The Champions

Danielle Mitchell of The Cognizant Group is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC). Danielle graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences and completed her dietetic internship from the University of Houston for a dietetic licensure. She then went on to complete a Master’s of Education in Counseling at the University of Houston and obtained a second licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She is a certified Birkman Method Consultant and has completed a certificate of Functional Medicine Health Coaching through the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Danielle enjoys integrating her nutrition expertise with mental health and counseling to help clients through a bio-psychosocial-spiritual model. She specializes in functional medicine nutrition and coaching, eating disorders, pediatric nutrition, special needs, and family nutrition planning. She is passionate about providing functional and integrative nutrition and coaching options for all of her clients such as micronutrient assessments, food sensitivity testing, bioelectric impedence analysis, and stool assessments.

After becoming a GX Sciences certified nutrigenomics provider a few years ago, she found it challenging to select which combination of panels to run for each patient.  For some, she wanted to know about their methylation pathways. For others, the focus was on their detoxification, neurotransmitter, or inflammatory SNPs. With The Cognizant Group’s focus on the whole person, she found that she wanted to see the results of multiple tests for every patient to best plan their treatment and interventions.

She approached GX Sciences with an idea of building a new panel that would incorporate nutrigenomic information to address mental health, developmental disorders, immunity, detoxification, mitochondrial support, inflammation, and modifiable health risk. They agreed and The Cognizant Group and GX Sciences partnered together to create the NeuroWell+ Nutrigenomics panel.

Danielle has been using NeuroWell+ in her patient population and finds it helpful to have such a substantive tool to provide objective data to guide care for her clients. As it has been such a helpful tool for The Cognizant Group and their clients, she wanted to share this tool with other practitioners.