About
Our Mission
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To provide affordable high standard supervision while identifying the unique educational needs of those CNS candidates seeking clinical practice experience and mentorship; empowering them with the knowledge, confidence and experience to create a personal and meaningful learning journey.
Our Core Principles
Strive for Educational Excellence through providing the most clinically relevant, evidence based and practice-informed integrative and functional nutrition available and adhering to the BCNS educational standards.
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Focus on Compassion & Candidate-Centered Approach that creates a safe and healing space and strives to relate to CNS Candidates with grace, kindness and acceptance, emanating from the attitude of unconditional love as life’s most powerful healer. Provide a community setting to promote routine connections throughout the Candidates experience
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Include an Integrative & Personalized Approach to provide comprehensive clinical training that provides safe and effective personalized functional nutrition care, that is collaborative and interdisciplinary and utilizes other evidence based therapies.
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Discern an Individual's Uniqueness that recognizes each CNS Candidate has individual needs due to their personal lifestyles and responsibilities, therefore training and education needs to be tailored.
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Promote Optimal Wholeness to empower self-care by supporting habits that help the CNS Candidate to be the best in mind, body, and spirit.
Commit to Conscious Communication through thoughtful dialogue that is embedded in reflective listening and timely responsiveness.
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Support Diversity to individual-centered supervised training and education opportunities without regard to race, gender, identity, socio-economic status, sexual orientation or religion.
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Teach by Example by influencing the CNS candidate through our own example, lifestyle choices and learning experiences.​
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What the CNS Credential Means
The Certified Nutrition Specialist® credential (CNS®) is the most advanced certification for personalized nutrition practitioners. Certified Nutrition Specialists practice science-based personalized nutrition therapy to power people to health. They are spearheading the transformation from population-based to personalized nutrition, and from disease care to authentic health care." ​​​​​​
American Nutrition Association. 2024. Become a CNS. American Nutrition Association. https://www.theana.org/certify/become-a-cns/
The Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS)
The BCNS is dedicated to establishing and enforcing the competencies and standards required for the supervised practice experience of CNS candidates, oversee the certification and recertification processes, ensuring adherence to the highest ethical standards. By awarding the CNS credentials, we recognize individuals who meet these criteria.
The Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists. 2024.BCNS Certifications. Handbook 2024-2025. The Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists.
