About Us

We guide qualified health practitioners on a learning journey to clinical mastery in functional nutrition that builds on their core knowledge, helping them facilitate healing in their clients with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide courses that are challenging, engaging and enlightening – bridging a multitude of functional nutrition approaches and elevating your ability to help even your most challenging and complex client cases.

Through Restorative Wellness Solutions programs, you’ll learn how to identify blocking factors and imbalances that prevent healing and leverage new tools and ways of thinking in order to give your client’s body exactly what it needs to achieve true healing.

All practitioners must apply and be accepted to RWS to begin with Level 1, Mastering the Art and Science of Gastrointestinal Healing.

Our Founders

Restorative Wellness Solutions was founded by Anne Fischer Silva, Master RWP FNTP, and Margaret Floyd Barry, Master RWP FNTP CGP.

Anne Fischer Silva

Master RWP FNTP

Anne’s vision is to ultimately change the prevailing paradigm of what constitutes health and how that is achieved. She helped develop the curriculum for the Nutritional Therapy Association and was a lead instructor with NTA for 8 years and she lectures nationally on a variety of health topics.

Anne’s journey in the field of functional nutrition over the last 22 years began in a functional medicine practice, where she learned the power of objective testing. From there she opened her own business, A New Leaf Nutrition, where she built a wait-list distance practice in Sonoma County, California. Anne has taught nutrition courses in Washington, Hawaii, and California, hosted “Health-Wise” (a weekly radio show), and founded Restorative Wellness Solutions in 2013 with the sole purpose of training other nutrition professionals how to address complex issues with their clients and achieve the same stellar results she gets in her practice.

Anne focuses on educating her students about the importance of nutrient-dense foods and balancing biochemistry. From there, she looks for the deeper underlying issues by utilizing a variety of testing techniques and customized healing methods to restore optimal function and health.

Anne received her certification in functional nutrition from Advanced Integrated Medical Institute in Washington, DC in 2000 and she is a Master Restorative Wellness Practitioner and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.

Anne is passionate about teaching, preparing nutrient dense foods, staying vibrant through movement, spending time with her family, and connection around the table. She is excited and honored to share her successful practice model with other practitioners so, together, we can globally help more people live better and longer.

Margaret Floyd Barry

Master RWP FNTP CGP

Margaret is a functional nutritionist, writer, and real food advocate. She’s been on the pursuit of the ideal, most nutritious and delicious way of eating for the better part of her adult life. She has a thriving private practice based out of Portland, Oregon, through which she supports her clients to achieve true health and vitality through diet and lifestyle changes.

Margaret believes firmly in the power of real, whole nutrient-dense foods and the body’s ability to use them as core to all aspects of health and wellness. She works with a variety of different tools to understand the imbalances in the body, and uses dietary changes and supplementation to help bring the body back into balance, which is where true healing occurs.

Margaret is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), a Certified Restorative Wellness Specialist, a Certified GAPS Practitioner, a Certified Healing Foods Specialist, and a Certified Gluten Practitioner. Margaret is the author of Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You and coauthor of its follow-up cookbook, The Naked Foods Cookbook. She currently writes at eatnakedkitchen.com as well as several other health websites.

Our Faculty

Our faculty is comprised of highly skilled practitioners who have mastered the Restorative Wellness Solutions methodology and implement it with exceptional results.

Ellen Lovelace

MPH FNTP Master RWP, Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition®

Ellen has been actively working to educate and improve the public’s health for almost 20 years. Ellen received her Masters in Public Health from The George Washington University, and went on to run everything from tuberculosis prevention programs in Russia to dental health education programs along the Texas/Mexico border. She was also the founding Executive Director of the women’s health program at Stanford University. When Ellen became drawn to a more holistic model, she received her certifications as a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and a Master Restorative Wellness Practitioner. She is the owner of A Balanced Table Nutritional Therapy in San Jose, CA, her private functional nutrition practice.

Ellen focuses on cutting through the confusion and nutrition “noise,” digging to the roots of clients’ dysfunction, and figuring out the best way for them to eat, drink, and thrive. She uses the RWS functional analysis tools daily, and is excited to share her passion for these methods. Ellen believes that only by focusing on root causes, combined with whole foods nutrition, can true wellness be achieved. Ellen is also a passionate animal lover who volunteers at a wildlife rescue facility, and can often be found smelling of skunk while covered in Mastiff drool.

Natalie Steen

FNTP RWP-3

Natalie uses her functional nutrition training daily in her private practice in Washington State. Natalie views healthcare as a collaborative process, educating clients and students to become responsible for their own health, in order to bring it to a personal optimal level. She enjoys hosting talks and workshops to educate others on the healing power of real food, therapeutic diets, and in healing the gut.

Natalie’s own past struggles with allergies, hives, Hashimoto’s and fatigue, was reversed after her training in nutritional therapy and addressing the root cause of the symptoms. The results of her own successful health journey, continues to fuel her passion for restoring optimal health and vitality to her clients lives. She uses targeted protocols to resolve the underlying causes of chronic conditions such as; IBS, leaky gut, fatigue, allergies, skin conditions, digestive distress and autoimmune conditions.

