My Journey - From M.D. to R.D.
Very Few People Have Taken This Path!
Let me share with you my unusual journey from MD to RD. I am an international medical graduate. Since medical school, I have been inspired by Professor Abraham Verghese: “My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science, and not even just a science and an art, but also a calling."
I Knew There Was A Bigger Purpose For Me
I have been moving between the UK, Pakistan, and the USA with my husband and kids. These moves have been profoundly transformational in many ways, and I learned to balance life challenges. I learned to understand and adapt to the world rather than organize it. Being on the move made me open to new experiences and information, and I have learned to easily embrace change. The skills acquired as a result of lifelong experiences became my personality traits.
We moved to Beaumont Texas in 2015 as our youngest daughter got admitted to Lamar University and my husband got a job here. After raising three beautiful kids, I returned to my passion: my love of food & counseling to heal! So I did my Masters in Family and Consumer Sciences with an emphasis in Dietetics, then an internship, and finally, the RD boards. Dietitians go through this very organized & extensive curriculum to provide you with evidence-based knowledge and guide you on how to apply that knowledge to see the desired results.
Lamar Intern | 2017 - 2018
I trust that my background will provide you insight into my perspective in my work. I aim to plant seeds of love, respect, and happiness within each of you so that you can reap the rewards alongside those around you.
I am a CLT, Certified LEAP (Lifestyle Eating And Performance) Therapist, with a natural inclination towards understanding human behavior and perceiving people in a different light. I incorporate MBTI (Myer Briggs Personality Types) and CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) in my counseling style. ​​​
A CLT Therapist receives advanced clinical training in managing adverse food reactions with an emphasis on food sensitivities. CLTs apply that knowledge from the LEAP protocol – an evidence-based and highly effective eating plan for food sensitivity-related health problems.
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LEAP utilizes the patented Mediator Release Blood Test (MRT) to help uncover food and chemical sensitivities, not IgE allergies. Going far beyond avoidance or elimination diets, the LEAP Protocol is more practical and suited to the clinical realities of food sensitivities.
Therefore, the CLT can achieve rapid and dramatic clinical improvements, often when conventional therapies have failed.
Nutritional mindfulness is a connection between nutritional health and the mind that helps to recognize the mind-body connection and how to collaborate between them. We are increasingly learning of the connection between illness and our diet. Fortunately, when we use our intelligence with mindfulness we can chart our course.