Nutrition

Holistic nutrition combines evidence-based functional nutrition training with spirituality, self-compassion and high-performance living. It’s a broader perspective than dieting and eating well. We look at what foods best support you, focus on increasing your energy, and improving your relationships with food, your self and others.

Our goal is for you to feel better, eat healthier, simplify the process, and free up your life so you can live as your highest self. We do this one baby step at a time. You’ll get a guide/coach/cheerleader/mentor to navigate and support you through the many struggles that come with making changes to improve your health.

Nutrition Foods

Services Offered:

  • Functional Nutrition + High Performance Health Coaching Programs

  • Personalized Nutrition Coaching 1:1, or Groups/Teams/Companies/Corporations

  • Athlete and sport-specific nutrition coaching

  • Food Sensitivity Testing (to learn what foods affect your immune system & create inflammation)

  • Functional Laboratory Testing (Food Inflammation, Hormones + Cortisol, Organic acids, DNA, Stool, Comprehensive High-Performance Health Report)

  • Nutrition Fundamentals Program- an Online self-paced course w/ weekly coaching videos

  • FREE 15-20 minute Strategy Call for all potential clients, schedule HERE.

Beneficial for:

  • Adults & Teens & Elementary-aged kids (Families welcomed)

  • Athletes

  • Sports Teams & Fitness Communities

  • Auto-immune conditions

  • GI issues, Gut imbalances

  • Food Sensitivities &/or Allergies

  • Companies & Corporations focused on holistic health support

  • Anyone interested in increasing their overall performance in life and in their health

Meet Our Provider

Emily Morris

DR. EMILY MORRIS, ND, MSAOM

Emily Morris, ND, MSAOM is a naturopathic physician at VWS. Dr. Morris focuses on patient-centered care with a background in nutrition, Naturopathic Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was born and raised in Ohio and always wanted to be a part of the healthcare field. She discovered Naturopathic Medicine through her step-mom’s cancer journey while in high school. She was inspired by her Naturopathic Doctor’s holistic approach to medicine and decided this was her life’s calling. After graduating from The Ohio State University with a BS in Nutrition Sciences and a minor in Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellness, she moved across the country to pursue her Naturopathic Medicine degree at Bastyr University. Due to her experience working with an Oriental Medicine Doctor and multiple acupuncturists in college, she pursued a dual degree with a Master in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Throughout medical school, she was shaped into a physician and learned how to heal her own ailments with the help of holistic practices. Dr. Morris understands how devastating health issues can be and can related especially to those who have experienced the loss of loved-ones from terminal illnesses. With her background, Dr. Morris is a strong ally for a patient’s health journey. She will work together with her patients to find their barriers to healing, and discover personalized treatment plans that work with their resources, values, and beliefs.

Dr. Morris has clinical interests in gastroenterology, women’s health, dermatology, and mental health conditions. With 5 years of camp counseling experience, she has also developed a clinical interest in working with teens and young adults. She provides integrative primary care and offers Western and Eastern healing modalities in addition to conventional diagnosis and treatment options. She loves herbalism, mind-body medicine, energetic medicine, nature-cure philosophy, and nutrition. Dr. Morris looks forward to meeting you!

DR. LISA BRYANT, ND, Medical Director

Dr. Lisa Bryant, a Licensed Naturopathic Physician, provides an extensive list of services including acute care for common ailments, chronic disease treatment and management, screening and functional lab work, hormone testing and more. She believes that every person deserves to be well, and helps her patients achieve this by using a combination of biomedical tools and traditional naturopathic treatments.

Dr. Lisa’s model is fully integrative, combining the best of naturopathic and conventional medicine, including herbal medicine, dietary counseling, exercise plans, supplements and pharmaceuticals when necessary. She is a general family medicine practitioner and performs the duties of a primary care provider. She treats every patient with sincerity and respect, and loves helping her patients achieve a higher level of health.

Dr. Bryant completed her residency in naturopathic family medicine at National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Her clinical education included a six-month rotation in cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine and extensive experience in naturopathic primary care. Before her formal education at NCNM, Dr. Bryant attained a bachelor’s degree in Biocultural Anthropology from Western Washington University, and also studied traditional medicine in Dehra Dun, India.

Outside of work Dr. Bryant is usually found playing with her 2 kids, biking around her neighborhood, and hiking in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. She is a Vancouver, Washington native.

Dr. Bryant specializes in chronic illness, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, hormone imbalance, blood sugar dysregulation, disrupted sleep and general family medicine.