Nutrition Therapy
Reclaim Your Eating and Body Wisdom
Develop a healthy relationship with food and your body, end obsessing and guilt, and learn how, what and when to eat based on your body’s own needs.
We specialize in helping those with eating and body image issues. It’s all we do. Together, we have over 50 years of expertise in this field.
And we know for sure that….
If You Are Struggling, You Haven’t Failed. The System Failed You.
Traditional approaches to nutrition and weight management teach you to:
Monitor and manipulate your food intake
Avoid bad food (and what is bad depends on the plan)
Count calories and manage portions,
Always monitor your weight (or the pounds will sneak back on).
Seems reasonable. After all, that is the only thing offered.
But these approaches can contribute to the very problems you’ve been trying to fix.
Once you understand why traditional approaches make you more food focused, increase cravings and make weight management more difficult, you will realize YOU are not the failure.
If you've tried meal plans and programs and kept falling off them, if you lost but then gained weight, if you’ve been increasingly frustrated, don't blame yourself.
Ditch the Diet and Try Something New!
Years ago, Karin thought if she learned more about nutrition, her eating problems would be solved. She was wrong. Her nutrition degree and Master’s in Exercise Physiology made things worse. She had to turn her back on all that education.
We bring this mindful approach to eating to you, offering compassionate, inclusive care centered around a philosophy of intuitive eating, body acceptance, and unpacking and healing underlying issues.
Our approach is highly individualized, blending expertise in nutrition and psychology, to help you break the cycle of chaotic, unhealthy eating.
During that time, she developed a very different approach to eating, and discovered the sense of freedom and control around food and weight that she had been seeking.
Free 20-minute phone consultation
Going Beyond Food and Eating Guidelines
Changing your food is not easy. The way you eat is an ingrained habit pattern that you’ve practiced multiple times a day for decades.
On top of that, your beliefs about food and eating, your emotional connections to foods, your individual nutritional needs and your lifestyle all converge to reinforce your eating patterns.
To ensure permanent changes, we explore your food beliefs, behaviors, and internal self-talk, while delving into what food means to you. We’ll help you unpack emotions behind your food choices, challenge negative thought patterns, and create more positive patterns and behaviors.
Our approach will literally change the way you think about food, making eating the way you want second nature. Our goal is an easy, peaceful relationship with food and eating — for you to eat healthy, comfortably, without struggle.
We Partner With You to Heal Eating Struggles
We may be the experts in this field, but you are the expert in your own experiences. We will work collaboratively with you to gain a better understanding of the issues involved and to identify small changes that can lead to larger successes.
Initial Nutrition Therapy Session
Your first session will include a nutrition assessment. As you are comfortable, we will explore your past and present relationship with food, weight history, body image concerns, digestive health, connection to exercise / movement, and more. We’ll discuss what you hope to get out of our work together.
The focus will be on what you want to accomplish, implementing nutrition interventions and intuitive eating practices at a pace that works for you.
Follow-up Nutrition Therapy Session
Follow-up sessions can offer you more support. We explore where you are stuck and develop tools for effective coping, unlearn diet rules, create structure as necessary, and increase variety and flexibility with eating. We will help you break away from beliefs and behaviors that are sabotaging your efforts.
You will learn about nutrition in ways that will help you stay on track. And you will learn how hunger and ever-so-subtle fullness cues can and will successfully guide your eating and weight. You will also heal body image issues so that you can live with more ease in your body.
Follow-up sessions are often weekly, and then less often as you are able to make the changes you want. We’ll discuss what works best for you so that you can fully shift your relationship with food and body, and find the peace and freedom you have been seeking.
Are you ready for the next step? Are you ready to learn to nourish yourself in a new way?
Kind Words from Clients
“Every day is a celebration”
“I wanted to thank you again for all the inspiration, help, and support and to let you know IT’S WORKING! I just celebrated 7 months with no binging and purging and have maintained my weight for 5 months. Every day is a celebration of the miracle and the freedom it brings. As I write this I am still awed by the enormity of the changes. Thank you.” - TA