Natalie enjoys gardening, hiking, berry picking, kayaking, and all the ways she can spend time outside in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She is the owner of Bluestem Nutrition, and is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), a Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and an AutoImmune Paleo Certified Coach.

Sara Fields

FNTP RWP-3

Sara fell in love with food and nutrition early in life and has worked in this sphere for nearly 15 years. From her work in organic farming and sustainable agriculture to gourmet and specialty foods retail, she has cultivated a passion for both culinary adventure and for nourishing food’s healing effects on our bodies and the earth.

Seeing firsthand the effects of diet on autoimmune disease and mental health, she was catapulted into a career in nutrition. Since 2014 she has worked as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and in 2016 she received her certification as a Restorative Wellness Practitioner. The RWS program has added invaluable tools to her repertoire, allowing her to dig deeper to uncover root causes of imbalance and to ultimately help her clients improve their quality of life.

Sara is the owner of Wellness Intentioned, a private nutrition practice based in Richmond, Virginia. Her practice is predominantly focused on gut health, as the implications of a dysfunctional digestive system are far-reaching and many health concerns can be attributed to that dysfunction. Pregnancy and fertility are also special areas of interest for Sara, and she teaches classes to educate women and their partners about preparing their bodies for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.

It is Sara’s hope to deeply touch the lives of all the people she works with, helping them find both wellness of body and spirit. She believes strongly in the body’s innate wisdom, and she strives to help her clients disconnect from the dogma and reconnect with their own bodies. When she’s not working, you can find her hanging with her husband and kiddos, doing yoga, watching live music, or tending to her one million houseplants.

Katrina Foe

RWP-3 FNTP

Katrina was introduced to the power of food to heal when her oldest daughter was dealing with tooth decay and she used the GAPS diet to halt it. This process inspired her family to live a simpler life in the country and they moved to a small farm in Idaho where they raise all their own meat and eggs. She is passionate about properly prepared food and the difference quality makes on our health.

Later, Katrina developed breast cancer and again turned to food and treated it successfully 100% naturally. This journey took her on a deeper dive into the imbalances that can create dysfunction in the body. After experiencing the profound effect that food can have first hand, Katrina went through the Nutritional Therapy Association’s training to become a Functional Nutritional Therapist. She has continued her education through Restorative Wellness Solutions with training to interpret lab tests which allow her to personalize her recommendations. Katrina works with clients from all over the US to help them dig down to the root causes and address their imbalances using food as their medicine.

Katrina has always had a passion for understanding how the body works. She has been teaching Pilates and anatomy for over twenty years. She conducts Pilates teacher training at her studio, Personalized Pilates, in Scottsdale, Arizona as well as speaking at Pilates conferences internationally.

Katrina is blessed with 7 children which she is passionate about raising not only with good health but also with the understanding how to pass that on to our future generations. She believes that our bodies are created to heal and is excited to share that with everyone she encounters!

Dr. Chris Turnpaugh

DC, DACNB

Dr. Chris Turnpaugh, DC, DACNB is a skilled practitioner whose primary focus is on finding and addressing the root cause of disease. He has extensive experience in supporting patients who are dealing with the most difficult, chronic, autoimmune and neurological health conditions. Patients from around the country seek out his expertise to restore their health. Since opening his practice in 1999, he has worked with local hospitals and national laboratories to implement testing protocols leading to further breakthroughs in the treatment of complicated cases.

Dr. Turnpaugh’s vast knowledge of functional medicine and functional neurology, coupled with more than 16 years in practice, has earned him a reputation of being well-respected by his peers and other medical professionals. In 2013, he was invited to join the board of the International Association of Functional Neurology and Rehabilitation. His application of functional medicine as it relates to the neuroendocrine system is a unique clinical approach to non-pharmacological treatments.

Dr. Turnpaugh frequently lectures to colleagues, medical students and doctors of all disciplines in order to promote a better understanding of the benefits of the functional medicine approach and its clinical application. He has a unique ability to take the most complicated cases and break them down to an easy-to-understand level for both practitioners and patients. He routinely consults with a variety of disciplines of doctors.

Dr. Turnpaugh has extensive knowledge in brain genetic disorders and specializes in Fragile X Syndrome. For more than ten years, he has worked with an extensive array of neurobehavioral disorders in children including those that have been diagnosed with symptoms of ADD/ADHD, PDD, Asperger’s, autism, selective mutism, seizure disorder, emotional detachment disorder, as well as many others.

Dr. Turnpaugh received his Bachelor of Science degree in economics and pre-med from Bloomsburg University. He is a graduate of Life Chiropractic College and received his diplomate from The Carrick Institute and is board certified in chiropractic neurology. His interest in functional medicine began early in his career. He currently lectures to Doctors around the country on topics such as Functional Blood Chemistry, Thyroid Disorders, Environmental Toxins and Mastering Brain Chemistry. His passion for HEALTH care led him to open the Pennsylvania Center for Integrative Health in July 2014. It is a multi-disciplinary center located in Mechanicsburg. He and his wife, Heather, have four children and reside in Mechanicsburg, PA.