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About our Team
Sarah Patten Wilder, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S
Sarah is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian, Yoga teacher, and food enthusiast passionate about helping individuals heal from disordered eating, guilt and shame around food, and body disconnection. Sarah began working with clients with eating disorders very early on in her career, and has devoted the past 10+ years to enhancing her knowledge, deepening her understanding, and strengthening her counseling abilities with this population. Sarah works exclusively with clients struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, disconnection from their body’s wants and needs, and body image distress. She feels grateful each and every day to be able to work with her clients and honored to bear witness to their healing.
She is also deeply passionate about training other dietitians in this field and provides supervision to those looking to enhance their knowledge and counseling skills in the eating disorders/disordered eating realm. She strives to help these clinicians gain a better understanding of themselves and their own needs in the process as she believes this is essential to providing attuned, compassionate, and sustainable nutrition counseling.
Sarah received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University where she double majored in Food Science and Nutrition Science. After graduating in 2009, she went on to complete her dietetic internship at the University of California San Francisco. She began her career as a dietitian at Boston Children's Hospital where she worked with adolescents struggling with eating disorders on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. From there, she moved into private practice with Marci Evans in Cambridge, MA in 2012 where she was able to devote all of her clinical time to her true calling - helping clients of all ages to recover from disordered eating, body image concerns, and emotional/compulsive eating.
In addition to her training as a Registered Dietitian, Sarah has completed advanced training as an Intuitive Eating Skills Coach as well as the Level One Training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) - a therapy model helpful in exploring, befriending, and healing all of the various parts of ourselves. By embracing these parts with curiosity and compassion, she hopes to help her clients find a better understanding of themselves while moving towards an authentically led life.
Sarah is also passionate about the practice of yoga and completed a 200 hour teacher training at Down Under School of Yoga in 2016 as well as the Level One Yoga therapy training with Phoenix Rising School of Yoga Therapy. She uses this knowledge of yoga to help clients reconnect with their bodies and the intuitive wisdom that they all possess. This training informs her work both on the mat with clients as well as her nutrition counseling.
In her work with clients, Sarah embraces a non-weight focused, non-diet, Health at Every Size (HAES™) approach and truly believes that all foods can fit into a healthful lifestyle. She encourages her clients to pursue a relationship with themselves full of self compassion, inner trust, and mindful attention to their thoughts about themselves, their bodies, and their food choices.
Outside of her work with clients, Sarah enjoys spending time in nature, connecting with friends, trying out new cuisines, walking her dog Monty, and traveling to new places.
Lydia Fernandes Holasek, MS, RD, LDN
Lydia is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who spent the early years of her career specialized in GI nutrition, primarily in the inpatient setting. While she loves working with this population, Lydia’s true passion lies in counseling people to foster a positive, guilt-free relationship with food and their bodies. Lydia’s interest in working with those struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image began long before her training as a dietitian, and she had the unique opportunity to gain experience in this area through her dietetic internship by training with Sarah when she was at Marci RD Nutrition Counseling.
Lydia understands that each individual has a unique story and meets clients where they are at in their recovery journey. She values connecting with her clients to explore their relationship to food and body throughout their lifetime. She practices through a non diet, weight neutral, Health at Every Size (HAES™) lens and hopes to help each person she works with move towards eating intuitively and trusting their own body.
Lydia received a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition/Food Science from the University of Vermont, and completed her Master’s degree and clinical internship at Tufts University/Tufts Medical Center in Boston in 2018. Since then, she has been working in the hospital setting with a focus on GI nutrition while obtaining her CNSC certification. Working in this setting has allowed Lydia to grow her nutrition knowledge, gain a deep understanding of GI disorders and treatments, and to work with people from a variety of backgrounds. While this work has been fulfilling, it has also instilled in her the desire to work in the outpatient/private practice setting in order to form a more lasting relationship with clients and she is thrilled to have transitioned into her dream role.
Lydia is a lover of all things food, especially Greek cuisine. Her love for food stems from her mom’s Greek cooking growing up. She really appreciates the relationship between food and culture, and values how cultural backgrounds impact food preferences/traditions and can play a big role in connecting people and forming a sense of community. In her free time, Lydia enjoys hiking, skiing, spending quality time with friends, and trying different restaurants around town.