About Lisa
Lisa grew up in the town of Wallingford, Connecticut and attended Mark T. Sheehan High School. In 1990, she graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a BSN, and as a Registered Nurse her career included working as a staff nurse on a general surgery/trauma floor, an operating room circulator, a visiting nurse, and a case manager. In 1999, she spent six months working as a first aid nurse while residing at the Omega Institute, a retreat center for holistic studies in Rhinebeck, New York.
From 2000 to 2002, Lisa attended Quinnipiac University where she earned her MSN and became Board Certified as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN-BC). For the next two and a half years, Lisa worked as a Nurse Practitioner in a GI practice, seeing patients both in the office and in the hospital. In 2006, she was awarded a Master’s degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut. As of October 2006, Lisa has established her own nutrition practice in her hometown of Wallingford, Connecticut. With her clinical background, as a nutritionist, Lisa is able to tailor recommendations for her clients based upon their needs, whether they may just be overweight, or may have medical issues such as diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, have GI related problems, or just want to develop healthier eating habits.
For many years, Lisa has also been on a journey of self discovery and personal transformation. In 1999, while at the Omega Institute, she had the opportunity to spend time with and learn from some of today’s great Spiritual Teachers including Ram Dass, Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg and Bhante Wimala, and has taken workshops with
Pema Chodron, Wah and Deva Premal. She also lived at the Swami Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville, VA for one month and completed a ten day Vipassana retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Complementing her spiritual work has been her world travels which have taken her to such places as India, Nepal and the Himalaya Mountains, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Costa Rica, and most recently Brazil, where she spent three months at the Casa De Dom Inacio.
On May 2, 2009 Lisa took initiation into Sant Mat and will always be grateful for the guidance of her Spiritual Teacher, Sant Rajinder Singh Maharaj Ji.
Lisa believes good nutrition is the key to good health, and that nutrition is not just for the body, but for the mind and spirit as well. Her education and unique experiences have allowed her to approach nutrition from a holistic perspective which she integrates into her practice. Other services she offers include Reiki, Crystal Light Therapy, and Group Meditation and she also has a Lending Library which includes cookbooks, self help books and books on spirituality.
Listed among her professional organizations are:
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
National Lipid Association
American Society for Nutrition
Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honor Society
