Nice to meet you.

Alison Books Kaufman, MS, RDN, LDN

Practice owner and registered dietitian nutritionist

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I feel passionate about helping people improve their relationship with food and their bodies. People make choices about what to eat and when to eat it based on a combination of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, knowledge, and experiences. I help people make connections between these, so they will feel more choice and less guilt, more flexible with foods, more comfortable in their body, and less stressed about meals and snacks each day.

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I have worked in the nutrition field since 2004, specializing in eating disorders since 2015. Prior starting my own practice in 2020, I provided nutrition counseling for eating disorders at Metrowest Nutrition & Therapy in Newton and Framingham for five years. Prior to this, I was a program director at Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Boston for nine years. I also worked at Newton Wellesley Hospital as a dietetic intern and then as an inpatient dietitian, and at Boston University as the assistant director of the Sargent Choice Nutrition Center. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Dietetics and Master's degree in Nutrition Science, both at Boston University.

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In addition to in depth medical nutrition therapy training, I have completed the following for eating disorder specialization: Eating Disorders Boot Camps advanced with Jessica Setnick, Counseling Intensive with Molly Kellogg, Sports Nutrition with Nancy Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR), Responsive Feeding Therapy for ARFID advanced with Joanne Cormac and Katja Rowell (The Feeding Doctor), Internal Family Systems for Eating Disorders with Diana Duggan Richards, Ellyn Satter Institute Division of Responsibility in Parent Child Feeding Training advanced, and the Ellyn Satter Eating Inventory Screening Tool.

I am currently working towards completing the EDRD Pro Hormones for Chronic Disease training, as well as Stanford’s Dr. Stacy Simms Hormone, Nutrition and Exercise training for Perimenopause and Menopause.

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I love being outdoors hiking, swimming in the ocean, walking my dog, or sitting on the porch reading. I also love eating milk chocolate brownie sundaes with my kids, and when they school me in soccer or chess.