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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
  • 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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