Laura Ugwuoke, RD
When nutrition has started to feel complicated, Laura Ugwuoke, RD helps you turn it back into something you can actually live with
If you are managing diabetes, high cholesterol, digestive symptoms, hormone-related changes, or simply trying to prevent health concerns before they take over, nutrition can start to feel like a second job. Laura Ugwuoke, RD is the kind of dietitian who helps you replace confusion with a plan that respects your health goals, your schedule, your culture, and the foods that make life feel familiar. As a dietitian in Kitchener at CARESPACE Health+Wellness, Laura brings a rare combination of clinical nutrition training, diabetes education experience, and culturally inclusive counselling that makes evidence-based care feel practical instead of overwhelming.She does not hand you a rigid meal plan and expect you to fit your life around it. She listens first, learns how food already shows up in your day, and helps you build clear next steps that can support blood sugar, cholesterol, digestion, energy, hormonal wellness, and long-term prevention without shame, fear, or all-or-nothing rules.
Laura Ugwuoke, RD combines clinical nutrition science with the kind of personalization that makes change feel possible
Laura Ugwuoke, RD provides comprehensive dietetic care for a wide range of nutrition goals, from everyday meal planning, balanced eating, and energy concerns to medical nutrition therapy for chronic disease prevention and management. Her training across acute care, outpatient education, community wellness, and population health means she understands both the clinical numbers and the real-life barriers behind them. Through nutrition counselling, she translates the science of carbohydrates, fibre, protein, sodium, hydration, micronutrients, and meal timing into choices you can repeat on an ordinary busy day.What makes Laura distinctive is not one narrow niche, but the way she connects chronic disease prevention, cultural food traditions, digestive comfort, and hormonal wellness into one practical strategy. You get the reassurance of evidence-based dietetics while feeling that your preferences are not obstacles to overcome — they are essential parts of the plan.
Your visit with Laura feels like a conversation first, then a clear plan you know how to follow
When you meet with Laura, the process begins with your whole story: what you are hoping to change, what you have already tried, what your routines look like, what foods matter to you, and what your body is telling you through energy, digestion, cravings, lab values, appetite, mood, or symptoms. She uses a collaborative style grounded in motivational interviewing, which means you are not pushed into unrealistic changes before you are ready. You are guided toward the next step that makes sense now.At CARESPACE Victoria North, Laura’s work fits naturally within CARESPACE’s coordinated, multidisciplinary model. Nutrition rarely exists in isolation. Stress, sleep, movement, medications, pain, digestive function, hormones, family demands, and mental wellness can all influence how food works in your life. When helpful, Laura can align her nutrition recommendations with the broader CARESPACE team so your care feels connected, not fragmented. The result is a plan that is specific enough to guide you and flexible enough to keep using.
Laura’s hospital, community, and public health training give you reassurance that the advice is grounded
Laura’s education includes a Bachelor of Science in Food, Nutrition and Health from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Brescia University College, and graduate-level Food and Nutrition training at Western University. As a Registered Dietitian licensed through the College of Dietitians of Ontario, Laura brings regulated professional accountability to every recommendation she makes.Her dietetic training included focused experience in paediatric diabetes, adult diabetes education, renal nutrition, stroke care, surgical nutrition support, mental health food services, and community health promotion. That breadth matters because nutrition concerns often overlap. Blood sugar may connect with energy, kidney health may connect with meal planning, digestion may connect with appetite, and prevention may depend on habits that feel realistic at home. Laura has also contributed to Health Canada population health promotion work, Type 1 diabetes education settings, nutrition education volunteering, and research related to food, nutrition, and hydration compliance in Ontario long-term care homes — experience that strengthens both her clinical reasoning and her ability to explain nutrition clearly.
Whether your goal is prevention, better numbers, easier digestion, or hormonal balance, Laura helps you build progress around real life
While Laura provides comprehensive dietitian support for many nutrition needs, you will find particular depth in chronic disease and preventative nutrition care, culturally inclusive personalized nutrition counselling, and digestive and hormonal nutritional wellness. These specialties do not limit what she can help with; they show where her training, experience, and clinical curiosity become especially valuable.If you are working on diabetes, prediabetes, high cholesterol, kidney-related nutrition concerns, celiac disease, gastroparesis, weight changes, or long-term risk reduction, Laura helps you move beyond generic advice like “eat healthier.” She looks at patterns: carbohydrate timing and quality, fibre intake, protein distribution, sodium, heart-supportive fats, hydration, meal spacing, appetite cues, and the practical reality of shopping, cooking, work, school, family meals, and budget. The goal is not perfection. The goal is progress you can understand, repeat, and adjust as your life changes.
Her culturally inclusive approach is just as important. If you have ever worried that nutrition counselling would misunderstand your traditional foods, Laura’s style is built to avoid that. She starts from respect. Instead of asking what must be removed, she helps you explore how familiar meals can be balanced, paired, portioned, timed, or prepared in ways that support your health while still feeling like yours. That approach can make nutrition feel less like restriction and more like confidence.
For digestive and hormonal wellness, Laura helps you connect patterns that may otherwise feel scattered: bloating, irregular bowel habits, reflux, appetite shifts, cycle-related changes, perimenopause-related changes, stress eating, cravings, energy dips, or food fear after uncomfortable symptoms. She brings structure without making your body feel like a problem to control. With Laura, nutrition becomes a way to understand your body more clearly and support it more consistently.
