Discover Powerful Strategies to Elevate Your Practice & Empower Yourself and Your Clients!
Are you ready to take your nutrition counseling and coaching skills to the next level?
Live Summit with Q&A - Replays Available Same Day - CEUs
Special equity pricing for Interns, individuals from marginalized groups, Private practice group Pricing (see below)
By the End of the Summit,
you'll have learned to:
Identify your own interests and innate strengths as assets to become a stronger or well-rounded counselor.
Make your nutrition counseling & coaching approach more supportive and effective.
Develop confidence to tackle body image conversations using a bottom-up approach.
Understand how one's nervous system can be expressed through eating disorder symptoms.
Identify ways to respond to trauma symptoms as they present in a session.
Integrate the five principles of providing trauma-informed care.
Shift from a weight-centric, educational approach to a weight-inclusive, trauma-informed, counseling approach.
Identify techniques for creating a safe and supportive therapeutic space, including grounding exercises, establishing boundaries, and building rapport.
Explore target nutrition counseling strategies for neurodivergent clients.
Apply strategies that go beyond SMART planning to enhance client's self-efficacy.
And so much more!
Alissa Rumsey,MS, RD, CDN, CSCS
Alissa Rumsey is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and the author of Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. She is the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness, a weight-inclusive virtual nutrition practice. Alissa supports nutrition entrepreneurs as a business coach and supervisor, helping them to confidently start and grow their businesses. She is the founder of the Dietitian Entrepreneur Foundation Course, an online program that teaches clinicians how to set up and launch their nutrition business, and The Liberated Clinician, a weight-inclusive group-coaching program that combines business coaching and supervision, all done in community. Her expertise has been featured in hundreds of media outlets and she speaks regularly at events, online trainings, and conferences around the country. She calls New York City home.
Learn more about Alissa at www.alissarumsey.com.
Amy Helms, LISW-CP, MS, CEDS-S, RD, LD, CCTP, CCATP, PSEP
Amy Helms is an experienced clinician and believes in the power of human connection and self-compassion to foster growth and powerful transformation. Amy has dedicated her career to nutrition counseling, supervising, and teaching in the field of nutrition, body image, intuitive eating, eating disorders, infertility, women’s health, and food allergies.
She believes in combining an individualized approach with the latest evidence-based techniques. She practices within the Intuitive Eating principles.
Aimee Tritt, MS, RD, LD
Aimee Tritt is a Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and a practicing dietitian at Hennepin Healthcare and Cedar Hill Therapy. As both an instructor and a clinician, Aimee offers her students a well-informed perspective on current issues in nutrition counseling and clinical practice. In her practice, she combines concepts of intuitive and mindful eating, body respect, and food as nourishment for both physical and mental health to help her clients overcome a troubled relationship with food. Her expertise in motivational interviewing, weight management, child and adolescent nutrition, and disordered eating have made her a valued member of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition’s Dietetics Steering Committee, as well as a lead course developer for the new MPS program in Dietetics.
Aimee received her MS in Nutrition Science from the University of Minnesota, completed her dietetic internship at Hennepin Healthcare and The Emily Program, and previously practiced at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, MN. She is passionate about modernizing curriculum, incorporating technology in the classroom, and engaging students with real-world examples of how food and nutrition can impact people’s lives. When she isn't teaching or seeing clients, she can be found in the kitchen with her husband and two fluffy cats.
Erin Gonzalez, MS, RDN, LD, CEDS
Erin Gonzalez is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, specializing in dysfunctional eating and prevention and treatment of disordered eating and eating disorders. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Intuitive Eating Counselor.
Erin enjoys helping others to relearn how to be the expert of their own bodies again. She believes there is no one best way to help people heal their relationship with food and body. Erin utilizes a patient centered care approach aiming for the client to feel empowered through the nutrition rehabilitation process.
Julie Feldman, MPH, RDN
Julie Feldman is a nationally recognized registered dietitian and author whose work has spanned multiple areas of practice. Julie was the media representative for the Michigan Dietetic Association early on in her career. Through that avenue Julie became an often-featured RD on NBC News, FOX 2 News and ABC News in her hometown area of Metro-Detroit. Julie ‘s passion for public speaking and for connecting the dots between trauma and nutrition lead to her creation of the Trauma Informed Counseling session for the CDR Certificate in Training in Obesity Interventions for Pediatrics and Adults.
Julie is also the author of the book Grocery Makeover: small changes for big results, which was published in 2014. Julie is currently the CEO of her own private practice Thrive Nutrition and Wellness LLC in West Bloomfield, Michigan where she sees clients one-on-one, helping to create positive changes in their lives. Julie also provides a comprehensive corporate wellness program to both small and large corporations through thoughtful and unique group presentations and one-on-one meetings with employees.
