For eating disorder treatment, we offer compassionate, personalized nutrition care for you and your family. Our eating disorder dietitian Alyssa loves to help you understand your disorder, how it affects your health, and how you can find freedom and power away from the obsessive thoughts. With over 9 years of experience treating eating disorders and negative body image, Alyssa is equipped to help you find the nutrition path that works for you and your health goals. Alyssa is a natural listener and educator and never makes you feel judged or shamed for what you’re going through. Instead, Alyssa wants to help you get curious about your eating behaviors so that you can stop criticizing yourself and start using compassion to find lasting peace through your process.

Alyssa works closely with other members of the treatment team to communicate about your care and make recommendations for medical monitoring. Alyssa is also skilled at recommending the level of care that best meets your needs.

Have a teen or adolescent? Alyssa works hand-in-hand with parents and families to understand what your child needs for proper nutrition and recovery for optimal growth and development.

We Treat:

• Anorexia nervosa
• Atypical anorexia
• Binge eating disorder
• Bulimia nervosa
• Other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED)
• Emotional eating

Alyssa works in-person on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and the surrounding areas) and virtually throughout the state to treat many types of eating disorders. Alyssa is also licensed in Alabama and Tennessee. Your first appointment with Alyssa will include a thorough assessment of your eating history, your food behaviors, your activity levels, your food thoughts and fears, and goals for recovery. Follow-up sessions may include the following (depending on your needs): a personalized meal plan, intuitive eating counseling, body image coaching, and a therapeutic look at your relationships with food, body, and exercise. Alyssa routinely recommends resources, tools, books, and support groups to help you on your journey. She can also help you build your outpatient team (therapist, physician, psychiatry, etc.) or help you obtain the level of care you need.

Alyssa has worked as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist since 2011 and also has experience with body composition testing, nutrition counseling, community health and wellness programs, bariatric surgery, gastrointestinal disorders, food allergies and intolerances, chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, and more.