About Hannah Allen

Dr. Hannah Allen, RDN, LDN

Hannah is passionate about helping clients break free of eating struggles and find a greater sense of freedom around food, eating, and body image.

She works with clients of all ages, and especially loves working with teens, as well as LGBTQ and neurodivergent populations.

Her work goes beyond simply teaching clients what to eat. Hannah helps clients understand the many things that can interfere with their ability to hear and trust their own bodies—including inadequate nutrition, food rules, fear around eating, body dissatisfaction, and the thoughts and emotions that become attached to food and weight.

Her goal is not to give clients another set of rules to follow, but to help them develop greater confidence in recognizing and responding to their own nutritional needs.

In her work with children and teens, Hannah brings this same approach to a particularly important stage of development.

She helps young people build a more trusting relationship with food and their bodies while also helping them and their families understand the nutritional, developmental, and psychological factors that can contribute to eating difficulties.

She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Academy of Nutrition, and the American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition. Dr. Hannah Allen is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist who has a B.S. and Ph.D. in nutritional sciences from the University of Florida.

Her specialty is in working with those with eating and body image issues, including those with eating disorders. Hannah's focus is to help clients feel better about themselves and their lives by helping them heal eating issues and improve body image.

With these changes, her clients find taking care of themselves and eating healthfully much easier to do.

She has over 10 years of experience practicing medical nutrition therapy in a clinical research setting where she spent much of her time helping children with epilepsy. During this time she specialized in using food as medicine for children who did not respond to traditional treatment.

She became interested in alternative approaches to eating and weight when what she had learned in college was just not working and she realized that regimented eating practices are not sustainable and cause feelings of failure.

Her search for an approach that works brought her to intuitive eating.

She saw how clients no longer felt controlled by food, and are able to achieve a sense of peace around food and weight, and was hooked.

Since 2017, she has dedicated her on-going training to intuitive eating, treatment of disordered eating and eating disorders, and Health At Every Size (HAES).

She also is focused on the psychology of eating, and to enhance her work with clients, is trained in the Enneagram personality typing system.

Her interest in the psychology of eating allows her to look beyond food itself and help clients explore the patterns, beliefs, fears, and ways of thinking that may be shaping their eating.

This combination of nutritional expertise and attention to the psychological experience of eating helps her address not only what is happening with food, but what may be keeping the struggle with food and body image in place.

She is a member of the American Nutrition and Dietetic Association, American Academy of Nutrition, and the American Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition.