Our Education & Credentials

All practitioners at Root Healing have a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition and are Certified Nutrition Specialists. We have additional training in biochemistry, medical nutrition therapy, health coaching, food relationship coaching, nutrition throughout the lifecycle, immunology, and gut microbiome.

Through the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS), the CNS credential is aligned with the standards of the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM). IFM is rooted in a whole body approach and is approved by BCNS to provide NPCE (Nutrition Professional Continuing Education) credits. This structure helps ensure that this functional nutrition practice is grounded in high professional integrity, current scientific evidence, and a obtains strong standard of clinical competence.

Certified Nutrition Specialist

  • Must have a minimum of a masters degree in a nutrition related field.

  • Complete an ANA approved experience of at least 1000 clinical hours under a licensed professional.

  • Pass the CNS exam.

  • Obtain a state practioner number.

  • Maintain state license by completing 75 continuing education credits every 5 years.

Registered Dietitian

  • Must have a bachelors degree. In 2024, this rule changed to a minimum of a masters degree, in any field.

  • Compete an ACEND dietitic approved internship of 1200 hours under a licensed professional.

  • Pass the CDR exam.

  • Obtain a state license.

  • Maintain state license by completing 75 continuing education credits every 5 years.

Versus

Meet Isabella, MS, CNS

Hi, I'm Isabella Meneses-Furuseth, a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) and the founder of Root Healing. I started this practice because I believe women deserve more than a prescription, a “your labs are normal,” or a “you’ll just have to live with it.” If you’ve heard any of those while your body kept telling you otherwise, you’re in the right place.

My story:

I didn't come to this work by accident. For most of my life, I lived with heavy, nine-day periods every twenty days, IBS-C since childhood, constant stomach pain and bloating, and fatigue so severe I could barely function. I saw doctor after doctor with the same complaints and always got the same answer: birth control and "your labs are normal." In college, I finally got a diagnosis — fibromyalgia — along with the same message in a different form: “this is just something you'll have to live with.”

I wasn’t willing to accept that. I turned to food and started studying how nutrition shapes our hormones, our gut, our energy, and nearly every system in the body. That decision changed the direction of my life.

Ten years later, I got the full picture: Endometriosis, adenomyosis, and PCOS. All those years, I was told nothing was wrong, and the whole time there were real things happening… but no one was looking for them. Today I live well with these conditions, and I do it on my own terms!

I built this practice so you don’t have to wait a decade for answers. You can have a good quality of life, even with a complex and chronic conditions, and I want to help you get there much faster than I did.

My approach blends clinical nutrition therapy with food relationship coaching and realistic, livable changes — you won’t get a generic meal plan or a list of foods to cut. You’ll get a strategy built around your body and your life, designed to work alongside your medical team. True healing isn’t only about what’s on your plate. It’s about understanding your body, your history, and your relationship with food, all at once. That relationship is the foundation everything else is built on.

Specialities: Endometriosis and adenomyosis · PCOS · Autoimmune and thyroid conditions · Menstrual cycle pain and irregularity · Perimenopause and menopause · IBS and chronic GI issues · Fatty liver.

Meet Mackenzie, MS, CNS

Mackenzie Prime is a Certified Nutrition Specialist at Root Healing focused on immune health, autoimmune disease, and endocrine function. She is happiest with the complicated cases: more than one diagnosis, symptoms that overlap, and pieces that were never quite connected.

Chronic inflammation and autoimmune conditions entered her life very early on. Living with type 1 diabetes taught her to think in systems: how immune activity, blood sugar, stress, sleep, and digestion all feed into one another. Through personalized nutrition and lifestyle changes, she has improved her own well-being, and she is passionate about helping others with chronic health conditions explore supportive strategies to do the same.

She is fascinated by why the immune system behaves the way it does: why symptoms flare when they do, why one autoimmune condition so often shows up alongside another, and which changes are worth making first. Her goal is to help clients build sustainable wellness from the inside out.

Outside of practice, you’ll find Mackenzie baking sourdough, horseback riding, doing Pilates, or on a trail with her dog and cat!

Specialties: Autoimmune conditions · Thyroid and endocrine health · Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) · Chronic and recurrent infections · Post-viral fatigue · Chronic GI issues · Complex, overlapping conditions