Hi. I’m Kayla.

How I work.

My practice is built on three things: Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and Motivational Interviewing. Together, they form a coherent alternative to the diet model that has cost most of my clients years of their lives.

Intuitive Eating is the framework developed by registered dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. It’s a structured, evidence-based approach to rebuilding your relationship with food — rejecting diet mentality, honoring hunger and fullness, making peace with food, addressing emotional eating with kindness, and approaching nutrition gently. I’m trained in this framework and use it as the day-to-day map for the work I do with clients.

Health at Every Size (HAES) is the broader orientation toward health that informs everything in my practice. It separates two things diet culture has fused: weight and health. The framework says you can pursue health at any body size through behaviors and care — not through making your body smaller. My practice is HAES-aligned throughout.

Motivational Interviewing is how I work in conversation. It’s a counseling approach grounded in the idea that change comes from your own motivation, not from someone else telling you what to do. I don’t prescribe, lecture, or give orders. We work together. You have the answers. My job is to help you find them.

Why this work.

I started doing this work because I lived inside diet culture for a long time. I tried the diets. I followed the rules. I counted everything. I felt like a failure every single time the weight came back, every single time I lost control, every single time I had to start over Monday.

What I eventually understood — and what the research backs up — is that I wasn’t failing the diets. The diets were failing everyone. The premise was rigged. The biology of restriction made the binges inevitable. The shame loop made the cycle permanent. I had been fighting a fight I was never going to win, and blaming myself for losing it.

When I found intuitive eating, the whole frame shifted. Not because I learned new food rules. Because I learned there are no good food rules. The work isn’t to find the right diet. The work is to stop dieting and rebuild trust with your body. Slow. Real. Lifelong.

I do this work now because I know what it’s like on both sides. I know what years inside diet culture feel like. I know what years on the other side of it feel like. I want to help people get from one to the other.

Training and approach.

• Trained in the Intuitive Eating framework (Tribole & Resch)
• HAES-aligned practitioner
• Practice grounded in Motivational Interviewing
• Author of Diet Dropout: An Intuitive Eating Workbook

I am not a Registered Dietitian (RD/RDN) or licensed therapist. I am an intuitive eating coach. If you need medical nutrition therapy for a diagnosed condition, or psychotherapy for clinical mental health concerns, I’ll help you find someone who specializes in what you actually need.

How I work with clients.

I work 100% virtually with clients across the US. All sessions are on Google Meet. Voice memo support happens through text and voice messages.

The workbook.

I wrote Diet Dropout: An Intuitive Eating Workbook because I wanted a structured, self-guided resource for people who couldn’t (or didn’t want to) work with a coach 1:1. It’s 35 pages, organized into seven chapters that walk you through diet history, hunger, permission, fear foods, body image, emotional eating, and rebuilding.

Learn more about the book → · Read it on Amazon