Beverly Calderon, MS, RDN, CDCES,NBC-HWC, Certified Focusing Professional
I love food and working with people to find personally meaningful change related to their nutrition and food-related concerns. As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and Certified Focusing Professional, my professional energy is concentrated now on one-to-one virtual sessions and online programs.
As someone with more than their fair share of cooking mishaps, I find this quote humorously true and a helpful analogy when applied to nutrition concerns. “If you want to smell the soup, you don’t stick your head in it.” (Eugene Gendlin)As someone with more than their fair share of cooking mishaps I find this quote humorously true, and a useful analogy when applied to nutrition concerns. “If you want to smell the soup, you don’t stick your head in it.” (Eugene Gendlin)
I find the Focusing process to be an essential ingredient when addressing any concern. As a gentle yet dynamic process, it supports transforming what had seemed unchangeable into something that can change. Since 2015 my efforts to bring Focusing to dietitians and wellness professionals have included facilitating workshops and conference presentations, and collaborating on poster sessions and training modules.
In 2016 I became a Certified Focusing Professional and Trainer through The International Focusing Institute. This was after a two-year training program and as meaningful as my twenty-plus years of nutrition and wellness achievements. In my view, Focusing is a genuinely person-centered approach that can support all other nutrition counseling, coaching, and behavior change methods. 
My dietetic career began with community nutrition, in-patient/outpatient clinical care, a diabetes research program, and adjunct faculty teaching undergraduate nutrition science. In 2022, prior to private practice, I completed a rewarding twenty-plus year of federal service, working primarily in public health. My public health career included nutrition counseling and education, community-based health promotion, technical support on healthcare contracts, and grants collaboration and oversight.
I’m grateful for many years of learning from clients, community members, and amazing mentors. It was heartwarming to hear from clients and community members over the years that efforts had a positive impact. I consider myself to be someone who is family-oriented, embracing person-centered ways, and living in southern California in the U.S.
This quote always comes to mind when reflecting on my years in public health and amazing people working to restore balance with community-owned wellness efforts.
“As long as we feel there is one person greater, one system better, and one organization responsible for our individual health and well-being, we are taking away from ourselves our own spiritual creative power. In doing so, we praise or blame those external forces not realizing that the control issue is our own internal empowerment process to regain our own destiny”. Gene Thin Elk
