
Meet Our Team
Deb Benfield
Jane Anderson Weiss
Amy Canter
Click below to learn more about each of our providers.
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M.Ed., RDN/LDN, RYT
Founder & Owner
Debra (she/her) is the founder and owner of Body in Mind Nutrition. She is passionate about the prevention and treatment of disordered eating/eating disorders and supporting you in feeling at peace with food, eating, and your body.
She is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN), as well as a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, and IAEDP-approved Supervisor (CEDRD-S) with over 30 years of experience in the field. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified in Curvy Yoga, Accessible Yoga, and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. Debra also participated in 2 years of training in Presence-Based Coaching which she integrates into her offerings. Debra is committed to offering respectful, compassionate care with the intention to create a partnership with you as the expert of your own body. She has discovered the transformative power of somatic practices and yoga along with embodied/intuitive eating principles. With a focus on trauma-informed care and nourishing your inner child, she offers individual and family nutritional therapy, as well as group programs, workshops and retreats. Debra will start where you are and believes in small steps to support your whole-person well being. Debra supervises her RDN associates with the same philosophy and intention. She also provides professional supervision, coaching and professional development. Debra is committed to supporting best practices in both preventing and treating disordered eating for health and behavioral health care providers and founded the Winston-Salem Eating Disorder Coalition. She also is creating community for those who are on the path of Body Liberation by offering a free monthly Book Club that is open to the public. Debra’s professional background includes providing medical nutrition therapy as a clinical nutritionist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine for many years and was a faculty member of the School of Medicine for 10 of those years. While at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, she was responsible for a wide range of tasks: nutrition education of medical professionals and patients, clinical nutrition services, research, and administration. She was also in private practice part-time during those years with a transition to full time private practice in 2005. Debra’s experience also includes being a chief clinical dietitian in a clinical setting, a clinical nutritionist for North Carolina School of the Arts, and RDN in an addiction treatment center as well as a behavioral health center.
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MPH, RDN, LDN
Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist
Jane is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN/LDN). She works with adolescents, adults, and families to find peaceful relationships with food, and to discover (or rediscover) eating to nurture the body. As a new mom, she has a special interest in postpartum body image and nutrition, as well as coaching for raising an intuitive eater.
Jane integrates sound nutrition science with the principles of intuitive eating in her approach to support you in finding harmony with nourishing and moving your body. She originally pursued nutrition to share her love for cooking and good food to sustain a full and active life, which has lead to several formative experiences including FoodCorps, Choctaw Indian Reservation, and Edible Schoolyard of New Orleans. As a FoodCorps service member in her home state of Mississippi, Jane worked with multiple schools and local organizations to foster a communal joy for food grown and prepared themselves. Jane came to Winston-Salem in 2016 from Minneapolis, MN, where she completed her Masters of Public Health (MPH). She has been providing nutrition therapy specialized in Eating Disorders and disordered eating with Body In Mind Nutrition since 2019. She is committed to building a partnership based on trust and compassion as she works with you to cultivate a fulfilling relationship with body and food within a Health at Every Size philosophy.
Jane lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, their young daughter and lively beagle. She enjoys making ice cream and is currently learning to sew and play banjo.
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MS, RDN, LDN, HTP
Amy is passionate about empowering clients to re-discover their inner wisdom, while walking alongside them as they journey to a gentler approach with food and body.
She’s affectionately known as "Zen Amy" with her presence, openness, ability to listen, and gentle guidance. She strives to create an inclusive, trauma-informed, supportive, safe, and inspiring atmosphere, while serving the whole person from a weight-neutral, intuitive eating, and somatic practice lens. With compassion and empathy she assists clients with creative collaboration, all while taking into consideration their lived experience and resources.
After her dad had a heart attack at a young age, Amy earned a B.S. in Food Science & Human Nutrition from the University of Maine at Orono and a M.S. in Human Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Soon after she realized something was missing in guiding others in healing their relationship with food and body. Thus, pursuing her training in somatic practices. She recognized the power of bringing the body into the process for herself and her clients. She continues to embrace the dance of nutrition as an art and a science. Creatively choreographing the dance with each client she serves, based on their unique experience.
When not seeing clients she enjoys cycling, gardening (herb/flower/veggie), making handcrafted soap and herbal care products, and exploring new experiences with her family and friends.
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MPH, RDN, LDN
Katie Wolf is a Registered Dietitian who specializes in eating disorders and disordered eating treatment, with experience working with clients who are gender-nonconforming and neurodiverse. She also provides medical nutrition therapy for those with chronic health conditions, such as PCOS, diabetes, GI disorders, women's health issues, and food allergies/intolerances with weight neutrality.
Katie's goal as a Dietitian is to assist clients with finding peace with food and their bodies through a non-diet and weight-neutral approach. There is a lot of nutrition misinformation available, and Katie provides evidence-based nutrition education to debunk diet culture myths and help clients heal their relationship with food.
Katie is committed to helping her clients learn to nourish their bodies in a way that makes them feel their best. Her approach is aligned with intuitive eating principles, including body respect, letting go of food rules and diet culture, and reclaiming trust in their bodies.
Katie received her BA in Psychology from Elon University and her MPH in Nutrition and Dietetics from UNC Chapel Hill. She has several years of experience working with eating disorders, disordered eating, and chronic health conditions in a variety of settings, including PHP, IOP, and outpatient levels of care.
Outside of her job, Katie enjoys being in the mountains, cycling, cooking, spending time with her family, friends, and beagle, Peanut, and playing guitar.
Katie Wolf
