Nutritional Counseling

The vital role of proper nutrition and dietary considerations in general health and wellness has been established for many years. Their importance for healing from a specific injury however, or for preventing injury, is often completely left out when looking to achieve a maximal level of recovery. For this reason, Equilibrium Physical Therapy offers nutritional counseling to its clients. Whether it is private couseling or through one of our workshops, our goal is to assess, create, and implement proper nutrition and dietary programs for the individual. In doing so, we can address what may very well be the most important part of rehabilitation.

Additional benefits of our Nutritional Counseling Program include:

•Increase in energy
•Healthier lifestyle and food choices
•Better quality sleep
•Reduced symptoms of disease
•Less drastic range of emotions
•Happiness
•Possible increase in longevity
•Strengthened immune system
•Lesser chance of disorders and disease appearing
•Better ability to concentrate

Our Nutritionist:

Cydya Smith - Cydya is board certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP).  She graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), in New York City, and also earned certification and continuing education credits to advance her practice, from Teachers College at Columbia University.  She is also certified by the Institute of HeartMath™ (IHM) to use HeartMath™ technology for stress reduction.

Ms. Smith received her training to practice Health Counseling/Coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), which is licensed by the state of New York and internationally recognized as the only nutrition school integrating all the different dietary theories—combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts like the USDA food pyramid, the glycemic index, the Zone and raw foods.

Cydya maintains a private health counseling/lifestyle coaching practice, where in addition to counseling she incorporates techniques from HeartMath™ to assist individual clients in learning to manage the effects of stress in their lives. She also designs and conducts lectures, workshops/seminars on nutrition and health, time/stress management for corporations and member organizations.