Meet the Team
Deidre Bloomquist, FNTP, MRWP, MBCE, PN-L1, IIN HC, CCFT
Deidre founded Always Growing Nutrition in 2015 with an enthusiasm for health, fitness, and understanding how to optimize the human body. While the journey began with a focus on nutrition, the practice grew far beyond that into the realm of functional wellness. In 2024 the name was changed to Always Growing Wellness to better reflect the expansive scope of services the team takes towards working with clients on a full body wellness scale.
Her expertise lies in digestive and hormone health, and she loves working with clients who struggle with balancing these complex systems. She believes that everyone deserves personalized nutrition, to understand how their body works, and to have the support to get answers about their health. She has worked with hundreds of clients to restore balance to their digestion and hormone imbalances, and her passion lies in reversing infertility & supporting women through pregnancy and postpartum.
Deidre is also an instructor for Restorative Wellness Solutions where she teaches The Art & Science of Gastrointestinal Healing, as well as the co-founder of The Wholistic Health Collective, as part of her mission to teach other practitioners to help clients in this field. She’s an author and speaker, and passionate about sharing the messages we get through working with clients.
When she's not working with clients, you'll find her enjoying everything Colorado has to offer with her husband and son, from hiking to camping to craft beers.
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Anna McKelvey, rn, FNTP, RWP-1
Anna has been a registered nurse since 2015 and became a functional nutritionist in 2020. She is passionate about helping clients take charge of their own health and providing support along the way of feeling more like themselves again.
She is dedicated to supporting women throughout their reproductive health journey, including preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. She is passionate about helping women achieve optimal gut health and hormone balance through a personalized, foundational approach. Anna specializes in guiding them through the transition off of birth control, helping to restore hormonal balance while minimizing common side effects associated with discontinuing the pill. Additionally, she is our resident parasite expert, providing specialized care and guidance in this area to further enhance women's health and well-being.
Anna lives in Arizona with her husband, daughter, and 3 dogs. She enjoys reading, hiking, and discovering new coffee shops
Juliet Dalton, FNTP, MRWP
Juliet is a functional nutritionist, completing her FNTP certification (functional nutritional therapy practitioner) in 2019. She believes that food can be one of the most powerful tools we have to optimize our health. Whether you’re looking for digestive relief, improved skin, better sleep, hormonal balance, or mental sharpness, she takes a foundational & food-first approach to help you feel the best version of yourself.
She also understands that our relationship to food & our bodies can be charged with emotion, and brings a weight-neutral approach to health & wellness to remove those old-school diet-culture mantras that can get in the way of our health goals.
Juliet loves working with women that are struggling with stubborn digestive symptoms, skin issues, signs of inflammation and hormonal imbalances. She brings an enthusiasm for all things health & wellness, and a practical, root-cause approach to help clients get back to living their healthy, joyful lives!
Julia mims, NTP, RWP-3
Julia is part of our pediatric team and works with women and young children on reviving gut health, replenishing nutrients, and restoring a healing lifestyle. Her heart is to create space for those with chronic health challenges that are looking for a more supported approach to truly discover healing.
Her journey into nutrition and holistic health began with her own complex health considerations with gut health and autoimmunity. She's made it her mission to help others rebuild their health from a strong foundation of real food and proper function, making sure the body is first nourished and safe to thrive. This passion has increased tenfold when she became a mother to the most perfect little boy, who happens to also have a long-term need for support. Now, they journey together. Nothing will light a fire like a mother advocating for her child!
Julia utilizes her training from the Nutritional Therapy Association and Restorative Wellness Solutions to craft a customized approach to help her clients move the meter on their health. She is also an instructor with RWS on gastrointestinal healing, and volunteers her time as a course mentor with the NTA for up-and-coming practitioners. Julia enjoys creating nutrient-dense simple meals without a recipe, but loves a good Sunday cookbook read. When she's not knee-deep in food and physiology, you can find her hanging with her husband, toddler, and dog on family walks or workouts.
MICHELLE TIERNEY, MS, RDN, LD, CPT, RWP-1
Michelle is a registered dietitian and certified personal trainer with a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Physical Performance. She currently serves as a functional lab specialist. After trying to navigate numerous digestive struggles, hormonal imbalances and eating disorders through traditional care to no avail, she ventured into the functional nutrition space and never looked back. Now, she enjoys teaching and uplifting others on their own healing journeys towards vitality, using foundational, holistic support.
An aficionado of all things science and physiology, Michelle truly believes in the power of restoring health through a root-cause, foods-first approach. She happily nerds out over functional labs and enjoys teaching her clients how they not only relate to symptoms but also how they can serve as a roadmap towards healing. Her goal is for clients to feel encouraged, validated and excited about their individualized wellness plan and to move towards a robust, sustainable level of healing.
Michelle loves working with men and women struggling with digestive concerns, hormonal and nutrient imbalances and women looking to optimize fertility. When she’s not reading about parasites or interpreting labs, catch her traveling to National Parks, training for races with her running club, reading fiction or walking her dog, Everest, with her husband in St.louis.
Elise DOPPEL, MPH, CCRC, FNTP, RWP-2
Elise is a functional nutritionist who specializes in digestion and supporting the whole body as it relates to gut health. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Michigan and a Master's degree in Public Health from Oakland University. She also holds a variety of certifications; she's a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator, a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and a Restorative Wellness Practitioner.
Elise is part of our pediatric and pregnancy team, and she loves working with adults and kids alike, from all backgrounds, to support the foundational pieces of their digestion and get to the root cause of their health challenges.
ALLISON GILLOCK, PTA, NTP, RWP-2
Allison has a background as a Physical Therapist Assistant working in outpatient sports medicine and geriatric care for over five years. She has always been passionate about walking alongside others in their healing journey. It wasn’t until she faced her own persistent challenges with infertility, endometriosis, and IBS that she discovered a love for nutrition and began to experience how powerful choosing to take an active role in our health can be. In 2023, she became a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner through the NTA and has since completed two levels with Restorative Wellness Solutions.
Allison has witnessed and experienced the transformative power of gaining freedom from chronic fatigue, poor sleep, digestive symptoms, and painful periods through a foundational approach that seeks to uncover the driving factors of these dysfunctions. Her ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone she works with feels seen, heard, and completely supported.
Allison lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and doodle, Sophie. She loves spending time with her family and friends, going for walks, and, in the summer, paddleboarding and floating the river!
