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Why Choose Us

We're promoting resilience using a root cause approach.

At Kaizen Nutrition & Wellness, we are dedicated to promoting optimal health and healing through a whole-person approach that integrates both conventional and complementary therapies. Using our signature Resilience Wheel of Health, we help you build resilience by addressing the root causes of your unique health concerns. Our experienced team of practitioners works with you to create personalized wellness plans that enhance your overall vitality and treat disease naturally, while prioritizing your safety and well-being.

Through one-on-one consultations and specially designed group sessions, we empower you to regain control over your health. We understand the frustration of feeling unheard, having unresolved symptoms, and struggling with more questions than answers. We’ve been there too, and we’re here to help you overcome these challenges with a deep understanding of your journey.

You deserve a provider who is trained, licensed, and clinically equipped to get to the why behind your health concerns — not an influencer with a wellness aesthetic, but a real medical provider with the credentials and depth to back it up. Through a rare combination of expertise as a Licensed Dietitian, Doctor of Integrative and Functional Nutrition, and Health Coaching, care here goes far beyond what a single specialty can offer. We are committed to helping you find balance, healing, and hope, fostering resilience every step of the way. 

but, What is Reslience?

Resilience is the ability to withstand, recover and grow in the face of stressors and changing demands –  to heal, evolve and thrive.   Resilience also acknowledges the cost to our health when aspects of our life are out of balance. Join us and start your path to health today.

Using Our Resilience Wheel of Health

Safety & Connection

Healing and transformation begin with feeling heard, understood, and supported in all relationships. This includes your relationship with your healthcare team. Ensuring that you feel grounded in a sense of safety will support a strong vagus nerve for better well-being.

Intentional Activation

Once we feel safe and grounded, we can engage in activities of movement, proper nutrition, meaningful work, and approach life with a sense of curiosity. Disease begins when we are in a chronic fight or flight state, giving up control of our nervous system to increased inflammation, immune system dysfunction, brain fog, chronic pain, and more.

Intentional Deactivation

Choosing moments to shut down our nervous system is critical for detoxification, healing, maintaining closeness and connection, and feeling a sense of purpose in the world. A lack of rest and restore can contribute to chronic fatigue, lack of motivation and interest, loss of hope that healing can or will occur, and addictive or unhealthful behaviors.

Circular Resilience Wheel of Health diagram showing nine wellness dimensions in teal and beige segments radiating from central Safety and Connection core, labeled "Grounded in Safety" with Intentional Activation and Intentional Deactivation sides

How it all started

Meet Dr. Jill

Patient Zero

As a former educator, I am the consummate life-long learner.  When when I developed an autoimmune disease and mold illness after the birth of my second child, I dug in to get answers that the medical community couldn’t provide.

My personal health history also taught me that healing cannot be accomplished without addressing the nervous system and imbalances in all areas of health.

Thus the Resilience Wheel of Health was born, supported by decades of research from some of the most forward-thinking scholars of polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, behavior change, and physiology – for which I am forever grateful. My hope for you is that you can find healing, balance, and empowerment through our integrative, root cause approach to healing and resilience.

Dr. Jill is accepting requests for new clients in Mebane & via Telehealth

Kara Watson
Client Relations & Practice Manager

Kara will become your best friend in no time! She has extensive experience in client relations, business management, and education. She is passionate about helping clients navigate their health care journey and feel supported along the way.

 

Behind the scenes, Kara keeps KNW running smoothly — handling insurance verification, billing, and the day-to-day operations that make a private practice actually work. When you’re just getting started, she’s the one who walks you through onboarding and makes sure you feel taken care of from your very first interaction.

Colleen Milligan
Education & Programs Coordinator

Colleen will win you over with her curiosity and warmth. A biology graduate of Carleton College and RD2B, she brings real research experience to the table — including a co-authorship on published research during her time as a research technician at Duke University.

Gut health is where her heart is, especially IBS. She wants to replace the fear so many people carry around food with understanding that actually sticks, so they can feel genuinely better.

On the KNW team, she develops educational content and client resources, making integrative nutrition more accessible to a wider audience.

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Ellison Clark, MS RDN LDN

Ellison is a licensed Registered Dietitian with a strong background in endocrinology and hormones. Originally from North Carolina, Ellison is a proud Carolina Tarheel alum, and met Dr. Brown while working in community nutrition at the foodbank where she was a program coordinator for Cooking Matters at the Store grocery store tours and educational programs. Ellison completed her Masters in Nutrition from Meredith College in Raleigh.

Her early career includes clinical nutrition positions with Atrium Health before settling into private practice to focus on endocrinology and hormone health. Her continuing education training has focused on PCOS, nutrition and gut health.

Ellison sees clients in person in Wilmington, and via telehealth.

Dr. Jill Brown, DCN RDN LDN IFNCP CLT

Integrative Dietitian and Founder

Dr. Jill Brown is a licensed Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner. Originally from the Midwest, Dr. Brown completed undergraduate studies in Education at Texas Woman’s University, a Masters in Nutrition from Meredith College, and a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health.

Her early career started in Neonatal Intensive Care at both UNC and Duke Hospitals and Diabetes Self Management Program. She later took on a leadership role with one of the Feeding America food banks as Director of Nutrition, setting into clinical roles at Duke Integrative Medicine and Kaizen Nutrition & Wellness.

She has extensive training in integrative and functional nutrition as well as several complementary modalities including Clinical Aromatherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Herbal Medicine, Functional Women’s Health, Heart Math®, and Reiki Energy Healing.

Dr. Brown sees clients at her home office in Mebane, and via telehealth.