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MEET OUR DIETITIANS

Nutrition experts who meet you where you are.

Our registered dietitians combine evidence-based nutrition care with a compassionate, anti-diet approach to help you feel more confident around food, support your health and create changes that work in real life.

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OUR TEAM

Meet the people behind your care.

Our dietitians bring experience across medical nutrition therapy, disordered eating, women's health, sports nutrition, digestive health and more. Each brings their own expertise, while sharing the same goal: helping you build a healthier, more peaceful relationship with food and your body.

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Bethany Watkins, RDN

​Founder & Registered Dietitian Specialties
Prenatal Nutrition & Sports Performance

After years of watching people struggle with restrictive diets, food guilt and the pressure to eat “perfectly,” Bethany founded Happy Body Wellness to offer a different approach. Her work blends clinical nutrition expertise with a compassionate, realistic philosophy that helps clients feel healthier and happier—without rigid food rules.

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Katie Boswell, MS, RDN

​Registered Dietitian Specialties 
Disordered Eating, Gut Health (IBS), Type 2 Diabetes & Fertility

​Katie brings experience from acute care, physical rehabilitation and nutrition counseling. She enjoys helping clients understand their bodies, build practical nutrition skills and move away from confusing or restrictive food rules toward an approach that supports both health and everyday life.

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Michelle Guarnieri, RDN

​Registered Dietitian Specialties 
Disordered Eating Recovery, Sports Nutrition & Kidney Health

Katie brings experience from acute care, physical rehabilitation and nutrition counseling. She enjoys helping clients understand their bodies, build practical nutrition skills and move away from confusing or restrictive food rules toward an approach that supports both health and everyday life.

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Darian Carter, MS, RDN

​Registered Dietitian Specialties
Women’s Health, Pregnancy/Postpartum & Diabetes Management

Michelle combines professional nutrition experience with a personal understanding of disordered eating recovery. Her approach focuses on helping clients build greater freedom around food while supporting their individual health, performance and nutrition needs.

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Wes Smith, Registered Dietitian

​Registered Dietitian Specialties
Digestive Health, IBS & FODMAP, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Post-GI Surgery, Weight Management & Preventive Nutrition

After working in the organ transplant field helping facilitate life after illness, I wanted to move to the prevention side of health. I went back to school to become a Registered Dietitian. I worked in the local hospital system for nearly a decade as an inpatient and outpatient dietitian and with a private practice learning all that I could. I previously obtained the Obesity and Weight Management Certification and am actively working towards the Functional Nutrition Certificate to better help clients. I have worked with a wide range of patients and I enjoy working with patients through GI issues from IBS and the FODMAP diet to Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease, post GI surgery, weight management, and even tube feeding. Moving even more into prevention, I left the hospital so my wife and I could start a farm. We grow and sell our own fruits and vegetables along with eggs and honey to help people access quality food to help prevent and reverse disease. Along with good food, I believe lifestyle is key. Reducing stress, getting good sleep and enjoying life is always a focus.

FIND YOUR FIT

Not sure which dietitian is right for you?

Our registered dietitians combine evidence-based nutrition care with a compassionate, anti-diet approach to help you feel more confident around food, support your health and create changes that work in real life.

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