Diana Richards

About Diana Richards

Diana is a Level 3 certified Internal Family Systems practitioner focused on food and body image challenges. The Internal Family Systems Self-leadership model is a tool for accelerated self-awareness, personal growth, and permanent emotional healing. In sessions, IFS is utilized to understand and support healing the root causes of unresolved emotional issues from childhood events that contribute to present-day pain and suffering. Disordered eating behaviors are generated from the parts of us that work to protect our vulnerable and suffering younger parts. These parts then overpower the natural process of attending and responding to food and body needs from our internal wisdom. IFS supports a process where parts release their old roles by healing the underlying wounds. When the behaviors are no longer needed, parts transform back to their natural, valuable state to support a nourishing, balanced process of caring for the body with food and movement. Our work will move toward inner healing so you can attune to the intersection of your internal signals along with external nutrition and health recommendations. She partners with Molly Kellogg LICSW for all-day experiential workshops that accompany 3 1/2 hours of pre-recorded didactic recordings along with recommended reading so For nine years prior to making a shift to private practice and away from intentional dieting and weight loss protocols, Diana managed the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center. She consulted with and She trained Boston University Sargent’s College graduate students and health care organizations in MI and facilitated Yoga for Mindful Eating series for those with eating disorders or misaligned relationships with food. Currently, the workshops she facilitates transform the damaging thought processes around relationships with food and body image. She was co-investigator of an NIH-funded study for Yoga for Low Back Pain at Boston Medical Center, where she co-developed the protocol, authored study materials (yoga sequence, CD, and instruction manual) and taught all classes. She has extensive experience with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group (DPG). She authored integrative nutrition articles for Today\'s Dietitian, Environmental Nutrition and Vegetarian Nutrition dietetic practice group. She created a 30-day meal plan and 100 recipes in collaboration with Dr. Caroline Apovian for The Overnight Diet (April 2013).

Experience

1. Dietitian

   Serial Therapist

   Aug 1998 — Present · Watertown, MA, US

Education

• University of Central Arkansas

  BS Nutrition Science, Dietetics

  1993 — 1998