About Thérèse
Thérèse Maffetone specializes in holistic nutrition and herbalism, using whole foods to support health and wellness. Maffetone, who earned her master’s degree in Applied Clinical Nutrition from New York Chiropractic College, develops personalized advice for her clients about diet and healthy living, complete with recipes and nutritional aids. Sessions are geared to pinpoint nutrient and dietary insufficiencies while assessing and supporting healthy functioning of the body systems.
Her methods focus on long-term lifestyle changes in order to restore and maintain health. Through one-on-one sessions, Maffetone coaches her clients on how to take small steps leading to a healthier life. By combining a whole food diet, lifestyle modifications, stress reduction tools, nutritional supplementation, and herbal therapies, Maffetone creates a unique and individualized plan that empowers, improves overall health, and restores energy and vitality.
Thérèse Maffetone is available for one-on-one nutritional and wellness counseling in her Connecticut offices or via telephone and Skype. She also offers numerous group workshops and is available to speak on various health and wellness topics at your workplace, organization, or home.
Why I Do What I Do
When I was young, most children were healthy. Few children had health issues. For the most part, things like allergies, asthma, eczema, obesity, migraines, arthritis, food allergies, ADD/ADHD, autism, and diabetes were rare. Now, I see more and more children with health problems. Chronic disease, degenerative disease, obesity, autoimmunity, diabetes, cancer, behavioral disorders, and neurological disorders are on the rise. As shocking as it may sound, the youngest generation is expected to have a shorter lifespan than my own. Despite the many scientific and medical advances and discoveries in recent decades, our health and our children’s health is failing. Why? The answer is simple: We are poisoning ourselves while, at the same time, starving our bodies.
Our modern diets are full of nutritionally empty, inflammatory refined foods, loaded with toxic additives and preservatives, leading us down the road towards poor health and chronic disease. Too many people suffer from a myriad of ailments and have nowhere to turn for honest guidance, direction, and solutions. People are confused about what to eat and what to avoid, while fatigue, depression, learning and behavioral issues, infertility, chronic pain, illness, and disease are all on the rise. The era of families sitting down together every day, eating balanced meals made from whole foods, is long gone. With the frenzied pace of today’s society, very little thought or attention is paid to healthy eating.
Homemade meals have been pushed aside by quick stops for fast food on the way home from soccer practice. And sadly, most “home-cooked” meals are primarily made with heavily processed and refined ingredients. Happily, people are starting to push back against the fast-food/boxed dinner monopoly. Interest in health and wellness has exploded in recent years, which is a wonderful and long-overdue development!