Julie speaks nationally on behalf of the Mead Johnson Corporation, lecturers at The University of Michigan in the School of Kinesiology and the School of Public Health on various topics related to real-world nutrition practice.
Dina R. D'Alessandro MS, RDN, CDN
Dina R. D’Alessandro is a Registered Dietitian and dedicated nutrition professional with over 20 years of experience in the culinary, corporate, and healthcare industries, and the founder of DishWithDina, a virtual wellness and multimedia platform. She holds a Master of Science in Nutrition from CUNY-Lehman College where she is also an adjunct lecturer of undergraduate and graduate nutrition studies. For the past 6 years, she has also worked at the Lehman College Student Health Center as the on-campus dietitian, counseling thousands of students from diverse cultural backgrounds with a wide range of conditions.
Tracy Brown, RD, LDN
Tracy Brown is a trauma informed nutrition therapist/eating disorder dietitian, stress recovery coach and nutrition counseling skills teacher. She walks beside people wanting to heal their relationship with food and weight as well as feel safer and less stressed in their bodies.
Since 2006, she has guided people one on one and in groups in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, many of which also have other stress-related conditions. She is the creator of 3 courses that provide trauma informed and body image counseling skills and supervision to health professionals as well. Learn more at www.embodieddietitian.com
Toni Marie Toledo, MPH, RDN
Toni Toledo has worked in the field nutrition and health promotion for over 30 years. She has a private practice and is an adjunct instructor at San Jose State University. She previously worked at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in health promotion and weight management as well as Stanford University in program and curriculum development and research in health behavior change. She received bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and her Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota where she earned the Ruth Stief Leadership award. She also serves as a peer reviewer for the ACEND program and a faculty member for the Certificate of Training in Pediatric and Adult Weight Management.
Toni's mission and passion is helping her clients find ways to “add to” their lives by focusing on the positives to live long and health lives. One of the unplanned and incredibly rewarding parts of Toni’s career is cohosting an award-winning podcast called –PATH Positive Approaches To Health. This podcast explores inspiring, interesting, and practical examples of what is going on around the world that helps people achieve their best health
Joyce Faraj-Ardura, PhD, RD, LDN
Joyce Faraj-Ardura is a nutrition counseling coach with a passion for empowering fellow dietitians and nutrition professionals to enhance their coaching and counseling skills, equipping them to better support and retain their clients while promoting lasting behavior change. With a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Mental Health, years as a tenure track professor, and former nutrition program manager at a clinic, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work.
Driven by her belief that counseling skills are paramount to client success, she has become a sought-after mentor. She is the founder and CEO of the Nutrition Counseling Academy. She believes that a practitioner's medical nutrition therapy and nutrition knowledge are just as important as their counseling skills to support behavioral changes.
Joyce lives in New Hampshire and balances her professional and entrepreneurial pursuits with her role as a dedicated mother of three. You can learn more about Dr. Faraj-Ardura's programs and services for RDs at https://www.nutritioncounselingacademy.com/
Alissa Rumsey,MS, RD, CDN, CSCS
Alissa Rumsey (pronouns she/her/hers) is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and the author of Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. She is the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness, a weight-inclusive virtual nutrition practice. Alissa supports nutrition entrepreneurs as a business coach and supervisor, helping them to confidently start and grow their businesses. She is the founder of the Dietitian Entrepreneur Foundation Course, an online program that teaches clinicians how to set up and launch their nutrition business, and The Liberated Clinician, a weight-inclusive group-coaching program that combines business coaching and supervision, all done in community. Her expertise has been featured in hundreds of media outlets and she speaks regularly at events, online trainings, and conferences around the country. She calls New York City home.
Learn more about Alissa at www.alissarumsey.com.
Amy Helms, LISW-CP, MS, CEDS-S, RD, LD, CCTP, CCATP, PSEP
Amy Helms is an experienced clinician and believes in the power of human connection and self-compassion to foster growth and powerful transformation. Amy has dedicated her career to nutrition counseling, supervising, and teaching in the field of nutrition, body image, intuitive eating, eating disorders, infertility, women’s health, and food allergies.
She believes in combining an individualized approach with the latest evidence-based techniques. She practices within the Intuitive Eating principles.
