Personalized Nutrition Counseling

Nutrition counseling offers individualized support to help you build a more balanced, peaceful, and sustainable relationship with food. Sessions are tailored to your unique needs and may include everything from learning the basics of nutrition and meal planning to exploring intuitive eating, emotional wellbeing, and cooking confidence.

Together, we’ll look at how your food choices connect to your overall health—mental, physical, emotional, social—and create strategies that support your goals without focusing on weight or restriction. Whether you're navigating a health condition, dealing with food guilt, or simply trying to eat well in a busy life, nutrition counseling can help you feel more informed, empowered, and supported.

Examples of the range of topics we may cover in a session (each client’s needs are different!)

  • Holistic Health: We will evaluate all parts of your wellness: mental, emotional, physical,

    social, etc. Explore how your eating patterns promote wellness in different parts of your

    life.

  • Weight-neutral Care: Learn how to integrate an approach that focuses on health

    behaviors and overall well-being rather than weight as a primary indicator of health. We'll talk about how to support your body's needs without relying on dieting, restriction, or weight-based goals.

  • Food Beyond the Plate: Practice expanding your appreciation of food as more than

    nutrition (social connection, emotional wellbeing, cultural traditions, and more).

  • Nutrition Basics: Build your knowledge of macronutrients, micronutrients, and how they support overall health and well-being.

  • Building Balanced Meals: Learn more about meal composition and creating

    nutrient-dense meals without rigid tracking.

  • Intuitive & Mindful Eating: Explore and practice applying the principles of intuitive

    eating, such as recognizing hunger and fullness cues, incorporating joyful movement,

    addressing emotional eating, or challenging food guilt.

  • Culinary Basics: Get recipe tips and tools to help you feel more comfortable expanding

    your skills in the kitchen.

  • Community Food: Learn more about how to find local farmers, how to start a garden, or

    how to cook with seasonal ingredients.

  • Nutrition in Daily Life & Specific Goals: Learn how to adapt healthy eating for your own life: during travel, to support workouts, to fit a busy schedule, to work with a limited budget, or to manage health conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension using a weight-neutral approach.

Individual or Group/Family Counseling

Initial Nutrition Assessment

This session is a chance to get to know you: your health history, your current relationship with food and your body, your routines, and what matters most to you. We'll talk about what’s been working, what’s difficult, and what you’re hoping to learn. This session lays the groundwork for a collaborative process rooted in curiosity, and care.

75 minutes

Pay-as-you-go Follow-ups

Single coaching sessions offer continued support as you explore a more flexible, sustainable relationship with food, movement, and self-care. We’ll check in on what’s coming up for you, adjust any strategies as needed, and collaborate to address challenges you encounter. We will practice cultivating a sense of curiosity, non-judgment, and flexibility with your food choices, body image, and physical activity routines so you can find what really works for you (without reinforcing an “all or nothing” mindset). This option is ideal for those seeking flexibility without a long-term commitment.

60 minutes

3-session Follow-up Package

This package is a way to invest in ongoing support and give yourself the time and space to truly dig in. With consistent sessions, we can explore habits and patterns, build new skills, and deepen your understanding of nutrition concepts while promoting connection to your body’s physical cues and needs. Whether you're working on letting go of dieting, building health-promoting eating habits, or supporting overall wellbeing, this package provides a steady foundation for meaningful, lasting growth.

Three 60-minute sessions

Find Your Own Version of Healthy Eating Package

When you hear “healthy eating,” do you think of restrictions, rules, or foods to avoid? In reality, nourishing yourself goes far beyond what’s on your plate.

This personalized 6-session counseling package is designed to explore health through a holistic and compassionate lens. Together, we’ll look at how, why, where, and with whom you eat — while considering your unique lifestyle, food preferences, cultural needs, schedule, budget, and access to food.

What you can expect:

  • Tailored nutrition guidance grounded in science

  • An introduction to the core principles of Intuitive Eating

  • A supportive space to explore your relationship with food, body, and overall wellbeing

  • One-on-one support focused on your goals, values, and lived experiences

Each 60-minute session offers space for reflection, learning, and practical tools to support meaningful change. Whether you’re looking to feel more at peace with food, build sustainable habits, or take a more mindful approach to health, this package is designed to meet you where you are.

Want continued support? Optional follow-up coaching sessions are available after your 6 sessions.

Ready to get started? Schedule your free 30-minute Discovery Call.

FAQs

  • I do not accept insurance at this time. However, I can provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance company. In some cases, you can be reimbursed for out of network dietitian services.

  • I only work with adults (18+) based in the state of Michigan. I primarily work with people who want to:

    -prevent health issues

    -find solutions for food and nutrition challenges (such as those listed above)

    -manage chronic health conditions

    -establish a sustainable way of eating without restrictive dieting

    -improve their relationship with food or their body

    However, I am not able to work with individuals who need intensive medical supervision or who have active eating disorders. If you need help in those areas, I can recommend Registered Dietitians who can assist you.

  • My sessions are entirely virtual. Internet access is required. If you have any accessibility needs, please let me know.

    If you are not local but prefer in-person sessions, please reach out, and I can offer suggestions for finding a Registered Dietitian in your area.

What Clients Have Shared:

  • -Anne

    “Before working with Mary, I felt Insecure, stressed, overwhelmed in my relationship to food, body, and movement. Since working together, I feel more confident, relaxed and comfortable. What I enjoyed most about our work together were our frank and comfortable conversations.  You are so easy to talk to! This has been a life changing experience in how I see myself, my body and how I eat.”

  • -R.G.

    “Since working with Mary, I have become much more mindful about my hunger/fullness cues, and more in tune about what I need and want when I'm feeling hungry.  I am also much less restrictive with food and don't feel like I deprive myself anymore. I've really enjoyed learning from all the information that you have and getting so many helpful resources.  It's very easy to talk to you and I felt comfortable sharing my experiences with you. For someone starting their own journey, I would describe this as a nonjudgmental space that helps to explore and understand your relationship with food.  There's no pressure to do things a certain way, it's simply tailored to understanding yourself in regards to food, nutrition, and body image.”

  • -D.J.

    “It has been most helpful to stop the obsessions of weight and food. I am slowly learning how to appreciate food. It was helpful to have a guide and not just a diet.”

  • -Don

    "I have learned new things to eat (refrigerator oatmeal!!), paying attention to hunger and taking it as something of importance. And have learned why I eat outside of hunger. You listened to me and heard what I had to say about my experience. I feel like you met me where I am at, not from a preconceived program. This is not at all what I expected. I expected to be told to count calories, to eat this food, but not that food. You did not do this. Again, as I said above, you met me where I am at. You listened to my life experiences, all of which effect my relationship to food. "

  • -E.C.

    "I am proud of the fact that I have not let myself get so overwhelmed or discouraged that I have given up. I have, with Mary's help, set small but realistic goals that have resulted in genuine incremental changes. I was intimidated before we started working together and felt I was lacking so much knowledge, but I feel more empowered now. I have changed my eating habits and attitudes about food in a way that don't feel punitive or restrictive. I no longer go on restriction cycles when I have a bad body image day. I pay more attention to how food makes me feel after I eat it, and if I want to eat it again in the future. I am able to keep the mindset that one single meal will not ruin my progress. I do not force myself to eat foods that taste bad just because I think they're "healthy." I have recipe knowledge and feel more prepared than ever before to make myself new and exciting meals. I have also returned to the gym and I feel empowered when I go, without forcing myself to engage in punishing exercise that I don't enjoy. I still struggle with body image because my body has changed a lot in the past year, but a positive difference is that I have more tools now than ever before to combat diet culture."