I am incredibly grateful for the support and expertise I received from Courtney at Nourishing New York throughout my journey healing from an eating disorder. Despite seeking help from various professionals, I felt stuck and disconnected from my needs and emotions. Working with Courtney was a turning point for me.

From the beginning, Courtney provided a safe and non-judgmental space where I could openly talk about my challenges with food. Her knowledge of eating disorders, coupled with her compassionate approach, helped me not only develop a more balanced relationship with food but also understand the root causes of my struggles.

Thanks to Nourishing New York, I’ve made significant strides in my recovery. With Courtney's guidance, I now have the tools and support I need to continue healing, and to make recovery a sustainable and life-long practice.

Working with Courtney and Jenny has truly changed my life. Their knowledge, kindness, and commitment to helping clients with eating disorders has helped me make real progress in my treatment. I’ve working with other nutritionists in the past and my experience at Nourishing NY has been by far the most supportive and productive.

From the beginning, Courtney provided a safe and non-judgmental space where I could openly talk about my challenges with food. Her knowledge of eating disorders, coupled with her compassionate approach, helped me not only develop a more balanced relationship with food but also understand the root causes of my struggles.

Working with Madi has healed - and continues to heal - me in ways I never thought possible. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with eating: restriction, bingeing, fear, judgment, self-sabotage, and shame. Madi has given me a safe space where I feel seen, heard, understood, and supported. Our sessions are free of judgement. She recognizes how I use humor to cope, allowing me to express and process emotions in the way that feels most natural to me. Madi is helping me reconnect with my body and better understand what it needs. Together we create a weekly plan that’s tailored to my specific needs and goals. She also checks in on my mental and emotional well-being – not just around food, but in all areas of life – and encourages me to practice patience, compassion, and gentleness with myself. Thanks to Madi, I am beginning to build a healthier relationship not only with food, but also with myself. I am so proud of everything I’ve accomplished so far, and I truly can’t imagine walking this journey without her. Thank you, Madi, for helping me heal!

Recovery has always been a fragile thing for me. When I transitioned out of the more intensive phase of treatment for my eating disorder, Alexa’s support and services was indispensable in helping me protect and nourish my recovery.

One of the tools I use in my recovery is logging my food. The app makes logging quite simple and relatively painless. Secrecy is death to recovery, and I have found the logging both keeps me accountable and provides security.

Even more important has been the weekly one-on-one time with my dietician Alexa. Through these sessions I have developed skills which keep me in touch with my body and its needs and strategies to keep it nourished in a sustainable fashion. I have also found valuable the synergistic way that our work in these sessions is connected to my work with my mental healthcare providers.

In providing me with tools to use in my recovery, I appreciate how the people at Nourishing NY treat me with dignity and respect by letting me shape my recovery for myself. Feeling uplifted rather than regulated has helped build my confidence in my recovery.

When I began working with Mia in 2022, I was all-consumed by my eating disorder. I felt as though I had no life outside of my eating disorder- it controlled what I ate, what I wore, what I did, and how I felt. I never imagined there would be a day when my every thought and action wasn't controlled by my preoccupation with food.

With Mia's guidance, food is now just background noise. It's no longer the ultimate enemy. Mia really helped me to understand and apply the concepts of intuitive eating, even when I felt like it would never be possible for me. She is compassionate and understanding, and has been able to provide me with specific tools to nurture my relationship with food.

My relationship with my body is still very much a work in progress to this day, but I don't feel alone with Mia in my corner. I have someone with whom I can share my most uncomfortable thoughts and feelings... someone who never judges or condemns, but listens and initiates thoughtful discussions on recognizing such cognitive distortions. I am incredibly grateful for Mia!

Working with Nourishing NY has far exceeded my expectations. Before I started I was unsure if I would see a positive impact of counseling but very quickly into my weekly sessions I found myself challenging decades old food rules and learning tactical techniques to listen to my body.

Now almost a year in, I continue to value my sessions with my dietitian who helps connect our sessions to my daily life and my ongoing work with my mental health therapist. I find myself constantly recommending Nourishing NY to friends and colleagues, and think so many would find value in their practice.

Working with Jenny has been so incredibly helpful. I know after our first session that she was going to finally be able to help me view food and eating in a different way.

Helping me through navigating insulin resistance and PCOS, she finally made it super simple and not intimidating to reshape how I think about food for my body. Super grateful for her and also for nourishing New York who has been helpful through navigating insurance coverage, as well!

Working with Nourishing NY over the past three years has truly transformed my relationship with food and how I care for myself. In college, and my early years in New York, I was very restrictive with food, lost a concerning amount of weight and had body image issues.

Alexa, and Nourishing NY as a whole, helped me feel confident, flexible and self-compassionate around eating. Alexa has guided me through challenges, encouraged new perspectives and empowered me to create healthier habits. I am so grateful for the difference Alexa has made in my life and highly recommend Nourishing NY due to their strategies, support and insightful guidance. They have changed the trajectory of my life tremendously!

