Our Team
Kayla Jessop
Kayla Jessop (she/her), RDN, CDN, CEDS-C, is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, approved supervisor and RO DBT Scholar. She owns a group practice of dietitians in Utah who offer individual nutrition therapy for folks with eating disorders and beyond. Through her practice she also offers RO DBT skills class for adults, adolescents, and clinicians; and group and individual supervision.
She was introduced to RO DBT in New York City while she was the lead dietitian at BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center. She co-facilitated NYC’s first RO DBT skills class with Maggie Ritnour, LMHC, LCAT, ATR-BC, RYT, CEDS. Kayla quickly began integrating this new evidence-based treatment into her individual sessions and noticed her clients move through the recovery journey at a faster pace. She is now ready to teach other dietitians how to do the same.
Kayla is an expert on Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and improving people's relationship with food. She is an Anti-Diet registered dietitian who has specialized in helping individuals of all ages regain peace with food and body.
Outside of her passions for recovery, she loves to spend time outdoors with her family or relax on the couch with a good book or TV show. Kayla lives in Ogden, UT, with her husband, Cody; daughters Akari and Rhys; and dog, Mochi.
For all services please visit Kayla Jessop Nutrition.
Maggie Ritnour
Maggie Ritnour, LMHC, LCAT, ATR-BC, RYT, CEDS, grew up in the snowy region of upstate New York playing with imaginary friends and chasing the dream of becoming her older sister, the dancer. She is a firm believer in the magic of love and connection.
She has experienced the therapeutic power of art and feels moved to educate others about art as an aid to further self-awareness, practice effective communication, promote confidence, and nurture transformation.
She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She obtained her masters of psychology from Antioch University Seattle in 2009. She has experience using art as therapy in work with children, adolescents, and adults in hospital settings since 2000. Maggie is a humanistic therapist and an RO DBT scholar who approaches her clients using a multi-cultural framework and trauma-informed lens. She is a Health At Every Size advocate.
Maggie is also a certified Irish dance teacher and registered yoga instructor; she loves to teach and dance as much as possible. She incorporates her knowledge of body movement with her therapeutic understanding of people. Maggie is passionate about using art and mindful body awareness in her work and life.
Dr. J. Nicole Little
Nicole Little, PhD, is a registered clinical counsellor in British Columbia (#7412, B.C.A.C.C.). She is a senior RO DBT trainer and supervisor and regular RO DBT blog contributor and is the author of a forthcoming RO DBT workbook. She worked for several years in provincial mental health as an eating disorders therapist; she maintains a private practice where she focuses on treating eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Nicole has been featured as an outstanding clinician for youth in Insights Magazine in regard to her work with sexual and gender identity diversity. In 2014 she received the inaugural Vance Peavey Award for Counselling Excellence, and she has been the recipient of the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada scholarship (2006). Nicole was a much-loved instructor in post-secondary for many years but now dedicates her teaching energy to RO DBT. When not counselling or teaching, she spends her time volunteering in the realm of pet therapy or pretending she knows what is growing in her garden.
Dr. Thomas R. Lynch
Thomas Lynch, PhD, FBPsS, is an American psychologist, author, and treatment developer of Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT), a type of psychotherapy that targets disorders characterized by excessive self-control (e.g., anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder). Dr. Lynch is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton in England.
He was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioural Research and Treatment Program at Duke University (USA) from 1998-2007 and latterly the Director of the Emotion and Personality Bio-behavioural Laboratory at the University of Southampton.
He has been the recipient of multiple large research grants from a range of sources and is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research Endowment and a Beck Institute Scholar. He is recognized internationally as a world-leading expert in difficult-to-treat disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, personality disorders, and chronic depression.
