Experience

Aviva (she/her) has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, parents and families. In addition to her work at Carmanah, Aviva works as a dietitian for the Fraser Health Eating Disorders program and in an outpatient child and youth eating disorder program. Before becoming a dietitian she worked in nutrition research specializing in iron deficiency and anemia. 

Aviva is empathetic, calm, caring, non-judgemental and uses a Health at Every Size informed approach. She is passionate about helping clients find a healthy relationship with food and their bodies and believes in collaborating with clients to help them achieve their goals.

Training

Aviva Rappaport, MSc, RD is a registered dietitian with the College of Dietitians of British Columbia. She completed her undergraduate and master's degrees with honours distinction at the University of British Columbia and completed her dietetic training at McGill University. 

Interests

Aviva enjoys spending time outside, trail running, traveling locally and globally and trying new recipes.

Services

Aviva provides nutrition counselling to adults and youth. She specializes in disordered eating and eating disorders (AN, BN, ARFID, BED, OSFED), intuitive eating, iron deficiency and anemia, plant-based nutrition, meal planning and balanced eating, and mental health nutrition.

Aviva meets clients where they are and utilizes evidence-based nutrition information to individualize nutrition recommendations.