Dr. Elizabeth Holm is a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist dedicated to helping patients and clients achieve positive changes in their lives. She works with children, adolescents, teenagers, young men and women, older adults and families - anyone who wants to develop a healthy relationship with food. True health includes developing a healthy relationship with eating, exercise, your body and your self.
Elizabeth's practice specializes in Eating Disorders, Childhood Nutrition, Sports Nutrition and achieving Health at Every Size (HAES). She has helped competitive and recreational athletes, patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, compulsive over-eaters and restrictive under-eaters. She has also worked with families who have children with failure to thrive. avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and children who are picky eaters.
If you are ready to make a change in your life or your family's life and you want to eat well, feel better about yourself and your body, and learn to prepare healthy, fun and tasty meals; Elizabeth can help you.
Education, training and Background
A graduate of the University of Delaware with a Doctorate in Public Heath from the University of California, Berkeley, Elizabeth has over 35 years of experience in the field of nutrition having served as a clinical dietitian at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a faculty member at the University of Connecticut and providing continuing education seminars for health professionals. She has been in private practice for over 10 years.
Elizabeth has been trained in the Ellyn Satter Approach to Feeding Children and Family-Based Treatment (FBT) also referred to as the Mausdley Method for Treating Adolescent Eating Disorders. She embraces a mindful and intuitive eating approach to weight management using a Health at Every Size approach (HAES).
Elizabeth serves on the Board of Directors of Rock Recovery, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing outreach, emotional support and weekly supervised meals to individuals suffering with an eating disorder regardless of ability to pay.
She is active in the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED), currently serving as co-chair of the Nutrition Special Interest Group. Previously, she was a member of the AED Special Interest Group Oversight Committee. Elizabeth is also a longtime member of both the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is past president of the Northern Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Finally, Elizabeth writes a quarterly column for the Foodie Section and occasionally the Health and Wellness Section of the Alexandria Times Newspaper.