meet megan good
RD, LD, CEDS
senior Registered Dietitian
Megan Good, RD, LD, CEDS
Senior Registered Dietitian | Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
Megan Good is a Senior Registered Dietitian and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist at Dallas Nutritional Counseling with extensive experience treating eating disorders across inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient levels of care.
She works with adolescents and adults across the eating disorder spectrum, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, OSFED, restrictive and disordered eating, chronic dieting, and complicated relationships with exercise and movement.
Megan is particularly skilled at working with clients whose eating disorder exists alongside a full and demanding life. She works frequently with high-achieving adolescents, college students, athletes and active individuals, young adults navigating major life transitions, and adults who have been struggling with food or their bodies for years.
Her style is direct but compassionate, and her approach is individualized, relational, and grounded in harm reduction. Megan is comfortable sitting with complexity while also helping clients identify concrete ways to move forward.
Experience Across the Eating Disorder Continuum
Megan's eating disorder experience extends across the full continuum of care.
After beginning her career in nutrition education, Megan transitioned into specialized eating disorder treatment, where she worked with patients at the inpatient, residential, PHP, and IOP levels of care.
Her work included individuals with significant medical and psychiatric complexity, co-occurring mental health diagnoses, and patients requiring enteral nutrition support.
Megan's clinical and leadership abilities eventually led to an offer to move into a management role within higher-level eating disorder treatment. Instead, she chose to transition into private practice, where she could work more closely with clients over time and help them navigate the challenges of recovery outside of a highly structured treatment environment.
Since joining Dallas Nutritional Counseling, Megan has continued to develop as both a clinician and leader within the practice and now serves as a Senior Registered Dietitian.
Her experience across levels of care gives her an important perspective on what happens when someone leaves the structure of a treatment program and has to make recovery work at school, at college, at work, in relationships, at restaurants, while traveling, around exercise, and in everyday life.
Eating Disorders in High-Achieving Environments
Megan works especially well with adolescents and young adults navigating environments where expectations can feel high.
She frequently works with students attending academically competitive private and public schools, college students, athletes, and young adults balancing school, careers, relationships, social lives, and other pressures while also trying to recover from an eating disorder.
In these environments, food and body concerns may become intertwined with achievement, perfectionism, exercise, performance, appearance, social comparison, and the pressure to seem as though everything is going well—even when it isn't.
Megan understands that dynamic.
She helps clients examine how those pressures may be influencing eating disorder behaviors while developing strategies that can actually work within the environments they are navigating every day.
Movement, Athletes & Eating Disorder Recovery
Megan has a particular interest in the intersection of eating disorders, nutrition, athletics, and movement.
Her perspective is informed not only by her eating disorder work but also by her previous experience as a barre instructor. She understands both the benefits of movement and the ways fitness and exercise culture can become entangled with food, body image, performance, and eating disorder behaviors.
Megan works with athletes and active individuals on appropriate fueling and sports nutrition, but she also helps clients explore more complicated questions around movement.
Her work may include sports nutrition, compulsive exercise, return to movement during recovery, mindful and intuitive movement, appropriate fueling, rest and recovery, and developing a more flexible relationship with exercise.
Binge Eating, Chronic Dieting & Intuitive Eating
Megan also has significant experience helping individuals who have spent years cycling between restriction, dieting, feeling out of control around food, and starting over. She works frequently with binge eating disorder, chronic dieting, disordered eating, and individuals who want to develop a more intuitive relationship with food. Rather than treating binge eating or feeling out of control around food as an isolated behavior, Megan helps clients look at the larger pattern.
Restriction, inconsistent eating, stress, emotional needs, food rules, body dissatisfaction, exercise, environmental pressures, and years of dieting can all influence what happens around food.
Intuitive Eating may be incorporated into this work when clinically appropriate, but it is not used as another set of rules or as a substitute for more structured eating disorder nutrition treatment when structure is needed.
College Students & Life Transitions
Before entering the eating disorder field, Megan began her career in academia as an associate professor in a college nutrition department. That experience continues to inform her work with college students and young adults. Leaving home, starting college, joining new social environments, graduating, beginning a career, moving, entering or ending relationships, and other major transitions can disrupt routines and support systems while increasing independence and stress.
For someone with an eating disorder, or someone vulnerable to developing one, those transitions can create new challenges around food, exercise, body image, and self-care.
Megan helps clients develop strategies that can adapt as their lives change rather than requiring their lives to stay perfectly controlled.
Working With Megan
Megan is direct, compassionate, and comfortable having difficult conversations. She doesn't shy away from naming an eating disorder behavior or expressing concern when something isn't working. At the same time, she understands that recognizing a behavior and being ready, or able, to change it are not always the same thing.
Her work is grounded in harm reduction. Particularly with complex or longstanding concerns, Megan can help clients and treatment teams think about meaningful ways to reduce risk, improve nutrition, and support quality of life even when change is happening gradually.
Megan also has a natural ability to connect with adolescents and young adults. She understands the social environments many of her clients are navigating and can talk about food, bodies, exercise, school, relationships, social situations, and recovery without making the conversation feel overly clinical or disconnected from their actual lives.
Clients don't have to perform recovery for her. Megan can hold space for ambivalence, frustration, setbacks, and the parts of recovery someone may not be proud of while still being willing to challenge them when needed. That combination of warmth and directness makes her particularly well suited for clients who want a dietitian who will understand where they are while also helping them move forward.
Areas of Expertise
Anorexia nervosa and restrictive eating disorders
Bulimia nervosa
Binge eating disorder
OSFED and disordered eating
Complex and co-occurring mental health diagnoses
Harm reduction in eating disorder care
Adolescents and young adults
High-achieving students and professionals
College students and life transitions
Athletes and active individuals
Compulsive exercise
Sports nutrition and fueling
Return to movement during eating disorder recovery
Mindful and intuitive movement
Chronic dieting and Intuitive Eating
Body image concerns
Medically complex eating disorders
Enteral nutrition support
Higher levels of eating disorder care
Multidisciplinary treatment-team collaboration
Education & Credentials
Megan earned her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from the University of Georgia and completed her dietetic internship through Indiana University in Indianapolis.
She is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS).
Professional Leadership & Affiliations
Megan is a member of the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD) and the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp).
She has also been actively involved with the local iaedp chapter and served for two years as Special Events Chair.
