Rebecca Sabreen Nutrition provides counseling and coaching services to help people with disordered eating change their relationship with food.
Rebecca Sabreen Nutrition provides counseling and coaching services to help people with disordered eating change their relationship with food.
Hi, I’m Rebecca, a Registered Dietitian on a mission to help you change your relationship with food and your body. I can help you to better understand your desire to diet in the first place, provide you with the tools to navigate the seductive forces of diet culture and confidence to trust your body as the sole source of eating and food information.
I offer 1:1 coaching sessions using an individualized approach to each client based on their specific needs. My practice is informed by the principles of Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size, to support each person in healing their relationship with food while also identifying what health actually means to each person, as opposed to the diet culture version. This holistic approach means that we don’t just talk about your relationship with food (although that’s a big part), but we’ll explore other aspects of your well-being, such as stress management, movement, and self-care practices, which are just as important to helping you feel your best and fully support your emotional, mental, and physical health. By the end of this journey, you’ll be able to ditch the diet mentality, heal your relationship with food, add flexibility and joy back to you meals, and clear up the mental chatter of all the “I should’s” to make space in your life for something better.
I have been practicing as a Registered Dietitian for over 10 years but have taken an unusual path to discovering Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size. As a former bariatric dietitian, I started out with good intentions, thinking I was helping people to eat better, and get “healthier” through weight loss. I had been educated in the traditional health paradigm and this seemed like a logical approach. But over the years I began to see how disordered eating in this population became more prevalent as well as the blame and shame that was directed toward people in larger bodies, specifically for their size. Additionally, it became apparent that there were many other factors impacting health from a physical, emotional, and mental standpoint: affordability of fresh foods, food insecurity, income level and occupation, lack of resources for mental health, just to name a few. Eating less and moving more, the advice I’d been doling out for years, wasn’t working, and it became clear there was so much more to the story.
During this period, I stumbled on Intuitive Eating, an approach to eating that looks at your relationship with food, moves away from external rules and rigidity and instead relies on your body’s inner wisdom and physical cues to guide eating. Everything started to click. It also helped to provide framework and insight to help me continue to heal my own relationship with food, something I struggled with for many years as I aspired to achieve the thin ideal and reach my “goal weight” through restriction and deprivation.
Once I discovered Intuitive Eating and then later, Health at Every Size, it was impossible to look back, not only for my own healing but for those I was counseling. While it took time to “unlearn” everything that school and my previous work experience had taught me, the journey has been invaluable on a personal and professional level and it’s been beyond rewarding to help people work towards their own healing from diet culture.
Rebecca Sabreen is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator. Since becoming an RD, she has held clinical nutrition positions in hospitals, in both inpatient and outpatient settings, providing Medical Nutrition Therapy for a variety of conditions: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, digestive conditions, and general health and nutrition.
In addition to private practice where she specializes in nutrition therapy for disordered eating, Rebecca works in a corporate wellness setting where she meets with individuals to help them prioritize and improve their health and well-being while leading demanding lifestyles. She also helps support U.S. and global health promotion programs and initiatives for the company in which she works.
In 2008, Rebecca earned her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Sciences from the Pennsylvania State University and in 2010 completed her dietetic internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In 2018, she passed her certification exam to become a Certified Diabetes Educator.
When Rebecca’s not working, she enjoys cooking with her husband (although not always at the same time), catching up on all things BRAVO (especially the NYC housewives), walking around New York City, and spending time with friends and family.