What is a somatic intuitive mental health nutritionist?
A somatic dietitian integrates evidence-based nutrition therapy with your own body awareness, wisdom, intuition, and nervous system regulation to help you heal your relationships with food, body, and movement.
Rather than focusing only on what you eat, this approach explores how you eat, why you eat, and how your body feels in the process. It acknowledges that food, emotions, and the body are deeply interconnected—and that sustainable change happens when we learn to listen to and trust our body’s cues.
As a mental health nutrition specialist, we also focus on helping you understand how mindset, embodiment, food, supplements, and self-care impact the brain and your mental wellness.
Your body is a powerful resource with infinite, divine wisdom.
ABOUT & ETHOS
Weight Inclusive and Intuitive-Based
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Weight-neutral and inclusive dietitian
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Helps you understand how to think about food in a way that feels peaceful and rejects restriction
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Support a positive food and body relationship while considering overall health, mental wellness, and functional goals
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Knows that your innate wisdom is the compass that guides the ship toward calm and vibrant waters
Highly Specialized Dietitian
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Certifications in Mental Health and Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Feminine Embodiment, gut health, and diabetes
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Evidenced-based and up-to-date on the latest research
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Somatic dietitian who helps you discover your intuitive yes and no and connect with your body's own language and messages
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Has worked with 100s of clients in deep 1:1 work and believes the therapeutic relationship is the most powerful tool for healing
Highly Principled and Selective
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We care about getting you the support you need, so we only take clients after a discovery call to see if we are a good fit.
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We only take a handful of clients at a time to ensure optimal care.
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We desire the best for you and go above and beyond to help you feel supported and cared for.
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We never charge for late fees or cancellations- we understand life is messy!
SPECIALITIES
I support adolescents and adults with these concerns and conditions:
Nutrition Therapy for Mental Health
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Eating concerns in those with ADHD
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Depression-related eating concerns
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Stress and Anxiety-related eating concerns
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Eating concerns in those with bipolar disorder
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Disorders of gut-brain axis
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Metabolic and heart health concerns that impact brain health such as high blood pressure, diabetes and insulin resistance, elevated lipids
Nutrition Therapy for Disordered Eating and Movement
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Intuitive Eating Coaching
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Binge Eating Disorder
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Anorexia Nervosa
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Bulimia Nervosa
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ARFID
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Emotional Eating and Food Noise
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Food Anxiety
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Exercise Distress or Anxiety
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Hypothalamic amenorrhea (loss of menses)
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Food Relationship support for those on GLP-1s
Body Image or Embodiment Coaching
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Body Disconnection
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Body Image Distress
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Poor Body Trust
Hi, there! I'm Joanna Pustilnik MS RDN CDCES CIEC
I'm a nutrition therapist and dietitian, feminine embodiment coach, and intuitive eating counselor. I've provided nutrition support for mental health and food relationship concerns for 9 of my 14 years as a dietitian.
With a background that includes movement and athletics, embodiment and energy work, and clinical expertise and work in mental health, I have developed a unique approach that can support you in making peace with food, movement, and body through somatic-based nutrition therapy.
The goal of my work is to help you gain full body acceptance, full body connection, and full intuitive self-trust so that you can optimize nutrition for mental and physical health without restriction, rules, or stress.
My nutrition, self-care, and embodiment work helped me move from anxiety and body disconnect to living fully in body trust and attunement. I want you to feel this too!
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