Individual Nutrition Counseling

•     Office or in-home
  

Individual Personal Training

•     Private Studio or in-home

What is Nutrition Counseling?

Nutrition Therapy is an ongoing process in which a Registered Dietitian (RD), works with an individual to assess his or her usual dietary intake and identify areas where change is needed. The RD provides information, educational materials, support, and follow-up to help the individual make and maintain the needed dietary changes.

The goal of Nutrition Therapy is to help a person make and maintain dietary changes. Dietary change may be needed to promote healthier eating, to follow a therapeutic diet, and/or to avoid nutrient-drug interactions. The RD and individual works together to assess current eating patterns and identify areas where change is needed.

Nutrition Counseling Includes:

• Assessing dietary habits
• Assessing healthy body weight
• Identifying needed changes
• Identifying barriers to change
• Setting goals
• Finding support
• Maintaining change

 

Nutrition Counseling Program:

1^st Appointment

• Evaluate nutritional status, health, medical and exercise history
• Identify nutritional struggles and obstacles
• Determine overall program goals

2^nd Appointment

• Provide nutritional and exercise analysis of current diet
• Provide individualized nutritional plan
• Establish weekly behavioral goals

Follow-up sessions

• Review progress and revise initial plan
• Problem solve difficulties

 

What is Exercise Therapy?

Often in eating disorder recovery individuals are told to avoid exercise. Just like food, physical activity is critical to healthy living and can be a healthy part of the recovery process.

Exercise Therapy is a combination of personal training and exploration of exercise symptoms with a focus and goal of incorporating healthy exercise patterns into your eating disorder recovery. Exercise Therapy aims at giving each client an exercise protocol that provides their body with a renewed sense of balance, energy, and strength. Individual assessments help patients learn to debunk their body myths and develop a healthy approach to personal fitness. 

Exercise Therapy can help patients reconnect with their feelings and communicate on another level.  Exercise encourages individuals to step outside of their mind and reclaim their bodies, giving them courage to find beauty and freedom in their own functional fitness level.

Objectives of Exercise Therapy:

• Explore healthy exercise parameters
• Distinguish between healthy exercise induced fatigue and unhealthy excessive exercise
• Learn how to safely incorporate exercise into your recovery and life
• Develop a exercise program that meets your needs and is enjoyable
• Interrogate different types of exercise modalities into your routine
• Balance exercise and nutritional needs

 Exercise Therapy Program:

• 1^st Session- Full exercise Assessment and discussion of program goals
• 2^nd Session- Customized Personal Training program based on your needs with distinctions and discussion of physical and emotional feelings.
• 3^rd Session On- Dynamic program training based on your needs with continued exploration

 How does Nutrition Counseling and Exercise Therapy
work together?

Nutrition and Exercise Therapy work together to provide clients the full spectrum of physical health; nutrition is the number one determiner of health in later years, physical activity is number two. By incorporating both aspects into your eating disorder recovery physical balance is achieved.

 

Group Services

Group Nutrition Therapy:

On-going Nutrition Therapy groups are available. Contact Marjorie to find out when the next group begins.

• Grocery Shopping Groups

• Restaurant Dining Groups

• Nutrition Support Groups

 

Will insurance cover my visit?

Now accepting: Empire BCBS and Aetna

Many insurance companies will reimburse for Medical Nutrition Therapy office consultations if you have a diagnosed health problem. I can help you get reimbursed for you sessions. Call your insurance to verify the coverage offered for ‘Medical Nutrition Therapy’.

Sliding scale is available