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Integrative Nutrition Therapy

Integrative & Functional Nutrition Therapy and Wellness

Healing built from the foundations up — diet, lifestyle, sleep, and functional breathing — tailored to your unique body and your real symptoms.

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Root-Cause Nutrition

What Is Integrative Nutrition and How Does It Support Healing?

Integrative nutrition is an approach to health and wellness that looks at the whole person, not just individual symptoms or diseases. It combines the best of traditional nutrition science with safe, evidence-based strategies to support the body’s natural ability to heal, prevent illness, and function at its best.

Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, integrative nutrition recognizes that each person’s health is influenced by a unique combination of diet, lifestyle, environment, stress, sleep, movement, functional breathing, and other daily habits. Through a personalized and comprehensive approach, individualized plans are created to address root causes, build sustainable habits, and strengthen the foundations of long-term health and wellbeing.

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What Is Functional Nutrition Therapy
Foundations of Health

A Comprehensive Plan for Your Unique Needs

Our plans break down the foundations of health so you have a successful and sustainable journey toward optimal wellness.

Diet

Personalized, therapeutic food choices that work with your body — not against it.

Exercise

Movement guidance scaled to where you are right now, not where someone else thinks you should be.

Stress

Practical tools to lower the chronic stress load that drives inflammation and disease.

Sleep

Sleep hygiene and breathing support to restore the most underrated pillar of healing.

Functional Breathing

Reconnects you to how your body was designed to breathe — for energy, calm, and recovery.

And More

Environment, mindset, and the daily habits that compound into long-term health.

Understanding the Difference Between
Functional vs. Conventional

Understanding the Difference Between Traditional Care and Functional Medicine

Conventional healthcare is good at telling you that you have a particular disease — but rarely asks the question: why are you having these issues in the first place? Functional medicine asks those harder questions so health issues can be addressed at the root.

The conventional approach is designed to identify pathology — you either have a disease or you don’t. That’s why so many people are told their results are “normal” despite battling ongoing symptoms, then given medications to manage those “unexplainable” symptoms.

The functional approach believes everything happens for a reason. Lab results are interpreted on a much narrower scale — what functional medicine calls “optimal” — to catch early signs of imbalance before they become disease.

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Who This Is For

Who Can Benefit From Nutrition Counseling?

Nutrition counseling can benefit people at many stages of health. Whether your goal is optimizing wellness, improving your nutrition habits, or receiving personalized guidance while living with a health condition, nutrition counseling can help support your overall health and well-being.

  • Individuals looking to optimize their overall health and wellness
  • Those wanting to build sustainable nutrition and lifestyle habits
  • Athletes seeking to support performance, recovery, and overall health
  • Chronic pain
  • Chronic sinusitis
  • Digestive concerns (gas, bloating, abdominal discomfort, constipation, IBS, IBD, GERD/reflux, etc.)
  • Dysautonomia (including POTS and vasovagal syncope)
  • Elevated cholesterol
  • Fatigue
  • Food allergies and sensitivities
  • Heart disease and high blood pressure
  • Metabolic health concerns, including prediabetes, diabetes, and insulin resistance
  • Migraines and tension-type headaches
  • Nutrient deficiencies or imbalances
  • Thyroid disorders
  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMJ)
  • Weight management concerns
  • Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
  • Painful and/or irregular menstrual cycles
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
  • Nutrition support during perimenopause and menopause
  • Insomnia
  • Sleep-disordered breathing, including snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
Carly — Functional Nutrition Practitioner
Meet Your Practitioner

A Message From Carly

My passion for nutrition and integrative medicine is deeply personal. I began experiencing chronic health symptoms at a young age and spent years searching for answers. Despite countless appointments, lab tests, diagnoses, and medications, I often felt dismissed, discouraged, and stuck managing symptoms. I felt out of control of my own body.

I had a burning desire for a better way. As I pursued my education in health sciences, I became increasingly interested in the connection between nutrition, lifestyle, and chronic disease.

In my pursuit to be healthy, I also experienced periods of over-restriction, over-exercising, over-supplementing, and striving for perfection, only to realize that true health is about far more than discipline, willpower, or how my body looks.

Through a more integrative approach, I learned that health was more than just diet and exercise. Additional factors like our environment, quality of our relationships, sleep, stress, movement, functional breathing, and nervous system support all play a significant role in our overall wellbeing. By fueling my body properly and addressing these foundational areas, I learned how to better support my body, which led to significant improvements in my own health and quality of life.

My personal experiences greatly shape the way I work with clients. I understand how frustrating it can feel to struggle with symptoms while searching for answers, and I strive to create a supportive, compassionate, and individualized approach to care. My goal is to help you feel heard, empowered, and confident in building sustainable habits that support long-term health and wellbeing. You are more than your symptoms, and meaningful change is possible.

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Ohio University, along with a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention and a Master of Science (MS) in Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University. I have also completed a post-grad certification as a Functional Medicine Practitioner through Functional Medicine University. Currently, I am working toward a board certification for nutrition specialists.

Setting Expectations

Important Things to Keep in Mind

Nutrition counseling is designed to complement, not replace, medical care. Recommendations are individualized and provided within the scope of nutrition practice. Individuals with medical conditions are encouraged to continue working with their physician and healthcare team.

There are no quick fixes when it comes to health and healing. Your current habits and chronic symptoms took months or even years to develop, which means meaningful and lasting improvement takes time, consistency, and patience.

While there is no perfect protocol or overnight solution, small sustainable changes made consistently can have a profound impact over time. Improving your health and resilience requires active participation, commitment, and a willingness to make long-term lifestyle changes.

My role is to guide, educate, support, and empower you throughout the process but ultimately, your success depends on the effort you are willing to invest in your own health journey.

Whole foods used in integrative nutrition — fresh vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, fish and lean protein
What We Use

Tools & Services

The tools and services we use to understand your health history, identify root causes, and build a plan that fits your life.

  • In-depth initial consultation, including intake forms and a comprehensive review of your health history
  • One-on-one nutrition counseling tailored to your individual needs and goals
  • Personalized lifestyle medicine interventions
  • Evidence-based health and nutrition education
  • Specialty lab testing, when appropriate and clinically indicated
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Contact Carly Today

If you’re ready to find the root cause and build a plan around it, let’s talk.

(216) 925-4504 carly@clevelandtmjsleep.com
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