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Co-founded by Dr. Kristen Allott and Natasha Duarte, Dynamic Brains Consulting partners with organizations to enhance their ability to support the most vulnerable populations in their communities.

We provide education, program resources, and tailored guidance to help organizations build or improve programs, reduce burnout and secondary trauma, and foster greater energy, mental clarity, and improved decision-making.

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We meet virtually on the 2nd Friday of each month, from 7:30-8:30 Pacific time.

What we provide

Free Tools to Boost Energy & Mental Clarity

We’re offering free resources to help you unlock your full potential. Explore our educational materials that explain the vital connection between what you eat, when you eat, and how it impacts your mental and physical well-being. Dive into our most popular handouts, worksheets, and videos to optimize your brain and body.

Want to take it further?

Hire us to guide you through how to use these tools effectively within your organization. Let us help you integrate these strategies for lasting improvement and resilience in your team.

Fueling Change: Protein For All™ Programs

In high-stress environments, resilience is the foundation for lasting success. Protein For All™ is a transformative program designed to optimize brains and bodies to empower individuals, organizations, and communities by addressing fundamental needs and building capacity for responsive engagement.

Professionals in education, mental health, and the judicial and correctional systems are on the frontlines of the mental health, homelessness, and food insecurity crises. This added complexity often results in burnout, secondary trauma, and high turnover among staff.

Protein For All™ provides real-time tools to support both clients and staff, helping to reduce stress, build resilience and decrease emotional reactivity in these high-pressure environments. Adaptable and impactful, Protein For All™ equips organizations and teams with the strategies needed to provide critical support while fostering well-being and resilience in the communities they serve.

We are so passionate about getting this knowledge and accompanying tools into people’s hands (and brains!) that we have created a free self-paced online course available to everyone. As consultants, we work with groups to provide mentoring, workshops and presentations to help groups gain a deeper understanding of how to contextualize this program for their community.

Join us to create a healthier, more empowered future—starting today.

Meet the Team

Dr. Kristen Allott sitting on stairs, wearing a patterned cardigan and black top, smiling.

  • As naturopathic physician, national speaker, and pioneering advocate for the use of whole foods nutrition in the treatment of mental health disorders. Dr. Allott is passionate about achievable results. With more than a decade of clinical experience, she has refined her expertise on how to promote increased mental functioning by treating the physical causes of mental health, fatigue, and sugar cravings. Dr. Allott regularly presents at psychiatric nurse practitioner conventions on non-pharmaceutical interventions for mental health. Additionally, she consults with Court Improvement Training Academy (CITA) at the University of Washington to develop the Protein for all Project to optimize brains in the high stakes environment of Juvenile and Family Court System.

Ms. Natasha Duarte smiling near a body of water, wearing a dark knitted sweater.

  • Natasha Duarte has degrees in anthropology and soil science, and over a decade of experience in culturally diverse program development and fundraising. She brings energy and pragmatic thinking to Dynamic Brains Consulting. In a former position, she enabled people to leave everything they had ever known in order to have life-changing experiences in different cultures. Natasha has experience in facilitating strategic planning, positioning diversity as opportunity, and creating conversations that increase organizational effectiveness and revenue streams. Her science background combined with strong social and cultural skills brings unique perspective to our work. Natasha strongly believes that everyone should have the opportunity to be their best selves.

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Who we work with

  • Hoag Health Network

  • Maricopa County Juvenile State Court (Cradle to Crayons Program)

  • Newport Academy

  • PESI

  • Praxis

  • Rotary of Castlerock, CO

  • Seattle Counselors Association

Testimonials

  • Physical, emotional, and mental anxiety befalls many of us in a course of a lifetime. Fuel Your Brain, Not Your Anxiety presents us with a comprehensive workbook to understand what is driving our symptoms of stress and fatigue and introduces innovative tools to help us increase our physical, mental and emotional clarity. Using modern neurophysiology Dr. Kristen Allott and Natasha Duarte astutely examine how food based proteins and glucose management can improve our diet, sleep and exercise practices. Like the authors this book is an insightful, accessible and compassionate resource to increase our vitality and well-being.

    — Kimberly S. Richardson, MA, Two Cranes Aikido; Two Cranes Institute

  • When presenting to judges, you have to have the science on point and understand the art of judicial decision making. Dr. Allott does both! She provides judicial officers with clear and concise evidence of how decision-making is influenced by how and when we eat, our regularity of sleep and if we exercise. In the complexity of a full docket, the achievable tools that Dr. Allott offers inspire judges to understand that part of their job is maintaining their health for optimal decision making. One senior Judge commented at the end of a training that he wished he'd known when he started as a judge that taking care of himself was part of the job.

    — Kelly Warner-King, Manager of Family and Youth Justice Programs, Administrative Office of the Courts

  • Dr. Kristen Allott has spoken to 5 of my Vistage groups here in the Puget Sound area. I have also recommended Dr. Allott to several of my Vistage Chair colleagues both here in Seattle and nationally. The long term benefitsto the companies, CEOs and executive leaders is that to be productive today and in the future, it requires attending to how they eat, sleep and exercise. The practical tools that Dr. Allott provides gives a competitive advantage in decision making, creative problem solving and health.

    — Mike Huse, Vistage Chair and awarded the Vistage Chair of Excellence

  • “Wonderful!”

    This book is easily a life changer. Unlike many of the previous review writers, I do not work in mental health. Rather I’m an everyday person looking for decreased anxiety. The book is easy to read, and with the workbook, it is easy to follow and understand the recommendations given by the authors. Mostly, there is an understanding that change is personal and does not happen without practice. I have given this book to my teenage daughter and her friends as this COVID year has them very stressed and anxious. And like many teenagers, they gorge on junk food when together. We are starting a book club just for this book, so they can work together to become the best they can be.

    — Dawn Ross [from Amazon.com]