Kelly Greenway
FNTP, MRHP, BCHN®
Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner specializing in complex gut health, especially the cases that haven't responded to the usual advice.
My approach to functional nutrition was born out of necessity. Like many of my clients, I spent years navigating a medical system that told me my labs were "fine" while I felt anything but.
The bloating was bad enough that strangers asked if I was pregnant. It wasn't just uncomfortable — it felt heavy, like I was carrying something that didn't belong there, and no one could tell me why.
The fatigue was a different kind of hard. There were stretches where I could not hold a conversation without feeling like I was going to pass out. Not tired. Not low energy. Gone. I would be mid-sentence and feel the ground shift under me.
And then there was the hypoglycemia — blood sugar crashes that I didn't recognize as blood sugar at first. I recognized them as panic attacks. My heart would race, I'd feel a wave of dread I couldn't explain, and I'd spend hours trying to recover from something that, it turned out, had a physiological cause and a straightforward fix. I just needed someone to find it.
That's when I started learning what functional nutrition could actually do. Standard lab ranges are built to identify disease — not to find where your physiology is quietly struggling. Functional nutrition works in the gap between "your results are normal" and "you feel like yourself again."
I got my answers. I learned to read the patterns. And I built a practice around helping other people do the same.
Credentials & Approach
I am a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner through the Nutritional Therapy Association and a Master Restorative Health Practitioner through the Institute of Restorative Health, with additional board certification in holistic nutrition (BCHN®). I also hold academic degrees and chose to pursue advanced functional nutrition training rather than the conventional dietetics path.
My education is built for the kind of complex, multi-layered cases that often don't resolve with standard approaches. The FNTP training emphasizes bio-individual nutrition, nutrient-dense food as foundational medicine, and the body's innate capacity to function and repair when given the right conditions. The Master Restorative Health Practitioner training goes further — it is an advanced clinical program focused on gastrointestinal healing, nutritional blood chemistry, hormone dynamics, and systematic clinical reasoning for stubborn, multi-system cases. It uses a rigorous Learn–Practice–Master model with significant live instruction, case work, and mentoring.
This combination gives me a different lens than traditional dietetics. Where conventional nutrition training is often oriented toward medical nutrition therapy for diagnosed conditions within healthcare systems, my training is oriented toward investigative, systems-based work with people whose symptoms persist even when standard labs look “normal.” It prioritizes pattern recognition, foundational imbalances (especially gut, minerals, nervous system, and metabolic terrain), and highly personalized protocols that evolve based on how each person actually responds.
I am not a physician or a registered dietitian, and I do not diagnose or treat disease. My role is to take a detailed history, selectively use functional testing when it adds useful information, and provide practical, adaptive nutrition and lifestyle support. I frequently work alongside a client's medical team and am happy to share a summary with a physician when requested.
The people I work best with have usually already tried a lot. They are looking for someone who will sit with the full complexity of their story, ask better questions, and build a plan that is specific to them rather than generic.
Board Certifications & Advanced Clinical Credentials
BCHN®
Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition
National Association of Nutrition Professionals
MRHP
Master Restorative Health Practitioner
Institute of Restorative Health
"When the body is supported and the nervous system feels safe, healing becomes less about restriction and more about restoration."
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