ABOUT

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Brooke Douglas is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 4 decades of nutrition education and coaching experience. Brooke began her career in 1987, working as a clinical dietitian at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills, California. In 1989, she moved to the Pacific Northwest and for 22 years served as a clinical nutrition specialist at Auburn Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center and Tacoma General Hospital. During this time Brooke also maintained a thriving consulting business as a writer, nutrition motivational speaker and consulting nutritionist to corporations such as Boeing, REI and the FAA.

In 1990, Brooke created ‘Cart Smart Tours’, an aisle-by-aisle nutrition education program in local supermarkets throughout the Puget Sound area. This small business allowed her to visit 22 countries, fulfilling her passion to see the world.

Brooke’s ability to coach her patients toward “Practicing Progress, Not Perfection” &  “Moderation Not Deprivation” along with her unique and humor filled ability to motivate clients made her the leading go-to nutritionist on television in the Washington State media throughout the 1990’s. Brooke’s success on television was attributed to her reputation as an effective nutrition educator and coach along with her unique way of delivering real life, relevant and credible nutrition information in a clever and entertaining format.

Born and raised in the heart of America, Brooke earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 1986, from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2008 and 2012, she completed the Commission on Dietetic Registration Certificate of Training in Adult Weight Management.

Brooke is passionate in her ability to tell the “nutrition story” in an easy-to-understand, educational and enthusiastic format. Her two-decade history as a clinical dietitian in the hospital setting gives her a depth and insight to medical nutrition therapy and disease management in relation to health and wellness that is unmatched.

As a resident of South Hill Puyallup in Washington state, Brooke started “Nutrition Authority” in 2007. With much focus and determination, Brooke successfully incorporated her successful Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) practice with a health care chain in Western Washington (50+ locations).

Patient Care Coordinator

Renea moved to the Pacific Northwest from California in 1982. Ready for a new start in life, she bundled up her two children, packed up all of their belongings and headed North for a new life adventure. Renea has held a variety of titles including secretary, receptionist, and dispatcher – among others. In addition, she spent over 20 years holding various positions in the title and escrow industry. In January of 2013 she retired. Retirement for Renea is wonderful, but being the type of individual she is, she needs to keep active.

One of those ways of staying active is being the proud grandmother of four awesome grandsons. Each of them are truly the apple of her eye. ‘Grandma Renea’ spends as much time with each of the boys as possible. Watching them grow and become their own person is an unmatched joy in her life.

Another way Renea likes to beat retirement boredom is by enjoying the outdoors in Western Washington. Any chance she gets, you can rest assured Renea is camping, hiking or traveling. However, her biggest outdoor passion is caring for and trail riding her two horses, ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘Nakota’.  Annually, Renea rides in support of the Washington State University Veterinary School. Whenever possible Renea likes to ‘do her part’ by assisting in fund raising. The WSU College of Veterinary Medicine is one of the nation’s top veterinary schools in equine medicine and surgery. Renea is very proud that WSU has been recognized as one of the best-equipped veterinary teaching hospitals in the country, devoted to providing exceptional veterinary care for horses in the Pacific Northwest.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Alexandra holds a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Alexandra has been a practicing clinical nutritionist for 3 years. Her career experience has allowed her the opportunity to work one on one with patients of all backgrounds. Alexandra is enthusiastic about helping her patients achieve their health and wellness goals by sharing her knowledge and by working in partnership with every patient. By developing custom nutrition plans Alexandra is successful in guiding patients to reap the rewards of permanent, sustainable nutrition habits and lifestyle changes.

Alexandra takes a mindful approach to nutrition lifestyle changes and self-improvement using her understanding of philosophy from her Bachelor of Arts, her lifetime of cultural experiences travelling and growing up around the world, and her own personal experience on the journey to self-care through trials and tribulations. Alexandra passionately believes her unique life experiences allow her to better assist her patients with nutrition struggles and lifestyle challenges. Her goal in every session with every patient is to meet people where they are in their daily efforts to have more energy and better health. Alexandra has a gift of counseling and helping her patients think ‘outside the box.’ She has mastered creativity in producing real-life solutions and ideas to help patients achieve their long-term goals through incremental improvements over time.

