Hi, I'm Nikki — Nutritional Therapy Practitioner & Women's Cycle Health Specialist
I believe your cycle is one of the most accurate indicators of your overall health, and that most women have been so thoroughly failed by the systems meant to support them that they've stopped expecting to feel good.
I became a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner because I was one of those women. I tried everything and still felt terrible, until I took matters into my own hands and found an approach that finally asked why. That changed everything, and now it's the work I get to help women with every day.
Here's the longer version.
I came to this work because I was genuinely struggling myself, and nothing I tried was working.
I had chronic migraines from the time I was 15. Major PMS that wasn't just "mood swings"... it was a full personality shift that I could feel coming like a weather system rolling in. Blood sugar crashes so severe that I basically planned my entire schedule around eating in order to protect my friends from my insane hanger episodes. Anxiety that I had chalked up to just being "where I was in life" which turned out to be code for "burning myself out in a career that isn't sustainable."
I tried everything both the western medicine and wellness worlds offered me, which (if you grew up in the nineties and early 2000s) was mostly low-fat diets, cutting carbs, eating less, and exercising more. I was shaped by an era of low-rise jeans and the naggingly persistent message that your body was a problem to be solved through restriction. We were doing our best… but we were also feeling terrible.
Nothing stuck for me. Nothing actually worked. I'd eventually found myself on a number of prescription meds (including birth control) and STILL without any answers for why I still felt anxious, exhausted, still had crippling migraines, and was feeling helpless and hopeless about that ever changing.
The shift happened when I finally found holistic nutrition and the root-cause approach to health. For the first time, someone was asking why — not just what symptoms do you have, but why your body is producing them and what it's actually asking for. When I started working with my body as a whole system instead of a collection of individual problems, things started to change. Not overnight. But for real this time, and in a way that actually stuck.
The migraines became less frequent, then rare. The PMS went from something that derailed me for half the month to something I could move through with understanding and ease. The hanger literally disappeared. The anxiety turned out to be something my body was producing for very good reason, and something I could actually address at the source.
I got certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner through the Nutritional Therapy Association because I became completely obsessed with understanding how this all worked — and because I knew I wanted to help other women find the same relief and answers that I finally had. I specialize in cycle health because it's where I spent the most time lost, it’s where every nearly woman in life has some sort of struggle, and it's where I've seen the most profound results: in my own body, and in the bodies of the women I work with.
How I work, and what makes this different.
There's a version of this work that involves every lab test under the sun, a ceiling high stack of supplements, a list of foods to cut from your diet, and cookie cutter protocols designed for someone else or some “specific condition”. That is not what we do here!
Rather my approach looks like…
Finding the source of your symptoms
Most interventions for hormonal symptoms are aimed at managing them. Turning off the rather than actually interpreting it. We do the opposite. Your symptoms are information. Our job is to understand what they're communicating about your body's underlying systems and address what's actually driving them.
Working with your specific body
There is no protocol that works for everyone. What I design for you is based on your intake, your history, your cycle patterns, your digestion, your stress, your sleep. Personalization isn't a feature - it’s the whole point.
Building foundations that last
Blood sugar stability. Digestive function. Nutrient sufficiency. Stress resilience. These are the systems that govern how your hormones behave. When we strengthen them, the downstream effects — the symptoms you came here with — tend to resolve naturally. And because we're building real function rather than focusing on one piece of the whole picture, the results stick.
Keeping it realistic
You will not be asked to do the absolute most. Everything we do is on YOUR terms, shifts that fit into YOUR life so that YOU can sustain the changes long after our time together. Changes that are sustainable are changes that work. That's the whole framework.
My training and credentials.
I'm a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) through the Nutritional Therapy Association — a program grounded in the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle, and the body's foundational systems.
The NTP training is focused on root-cause assessment, bio-individual nutrition, and the foundational systems ( digestion, blood sugar regulation, mineral balance & hydration, sleep and the body's stress response) that underlie most chronic health issues.
As an NTP, I do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. What I do is help you understand how your body works, identify where it needs support, and build a personalized nutrition and lifestyle plan designed around your specific physiology and lifestyle.
I also hold a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and a 200-hour yoga teacher certification, both of which inform the way I think about the body as a whole system shaped by biology, lifestyle, and environment.
I am based in Asheville, NC and work with clients virtually.
The less professional version.
I'm that girl who's a little bit crunchy but still down to earth. I'm not a fan of extremes in the wellness world or life in general.
I find hormones and the way the body works so incredibly fascinating, and the fact that our cycles are literally designed to mirror the rhythms of nature actually blows my mind.
When I'm not geeking out over women's health, I'm probably outside soaking up the sun or hiking with my husband and our basset hound Beatrice. I also love me some Bravo, a good book, yoga, tea all the time and a nice glass of wine.
What I really want you to know is that your symptoms aren't your fault, and they're nothing to be afraid of. They're information. And my job is to help you understand what your body is asking for and guide you in actually giving it that.
Ready to stop just managing through it?
You don't have to keep losing days and weeks every month. Let's find out what your body is actually trying to tell you.