She has specialized in treating eating disorders for 30 years, and currently owns and operates Nutrition Therapy Consultants, Inc. Kristen has also worked with the Kapiolani Counseling Center’s eating disorder clinic for 13 years, and co-wrote the eating disorder protocol at Kahi Mohala, where she also managed their inpatient eating disorders program for 17 years. Kristen has been a guest lecturer at national eating disorder conferences, community organizations, and schools. Her intensive nutrition program has been featured on numerous television programs, radio shows and newspaper articles. Together with Dr. Neal Anzai and Dr. Robert Bidwell, Kristen coauthored a chapter in the Child Psychiatry Clinics of North America journal titled, Inpatient and Parital Hospital Treatment for Adolescent Eating Disorders