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.
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. But over the years, I began to see how disordered eating became more prevalent in this population as well as the blame and shame directed toward people in larger bodies for their size. Additionally, it became apparent that there were many other factors impacting health: 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 time, I stumbled on Intuitive Eating, an approach to eating that emphasizes the importance of a positive relationship with food, addresses the “why” behind eating behaviors and patterns, moves away from external rules and rigidity, and instead relies on your body’s cues and inner wisdom to guide eating. Everything started to click. It also provided a framework and insight to help me continue to heal my own relationship with food, something I struggled with for many years.
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. This journey has been invaluable on a personal and professional level and it has been beyond rewarding to help people work toward 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 on a one to one basis to help them prioritize and improve their health and well-being while leading demanding lifestyles. She also develops and manages 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 Care and Education Specialist.
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.