Biography: Susan Weiss Berry

Susan Weiss Berry, MS, CNS, is a gifted Nutrition Counselor, Mindfulness Educator and Founding Director of Evolved Eating. She is also the creator of Fearless Eating Culinary Therapy Workshops.  Susan has helped hundreds of clients including university professors, physicians, CEO’s of Fortune 500 and 100 companies, actors, dancers, students and singers to recover from eating disorders, overeating, chronic dieting/restricting as well as weight and health issues. Using her decades of daily meditation experience, as well as her own recovery, she teaches clients to stop struggling with WHAT they EAT by teaching them HOW TO EAT. With her unique and exceptionally effective Mindfulness-based program, Evolved Eating, clients learn to free themselves from habitual behaviors and pre-conceived notions around food and weight and normalize weight without diets, restrictions, gimmicks or guilt trips. Her humorous, compassionate approach has been described as both practical and profound. Innovative and always ahead of the curve, Susan was one of the first Nutritionists in America to establish a Private Practice and to create a Mindfulness-based approach to Eating Disorder recovery and Weight Management. Throughout her 25+year career she’s been in great demand as a lecturer, Program Design Specialist and Nutrition Consultant for both university and private organizations including: The University of Michigan, American Business Women's Association, Marriott Corporation, Nu-Skin International, The Center for Eating Disorders, Whole Foods Inc., and The NY Hotel Trades Council Health Centers, Inc.  Former Director of The Center for Nutrition and Wellness in Ann Arbor/Detroit, and the San Francisco Bay Area, she’s now based in NYC. Susan is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) accredited through The American College of Nutrition and a Board Certified Holistic Health Counselor (CHHC) accredited through AADP. She received an MS in Food Science and Nutrition as well as post-graduate training in Bulimia and Anorexia from Susan C. Wooley, PhD at the University of Michigan and in Body Image and Psychodynamics with Anne Kearney-Cooke, PhD. For 15 years she served as staff Nutritionist and then Consulting Nutritionist for The Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor. Susan also received an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College near San Francisco.  Susan’s written for and been quoted by The Detroit Free Press, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, The NY Daily News, Big Apple Parent, Columbia University News Wire Service, singleedition.com and intent.com