Because diets cause these problems (as well as "overweight" and "obesity"), a key to healing eating problems and weight issues is to quit dieting. However, dieters often no longer know how to eat without diets or meal plans or counting calories, carbs or fat grams. That is where attuned eating comes in.
Attuned eating will lead you to a freedom from food and weight issues that you may only have dreamed of. To find out how, give us a call today. Or, go to our home page for an overview of what you can begin doing to overcome overeating and find freedom.
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