Laura Bransfield, MPH, RD

Laura Greenhow Bransfield is a Licensed and Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, stress eating specialist, and the founder of Summerfield Custom Wellness. She provides evidence-based education and skills training for her patients online via telehealth for effective and sustainable behavior change rooted in neurophysiology and neurobiology.  Laura started her career with a focus on digestive health, weight loss, diabetes management, and functional and integrative nutrition, but she always wondered why people have difficulty stopping behaviors they know are harming them, can’t consistently implement behaviors they say they want to, and why they suddenly stop doing things that make them feel great and fall back into old habits time and time again.  These burning questions led her to study the brain science of behavior change and become a specialist in stress eating.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Laura moved to North Carolina in 2009 to pursue her dietetics education.  She earned her master’s degree in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her dietetic internship rotations at the North Carolina State Health Department in Raleigh, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, and the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center in St. Thomas.

Laura got her start in the health industry in 2004 as a corporate trainer for Curves International, opening new facilities and teaching owner and manager training seminars across the country.  While earning her master’s degree, she worked as a Health Promotion Specialist for UNC Campus Health Services.  For her master’s research, she explored the connection between health, weight, and body image among Afro-Caribbean women in the US Virgin Islands.  After graduation, she became the Public Health Educator for a diabetes grant in Cabarrus County.  When she moved to Wilmington in 2013, Laura began working as the Nutrition Coordinator for Employee Health at NHRMC while she started building her private practice.

All these years later, Laura is grateful to spread the Summerfield mission and vision alongside our amazing team. While Laura focused her first decade at Summerfield on program development and growing and training the organization, with a rockstar leadership team in place and a loving community of dedicated dietitians on staff, Laura has been able to step back into her favorite role again – direct patient care. Laura believes that self-love, emotional health, and stress resilience are essential components of wellness. She is passionate about helping her patients break down the barriers that prevent them from putting their nutrition knowledge into action, so they can float through life, making healthy choices with ease.

Laura is accepting new patients who are seeking stress-related eating support.