Jan Katzen, AMI, CFP, CN
Nutritional Therapist & Educator
Jan began working at Melmed Center in 2017 and works with children, adolescents, and adults to identify and improve eating habits that may negatively impact physical and mental well-being. Services begin with a complete health and nutritional history. Individualized meal plans for nutritional adequacy are made along with interventions for carbohydrate addiction, restrictive/ disordered or over-eating, anxiety, pica, OCD, ODD, meltdowns, and more. Helpful, easy recipes are provided for positive sustainable results. Chewing therapy is also taught. Optimizing nutrition can improve the severity of co-occurring symptoms seen in ADHD, autism, developmental delays, sleep disturbances and learning difficulties.
Education
Experience or Professional Achievements
Professional Affiliations
Subspecialties
Favorite Activities
When Jan is not in the office, you can find her writing children’s books, playing original compositions on the piano (along with a little Beethoven), and spending time in the kitchen. She is passionate about dancing, especially Zumba. She loves city walking, hiking, watching movies, streaming TV series, and reading motivational books.
Education
- Certified AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) Montessori Educator
- 5-year internship and Nutritional Certification by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, London Metropolitan University
Experience or Professional Achievements
- Interned with Nim Barnes, founder of Foresight Preconceptual Care, Bognor Regis, England
- Former Association Montessori Internationale Educator
- The Declaration of Nutrition, Health and Intelligence for the Child-to-be, Nutrition and Health Journal, 2007
Professional Affiliations
- Jan has served on advisory boards of The McCarrison Society, The Mother and Child Foundation (UK), The Montessori Education for Autism Foundation (UK), and ePap nutritionals, a ready-to-eat, nutrient replete cereal for food insecure populations (South Africa).
Subspecialties
- Early intervention to support nutritional adequacy for growth and development
- Disordered and under/overeating
- Prader-Willi syndrome
Favorite Activities
When Jan is not in the office, you can find her writing children’s books, playing original compositions on the piano (along with a little Beethoven), and spending time in the kitchen. She is passionate about dancing, especially Zumba. She loves city walking, hiking, watching movies, streaming TV series, and reading motivational books.
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