My Story

Rebecca DeHamer is a specialist in the fields of nutrition, athletics, and movement therapy. Her background started in dance and education, with highlights of dance injury prevention research. After working in the field of physical education for five years, Rebecca returned to academia to pursue graduate study in Nutrition and Exercise. Before finishing graduate school she furthered her Exercise Science training, becoming a Certified Personal Trainer and practicing with clients in the public sphere and within exercise research trials. Rebecca trained with the UCSD Medical School's Dietetic Internship, and in 2015 she accepted a position working in their Eating Disorder Center (EDC) Program for Treatment and Research.

Over the years she moved from the adult eating disorders program, focusing on Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (DBT, CBT), into adolescent eating disorders program, focusing and specializing in modified-Family Based Treatment (FBT). While at UCSD EDC, Rebecca co-lead the Adolescent Athlete and Exercise programming as the Athlete and Exercise Specialist Dietitian. Today, she is an expert-level clinician, now Board Certified in Sports Dietetics, Certified as an Intuitive Eating Counselor, a further Certification as a Strength Coach, and is currently a Doctoral student in Kinesiology. She is an expert-level adolescent and young adult, eating disorders, and sports dietitian with years of experience helping high acuity patients recover from eating disorders while returning to their sport. 

Established in 2018, DeHamer Dietetics exists to support those at lower levels of care, and within the collegiate and professional sports community to reach their life-worth-living goals and face their individual struggles with food, body, and movement concerns.  Our further hopes and efforts are to offer preventative care methods, informative resources, and a needed connection to eating disorders and sports, intuitive eating and body neutrality topics.