David is passionate about helping individuals build a joyful relationship with food to benefit their physical and mental health. He believes that food can nourish the body, mind, and soul; and that all foods can fit into a healthful eating pattern. David considers both the physiological and psychological aspects of food and nutrition to create a care plan tailored to your specific health goals, food preferences, social environment, and cultural beliefs. Additionally, he creates a safe and welcoming environment to celebrate the diversity of all body shapes and sizes and believes that weight is only one piece of a much larger picture of overall health. David utilizes skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI), Intuitive Eating (IE), Health at Every Size (HAES), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), to create simple and sustainable nutrition habits to improve mood, energy, and concentration as well as find freedom from yo-yo dieting and fear of food. Individualized nutrition care is at the forefront of David’s approach of helping to create healthful nutrition habits for life.

• Adolescent & Teenage Nutrition
• Ageusia & Dysgeusia  
• Alcohol Use
• Appetite, Hunger, & Fullness Cues
• Childhood Feeding Practices
• Chronic Disease Prevention
• Culinary Education 
• Eating Disorder (Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder – ARFID, Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder – UFED) 
• Food Neophobia 
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Health at Every Size (HAES)
• Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities 
• Intuitive Eating (IE)
• LGBTQ+
• Low Energy Availability 
• Meal Planning & Preparation 
• Sports Nutrition
• Stress Eating
• Weight-Neutral Counseling

Integrative approach (CBT, DBT, Health at Every Size, Humanistic Approaches, Intuitive Eating, Motivational Interviewing)

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David Rihn is a Registered Dietitian with experience in individual and group nutrition education and counseling for adults, teens, children, and athletes. His specialties in eating disorders, sports nutrition, lifestyle, and behavior change stem from both lived and practical experience in working with a variety of clients. Over the past 3 years, David has provided compassionate care and leadership to his clients in acute-care, outpatient, and community settings. David works to learn the unique needs of the population he serves to build creative, yet practical solutions to help everyone achieve their health and wellness goals. 

David received his Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences and completed his 1,200-hour Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. He then completed his Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Metabolism from Boston University School of Medicine in January 2021.

Before joining PsychServes, David worked as a research dietitian studying childhood food preferences in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as a nutrition counselor helping clients who sought cessation from smoking and disordered eating. David has also volunteered as a culinary instructor and food safety educator for individuals experiencing homelessness and HIV-positive individuals.  

Making sound nutrition habits easy to understand and implement in the lives of others is what fuels David to provide compassionate care for the people he serves.