meet the team
Amber Gourley, CEO & Registered Dietitian
Amber is our CEO and Founder. She has always had a strong passion for family, helping people, and food! After pursuing a Master’s Degree in Nutrition, Amber started working right away in a local clinic, where she noticed two things:
- Most of the other clinicians didn’t listen to their patients.
- Each patient was squeezed through the exact same protocol, which didn’t make any sense at all. (People are different!)
Amber’s commitment to help every single person who walked through the clinic door kept her up late at night researching. Where other clinicians saw a “difficult” patient, she saw major breakthroughs with simple changes to nutrition and lifestyle.
This was the beginning of her exposure to functional and integrative nutrition. Her intrigue by this approach got even stronger when she left that clinic and took a job at the VA.
At that particular VA, patients took classes like Yoga and Tai Chi which had remarkable effects on chronic pain and severe depression.
Taking note of what did and did not work from both experiences, Amber started her own online practice “The Disobedient Dietitian.” She helped thousands of people decrease their symptoms from anxiety, depression, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, lack of energy and much more. Through her extensive nutritional expertise, her attitude of fierce compassion, and her understanding of each person as unique, Amber helps her clients discover their own path to wellness.
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Danielle Dahlin, Registered Dietitian & Women’s Health & Digestive Specialist
Danielle Dhalin is a graduate from the masters of clinical nutrition program at ETSU. A lifelong interest in science coupled with a passion for nutrition led her to ETSU to complete her Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and become a Registered Dietitian.
Her personal mission is to help her clients practice self-compassion and self-kindness while they explore and repair their relationships with food. She helps clients identify realistic and sustainable actions to help them reach their nutrition and health goals through evidence-based and goal-oriented guidance.
Danielle’s nutrition approach is grounded in compassion and is tailored to each individual’s goals, values, lifestyle, and unique nutritional needs. She is also passionate about helping women find peace with food and believes that eating should be pleasurable and strives to help her clients release the anxiety, shame, and guilt that often surrounds eating and often associate it with food and eating to one of satisfaction, connection, and enjoyment. Danielle’s specialties include diabetes, kidney disease, GI disorders and weight loss.
When she’s not working with clients at Heal U she and her husband are enjoying the views of beautiful East TN, loving on their four fur babies (two Great Pyrenees and two cats). In addition Danielle enjoys moving her body and loves a wide variety of exercises such as yoga, weight training, running, pilates, and cardio.
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Alfred Gourley, Business & Strategic Partnerships Manager
Al is Amber’s husband! He’s helped turn her “Disobedient Dietitian” virtual business into a global phenomenon that’s helped thousands of people recover their health, vitality and zest for life.
Al has a Masters in Public Health and spent over 20 years in Environmental Safety & Leadership. When Amber got a Coaching Certification, Al did too!
His inspiration for Heal U’s mission is partly due to his own struggle with heartburn medication for 20 years. Before Al met Amber, he’s been misdiagnosed with GERD for 20 years. His doctors put him on heartburn medication and kept filling the prescription year after year telling him “That’s as good as it’s going to get for you!”
Amber helped him figure out the root cause of what actually turned out to be a rare disease called eosinophilic esophagitis for which the doctors told him don’t bother finding the trigger, you’ll never be able to figure it out! Together Amber and Al traced his symptoms back to his many years of work at a flour plant! Together they found a way back to wellness that worked for him, and today he feels WAY better and is no longer at the mercy of his meds.
Al completed an Ironman with Amber and is a skillful Martial Artist. He understands the body mind connection, and what our bodies are truly capable of. Amber says he’s a fantastic husband, a great father to his son and daughter, and their two kitties and puppy!
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