Karishma Shah comes from a family background where her 3 generations have been dealing with a lifestyle disorder of diabetes. Growing up she did not want health to suffer and neglect it. She was always cautious and curious to study about food, nutrition, health, and wellbeing. She started journey to pursue nutrition studies from The American College of Sports & Medicine and was certified as a Clinical Nutritionist. Karishma also went on to pursue higher education in Integrative Nutrition from IIN.
After she finished studies, Karishma also wanted to have an edge with diabetes because that has always been something at the back of her mind, so she became a diabetes educator and was certified. She worked as an intern with 2 renowned & well established Diabetologists in Mumbai. Throughout her internship she came across a lot of patients & by helping them with lifestyle, food modification & also counselling them on issues with weight management, PCOD, thyroid, diabetes management. After completing 2 years of internship She decided to start her own practice and have set up clinic in Juhu, Mumbai.
In private practice Karishma and her team began with 1: 1 consultation, organising group consultation, educative talks, webinars, seminars & public speaking on the topics of health, nutrition, lifestyle, wellbeing, and mental health. Along the way during this journey, She realised while interacting with clients and who came from a space where they were dealing with lifestyle disorder, stress, anxiety, weight issues that food and nutrition is not just one perspective to investigate it’s also about their mental health status, the atmosphere they are in all these factors drove her interest into the realm of mental health & psychology aspect.
Karishma also believes that there is a very big gap wherein the nutritionists, dietician, coaches need to get into mentoring, coaching & counselling sessions with their clients to break through their mental blocks & behavioural patterns to be able support, help, guide, and achieve results. To Karishma Shah, wellbeing is very important and something every individual should be interested in