Shannon Berry

• Created and run own business
• Conduct thorough evaluations of clients nutritional needs through client interviews, analysis of food and mood journals, nutritional assessment questionnaires and clinical assessment tools.
• Make bio-individual recommendations for dietary changes, lifestyle choices and nutritional supplementation
• Provide ongoing follow up support and reassessments as needed
• Conduct group zoom and/or in-person 5 week sugar detox and foundational nutritional principles classes
• Consistently show improvements in patient health outcomes through functional nutrition, physical therapy, and lifestyle interventions for auto-immune and other chronic diseases
• Educate clients about how to take responsibility for ongoing management of their conditions so they feel empowered by their actions.
• Actively involved with Nutritional Therapy Association and online forums with other FNTPs
• Provide functional nutrition presentations to local gyms in the Greater Portland area

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY SUPPORT EXPERIENCE

2011 – 2019 (and ongoing evolution)

Period of intensive volunteering, completion of Functional Nutrition training, and continued education while raising a family.

Deepened and applied strengths in emotional intelligence, communication, and supportive guidance through real-life application.

• Provided ongoing informal coaching and support to individuals navigating health challenges, family dynamics, and life transitions
• Developed skills in active listening, empathy, and helping others reframe difficult situations into more constructive perspectives
• Supported friends and community members through complex emotional and health-related experiences, including serious illness and relationship challenges
• Cultivated a communication style centered on trust, non-judgment, and meeting individuals where they are
• Continued professional development through coursework, certifications, and self-study in functional nutrition, physical therapy and holistic health

• Provided temporary on call assistance to inpatient physical therapy unit in Hospital
• Evaluate and implement treatment plans/goal for acute care patients with a range of issues including neurological, orthopedic, oncology, internal medicine, ICU and surgical patients
• Record prognosis, treatment, response and progress for patients
• Identify and document goals, anticipated progress and plans for reevaluation

• Provided evaluation, treatment and discharge planning for acute care, ICU, CCU orthopedic, cardiac, oncology, neurology and general med/sur, skilled nursing facility and intensive care burn(ICB) patients
• Attended weekly SNF and ICB patient care rounds and ICB burn clinics
• Arranged and provided educational inservices to therapists, nurses and nursing students
• Assisted with establishment of the SFMH employee gym, orientation of new members and provided ongoing fitness educational classes
• Served as an APTA accredited clinical instructor to PT students on 6-12 week internships