"Healthy eating is a form of self-respect, not self-punishment."
Tzippi Bamberger
Registered Dietitian

Tzippi is a registered dietitian with a unique, emotionally grounded approach to nutrition and health. Growing up with a father who is a psychotherapist specializing in childhood trauma and emotion-focused therapy, she developed an early understanding of the deep connection between emotions and behavior. Combined with her academic training in dietetics, this has shaped her core belief: all eating is, at its root, emotional.

Tzippi’s professional experience includes working as a private dietitian, as well as on a bariatric ward in a Belgian hospital and in a food science laboratory, giving her both clinical and scientific perspectives on nutrition. Alongside this, she has extensive experience teaching, coaching young people, leading large teams, and working as a personal trainer—strengthening her ability to connect with, motivate, and support individuals in both physical and emotional aspects of health.

Tzippi has developed her own dieiting method that goes beyond food itself, focusing on the emotional patterns and underlying beliefs individuals hold about their bodies and weight. Both research and personal experience have shown that mainstream diets are often ineffective at maintaining long-term weight loss. Rather than relying on restriction or constant self-denial, her method addresses the deeper desire to lose weight and the negative beliefs that disrupt that goal. By fostering self-awareness and working through these internal barriers, she helps individuals build a healthier, more sustainable relationship with food and themselves, finally giving them the results they dreamed of.

Fluent in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Dutch, and conversational in French, she works comfortably across cultures and communities.

 

Tzippi is a registered dietitian with a unique, emotionally grounded approach to nutrition and health. Growing up with a father who is a psychotherapist specializing in childhood trauma and emotion-focused therapy, she developed an early understanding of the deep connection between emotions and behavior. Combined with her academic training in dietetics, this has shaped her core belief: all eating is, at its root, emotional.

Tzippi’s professional experience includes working as a private dietitian, as well as on a bariatric ward in a Belgian hospital and in a food science laboratory, giving her both clinical and scientific perspectives on nutrition. Alongside this, she has extensive experience teaching, coaching young people, leading large teams, and working as a personal trainer—strengthening her ability to connect with, motivate, and support individuals in both physical and emotional aspects of health.

 

Tzippi has developed her own dieiting method that goes beyond food itself, focusing on the emotional patterns and underlying beliefs individuals hold about their bodies and weight. Both research and personal experience have shown that mainstream diets are often ineffective at maintaining long-term weight loss. Rather than relying on restriction or constant self-denial, her method addresses the deeper desire to lose weight and the negative beliefs that disrupt that goal. By fostering self-awareness and working through these internal barriers, she helps individuals build a healthier, more sustainable relationship with food and themselves, finally giving them the results they dreamed of.

Fluent in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Dutch, and conversational in French, she works comfortably across cultures and communities.

 

ABOUT Tzippi

Specialties

Body image & self-beliefs

Emotional Eating and Psychology of Nutrition

Sustainable Weight Loss

Certification & Training


• Bachelors in Applied Human Nutrition, Minor in Child Studies (University of Guelph, 1986) • Bachelors of Education (University of Toronto, 1991) • Masters in Clinical Sociology (University of North West Texas, 2006) • The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim (2006-2008) • Internal Family Systems • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy • Gottman Method Couples’s Therapy (Levels1-3) • EMDR (Levels 1 & 2 for Adults) • EMDR (Levels 1 & 2 for Children) • Trauma Recovery • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Levels 1 & 2) • Narrative Therapy • Family Systems Therapy • Schema Therapy • Postpartum Treatment • Conflict Resolution • Sexual Dysfunctions in Couples