Happy & Healthy Wellness Counseling

Meet Our Founder, Christie Korth, CHC, AADP

Certified Health Counselor/  Holistic Nutritionist

Christie has been very passionate about health and wellness since healing herself from a crippling case of Crohn's disease through diet and lifestyle changes.  As a result of this condition, she also suffered bouts of extreme anxiety and depression. Just when she thought she has her tummy under control, in early 2007, she went on to discover that she had severe gluten intolerance. She has since committed herself to promoting education and awareness about eating healthy and gluten-free, in addition to helping dozens of people resolve troubling health concerns.

Experience
Christie is the founder and director of Happy & Healthy Wellness. Through her work, she helps people make better food and lifestyle choices. She specializes in digestive disorders and conducts gluten-free cooking classes, health food store tours and lectures. She also works closely with her local Celiac Support Group.      

In addition to this experience, she has a lovely office at Long Island Integrative Medical, which is home to her practice. 

Additionally, she is the Corporate Nutritionist for Brain Balance Acheivement Centers.  She works with children with are afflicted with ADHD, Autism, Asperger's and Dyslexia. She trains Brain Balance owners across the country on various on elimination diets for their children and interprets IGG test results amongst many other tasks.  Christie has also spent some time working in the dietery supplement industry and is well informed on how to care for clients with the use of nature's medicine cabinet.

Education
Christie received her training to practice Health Counseling at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is the only nutrition school integrating all the different dietary theories—combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts like the USDA food pyramid, the glycemic index, the Zone and raw foods. 

She is a Certified Health Counselor through Columbia University's Teacher's College. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Holistic Nutrition from the Clayton College of Natural Health. Christie is also Certified as a Group Facilitator from Adelphi Universtiy.  Before embarking on her nutrition mission, she attended Suffolk County Community College where she holds 55 credits in the Human Services Program for Social Work.

 Happy & Healthy's Mission

"Because I have been blessed with the ability of conquering my own debilitating health obstacles, public health is now my life's mission. Although my journey to wellness has been bittersweet, to me, the experience I underwent symbolizes a beautiful part of my life. My struggles gave me the fantastic ability to help those seeking to find their own health. And that alone, has made 24 years of looking for answers worth more than its weight in gold.

Strange how what was once thought of as a curse wound up being my passion for living.

Helping people achieve Happy & Healthy Wellness is my mission in life. I plan to go out in the world and raise awareness not only to Crohn's and Celiac diseases, but the overall failing health in America. I just want people to be given the opportunity to live healthy and complete lives in today's crazy fast-paced world.

I feel blessed to be able to provide people the ability to achieve wellness.

Namaste"

-Christie Korth, CHC                              Founder and Director of Happy & Healthy Wellness Counseling

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Professional Affiliations

Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner from The American Association of Drugless Practitioners

Practitioner Member of The American Holistic Health Association

Member of The National Association of Nutrition Professionals

Lucille Roberts

Suffolk County Celiac Foundation

Suffolk County Celiac Kids Group

Nutrition and Food Writer for ehow.com

Nutrition and Food Writer for Examiner.com

Nutrition Consultant for The Brain Balance Center in NY

Upcoming author with New Harbinger Publications

Client Story...

Testimonial
"After 20 years of IBS, Christie was able to find the hidden culprit that was causing my distress-Gluten! After removing certain foods from my diet and then adding healthy (and tasty-I may add) foods to cook, my digestion improved greatly, as well as several other health issues! Thank You Christie!!" Paula, Nurse