Whitney Hasenkopf Holistic Nutrition Therapist, Portland

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
My approach to improving health focuses on accommodating biochemical individuality through the lens of holistic nutrition. Your heath-related goals, dietary preferences, lifestyle, and clinical diagnoses are taken into careful consideration to help you achieve optimal wellness.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
My passion for holistic wellness began after recovering from a struggle with eating disorders and poor health throughout adolescence. Self-educating and later academic study of the healing power of food revealed my calling to help others empower themselves to develop nourishing lifestyle habits.

What do you love most about your job?
I love the connection that is established when I meet with clients. There is an instant sense of love and protection that I have for them, because they have called on me to walk with them on their journey to optimal health. It's an honor.

What is the best reaction you've ever gotten from a customer?
I worked with a client last year who had crippling anxiety. She would only leave her home to go to work and rarely visited friends or family. After one consultation with me, she called a week later just to tell me how great she felt and that she voluntarily left her house on her day off to "go-out".