Medical Nutrition Therapy
You’re here for a reason. Maybe you find food and nutrition to be overwhelming and you want to learn an easier way of eating healthier without obsessing over it or you are tired of the fad diets and temporary results that lead you to feeling worse about yourself. Maybe you are ready to find sustainable and realistic solutions to make food and eating enjoyable again. Maybe you have a family to feed and you are overwhelmed and frustrated with the monotony of meal time or maybe you are feeling overwhelmed in managing your chronic illness.
Whatever your reason, you’ve shown up and that is the BRAVE first step! I am here to reassure you that you are in the right place.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all meal plan or calorie amount, I want to help you cultivate your intuitive ability to make decisions about eating. While I may be a nutrition expert, I believe you are the expert of yourself and your family. I am not here to take away foods your enjoy or make you eat food you do not like. ALL FOODS FIT.
Working together, you will learn how to work with your appetite instead of against it. You will learn to achieve satisfaction so you can eat it and forget it. I want to empower you toward confidence and peace with food. Let’s get your food freedom, peace, and joy back!
I would love to guide you in feeling better about eating because life is too short to spend it stressed, frustrated, and overwhelmed by food.
How we practice
We know this sounds crazy compared to the noise of diet culture telling you to restrict more, exercise more, work harder, eat better, count your calories, limit your carbs, on and on and on but none of that is sustainable. This is a weight inclusive practice which means that in this practice we accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes. This means that we do not focus on weight loss. THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM.
Intuitive Eating is the framework to which we coach by. What is Intuitive Eating? Intuitive Eating is a way of eating that is based on instinct, emotion, and rational thought. It is a framework that was created about 30 years ago by two dietitians. After years of practicing and creating diets for patients, they realized something was missing, dieting doesn’t work. Thirty years of research and data and Intuitive Eating is still the recommended framework by us dietitians who are sick of diet culture.
Intuitive Eating is a personal process that includes 10 principles including:
Rejecting the diet mentality
Honoring your hunger
Making peace with food
Challenging the food police
Discovering satisfaction
Feeling your fullness
Emotional eating
Respecting your body
Movement
Gentle nutrition
We also counsel clients in their journey of body image healing. What we have learned along the way is that body image issues go hand in hand with your relationship with food. We work with clients in understanding and improving their body image to promote long lasting change.
In order to change your behaviors you must first change your thoughts and feelings around food and body.
If you are stressed and overwhelmed trying to manage your chronic illness such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc. we are here for you. Let me guess, your doctor gave your the new, scary diagnosis and sent you on your way to figure out how to manage it on your own? Wrote you a prescription and out the door he went. It is a story I have personally heard way too many times. We want to give you the tools to manage your condition that fits your lifestyle and is sustainable longterm.
Let’s Get Started!
We offer many options for you to choose from in order to make this process as stress free as possible. Nutrition counseling is available for both individuals and families. We will help you translate science-based nutrition information into a realistic and manageable way of eating. By using a non-diet, family-based approach of nutrition therapy, we will give you the tools and support needed. Whether you need the support to manage your new diagnosis or are looking to break free from diet culture we want to show you how to eat right for YOU as you build a healthy relationship with food that will last for the rest of your life.
Now, not much progress can be made in one or two sessions. This is not a black and white process with a duration that can be predicted. This is a complex journey that looks different for everyone.
Contact us to set up an initial consultation today!
Pricing
We are working hard to become credentialed with insurance companies! This means that for most of you unlimited visits will soon be a possibility! We are hoping to be able to accept most insurances by the beginning of 2025.
In the meantime we are able to provide superbills. You provide payment up front, I provide the service and superbill, you submit the superbill to your insurance company, they reimburse you!
If these are not options for you, self pay is also an option.
(I hate when websites don’t list their prices, and I wish I could!) However, it is truly dependent on the type of insurance you have. Average prices for Medical Nutrition Therapy in our area average $150- $200 per session.
Payment plans are available!