About Ashley

Ashley has a passion for delicious food. She started cooking and exploring in the kitchen around age 12. Through years of cooking for friends and family, Ashley grew to love creating things in the kitchen. Currently, Ashley has 2.5 years of experience cooking for people professionally. In 2016, a coworker helped spark interest in beginning to eat in a healthier way. She began researching different protocols, diets, recipes, and began looking into education programs that took a science-based and holistic approach to food; To help better weed through the constant diet trends, and with hopes of fostering a healthier approach to food. In 2020, Ashley made the decision to continue her nutrition education through the Nutritional Therapy Association.

 

Ashley received a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner certification in August, 2022. 

 

Ashley does not diagnose, nor does she prescribe; Together, with extensive evaluation and proper assessment of your day to day eating habits, we will come together to set goals in order to manage symptoms of digestion dysregulation. We do so with focus on the following five foundations: 

• Digestion 

• Blood Sugar Regulation

• Mineral Balance 

• Fatty Acids

• Hydration

 

Dish by Desouza’s philosophy on implementing change: Change can often be a difficult thing to tackle alone. Unless we are ready to create new and lasting habits, we will not. The process of implementing big lifestyle changes, like your day to day with food, truly comes from forming new habits and sometimes a new healthy relationship surrounding food.

 

Like learning a martial art, yoga, painting or an instrument: Healthy food and lifestyle changes take time, practice, and guidance + education from someone else. Let’s work together on lasting plans for lasting changes, perspective shifts, and work together to form nutrition focused meals/menus that taste delicious + supplementation. We can also work together on goals for  living a more healthy life surrounding sleep, movement and stress management. 

 

Ashley takes a “Small, Medium, Large” approach to change. We can attempt to make all these large changes all at once, but the unfortunate truth is that approach seldom works. Life in general is to be a practice, not to be perfected; Let’s work together on making lasting changes in your wellness.