Welcome to my website, I’m really excited you’re here! This is a space for judgement-free exploration of all things food and nutrition. Let me know if I can do something better, add something you see missing, or if you want to schedule a free 15 minute initial consultation.
The first session is an hour long and offers a chance for us to get to know one another and for you to tell me more about yourself and what you’re looking for from our work together. We’ll come up with some goals together and talk about what tools might be most helpful to start with. Follow-up visits are 30 minutes and allow us to adjust/modify/add goals and try more tools.
I focus my practice on health and do not weigh clients. While I do have some clients who prefer to weigh themselves, the work we do together is focused on relationship with food, stress level, sleep quality, gentle nutrition, happy movement/exercise, and other markers of health.
I used to provide meal plans in my practice but realized that, for most clients, they were not helpful. Because our lives are constantly moving and shifting and changing, to expect to eat a prescribed meal plan is not realistic and can create diet-driven/restrictive behavior. I do brainstorm meal ideas and I do have resources for meal and snack ideas I recommend to clients. But this is always done on an individual basis and never as an “eat this, on this day” model but rather as a way to have ideas for meals that a client can choose to use when they want to.
There is no one answer to this — it varies for each client. If you have a peaceful relationship with food and are seeing me for medical nutrition therapy or to learn to cook more at home/expand your variety it will likely take less time. If you are in the process of healing your relationship with food, it will take longer, depending on where in that process you are. Each person is different and there is no right answer — together, we will find the right pace for you.
I do! All of my sessions with clients are virtual.
I meet you where you are when it comes to all things food and nutrition…and we go from there. If you want to cook more, I can certainly help. If you aren’t interested in cooking at home, that’s ok, too. I do offer in-home cooking sessions.
You are not alone! I often meet clients at the grocery store to navigate all of the choices together. We can make a grocery list together, ahead of time, or we can simply walk through the store together to get an initial sense of what looks/sounds good to you and what you might create with it.
While I don’t work with clients to pursue weight loss goals, many of my clients have weight loss goals when we start working together. The pressure to lose weight comes at us from many different places and fat phobia and weight stigma are very real. This is something we talk about during sessions. We talk about where the pressure to be smaller comes from, what purpose it might serve versus if it serves you, what you might lose regarding health and joy if you were to pursue weight loss goals, and many other things related to weight loss, restriction, and diet culture. This is an ongoing conversation and an ongoing process. If you’re open to having these conversations, I am, too!