Alexandra is encouraged by the prospect of perpetual self-improvement and becomes heavily invested in the genuine well-being of others, both mentally and physically. She uses her knowledge of food as medicine and experience in clinical nutrition to assist others with understanding and achieving their nutritional needs on their health journey.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Breanna holds a Master of Science in Health and Wellness Coaching from Creighton University and a Bachelor of Art in Food Nutrition and Dietetics from Concordia College. Breanna has over 7 years of experience in a variety of nutrition and wellness capacities. Her career started with outpatient nutrition counseling and diabetes education in the Pacific Northwest, took a fun twist to consulting for gyms, schools, and sustainable food companies in Asia, and then back to nutrition and health coaching as an entrepreneurial telehealth dietitian.

Breanna (or Bre) is enthusiastic about providing her patients with the knowledge, tools, and support to make healthy eating habits feel easy and stress-free. She takes a whole-person, holistic approach to health by integrating multiple elements of wellness, addressing the root cause, and applying behavior change science to treat and empower her patients in an accessible and positive way. 

Through traveling and living abroad, Bre also has an extensive knowledge of and appreciation for traditional cultural foods. She loves teaching how to improve your health through eating habits that respect and include your favorite meals and ingredients.

Outside of work and learning about health and wellness, you might find Breanna teaching or practicing yoga, traveling around the world with her middle school teacher husband, scuba diving, skiing, walking her rescue pups, or cozying up on the couch with a good book.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Chrissy graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she subsequently matched for their 10-month Dietetic Internship program in the Washington DC/Baltimore region.

Since then, Chrissy has provided nutrition care in a variety of hospitals and patient care clinics in Texas, Hawaii, Kansas, and Germany. She also has experience in remote nutrition counseling and lifestyle coaching while living all over the United States and Europe. Additionally, as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, she has a specialized interest in blood sugar management.

Empowering her patients through education, guidance and accountability to improve their health and well-being is Chrissy’s primary focus. Since starting her professional career in 2011, she has interacted with a wide variety of patient populations. Chrissy has experienced that in order for her patients to have the best chance at improved outcomes it is never a ‘one-size-fits-all’ education style and counseling approach. With experience in many different age and cultural groups Chrissy is able to provide personalized coaching using an array of strategies to help all her patients experience the joy of meeting and maintaining their individual health goals.

Outside of her nutrition work, Chrissy practices and teaches yoga. She also enjoys spending time with her family, dogs, and being outside whenever possible. Having recently returned to the United States from living in Germany, she is excited to be embracing life in the Pacific Northwest and all it has to offer. 

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist
Remote Nutrition Therapy Only

Colleen has over 25 years of experience in nutrition and health. She graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. After spending 5 years in industrial design, Colleen decided to pursue a second career in 1998 by continuing her education to obtain a Master of Science in Nutrition at Arizona State University in Mesa, Arizona. 

Since obtaining her Masters in Nutrition, Colleen has had a unique career in nutrition as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Dietitian. She dedicated herself for more than two decades at the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK, Phoenix), where she designed and analyzed study diets, provided medical nutrition therapy counseling, and contributed to research protocols on diabetes and obesity. During her time with NIH Colleen received an ‘outstanding’ performance rating for 24 consecutive years.
Colleen has also been published as ‘first author’ on three journal articles and she has contributed to 11 other research publications.

Today, Colleen works part time as a health educator for Labcorp. She enjoys helping her patients make practical, meaningful changes to support better health and well-being. Colleen is passionate about translating nutrition science into guidance that fits real life.

Outside of work, Colleen loves trail running with friends, mountain biking with her husband, strength training with her daughter, and tackling jigsaw puzzles, reading, and traveling. She’s also a proud mom of two college-age children.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist
Remote Nutrition Therapy Only

Emilee holds a Bachelor of Food Science and Nutrition-Dietetics degree from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She also completed a Master of Nutrition Diagnostics along with a required supervised practice internship at Cox college in Springfield, Missouri. 

After moving back to the Pacific Northwest Emilee began working dual roles in multiple hospital systems as an inpatient dietitian focusing on malnutrition and nutrition support in hospitalized patients, as well as outpatient nutrition counseling educating patients on appropriate food selections along with breaking behavior barriers to healthy eating. Emilee has a passion to help her patients navigate food choices when confronted with diet related disease processes. She is uniquely qualified to help patients lose weight permanently while learning how to have better relationships with food. 

Emilee’s interest in nutrition started in high school, after needing to fuel her body to improve her performance in track. Her interest further developed during undergraduate studies, with multiple family members’ health decline due to different disease states that are directly linked to food. 

