MEET SILVINA - Silvina Cox RDN

SILVINA COX MPH, RDN

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Hi, I’m Silvina, welcome! As a Registered Dietitian, Nutritionist, I am ready to support you on your journey to finding peace and balance with food and eating. With a whole person, non – diet, intuitive and mindful eating approach, I help you create sustainable practices that lead to true health, wellbeing and lasting peace with food and your body!

For over 25 years, I’ve used preventive and integrative nutrition with a non-diet, weight inclusive stance to help clients with a wide range of weight and health challenges. Very early on, I learned that providing weight loss diets and telling people what to eat were not a solution. Actually, this process perpetuated the problems my clients were trying to resolve. Not only did diets fail over time, they were a soul sucking experience at best. At worst, they damaged the body, mind, and spirit. I saw this in my clients’ lives and in my own.

As I continued using evidenced based, non-diet practices, strong research continued to emerge. I found clients were much more empowered and satisfied with our work together. My work has evolved with the research and is now informed by Health at Every Size (HAES)® and is guided by intuitive, somatic and mindfulness-based eating principles. This approach strongly resonates with clients and frees them to develop a way of eating and caring for their health in a truly authentic way!

MY MISSION IS TO GUIDE AND SUPPORT CLIENTS:

It is my privilege to walk beside you to help you:

Develop a healthy relationship with food and your body

Reliably hear and respond to your hunger and fullness cues

Find your natural, healthy weight with ease

Eat for nourishment and enjoyment

Not waste another day judging your food or body

Feel confident in your food decisions

Choose foods that support your body, mind and wellbeing

End the all or nothing eating/dieting and weight cycling chaos

Befriend your body at last!

If you’re open to a more peaceful and practical approach to your weight and health concerns, let’s talk. I offer a free 15-minute consultation.

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More About Silvina'a Work Experience...

My purpose has always been to guide and support people on the path to their wellbeing. In our work together, my clients learn how nutrition works hand in hand with the body and mind, how to develop behaviors and eating patterns that help their health flourish, and how to finally mend their relationship with food and their body.

My experience includes clinical and outpatient appointments at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Robles Regional Medical Center, Community Memorial Hospital and St. John's Regional Medical Center.

Adjunct professor and teaching appointments at Pepperdine University, California State University Northridge.

Lastly, I was a nutrition consultant for the renowned County of Ventura Employee Wellness program. For over two decades, I did one on one coaching, taught many classes, crafted programs, and, developed recipes and taught diabetes cooking classes.

My vast experience and training come together in my private practice where I see clients with various weight, health, body image concerns as well as individuals and families who struggle with food and eating and or eating disorders.

I’ve had the privilege of working with wonderful people in many settings,and from all walks of life. I am bilingual and welcome Spanish speaking and all folks.

I am passionate about my family (husband and 3 boys), and my work. I love camping, food and cooking, hiking, yoga, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and protecting mother earth.

It would be my privilege to walk beside you as you rediscover your inner wisdom and make peace with food and your body at last!

CREDENTIALS

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Dietetics and Food Administration — California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Masters in Public Health (MPH) — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Clinical Internship — West Los Angeles VA Medical Center

ADDITIONAL SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Big Hearted Embodiment Training for Providers

International Association Disordered Eating Professionals (IADEP) — core course curriculum

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-Eat)

Child & Adolescent Weight Management Certification Training (AND-CDR)

Intuitive Eating Professional Training

Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP)

Totally Coached™ Intrinsic Coaching

Westlake Culinary Institute, Professional Cooking Series

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The Center for Mindful Eating

EDRDPro

International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD)

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Practice Groups:

Behavioral Health Nutrition
Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine
Women's Health
Pediatric Nutrition

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COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD

5 Strategies to Cultivate Intuitive & Mindful Eating

WHAT MY CLIENTS ARE SAYING:

Professional, Oxnard, CA

I have been seeing Silvina for many years for different issues I have struggled with. Weight has always been an issue for me, even after having Gastric Bypass surgery 18 years ago. Silvina introduced me to Intuitive Eating and it changed my life and my relationship with food. I no longer diet or obsess about food. I am at a lower weight today than I even was after my surgery and feel so much healthier.

She also helped me learn ways to reduce my stress level and better deal with my situation. Silvina is thoughtful, caring and kind and an extremely knowledgeable, professional.

I am forever grateful to Silvina!

Wife and Mother, Agoura Hills, CA

Working with Silvina has changed my life. In my mid-forties and having dieted since age twelve, I was searching for a different approach to help me with my weight concerns. Fortunately, I was drawn to Silvina and her use of the method “Intuitive Eating.” Silvina has since helped me see how dieting and restricting food intake has led to an over-focus on food and caused weight gain, rather than weight loss. She has helped me regulate my eating, learn new behaviors to identify “diet mentality,” and refocus my weight concerns onto well-being. This approach has been extremely effective for me and I attribute my success to Silvina. She is compassionate, understanding, and above all, amazingly adept at healing long-held beliefs related to eating and weight. Silvina’s non-judgmental attitude creates a safe environment to explore weight concerns and disordered eating, and I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Patricia, Oxnard, CA

Silvina is instrumental in helping me with my blood sugar control in a caring, compassionate, and non-judgmental way. She has taught me to trust my instincts and not to make decisions based on fear. She has been the key to my success in my health.

Husband and Retired, Oxnard, CA

For two years I had abdominal pain. I was sent to different medical specialists and had numerous tests. The doctors could not diagnose my problem. My wife suggested I see Silvina. It’s the best thing I did! Silvina suggested I see my doctor and request a specific test. The doctor was then able to diagnose my problem and prescribed short term medication. Thank you, Silvina!