IBS Dietitians Improving Patient Success.

Empower your IBS patients with evidence-based care. We help Doctors with nutrition interventions for IBS (i.e., Low FODMAP Diet), while recognizing IBS is:

  1. A Disorder of Gut-Brain Interaction
  2. Classified as Chronic Primary, Visceral Pain (see ICD-11).
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We’re in-network with most major Insurance Plans
Including: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, KY, MI , NJ, NY, RI, TX, VA, WA

CPT 97802 & 97803 – Medical Nutrition Therapy

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Medical Nutrition Therapy for IBS

  • Clinical Guidelines Best Practice Adherence for IBS Management: Consistent with clinical practice guidelines, Dietitians follow the recommended first line approach for IBS management with the Low FODMAP Diet.
  • IBS Specialization: Patients work with Dietitians trained on the Low FODMAP Diet for IBS by Monash University. 
  • Integrative IBS Care: We take care of the details of a Low FODMAP Diet with personalized care for your patients and are versed in IBS integrative medicine based practices for added patient support and improved outcomes, when necessary (see more below). 
  • IBS Patient Satisfaction: We help IBS patients increase success with managing IBS symptoms and, in turn, increase patient satisfaction.

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Coordinated, Ongoing Care

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I don't know why I didn't turn it over to Ashley sooner -- I went years letting my problem dictate my life. I'm so relieved by how well the low FODMAP diet went while working with Ashley. Now I can take trips, make morning apts and not have to stress about having accidents. I have also lost a few lbs which I needed to do anyway. I am eating better and not hungry all the time. It's a lifestyle I can have and be happy with. Thank you Ashley for helping me change my life.

Patti B.
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If you’re struggling with digestive issues, I highly recommend working with Ashley Bradshaw to gain insight into what the issues are, and amazingly effective strategies to resolve the problems and heal your gut. Her positive and encouraging demeanor, coupled with her depth of knowledge in nutrition and healing, ensures quick and effective relief. I rate Ashley’s services as Excellent!

Carol M.
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I am so happy to have found Ashley. After suffering for years with GI issues I was diagnosed with IBS. I set out to find someone to help me. The GI doctor said to take laxatives the rest of my life. I did not accept that. I found Ashley and she taught me to eat differently and I learned what foods irritated my GI tract. I now feel equipped and empowered to eat healthy and not upset my stomach. I hope others find her to get relief from IBS. I am forever grateful! And she’s such a positive person so it made it fun to go through Fodmap process. Thank you!

Jennifer R.
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Ashley provided outstanding support in helping me learn to manage and eliminate my long-lasting symptoms of gastric distress and IBS. She was incredibly knowledgeable and supportive in guiding me through the process of adopting a low FODMAP diet and then testing my sensitivity to each of the FODMAP foods. She tracked my daily diet and symptoms, suggested adjustments to the plan as needed, and coached me with knowledge that eventually helped me learn how to manage on my own. She shared tools that included dietary tracking apps, FODMAP resources, notes from our sessions together, and helped me create a long-term plan for eating healthier and living without gastric distress. Ashley is an awesome dietitian and a trusted resource.

Mark K.
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Living with belly or digestive issues can be demoralizing. It's also easy after a while to just think that it's your lot in life, and there's just really nothing you can do about the problem. I had tried the low FODMAP route before, but on my own, and although I felt pretty confident about my knowledge, it is not an easy program to navigate alone. I started working with Ashley, and with her guidance and support, managed to go through all the phases of the program and see great results. It was not easy, but Ashley was there to teach me, encourage me, guide me, and cheer me up. Her availability to answer my questions, and review my progress was amazing. Her dedication to finding alternatives when my lifestyle (I am vegan) made things difficult was commendable. Ashley is also very easy to interact with, supportive, non-judgmental and offers a perfect combination of support and motivation. I am extremely thankful to have done this program with Ashley as I finally regained peace around nutrition and digestive health.

Claire C.
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Working with Ashley was such a joy. I appreciated her sense of humor, flexibility and wealth of knowledge. Ashley helped me sort through my confusion about FODMAPs and gave me invaluable guidance about general nutrition, hydration, and meal planning.

Suzy B.

In a recent survey of members of the American College of Gastroenterology..

91% agreed – having access to a GI dietitian would help them manage their IBS patient care more effectively.

We help by ensuring your IBS patients get evidence-based care that follows best practices, including:

  • Access to the recommended first line approach for IBS management in clinical practice guidelines  with the Low FODMAP Diet.
  • Clinical guidelines recommended Dietetic-led delivery of the Low FODMAP Diet.
  • Monitoring the role of and recognizing that IBS is characterized as a disorder of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) and classified as chronic primary visceral pain (see ICD-11).
  • Patient referral back to doctors for integrative care between the RD and patient’s doctor, when needed and where appropriate, for increased patient success and satisfaction.
  • Referral of patients onto other health professionals when different treatment approaches are indicated (e.g. mind-body medicine, psychological, and/or pharmacological or supplement-based therapies).

    Want to Learn More About Our Role in Helping Patients? Read: A Low FODMAP Dietitian is Key for Success with IBS!

