Personalized Nutrition Counseling

Feel more confident, relaxed, and grounded around food— without dieting, restriction, or guilt!

Nutrition counseling gives you personalized support to feel confident, informed, and at ease with food. Together, we’ll create strategies that fit your life, without the pressure of weight loss, strict diets, or guilt. Whether you’re navigating a health condition, managing a busy schedule, or simply want a healthier relationship with food, I’ll help you find what works for you!

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

  • Support your whole self: 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.

  • Focus on health, not the scale: 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.

  • Embrace food’s emotional role in your life: Practice expanding your appreciation of food as more than nutrition (social connection, emotional wellbeing, cultural traditions, and more).

  • Understand what your body needs: Build your knowledge of macronutrients, micronutrients, and how they support overall health and well-being.

  • Create simple, flexible meals that nourish you: Learn more about meal composition and build confidence in your ability to create nutrient-dense meals without rigid tracking.

  • Eat mindfully and feel empowered: 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.

  • Build confidence in the kitchen: Get recipe tips and tools to help you feel more comfortable expanding your skills in the kitchen.

  • Connect with your community: Learn more about how to find local farmers, how to start a garden, or how to cook with seasonal ingredients.

  • Work together to set practical goals: Learn how to adapt healthy eating for your own life- whether you’re traveling, trying to support your fitness goals, navigating a busy schedule, working with a limited budget, or are learning how to manage a health condition, such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension.

1-on-1 Counseling

Initial Nutrition Assessment

A supportive, in-depth session to understand your needs and goals.

We’ll explore:

  • Your health history and daily routines

  • Your relationship with food and your body

  • What’s currently working—and what feels hard

  • What you want support with moving forward

75 minutes

$125

Pay-as-you-go Follow-ups

A flexible, one-time session to get support exactly when you need it. You’ll:

  • Check in on what’s working and what’s challenging in your eating habits

  • Adjust strategies to fit your lifestyle, goals, and schedule

  • Explore ways to approach food, movement, and self-care with curiosity and ease

  • Build confidence in making choices without guilt or restriction

  • Practice flexibility and a non-judgmental mindset around food and body image

  • Receive personalized guidance tailored to your current needs

60 minutes

$100

3-session Follow-up Package

This package provides consistent support to help you build sustainable habits and deepen your understanding of nutrition. Each session is tailored to your goals and lifestyle. You’ll:

  • Review your progress and adjust strategies as needed

  • Build practical skills for balanced, flexible eating

  • Explore patterns around food, movement, and self-care

  • Strengthen your connection to your body’s cues and needs

  • Cultivate curiosity, non-judgment, and confidence with food choices

  • Gain tools for lasting, sustainable change without dieting or restriction

3 x 60-minute sessions

$270

Find Your Own Version of Healthy Eating Package

When you hear “healthy eating,” do you think of rules, restrictions, or foods you shouldn’t eat? This program explores a different approach to health and nutrition. It’s about nourishing your body and feeling good about food, not following diets.

In these 6 sessions, you’ll:

  • Get personalized nutrition guidance that fits your lifestyle

  • Learn the basics of Intuitive Eating

  • Explore your relationship with food and your body in a supportive, judgment-free space

  • Focus on your goals and what matters to you

  • Try out practical tools for making lasting changes

  • Build peace with food and healthy habits that feel realistic and sustainable

Each session includes a blend of education and conversation.

6 x 60-minute sessions

$540

Optional follow-up coaching sessions are available after your 6 sessions.

Please note that a limited number of sliding scale appointments are available each month for self-pay clients. Sliding scale rates are offered within a defined range based on availability. If this would be helpful for you, please contact me for the sliding scale request form.

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

Contact Mary

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."