Personal Nutrition Counseling

How can I help?

Read through the following statements. If any of them resonate with you, I’d love for you to reach out! With support and guidance, we can find solutions that work for you.

Relationship to Food, Movement, or Body

  • You want to find a comfortable eating pattern that optimizes your wellbeing and minimizes stress

  • You don’t like restrictive dieting, counting calories, or macros

  • You want to be able to eat foods you love without feeling shame or guilt

  • You feel pressure to exercise to compensate for foods that you ate

  • You feel “out of control” around certain foods

  • You are frustrated by the confusing nutrition information out there and want to process your questions with a professional

  • You want to improve your self-image and relationship to your body

  • You want to find ways to improve your health/wellness

  • You want to spend less time and energy thinking about food tracking or meal planning

  • You've heard about Intuitive Eating and want to explore it with guided, individualized support

  • You want to learn how to identify and trust your body’s hunger and fullness cues

  • You feel anxious about your food choices

Practical Challenges

  • Planning, preparing, or purchasing food is causing stress, and you’d like support and guidance

  • You struggle to eat consistently due to a demanding schedule

  • You’re having a hard time creating balanced meals

  • You’d like to build confidence with cooking ingredients, kitchen tools, or skills

  • You would like to reduce stress around meal planning

  • You’re feeling bored in the kitchen or are in a cooking “funk”

  • You sometimes forget to eat and struggle with erratic eating

  • You are unsure how to incorporate nutrition recommendations from your doctor

  • You are trying to optimize your food choices to manage a health condition

Community Connections

  • You’d like to connect with and learn about food with others in your community, but don’t know where to start

  • You want to learn how to grow food or support local farmers in your area

  • You want to support positive change in your community through food, and are looking for resources

  • You’re looking for books, podcasts, or other media recommendations to learn about food in new ways

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 current out-of-pocket rates are:

    -$125 for a 60-minute initial nutrition assessment;

    -Nutrition membership follow-up options include: Tier 1 ($180) includes two sessions per month (60-minutes and 30-minutes); Tier 2 ($130) incudes one session per month (60-minutes).

    *If cost is a barrier please reach out, and I can help find support that works for you.

  • Aside from the counseling sessions, both follow-up memberships include:

    -Access to articles, tools, and learning activities

    -Chat support from your dietitian through a safe and secure virtual platform

    -Personal task manager to assist with goal setting

    -Recipes for meal planning support and inspiration

    -Food & Mood journal with feedback from your Dietitian

  • I do not have a minimum monthly commitment. Nutrition membership follow-up plans are renewed month-to-month. The amount of time needed for a client to notice progress and reach their personal goals varies. Most clients start with the twice/month plan, and as they progress, they may wish to schedule one session monthly, every 3 months, or every 6 months.

  • 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.

  • The initial nutrition assessment includes an interview and conversation about your medical history, diet history, and lifestyle. We will review and discuss your intake forms. We’ll also talk about your initial goals, but the follow up sessions are when we dive in and start working towards those.

    Follow-up sessions include a mix of conversation, education, and collaborative problem-solving. Together, we review what was shared in the initial assessment and determine where to start in your first follow-up. Ongoing sessions revolve around what is going well and what you need more help with.

    Here are some 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.

    • 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 through an Intuitive Eating lens.

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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."