Chef Avril Amaya
Functional Plant-Based Chef and Food Doctor
Avril Amaya is a multi-passionate ‘food doctor‘, plant-based chef and educator, health and nutrition coach, lover of Nature and animals, and poet/singer/dancer.
**Functional Plant-Based Chef and Food Doctor
**Update for 2022
Avril is now pursuing her passions in a new direction and is no longer available for food or health coaching. We hope to share updates on her new project in the future.
Feel free to get in touch with us for alternative options.
Avril Amaya is a multi-passionate ‘food doctor‘, plant-based chef and educator, health and nutrition coach, lover of Nature and animals, and poet/singer/dancer.
She has been practicing and sharing food-as-medicine for over six years, working with individuals, teaching workshops to groups, and chefing/teaching at international retreats. She began her personal chef and health-consulting service in 2013 in Miami to assist people with healing, in addition to co-running a popular vegan pop-up restaurant there for a year.
After traveling the world for a decade, studying with masters in yoga, meditation, permaculture, Qi Gong, Thai massage, and Reiki, and healing herself from constant illness and a life revolving around doctor visits, she has found vibrant well-being and is passionate about spreading health and happiness, through deep connection to Self and Nature, and with the support of real foods and plant-based nutrition.
Equipped with a Harvard degree and a high-speed blender, Avril passionately shares the benefits of a fruit-and-vegetable-based lifestyle in Austin and beyond.
Colleen Flynn, FNTP, RWP
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner @ Nutritional Zest, LLC
Specialties: Digestive Disorders, Blood Sugar Management, Adrenals, Gut Health, Weight Management
Colleen Flynn is a Functional Nutritionist and the founder and owner of Nutritional Zest, LLC, a private nutrition practice based in Austin, Texas, where she was recently voted one of the top three nutritionists in the area by Austin Fit Magazine. She is also an instructor at Restorative Wellness Solutions, a program that bridges a multitude of functional nutrition approaches to elevate practitioners’ ability to solve the most challenging client symptom presentations.
She is a whole food and wellness enthusiast who is passionate about the body’s innate intelligence to respond to well-crafted holistic health practices. She excels in helping women and men reconnect with their bodies while empowering them to nourish themselves in an enjoyable, sustainable way, and to thrive through implementing wellness routines that suit their unique needs. Specializing in gut health, digestive disorders, energy regulation, and the mindset necessary for lasting health and habit change, Colleen utilizes the principles of functional nutrition to dig deeper into her clients’ chronic health complaints to discover the root cause and to create detailed protocols to bring them back into balance.
Colleen’s interest in holistic nutrition and her journey to become a Functional Nutritionist began with the reversal of her own health issues through various nutrition and wellness practices. What started as a personal calling evolved into a mission to empower others to take control of their own well-being.
Kara Kroeger
I’m Kara Kroeger. For more than 25 years, I’ve helped people make sense of complex, unresolved health concerns through nutrition and lifestyle changes — especially when the answers weren’t obvious, linear, or easily reduced to a single diagnosis. My work is rooted in deep clinical nutrition training, my work as a personal chef, and decades […]
My work is rooted in deep clinical nutrition training, my work as a personal chef, and decades of real-world practice, guided by a whole-human perspective that considers how digestion, metabolic function, mindset, recovery, and daily life intersect. I don’t look at the body as a collection of isolated systems, but as an interconnected whole that responds over time to food, environment, stress, and physiology.
This approach has been shaped not only by professional experience but also by early personal exposure to serious family illness, which inspired me to become a nutritionist, and years of observing how health actually unfolds in real-life scenarios. I’ve worked with people at many stages of healing — from those navigating chronic digestive or metabolic challenges to individuals rebuilding strength after significant medical treatment.
What I know to be true is this: lasting change comes from understanding what’s driving symptoms, not just managing them.
If you’re looking for thoughtful, experienced guidance and a structured path forward, I’d be glad to discuss what support might look like. Please book a discovery call on my website, www.kroegernutrition.com. I look forward to learning more about how I can help you reach your health goals.