I — ROUTINE SERVICES
Routine services include support for healthy eating, weight loss or weight gain, as well as for preserving muscle and bone mass you age.
I help adults of all ages reduce the risk for conditions that run in their family, including type 2 diabetes and by addressing the “blood sugar roller-coaster” and “insulin roller-coaster” that often drives food cravings, so that people are able to lose weight without feeling hungry. Keeping it off then becomes easy, and advanced cooking skills are not required!
Furthermore, our approach doesn’t require you to keep a food journal or constantly weigh and measure your food, or yourself!
I also offer specialized nutrition education sessions on a range of topics including gout, GERD, migraines, kidney stones, macular degeneration, improving iron status from food, and others.
There are seven options for getting started, depending on your needs.
1. Hourly Services
There are three types of Hourly Services;
a) Initial Hourly Consultation: is a non-clinical appointment for meeting with me for the first time to discuss your needs, and see if we are a good fit. Any remaining time in the appointment can be “banked” for follow-up services when moving forward with a package.
b) Hourly Services: (for existing clients) for additional clinical work or taking follow-up clinical visits on an hourly basis.
c) Specialty Hourly Services: for nutrition education on a range of topics including gout, migraines, macular degeneration, constipation, and others.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
Routine Packages
Individual services in each package are broken down into their hourly components. Depending on the needs of each individual clients, some components may take slightly more time, and some slightly less, with the total amount of time provided as planned. Finalized receipts will have the date and time of each service in the package specified as this is required by extended benefits plans for reimbursement.
If you would like to see how services are broken down on a receipt, you can download a sample for the Comprehensive Dietary Package here, and all packages are broken down similarly.
2. Comprehensive Dietary Package
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is for healthy individuals, or those with routine clinical conditions (e.g. type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol). The package is broken down into four separate, dated hourly services which are as follows.
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements, and a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of Individual Meal Plan is based on information collected in the in-depth clinical assessment. Turnaround time until the Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: This session includes a teaching about risk factors, weight and waist circumference, dietary and lifestyle recommendations based on information collected at the assessment visit, as lab test results, and a step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan including serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. To make implementing your Meal Plan easy, a detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing this teaching is provided along with your Meal Plan.
4. Two follow-up sessions for coaching: option to combine both sessions into one visit for review of progress and Meal Plan adjustments.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
3. Prenatal Dietary Package
The Prenatal Dietary Package is intended for individuals in their first trimester of pregnancy and provides 3 variations of your Meal Plan; one for each trimester.
The package is broken down into three separate, dated hourly services as follows;
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history and recent lab results to assess risk factors, current nutritional supplements and medications (if any), weight goals, as well as a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of 3 versions of the Individual Meal Plan: is based on information collected in the clinical assessment. Turnaround time until the 3 variations of your Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: This session includes dietary and lifestyle recommendations including achieving weight gain goals, and a step-by-step teaching of the 3 versions of your Meal Plan for each of the three trimesters, including serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. To make implementing your Meal Plans easy, a detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing this teaching is provided to you, along with the 3 variations of your Meal Plan.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
4. Healthy Aging Package
The Healthy Aging Package is designed to help older health adults maintain both muscle and bone mass by ensuring adequate dietary intake of nutrients of importance. This package is broken down into four separate, dated hourly services which are as follows.
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements and a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of an Individual Meal Plan is based on information collected in the clinical assessment and focused on retaining bone and muscle mass. Turnaround time until the Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: review of weight / waist circumference, recommendations related to recent lab test results, dietary and lifestyle recommendation with a focus on maintaining both muscle and bone mass. Teaching your Meal Plan includes serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. To make implementing your Meal Plan easy, a detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing this teaching is provided along with your Meal Plan.
4. Two follow-up sessions for coaching: option to combine both sessions into one visit for review of progress and Meal Plan adjustments.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
5. Menopause Management Package
The Menopause Management Package is specifically designed for ‘women of a certain age’ who are struggling with the symptoms of peri-menopause, or menopause. This package addresses weight gain, fat accumulation around the mid-section, insulin resistance and/or prediabetes, as well as sleep disruption. The package is broken down into four separate, dated hourly services as follows;
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements, and a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of Individual Meal Plan: s based on information collected in the in-depth clinical assessment. Turnaround time until the Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: teaching related to weight and waist circumference goals, improving sleep, dietary and lifestyle recommendations based on data collected during the assessment visit, and a step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan, including serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. To make implementing your Meal Plan easy, a detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing this teaching is provided along with your Meal Plan.
4. Two follow-up sessions for coaching: option to combine both sessions into one visit for review of progress and Meal Plan adjustments.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
6. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Package
The PCOS Package is designed for women who want to reduce symptoms associated with PCOS including insulin resistance, and weight gain. The package is broken down into four separate, dated hourly services as follows;
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results especially as related to markers of PCOS, current medications and nutritional supplements, and a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of Individual Meal Plan based on information collected in the clinical assessment, your Meal Plan will be designed to address specific PCOS symptoms and weight goals. Turnaround time until the Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: teaching related lowering insulin resistance, weight and waist circumference, relevance of recent lab test results, dietary and lifestyle recommendations, and step-by-step teaching of the Individual Meal Plan including serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. A customized and detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing the teaching is provided along with a printout of your Meal Plan to make implementing it easy.
4. Two follow-up sessions for coaching: option to combine both sessions into one visit for review of progress, and Meal Plan adjustments.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
7. Hypothyroid Management Package
The Hypothyroid Management Package is for those newly diagnosed with hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s disease who want to normalize their weight, and optimize nutrition related to nutrients of importance in hypothyroidism.
The package is broken down into four separate and dated hourly services, with the last session being a specialized nutrition education session that focuses on Nutrients of Importance in Hypothyroidism.
The four sessions are as follows;
1. In-depth clinical assessment: review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements, and a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review.
2. Design of an Individual Meal Plan: is based on information collected in the clinical assessment with a focus on dietary intake of foods high in nutrients of importance in hypothyroidism. Turnaround time until the Meal Plan is designed is ~2 weeks from the completion of the clinical assessment, and receipt of any additional requested information.
3. Nutrition Education Session: review of weight / waist circumference, recommendations based on recent lab test results, risk of other autoimmune conditions, dietary and lifestyle recommendations, and teaching of the Individual Meal Plan including serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions. A customized and detailed, multi-page nutrition education handout summarizing the teaching is provided along with a printout of your Meal Plan to make implementing it easy.
4. Nutrients and Foods of Importance in Hypothyroidism: includes types and timing of different supplements relative to thyroid medication, as well as nutrient-medication interactions, and nutrient-nutrient interactions.
To get started, click on the button below to learn about pricing, payment options, clinical hours, and to book an appointment.
8. Dietary Management Package (a follow-up package)
The Dietary Management Package is for follow-up sessions to any of the Routine packages above, and can be taken as 6 x half-hour sessions, or as 3 x one hour-sessions – or a combination of both, for a total of 3 hours of service.
Please note: At this time, all services are provided via a secure telehealth portal.
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