Our Team
Elaina Efird, RDN, CD, CEDRD, CSSD is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified eating disorder dietitian with a degree from Virginia Tech. She moved to Burlington from North Carolina, where she worked at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at UNC Chapel Hill primarily in the inpatient and outpatient levels of care. Elaina worked closely with patients and their families to provide a family-based nutrition therapy approach during the recovery process. Elaina also worked at both North Carolina State University and Virginia Tech with athletes at the division 1 level, helping to create nutrition plans that enhanced athletic performance.
Passionate about food, nutrition education, and client-centered care, the move to Burlington was a natural fit. With training in multiple areas of dietetics — including sports nutrition, eating disorders, weight management and gastrointestinal complications — Elaina works with all ages, genders, and body types. Through the unique approach offered at The Kahm Clinic, she is thrilled to help clients meet their nutrition goals. In her free time, Elaina loves to explore the outdoors with her husband and dog and cheer on Virginia Tech Football. She loves to travel both nationally and internationally and to experience the food, outdoors, and people in new places.
Elaina is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association, and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.
Elaina Efird
RDN, CD, CEDRD, CSSD
Burlington, VT
Bret Hermansky
MS, RDN, CD
Burlington, VT
Bret Hermansky, MS, RDN, CD is a born and raised Vermonter and registered dietitian nutritionist. She received her Dietetics and Nutrition Food Science degree from the University of Vermont and is the immediate Past President of the Vermont Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Bret has experience working with all eating disorders, disordered eating, general nutrition, athletes, and child and adolescent nutrition. She enjoys applying evidence-based practice in her nutrition therapy; in particular, she loves getting to use the tests at the Kahm Clinic because she can help people better achieve their goals. Bret works with all ages, genders, and body types. Through the Vermont Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, she seeks to apply the vision of creating a community where all Vermonters thrive through the transformative power of food and nutrition.
Bret loves seeing her clients make tangible progress and watching their improved health change their lives. For instance, she loves working with people who are at their last straw, ready to be done with dieting and/or obsessing about food in various ways. She loves helping clients realize that 20 years of yo-yo dieting is hard and miserable, that there is a way out, and that there is light at the end of the tunnel. She relishes, in particular, the small victories — like when someone lets her know that, for the first time, they went out to dinner with their family and ordered what they wanted without guilt and shame! In general, she takes pleasure in helping her clients improve their quality of life through a healthier relationship with food.
Bret likes shopping for food and gifts at the local farmer’s markets and dining at Vermont’s many farm-to-table restaurants. In her spare time, she loves reading and exploring her home state with her husband, including hiking in the Green Mountains, swimming at local swimming holes, and walking with their Great Pyrenees, Meera.
Mary Kathryn Edwards, MS, MBA, RDN, CD is a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist with a master’s degree in clinical nutrition from New York University. She is passionate about patient-centered care and empowering individuals to make peace with food.
Mary Kathryn left the warm beaches of South Beach, Miami in 2012 to continue her career as an animal pharmaceutical sales representative in Vermont. After years of traveling to veterinary clinics all over Vermont, she decided to study nutrition at the University of Vermont and recently completed her nutritional education at New York University. With training in multiple areas of dietetics, she joined the Kahm Clinic’s team to focus on adolescent and adult nutritional therapy. Mary Kathryn was drawn to the Kahm Clinic’s patient-centered approach. She is focused on helping clients set and meet their nutritional goals. With every client, Mary Kathryn works diligently to create a safe and powerful atmosphere to inspire positive and healthy change.
When Mary Kathryn is not at the Kahm Clinic, she is spending time hiking and enjoying the great outdoor life that Vermont has to offer.
Mary Kathryn is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.
Mary Kathryn Edwards
MS, MBA, RDN, CD
Burlington, VT
Jody Drange RDN, CDE, ACSM EP-C is a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist who originally hails from Minnesota. She left the tundra-like weather for the bright Arizona sunshine 17 years ago, after graduating from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. After working for a year, she furthered her education by attending Arizona State University in Dietetics. Jody has been a dietitian since 2007 and is also a Certified Diabetes Educator as well as an ACSM-Health Fitness Specialist.
Jody has worked in both residential and outpatient clinics for individuals with anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa. Additionally, she has experience in sports nutrition, heart disease, diabetes, weight management, and exercise physiology and works with both adolescent and adult populations. She loves helping her clients focus on their goals, gain healthy habits, and improve their relationship with food, so they can ultimately improve their quality of life in becoming healthier and happier. The Kahm Clinic allows her to combine her counseling skills with technology to better serve her patients.
Jody lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband and two boys. She loves to read, volunteer at her church, exercise, and spend time with her family and friends.
Jody Drange
RDN, CDE, ACSM, EP-C
Gilbert, AZ