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    Your IBS Support Team

    Ashley Bradshaw, RDN, LD – Co-Founder & Lead Registered Dietitian
    Ashley leads IBS Nutrition Therapy services at Awakened Actions. Ashley oversees clinical practice guideline and best practice adherence, manages referring partners, insurance, and ensuring RDs have the latest tools to increase patient success and satisfaction while managing the Low FODMAP Diet. She also manages her own set of IBS patients following evidence-based practice for Integrative medicine based IBS Nutrition Therapy. 

    Kelsey Starck, RDN, LD – Integrative IBS Nutrition Therapy
    Kelsey provides Integrative medicine based Nutrition Therapy services for IBS. She is Awakened Actions primary RD focused on IBS services and patient care day-to-day. Kelsey has an extensive background working with patients virtually to develop strong relationships, provide evidence-based recommendations, and help patients find success with IBS. 

    Rebecca Forrest, BS Dietetics – Low FODMAP Diet Meal Planning
    Rebecca supports Ashley & Kelsey with ensuring patients have personalized Low FODMAP Diet meal plans. Rebecca knows just how critical it is that IBS patients can be confident in the meal plans they receive to ease the transition into and between phases of the Low FODMAP Diet. This drastically increases patient success and satisfaction making the diet easier to maintain and follow evidence-based best practices. 

    Ready for access to IBS focused dietitians to help you manage your IBS patient care more effectively?

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    IBS Integrative Care Services!

    While improved patient outcomes can be achieved with the Low FODMAP Diet alone, Awakened Actions’ offers IBS integrative care services to support patient success.  As noted above, our approach recognizes that IBS is characterized as a disorder of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) and classified as chronic, primary pain (see ICD-11).

    Thus, we offer optional integrative medicine based services to alleviate patient symptoms by focusing on the gut and the brain’s involvement in IBS to truly enhance the opportunity for well-rounded patient care. 

    Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) for IBS
    As part of Awakened Actions’ IBS integrative care services, our Dietitians may recommend combining work on the Low FODMAP Diet with PRT. This combination helps provide better patient outcomes through a deeper understanding of IBS pain, the gut-brain interaction, visceral hypersensitivity, and, ultimately, greater relief from IBS symptoms beyond the Low FODMAP Diet alone.

    Why Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)? Research continues to highlight that the gut-brain interaction is a 2-way street. The gut sends signals to the brain (pain, discomfort) and the brain sends signals to the gut (anxiety, stress). Through mind-body solutions for IBS, we can help manage this highway of bidirectional information to further alleviate symptoms. Moreover, IBS pain is categorized as chronic, primary visceral pain — PRT was designed to treat primary pain!

    Adam Bradshaw, MS Psychology — Co-Founder, Mindfulness & Pain Psychology Practitioner, PRT Certified Coach
    Adam leads efforts to help bring integrative medicine based care to Awakened Actions’ IBS patients. Using PRT – an evidence-based, mind-body medicine approach – Adam helps patients understand the latest in pain science regarding IBS and the new ICD-11 classification of chronic primary visceral pain. This helps patients to successfully overcome the pain fear cycle and manage the gut-brain interaction through a deeper understanding of the role of neurogastroenterology. Core tools from PRT help provide the skills to practice and learn how to overcome the cycle of pain and balance the role of the gut-brain interaction. 

    Want to Learn More About PRT & IBS?
    It is new, leading pain science and treatment so we understand!
    Many have still not heard of PRT when it comes to considerations of IBS Therapy.
    If you’re intrigued, but want to learn more, then please click below!

    –> Why Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and IBS?

    Let us help support your IBS patient outcomes with focused IBS care! 

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    More (Optional) Mind-Body Solutions 
    Did you know that evidence also supports the use of mind-body interventions like yoga and meditation for the treatment and reduction of IBS-based symptoms? Awakened Actions provides members with access to 300+ yoga and meditation videos on our YouTube Yoga Channel with over 35k subscribers!

    Not sure if this is the right fit for you and your patients, but want to learn more?
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    *DISCLAIMER: Our Dietitians are Monash FODMAP Trained and have completed the Monash University Online FODMAP Course and, thereby, are a part of the FODMAP Dietitians Directory and can provide FODMAP guidance and nutrition counseling. Additionally, all Dietitians are Registered Dietitians (RDs), which is a healthcare professional who has completed a program of study accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) and who have passed a national registration exam through the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). With this, they carry active licensure in various states, thus becoming Licensed Dietitian Nutritionists (LDNs) in those states, respectively. Thereby, they can provide medical nutrition therapy in those states accordingly, which is defined as nutrition care services provided for the treatment or management of a disease or medical condition. This list can be provided upon request. Our RDs do not purport to be licensed, certified, or otherwise titled outside of the state’s where they hold active licenses and any assumption thereof is not the responsibility of our RDs or Awakened Actions. In adherence with local state laws, our RDs collectively are in-network with insurance to provider telehealth care in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, KY, MA, MI , NJ, NY, RI, TX, VA, WA and are able to provide self-pay based, individualized nutrition counseling and coaching in HI, ID, IN, NH, OK, OR, PA, UT, VT, WV, WI, and WY.