our team of professionals
Jessa Roberts
Certified Nutritionist, Life Coach, LMT, Vibrational Medicine
Jessa has been supporting, coaching and transforming clients as well as businesses for over 20 years. Passionate about teaching healthy living, a wholistic lifestyle, self-care, love, acceptance, self awareness and embracing your body, mind as well as spirit.
Jessa spent ten years creating a medically active organic skincare products. Extensive experience, working with food, vitamin deficiencies, hormone imbalances, treatments and experienced firsthand the power of food as medicine by restoring her health through addressing her food intolerances, getting proper nutrition and making healthy choices.
She has personally struggled with her weight through her twenties, two pregnancies and then perimenopause. She can personally relate to the challenges you will encounter on your weight loss journey. Understanding hormones, emotional triggers, food allergies, vitamin deficiencies, and inflammation Jessa will be right there to support you with a plan that fits your lifestyle.
Dr. Brandon Shaw, MD
Osteopathic Doctor, Medical Weight Loss Specialist
Brandon Shaw, MD has provides a unique style of personalized, supportive weight loss and maintenance to his patients. Practicing Osteopathic Medicine, he has a passion for helping patients pursue a holistic lifestyle, wellness and achieving the best version of themselves. Helping patients maintain a balanced weight, can be the most important thing to help restore and maintain good health.
Being a holistic doctor means incorporating a healthy life style, diet and habits with latest tools in medicine. Including, body sculpting and GLP1s to help each patient reach their goals and maintain them for life. Bringing in an entire system including many tools to create a plan that fits your life.
Providing telemedicine support to all of our patients, Dr. Shaw will take his time to get to know you, investigate underlying health issues related to weight gain and recommend the best plan to achieve your goals.
Ilyse Wassermann
Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner
Clinical Nutritionist and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition and Food Studies from New York University. She completed her dietetic internship at Tulane Medical, where she received specialized clinical and medically focused nutrition training.
Following her graduate and clinical training, Ilyse pursued further postgraduate education in functional medicine, becoming a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She also has training in Ayurveda and Pilates, allowing her to bring additional perspectives on nutrition, movement, balance, and whole-person wellness to her work with clients.
Ilyse is passionate about integrating the wisdom of Ayurveda with modern clinical nutrition and functional medicine. Her Pilates training further supports her belief that movement and physical strength are important components of overall health, longevity, and well-being.
Ilyse is also excited by the ever-evolving science of peptides and their potential applications for appropriately selected patients. As part of Marin Weight Loss and Wellness’s interdisciplinary team, she collaborates with other practitioners to explore their most appropriate uses in combination with individualized nutrition, movement, and lifestyle strategies.
At Marin Weight Loss and Wellness, Ilyse works with clients to create individualized, sustainable programs designed to support weight management, wellness, healthy aging, strength, and long-term vitality. Her philosophy is centered on looking at the whole person and providing personalized nutrition, movement, and lifestyle strategies that are both practical and sustainable.
Cheryl Vargas
Manager, Patient Coordinator
Cheryl is an integral part of the practice and the person who helps keep everything moving forward. She brings a natural ability to organize, execute, problem-solve, and make sure every detail is handled so the practice can continue to grow.
She is incredibly people-focused and genuinely cares about the experience each person has. Cheryl takes the time to listen, understand where someone is coming from, and make sure they feel supported every step of the way. She brings energy and a big smile to everything she does.
She knows that every person’s journey is different, and she meets people where they are without judgment.
Whether she is coordinating the moving pieces behind the scenes, solving a problem, supporting the team, or cheering on a client, Cheryl is someone you can count on to get things done.
She is the kind of person who sees what needs to happen, figures out how to make it happen, and follows through.
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