My Story
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Gut Health Nutritionist
If you’re here, chances are you’re looking for a lasting solution to digestive symptoms that have been disrupting your life for far too long. Whether it’s constipation, bloating, burping, gas, loose stools, heartburn, nausea, or cramping, you just want your digestion to do its job quietly in the background and leave you alone—like it’s supposed to.
Or maybe you have a diagnosis like IBS, SIBO, GERD, Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, diverticulosis, colitis, gastritis, or another digestive condition. You’ve seen the specialists and been given medications to manage your symptoms, but no one has talked much about what to eat—or how to address what may be contributing to those symptoms in the first place.
Maybe you don’t even know what to eat anymore because everything seems to trigger symptoms. You’ve read about leaky gut and food sensitivities, or tried elimination diets that helped for a while—only to have your symptoms return as soon as you started adding foods back in.
But you haven’t given up looking for answers, because you know there has to be a better way.
You can support your gut, rebalance your microbiome, and get back to feeling like yourself again. That’s why you’re here—and I’m here to guide you.
My Story
Hi, I’m Brigitta, an Integrative and Functional Nutritionist specializing in gut health and digestive disorders.
My passion for gut health started with my daughter.
I was the ultimate “health nut” mom. We ate organic, home-cooked food. I avoided processed foods, chemicals, and additives. I thought I was doing everything right.
And yet, from a young age, my daughter struggled with a bloated belly and eczema. As she got older, more symptoms appeared—dark circles and puffiness around her eyes, low energy, constipation, intense sugar cravings, anxiety, difficulty focusing, and eventually weight gain.
What made it even more confusing was that her sister ate the same foods and didn’t have any of these problems.
So I did what most concerned moms would do: I started looking for answers.
We tried probiotics. We eliminated gluten and dairy, then soy and corn. We tried supplements and detoxes. Some things helped temporarily. Others made her symptoms worse. But nothing created lasting change.
That’s when I realized something that would completely change the way I thought about nutrition:
The problem wasn’t just the food.
I began digging deeper into digestion, the gut microbiome, intestinal health, and the many factors that can disrupt the gut environment. I learned that simply removing more and more foods wasn’t enough. We needed to understand why her body was reacting in the first place and address the underlying imbalances in the right order.
And when we did, things began to change.
Her bloating and puffiness diminished. Her skin cleared. Her energy and focus returned. The constant cravings disappeared, and her weight normalized. Most importantly, I had my happy, healthy daughter back.
That experience changed the direction of my work.
For more than 10 years, I’ve been helping clients look beyond symptoms and restrictive diets to understand what may be happening underneath them.
Because when you’ve been eating healthy, trying supplements, eliminating foods, and doing “all the right things” without getting the results you want, the answer isn’t necessarily to try harder.
Sometimes you need to look deeper.
Today, that’s exactly what I help my clients do: identify the factors that may be disrupting their digestion, support a healthier gut and microbiome, and create the conditions their bodies need to function at their best.
Background
- Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS)
- Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN)
- MS in Human Nutrition (Bridgeport University, summa cum laude)
- BS in Neuroscience (University College London, summa cum laude)
- Certified Health Coach (CHC)
- Trained in Autonomic Response Testing at the Klinghardt Academy
- Trained in Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET)
- LEAP Therapist
What You Can Expect
when you work with me.
Brigitta is the absolute BEST. She is incredibly knowledgable; and no health problem or concern is too hard for her to get to the bottom of. She is absolutely amazing, and has helped my stomach problems more than anyone has in the past!
I feel so good! I’m completely off my depression medication and the medication for indigestion. I’m so glad that we are working together to help me be the best version of me! I haven’t felt this good in years! I cannot thank you enough.
Yes! My gas is under control!! And I started half marathon training simultaneously with this elimination diet and I feel like I have so much more energy and motivation and feel lighter in my gut! I have been wanting to get back to running for years. This is huge for me! My favorite part was learning to meditate more with my food.
Due to many chronic symptoms, I had been implementing an elimination diet with a national meal plan and food/body educational program. As I started to reintroduce foods back in, I had so much difficulty trying to stabilize my GI symptoms and stop the rapid weight loss I was experiencing that it was clear I needed individual attention and support from an experienced nutritionist. Healing the gut has appeared to eliminate other chronic conditions. I couldn't feel as well as I do now if it wasn't for working with Brigitta.
Brigitta and Sarah are extremely knowledgeable in nutrition and they are good communicators of their information so it can be easily understood. They addressed not only nutrition, but added additional self-care tools such as meditation. At the completion of their course, I had the foundation for living a more healthy lifestyle. I loved it and so appreciate the enormous amount of time and preparation that went into producing such a fine course.
I’ve had GI issues for as long as I can remember. I became increasingly fed up with the lack of answers/help from my gastroenterologist, even after multiple procedures and being prescribed medications to take twice a day. I wanted to understand why I was having the problems I did despite a healthy diet and active lifestyle.
From my first meeting with Brigitta, I knew her holistic approach would be different. With her guidance, I stopped taking the prescribed medications and started on natural supplements that were much more effective and didn’t leave me feeling bloated or sluggish. Through some simple dietary modifications, and later a food sensitivity test, Brigitta was able to determine what my body wasn’t processing and helped me alter my diet in a way that works for me. I feel so much better. In addition, without putting any effort into calorie counts, I have lost 5 lbs as a result without any other changes.
There is so much that can be done through diet to help with general wellness and combating health issues. If you’ve wondered if it would be worth it to meet with a highly effective nutritionist, I highly recommend that you meet with Brigitta. She has honestly made such an improvement in my life.