comprehensive nutrition & lifestyle coaching
Your Everyday Choices Are Powerful Medicine
Are the choices you make supporting your health? Together, through individualized, focused recommendations, we’ll address nutrition, sleep, stress, movement, and daily habits to create a lifestyle that supports vibrant health and longevity.
Food As Medicine, Tailored To You
Every cell in your body is created and repaired using building blocks from the food you eat.
Larisa provides nutrition counseling through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), while incorporating modern nutritional science to create a diet that works for your unique body.
Start with Digestion: We start with you, optimizing digestion. If your digestive system can’t break down and absorb the nutrients in your food, much less your vitamins and supplements, your body will be fundamentally malnourished, even if you are taking in sufficient calories.
Personalized, Not Prescriptive: Instead of “one-size-fits-all” diets, we build a framework that matches your constitution, health goals, and lifestyle.
Science + Tradition: Modern research and two decades of clinical practice inform my recommendations.
Small, High-Impact Shifts: Simple, practical changes can create long-lasting improvements.
With this approach, nutrition becomes a form of daily medicine — restoring balance and fueling every aspect of your health.
Lifestyle coaching is woven into each treatment plan. We use research, education, and easy to incorporate modifications, helping you build habits that enhance resilience and balance.
Stress & Nervous System Regulation: Learn practical tools to lower stress and improve recovery.
Sleep Optimization: Support restorative rest — essential for hormonal health, fertility, and immune function.
Movement: Tailored exercise recommendations that match your body’s needs and energy.
Integration: Small, achievable adjustments designed to fit seamlessly into your life.
Lifestyle Medicine & Coaching
Lasting change comes from small, sustainable shifts.
Larisa’s Approach: Bringing It All Together
Optimizing Digestion
If your body can’t break down and absorb nutrients, even the best diet falls short
As we age, our bodies produce fewer enzymes, including those necessary to digest the foods we eat. Add antibiotics and other microbiome disruptors to the mix and you have a recipe for poor digestion.
Eventually, many people develop digestive issues, like reflux and heartburn (GERD), bloating, constipation or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Are the choices you make supporting your health? Or are they actually making things worse? How can we make it easy for you to modify your choices to best support you?
Larisa’s approach is highly personalized to meet your individual needs, and starts with making small, manageable changes that are both high-impact and easy to incorporate into your everyday life.
Habits & Choices
Stress has a powerful impact on every aspect of our well-being, from digestion to sleep to weight gain. Chronic exposure to high levels of stress hormones (cortisol) reduces immune function, damages cardiovascular health, and eventually leads to adrenal fatigue.
We all lead busy lives and experience varying degrees of stress and anxiety. Developing resilience to stressors has a positive impact on life-long health.
Stress & Anxiety
Larisa combines a firm foundation in Western medicine with over two decades of experience with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurveda, and a lifetime of traveling around the world (every continent except Antarctica!). Drawing on a mix of modern science and traditional wisdom, Larisa helps each patient create a diet and lifestyle that works for them.