Greta Jarvis, MS, MPH
Academic.
Greta Jarvis, MS, MPH (she/her) earned her Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Master of Science in Nutrition from the National University of Natural Medicine, and Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in Latin American Studies and Public Health from Occidental College.
Additionally, Greta holds certifications as an Intuitive Eating Counselor, an Integrative Health Coach with Duke Integrative Medicine, and a Spinning Instructor with Mad Dogg Athletics®.
Professional.
As the founder of the Center for Active Women, Greta sees individual clients and facilitates customized group events to support women of all ages in cultivating peaceful relationships with how they eat, how they move, and how they look.
She works as the Marketing & Media Manager for EDRD Pro, an organization providing online education for an active global community of eating disorder professionals, and the social media specialist and assistant for Evelyn Tribole, the co-author and co-creator of Intuitive Eating. Greta coaches JV women’s lacrosse at Jesuit High School and is an adjunct faculty member at the National University of Natural Medicine, where she teaches the graduate-level Eating Disorders and Intuitive Eating elective.
Personal.
In 2017, at age twenty-four, diagnostic bone imaging revealed osteoporosis in Greta’s hips and spine. Seemingly no risk factors foretold this jolting diagnosis: she was a lifelong athlete who performed weight-bearing exercise, was never “underweight,” and did not have an eating disorder – the bone scan occurred at her request following rigorous self-study of the “exercise-induced amenorrhea” (missing periods) she believed ordinary for nearly a decade. Not one medical professional, dietitian, coach, trainer, or fellow athlete gave her reason to suspect that her condition was anything more than an invisible (in)convenience. Today, Greta is working to change that.
This discovery and process of healing add to a constellation of experiences motivating Greta to educate and position herself to found the Center for Active Women, with special interests in secondary hypothalamic amenorrhea (missing periods), the preventable and alarmingly common condition fomenting silent bone loss years ago, as well as the culture and policies that drive it.
In her free time, Greta enjoys hosting game nights with friends, reading, traveling, speaking Spanish, cooking, and listening to podcasts – you also may find her practicing harp, an instrument she began playing at age ten.
Athletic.
As a coach and athlete herself, Greta keeps her finger on the pulse of what girls and women think and feel around food, body, and sport. She is an Ironman 70.3 finisher and regularly hikes, runs, swims, cycles, and practices yoga – but lacrosse first sparked her lifelong love of sport and joyful movement.
Greta began playing lacrosse in sixth grade and served as team captain for two seasons as a high school varsity athlete, earning the honors of Most Inspirational Player, Team Leadership Award, First All-Team in the Metro League, and Academic All-American. She enthusiastically joined Occidental College’s Division III Varsity lacrosse team but found herself needing to step away over irreconcilable differences in coaching philosophies after one year of play.
She returned to the field in 2020 as the head JV women’s lacrosse coach at Jesuit High School and joined Portland State University’s Division II club lacrosse team as a graduate student the following year, where she was named Most Valuable Player for the 2022 and 2023 seasons; second-team All-American and top league-scorer in 2023; and second-team All-American and Attack MVP for the Northwest Women’s Lacrosse League in 2024.
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