Most practitioners look for what's wrong. I look for what's connected.
I’m Erin—a functional medicine nutritionist with a master’s degree in clinical nutrition, a writer, and a mom living in South Florida.
For the past ten years, I’ve helped hundreds of women understand why their bodies aren’t responding the way they used to—and what to do next.
I care about the clinical details. I also care whether the plan works with school pickup, work, dinner, travel, and the rest of your actual life.
The science matters. So does the life it’s happening inside.
Your labs matter.
Your symptoms matter.
Your food matters.
But I also want to know how all of it is showing up in an ordinary week.
I read the information together, decide what deserves attention first, and turn it into something useful.
Because wellness should support your life. It shouldn’t become your life.
Before nutrition, I spent a decade in the New York art world.
As a director of registration and exhibitions, I was the person keeping track of the shipping, timelines, installations, and people involved in getting an exhibition from an idea to an opening.
The work taught me to see the details other people might miss, anticipate problems, and change course quickly when circumstances shifted. I became very good at taking something with a lot of moving parts and figuring out how to get it done.
I still work that way.
My interest in nutrition is personal. I’ve dealt with digestive issues, significant changes in my weight, autoimmune thyroid disease, a complicated relationship with food, and a long path to becoming a mom through IVF.
I went back to school because I wanted a better explanation than “try harder.”
That eventually led to a master’s degree in clinical nutrition and a career spent helping women make sense of bodies that no longer feel quite as predictable as they once did.
My body has changed too. I know what it’s like when the habits you’ve relied on for years stop giving you the same results.
That experience shapes how I work now: I ask a lot of questions, look for the connections, and never assume a plan will work until I understand the life it needs to fit into.
My Approach
I want to understand more than what’s on your plate.
I want to know when the fatigue started, what your digestion is doing, how you’re recovering from workouts, and what your labs have looked like over time.
If you’re tired and your hair is shedding, I want to know what has already been checked.
What do we know about your iron status and thyroid? What are you eating? What else changed around the same time?
Those questions help me decide what deserves a closer look.
Sometimes we need more information. Sometimes we already have enough to make a meaningful change.
That’s how I work inside Nourish to Thrive®:
Connect the information
Decide what matters first
Adjust the plan as we learn how your body responds
You’ll understand why we’re making a change, what we’re waiting to see, and what you can stop worrying about in the meantime.
Erin Parekh, MS, CNS, LDN is a functional medicine nutritionist and writer helping women understand why their bodies are no longer responding the way they expect them to.
For more than ten years, Erin has helped hundreds of women make sense of changes in energy, digestion, appetite, body composition, and other symptoms that persist despite their best efforts.
Her work brings together clinical nutrition, relevant lab data, and the context of a client’s everyday life to determine what deserves attention and what to do next.
Erin holds a Master of Science in Clinical Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and is Board Certified as a Certified Nutrition Specialist. Before entering nutrition, she spent a decade working in the New York art world.
She lives in South Florida with her husband and daughter and works virtually with clients across the United States.
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M.S. Clinical Human Nutrition, University of Bridgeport
Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS)
Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN)
Funk'tional Nutrition Academy Practitioner Certification
Nutritious Life Certified by Keri Glassman, MS, RDN
Health Coach Certification, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
M.A. Arts Administration, New York University
B.A. Art History, DePauw University