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May 15, 2025

Joyce Faraj-Ardura

Improving Your Communication Skills for Impactful Client Sessions

Meet Joyce Faraj-Ardura

Joyce is a nutrition counseling coach with a passion for empowering fellow dietitians and nutrition professionals to enhance their coaching and counseling skills, equipping them to better support and retain their clients while promoting lasting behavior change. With a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Mental Health, years as a tenure-track professor, and former nutrition program manager at a clinic, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work.

Driven by her belief that counseling skills are paramount to client success, she has become a sought-after mentor. She is the founder and CEO of the Nutrition Counseling Academy. She believes that a practitioner's medical nutrition therapy and nutrition knowledge are just as important as their counseling skills to support behavioral changes.

In addition to mentoring practitioners, Joyce runs her private practice, Joyceful Nutrition, where she supports clients through a culturally inclusive and weight-inclusive approach. She helps individuals build a healthier relationship with food, navigate life transitions, and create sustainable nutrition habits that align with their personal values and health goals.

Joyce lives in New Hampshire and balances her professional and entrepreneurial pursuits with her role as a dedicated mother of three.

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