Outside of work, Emilee enjoys demonstrating to her young children the benefit of choosing healthy food, and all the numerous ways there are to fuel our bodies for our busy daily family life and energy draining fun activities. Emilee and her family enjoy spending time together in the beautiful outdoors, hunting, fishing, hiking, or in the gym which enables her to become stronger both mentally and physically.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Mariah graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a bachelor in Food and Nutrition Science with an emphasis in dietetics and sports and exercise science. She completed a distance internship in the greater Seattle area through Keith & Associates that focused on business and entrepreneuring. Eager to apply her dietetic education and knowledge, she started counseling individuals in nutrition and healthy eating at Nutrition Authority.

Mariah’s interest in nutrition began in high school when she started to eat healthier to improve her overall health and performance in sports. Experiencing the power of nutrition and exercise in promoting her own weight loss and body transformation, she continued training on her own and pursued her education in dietetics. Her weight and health journey has not been without challenges, but this is a valuable asset to her rigorous dietetic education and understanding the struggles individuals face when trying to improve their health and bodies through changing how they eat. Mariah is passionate about nutrition combined with exercise and seeks to empower people to transform their health through balanced, sustainable nutrition that promotes lifelong wellness, energy, body confidence, and optimal performance; and that’s tasty too!

She is a self-proclaimed gym-nut as an avid weightlifter who loves lifting iron to test her strength. She continues to learn and apply proper biomechanics to her training and does various forms of exercise to balance hard training with functional movement and promote longevity. As a Washingtonian she loves the outdoors, hiking, snowshoeing, camping, kayaking on occasions, swimming and simple walks with her dog. She also loves cooking, experimenting with recipes, DIY’ing everything and hanging out with her family.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Melissa graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition from Kansas State University. She then completed a distance internship through Iowa State University with rotations in Anchorage, Alaska.

Melissa started her career as a dietitian working with acute care in-patients at a regional hospital where she was able to learn about nutrition throughout the lifecycle. Working with the neonatal population all the way to the geriatric population.

After a cross-country move, Melissa began working in public health for the WIC (Women Infants and Children) program. She enjoyed several years helping young children grow and families learn healthy eating habits through good nutrition. Another cross-country move inspired another opportunity for career growth, as Melissa began working in the out-patient setting via Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) at Nutrition Authority.

Melissa’s interest in nutrition started when she became a mother. She was excited to make positive changes to help get her daughters’ lives start on the right foot. She spent many years cooking and talking about food with her family to help nurture their love and understanding of nutrition. Melissa discovered she has a passion and a calling to help others associate how food can make positive changes in health and living.

Melissa enjoys spending her time with her family, outside whenever possible whether in the mountains or the forest. Melissa adores animals, especially her dogs who accompany her on every outing possible. She also likes baking and reading.

Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

Mikayla holds a master’s degree in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences from University of Hawaii and a bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Nutrition (with a dietetics specialization) from Central Washington University. She has over 10 years of experience helping diverse populations improve their health, wellness, and performance through nutrition. 

While working as a dietetic intern in Texas, Mikayla educated soldiers on weight management and good nutrition at a military training hospital. She then helped develop a special supplemental government nutrition program for ‘Women Infants and Children’ (WIC) where she created personalized eating plans to pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5.

After completing her internship, Mikayla became an in-patient Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist (RDN) for a senior healthcare facility. To assist with healthful ‘aging-in-place’ Mikayla tailored nutrition plans to meet each person’s individual medical needs.

Mikayla then traveled to Hawaii to fulfill a life-long dream of living the island life. She became the Special Projects Coordinator for the nutrition department at University of Hawaii and was tasked with adding a physical activity component to an existing nutrition education curriculum used to educate low-income families across Hawaii. 

While on the island, Mikayla pursued a master’s degree in Kinesiology to combine her love of fitness with her vast nutrition knowledge. Her culminating research project involved evaluating the effects of high-intensity functional training on various measurements of body composition.

Mikayla is enthusiastic about helping patients find strategies that work best for their unique and busy lifestyles. Her specialty is to coach each patient towards achieving a greater level of consistency by incorporating long-term sustainable habits.

Currently, Mikayla enjoys providing one-on-one Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to adults needing optimal wellness. She is an expert at guiding those needing disease management, weight loss, and preventative nutrition via healthier eating. Because of her professional experiences she is very patient and creative in the ways she supports and holds her patients accountable.

Mikayla’s personal interests include CrossFit, weightlifting, hiking, water sports, rock climbing, and traveling. You can also find her coaching group classes at local fitness facilities!