A registered dietitian for Mission Viejo — virtually.

Mission Viejo is one of the original master-planned communities in South Orange County — the Saddleback Valley city built around Lake Mission Viejo, with more than 40 parks and the Oso Creek Trail winding through it.

It's a genuinely active, athletics-minded place. This is the home of the Mission Viejo Nadadores swim program and a permanent 1984 Olympic cycling road-race finish line near the lake — a community where movement and wellness are part of the identity, anchored by Providence Mission Hospital.

That fits how I work. Good nutrition isn't a punishing diet bolted onto a busy life — it's sustainable, root-cause care, and virtual delivery means it slots into your week instead of adding a drive across the valley.

Mission Viejo runs on full, active schedules — work, kids' sports, training, an older established population staying healthy. Telehealth removes the one thing that quietly ends a nutrition plan: the commute. You keep the appointment from home, around your week.

Each session is a video visit. We work through symptoms, labs and what you actually eat, and you leave with a personalized plan and written resources I send right after, with follow-ups to keep refining it — and we can fold in CGM data when it helps.

I'm based in Orange County and virtual-first. Select in-person sessions in OC are available by request, but the practice is built around telehealth so care stays consistent.

A lot of Mission Viejo clients come in for PCOS, hormone work and insulin resistance — and, given the city's older established population, perimenopause and midlife hormone changes are a big focus too. The work is root-cause: we look at labs, cycles, sleep and stress, not just food.

Gut health and IBS are the other major bucket here. All of it is weight-inclusive — progress is measured in labs, energy, cycles and symptoms, never the scale, and never through restriction or fad protocols.