Vanessa Berenstein MA, RD, CDN

Healing From Scratch
6829 Elm Street, Suite 300
McLean, VIRGINIA 22101
US

Vanessa’s passion is to help others experience powerful transformations through food and lifestyle choices. She creates dynamic, interactive experiences to make it as simple, delicious, and fun as possible for patients to turn healthy behaviors into sustainable habits. Vanessa’s unique approach helps her get to the root cause of imbalance and work with the patient to create a personalized plan to support optimal healing.

Specialties

General Nutrition, Wellness
Culinary Arts
Writing for Online and Print
Dieting
Recipe Development
Autoimmune Diseases
Community Nutrition
Food Allergies
Celiac Disease, Gluten-Free Diets
Public Speaking, Lecturing
Weight Management
Vegetarianism
Hypertension
Alternative Nutrition
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
GI/Digestive Disorders
Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements

Work History

Vanessa specializes in digestive disorders, chronic pain, weight loss, diabetes, eating disorders, and natural detoxification protocols. Her continuing education focuses on how the microbiome and nutritional genomics factors impact health and disease. Vanessa is also an avid urban farmer and is actively engaged in food policy, environmental nutrition, and sustainable food service. She also teaches workshops and retreats on nutrition, mindfulness, gardening, and cooking. In her free time, she works in her garden and forages for wild edible plants to create farm to table recipes and natural remedies.

Education

Vanessa completed her dietetic rotations at Bastyr University and obtained a Masters in Food Studies at New York University. Vanessa is trained in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), Functional Blood Chemistry, and is completing her certification in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT).

Focus Age

22-75

Memberships

Integrative and Functional Nutrition; Nutrition Entrepreneurs; Culinary Nutrition

Payment Methods

Cash, Check, Paypal

Insurance Taken

None

Qualifications