Julie Feldman, MPH, RDN
Julie Feldman is a nationally recognized registered dietitian and author whose work has spanned multiple areas of practice. Julie was the media representative for the Michigan Dietetic Association early on in her career. Through that avenue Julie became an often-featured RD on NBC News, FOX 2 News and ABC News in her hometown area of Metro-Detroit. Julie ‘s passion for public speaking and for connecting the dots between trauma and nutrition lead to her creation of the Trauma Informed Counseling session for the CDR Certificate in Training in Obesity Interventions for Pediatrics and Adults.
Julie is also the author of the book Grocery Makeover: small changes for big results, which was published in 2014. Julie is currently the CEO of her own private practice Thrive Nutrition and Wellness LLC in West Bloomfield, Michigan where she sees clients one-on-one, helping to create positive changes in their lives. Julie also provides a comprehensive corporate wellness program to both small and large corporations through thoughtful and unique group presentations and one-on-one meetings with employees.
Julie speaks nationally on behalf of the Mead Johnson Corporation, lecturers at The University of Michigan in the School of Kinesiology and the School of Public Health on various topics related to real-world nutrition practice.
Erin Gonzalez, MS, RDN, LD, CEDS
Erin Gonzalez is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, specializing in dysfunctional eating and prevention and treatment of disordered eating and eating disorders. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Intuitive Eating Counselor.
Erin enjoys helping others to relearn how to be the expert of their own bodies again. She believes there is no one best way to help people heal their relationship with food and body. Erin utilizes a patient centered care approach aiming for the client to feel empowered through the nutrition rehabilitation process.
Aimee Tritt, MS, RD, LD
Aimee Tritt is a Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and a practicing dietitian at Hennepin Healthcare and Cedar Hill Therapy. As both an instructor and a clinician, Aimee offers her students a well-informed perspective on current issues in nutrition counseling and clinical practice. In her practice, she combines concepts of intuitive and mindful eating, body respect, and food as nourishment for both physical and mental health to help her clients overcome a troubled relationship with food. Her expertise in motivational interviewing, weight management, child and adolescent nutrition, and disordered eating have made her a valued member of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition’s Dietetics Steering Committee, as well as a lead course developer for the new MPS program in Dietetics.
Aimee received her MS in Nutrition Science from the University of Minnesota, completed her dietetic internship at Hennepin Healthcare and The Emily Program, and previously practiced at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, MN. She is passionate about modernizing curriculum, incorporating technology in the classroom, and engaging students with real-world examples of how food and nutrition can impact people’s lives. When she isn't teaching or seeing clients, she can be found in the kitchen with her husband and two fluffy cats.
Dina R. D'Alessandro, MS, RDN, CDN
Dina R. D’Alessandro is a Registered Dietitian and dedicated nutrition professional with over 20 years of experience in the culinary, corporate, and healthcare industries, and the founder of DishWithDina, a virtual wellness and multimedia platform. She holds a Master of Science in Nutrition from CUNY-Lehman College where she is also an adjunct lecturer of undergraduate and graduate nutrition studies. For the past 6 years, she has also worked at the Lehman College Student Health Center as the on-campus dietitian, counseling thousands of students from diverse cultural backgrounds with a wide range of conditions.
Tracy Brown, RD, LDN
Tracy Brown is a trauma informed nutrition therapist/eating disorder dietitian, stress recovery coach and nutrition counseling skills teacher. She walks beside people wanting to heal their relationship with food and weight as well as feel safer and less stressed in their bodies.
Since 2006, she has guided people one on one and in groups in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, many of which also have other stress-related conditions. She is the creator of three courses that provide trauma informed and body image counseling skills and supervision to health professionals as well. Learn more at www.embodieddietitian.com
Toni Marie Toledo, MPH, RDN
Toni Toledo has worked in the field nutrition and health promotion for over 30 years. She has a private practice and is an adjunct instructor at San Jose State University. She previously worked at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in health promotion and weight management as well as Stanford University in program and curriculum development and research in health behavior change. She received bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and her Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota where she earned the Ruth Stief Leadership award. She also serves as a peer reviewer for the ACEND program and a faculty member for the Certificate of Training in Pediatric and Adult Weight Management.
Toni's mission and passion is helping her clients find ways to “add to” their lives by focusing on the positives to live long and health lives. One of the unplanned and incredibly rewarding parts of Toni’s career is co-hosting an award-winning podcast called –PATH Positive Approaches To Health. This podcast explores inspiring, interesting, and practical examples of what is going on around the world that helps people achieve their best health.
Joyce Faraj-Ardura, PhD, RD, LDN
Joyce Faraj-Ardura is a nutrition counseling coach with a passion for empowering fellow dietitians and nutrition professionals to enhance their coaching and counseling skills, equipping them to better support and retain their clients while promoting lasting behavior change. With a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Mental Health, years as a tenure track professor, and former nutrition program manager at a clinic, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work.
