Jennifer Palevo RDN, LDN

Jennifer is our Nashville native. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Middle Tennessee State University and completed her dietetic internship at Iowa State University. Jennifer chose to focus her internship experience and field work in eating disorder treatment. Crystal served as a preceptor during one of Jennifer’s ED-focused rotations and then joined Horizon full-time in 2020. Jennifer wears many hats at Horizon. She is truly a gift to us and to everyone she meets. 

Jennifer is an advocate of living a balanced lifestyle. She is passionate about bringing out the best in others and wants to help clients create bright and meaningful lives. Jennifer’s approach is through a trauma-informed lens and an individualized process. She uses behavior change strategies, therapeutic modalities and intuitive eating practices. Jennifer  seeks to always be an available resource and guide for her clients. She creates a safe space for her clients to be vulnerable for them to ultimately feel safe and confidence with food and body image. 

Treatment Center Work

In addition to our outpatient clients, Horizon Nutrition Counseling has the unique privilege to integrate their nutrition philosophy and standards of practice into mental health and addiction treatment centers. We also staff the treatment centers with our expert Horizon team to ensure all clients are getting the highest quality nutrition services. Jennifer provides 1:1 nutrition counseling and 3 weekly nutrition groups two days a week to clients in residential, PHP and IOP levels of care. This allows her to have direct transition of care to outpatient for clients as well as an deep understanding of what our Horizon clients have experienced when they have been to eating disorder treatment or needing eating disorder treatment.

ED Recovery Coaching 

Jennifer extends her client support beyond the nutrition sessions. We understand the time between sessions are the most difficult. Jennifer shows up for our clients when they may need frequent meal support, well visits at client homes to ensure food is in the home, grocery support, text/call check-ins to intervene on ED behaviors, and so much more. When Jennifer says she wants to be a resource, she absolutely means it.

Jennifer enjoys yoga, kickboxing (she happens to be an amazing kickboxing coach at HOTBOX!), painting and spending quality time with family, friends and her sweet pup, Maverick.