Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
With a heart active for healing and justice, Aster believes everyone deserves to experience peace with their body and food. As a nutritional therapist and body image specialist, Aster serves as a gentle guide for adolescents and adults seeking treatment in eating disorder recovery. Aster supports clients in accessing new thoughts and behaviors to improve clients’ relationships with food and body while developing an internal sense of self-image.
Aster’s nutritional therapy approach is guided by a Health at Every Size (HAES) philosophy and that it is not our size that determines our health, but our lifestyle. They also practice Intuitive Eating principles which encourages clients to eat in a flexible manner that honors internal hunger cues as well as enjoyment in eating. Aster’s end goal with every client is creating peace with food and body.
Aster is humbled to work with people of all racial/cultural backgrounds, sexual identities, and orientations. Aster recognizes our social identities, both oppressed and privileged, play a large role in how we relate to our bodies and food. They specialize in providing an inclusive space that’s physically and emotionally safe for members of the queer, trans, and gender non-conforming community.
Credentials and Education: Aster holds licensure as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN in the state of WA. They graduated from Bastyr University with a Masters of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. Aster’s area of focus is eating disorder treatment and recovery, where they have worked for the last several years. Aster worked for Center of Discovery where they created healing, non-judgmental, eating environments for patients and worked with them to match their personal nutritional needs to menu plans and cooking. Aster completed the Southwestern Dietetic Internship with The Indian Health Service in May 2018 where they received further training in eating disorders.
Aster offers nutrition therapy to adults and teens in English