Driven by her belief that counseling skills are paramount to client success, she founded the Nutrition Counseling Academy. She believes that a practitioner's medical nutrition therapy and nutrition knowledge are just as important as their counseling skills to support behavioral changes.
Joyce lives in New Hampshire and balances her professional and entrepreneurial pursuits with her role as a dedicated mother of three. You can learn more about Dr. Faraj-Ardura's programs and services for RDs at
Engaging & Interactive Sessions
Our sessions will be designed to maximize participant learning, and all will include a discussion based or hands on learning component. So make sure you attend live! - Replays include the Q&A sessions!
Actionable Insights
and Takeaways
You'll leave with lots of takeaways and strategies you can implement right away into your nutrition counseling and coaching practice from a variety of areas (trauma-informed, inclusivity, MI, dealing with resistance, weight inclusive, etc)!
Continuing Education
for RDs/DTRs
Who doesn't like CEUs?! By attending live or watching the replay, you'll get 9 CEUs (currently pending) including the ethics CEU requirement. You will have access to the replays for up to a year.
Prizes & Rewards!
We know that you'll benefit the most if you attend live, and you will be rewarded for attending live. We also recognize that not everyone will be able to attend live, so there will also be prizes for those who watch the replay and submit their takeaways by May 26th as well as for those who submit the end of summit insight survey!
Engaging & Interactive Sessions
Our sessions will be designed to maximize participant learning, and all will include a discussion based or hands on learning component. So make sure you attend live!
Actionable Insights
and Takeaways
You'll leave with lots of takeaways and strategies you can implement right away into your nutrition counseling and coaching practice from a variety of areas (trauma-informed, inclusivity, MI, dealing with resistance, weight inclusive, etc)!
Continuing Education
for RDs/DTRs
Who doesn't like CEUs?! By attending live or watching the replay, you'll get 9 CEUs (pending), including the ethics CEU requirement. You will have access to the replays for a year.
Prizes & Rewards!
We know that you'll benefit the most if you attend live, and you will be rewarded for attending live. We also recognize that not everyone will be able to attend live, so there will also be prizes for those who watch the replay and submit their takeaways that weekend!
Wednesday, May 15th 2024
10 am - 1:30 pm EST
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
10 am - 1:30 pm EST
Friday, May 17th, 2024
10:00 am to 1:30 pm EST
Wednesday
10 am - 1:30 pm EST
Thursday
10 am - 1:30 pm EST
Friday
10 am - 1:30 pm EST
Ticket Options:
$197
General Admission
$197
3-day virtual conference
Replays available for 6 months
9 CEUs for RDs & DTRs (pending)
Handouts and slides
Guided stretching & meditation breaks
VIP Upgrade
$247
3-day virtual conference
Replays available for 1 year
9 CEUs for RDs & DTRs (pending)
Handouts and slides
Guided stretching & meditation breaks
Post-event small group action planning session lead by Dr. Joyce Faraj-Ardura / NCA
Implementation workbook & planner
If you are currently a dietetic intern OR are a private practice owner trying to enroll your group of 3+ RDs OR you belong to a marginalized identity, please email Dr. Joyce Faraj-Ardura at: Joyce@nutritioncounselingacademy.com to access special pricing options.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does this summit take place?
This will be a fully virtual event hosted through zoom. You can join from anywhere.
What if I can't attend the live sessions?
Live attendance is encouraged, but not required. You will get access to the replays. There will be a handful of prizes for those who attend live, and if watching the replay, then there will be a prize drawn and you can participate if you submit a homework/takeaway assignment before the end of the weekend.
What is your refund policy?
We do not have a refund policy. Depending on which ticket you purchase, you will have access to the replays for 6-12 months.
Do I have to be an RD to join?
Absolutely not! While all. the presenters are dietitians, you do not need to be a registered dietitian to attend. This event is designed to empower and support all health professionals, entrepreneurs, students/interns, and coaches who want to enhance their counseling and coaching skills.
Are CEUs provided?
9 CEUs will be provided to RDs and DTRs for both live attendance or watching the replays (pending CDR approval)
I still have some questions. Who can I ask?
If you have any further questions or need more information, please reach out to the event organizer and founder of the Nutrition Counseling Academy, Dr. Joyce Faraj-Ardura. You can contact her via email at Joyce@nutritioncounselingacademy.com. Alternatively, you can send her a direct message on Instagram at @nutrition.counseling.academy.
How can I become a Sponsor/exhibitor or community supporter?
Check out our supporting prospectus here: https://nutritioncounselingacademy.com/EmpoweRD2024sponsors
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