It took me a very long time to seek help for my disordered eating and disordered body image, and by the time I did, patterns had been deeply ingrained in me. Immediately, Mia recognized that I'd need time, support, and space to process my feelings about food, my body, and ultimately see what healing could look like.

In working with Mia I've experienced many breakthroughs, large and small, that ultimately have shown me the life I can lead by feeding and trusting my body. These have come in forms that might seem nonsensical to others, but to me amount to overcoming fear and doubt about myself and my body that have followed me for nearly my entire life. I've been able to experience joy around food, my body, and life in general in ways I hadn't thought possible, and with Mia's support and caring guidance I've learned what being nourished, both in my body and my soul, feels like, to a much greater degree. I never thought this was possible!

At 61, I thought I understood how to eat and stay in shape — but holy moly, did I have a lot to learn. Working with Christina Tursi has completely transformed the way I view food and my relationship with my body. I used to think there were "bad" foods, like carbs — but it turns out, that’s not true at all. Christina has taught me to actually listen to my body, to recognize real hunger, and to stop punishing myself with skipped meals. One of the biggest shifts has been realizing that I have choices — whether I go to the gym or take a rest day, it's okay. My sessions with Christina have helped me reframe my thinking and given me the tools to build a healthier, more balanced life.

I am so thankful to have found Jenny at Nourishing NY; After I started working with a therapist to shift my mindset around food and my disordered eating, I found I needed help with the logistics of actually eating food and that’s when I found Jenny. Every week she helps me assess the prior week, giving me tips to make things easier for me and information on how to adjust my intake to reach better bloodwork results. She has helped me stay consistent with eating and is always a helpful voice guiding me during difficult times. I am so appreciative of the levity Jenny brings to our sessions along with her professionalism and expertise.

I came to Nourishing NY through the recommendation of my doctor, who I first approached because I was feeling desperate to break out of patterns and behaviors that I knew were harmful, but couldn’t escape. At that time, the thought of rebuilding the relationship with food and my self-image that I’d had for half my life felt insurmountable — I didn’t even know where to start!

Two years in, and I am now in a place I have wanted to be for so long, thanks to working with Alexa. I have been able to build new, sustainable habits, challenge old restrictive rules and thought patterns, and learned so much about myself in the process. I look forward to each weekly session as I know with Alexa I have a kind, knowledgeable provider who helps me push through discomfort and is there to cheer me on at every win, no matter how big or small. I am much more comfortable navigating a grocery store, eating intuitively and listening to my body (and eating breakfast every day — a huge win for me!). Alexa very quickly made my recovery journey feel grounded, achieveable, and like I could make long, lasting changes — the opposite of how I felt before I began working with her.

Even in the hard weeks, it is so much easier now for me to push back against the perfectionism that colored everything about my relationship to food, my body, and myself for so long, and I’m even more grateful that the hard weeks are rarer and rarer as time goes on. Working with Alexa and Nourishing NY has been, hands-down, one of the best choices I have made for my mental and emotional health. I only wish I had started sooner!

I had been trying for years to heal my relationship with food on my own, and finally reached a point where I realized I would not be able to do so without support. When I was first looking for a provider, I was very stressed about if I would be able to find someone who focused on eating disorders who was also in network with my insurance. Luckily, it did not take me long to find Courtney and Nourishing NY.

Courtney has helped guide me to take steps that are helping me recover and doing so in a kind and compassionate way. It is clear her and her team are more than qualified to work with clients with eating disorders, something I cannot say about other dietitians I have worked with in the past. I am very excited about healing my relationship with food and getting my life back, something I finally feel is possible since I have started working with Courtney.

I first began my journey with Nourishing NY about four years ago, where I met my primary Dietician Courtney Darsa. Working with Courtney has been one of the most impactful experiences of my life. Over the past four years, Courtney has supported me with a level of care, comfort, and compassion that goes far beyond what I ever expected from a dietitian. She didn’t just help me navigate my relationship with food—she helped me understand myself.

Through every stage of my recovery, Courtney gently guided me to see that I am more than a body, and more than a meal. Her consistent presence reminded me that it is okay to accept the imperfectness of healing, and that my progress does not need to be predictable. With her help, I’ve begun to truly believe that I am allowed to take up space, and to embrace neutrality. I would also like to highlight my work with another dietician, Alana Weisman, who without missing a beat, picked up where Courtney left off during her maternity leave. A truly gifted dietician who was able to make me feel at ease and comfortable during a turbulent time.

Each clinician approaches each session with thoughtfulness, non judgmentalness, and humanity. They met me where I was and walked beside me with patience and empathy. I will always be grateful for their roles in my journey—their support has been life-changing, and I can’t recommend Nourishing NY enough to anyone seeking help with an eating disorder.