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Nutrition Coaching For Eating Disorder Recovery
Reclaim your life back from diet culture!
Feel confident in your body without dieting!
Our nutrition coaching specialties:
Karen Louise is a registered dietitian nutritionist with over 19 years of experience.
- $Binge eating disorder
- $Bulimia nervosa
- $Compulsive exercise and exercise resistance
- $Chemical dependency support
- $GLP-1 and Bariatric surgery support
- $Hormone Support: Perimenopause & Menopause
- $Fertility and Prenatal nutrition and postpartum support
- $Transition from OA/FA to intuitive and mindful eating
- $Child/Parent feeding dynamics; “picky eating”; kids who are “under/overweight”
Does this sound like you?
- $You’re here because you’ve just been diagnosed with an eating disorder and your therapist/doctor/spouse/etc. Wants you to find support
- $You’re here because you know you ‘need’ to work on the nutrition part
- $Maybe you are here because you need help with your recovery even though it feels like you’ve tried it all.
- $Maybe your’re here because you are tired or worrying about food all of the time.
- $Maybe you’re sick of hating your body.
- $Maybe you’re not even sure if it’s bad enough to need help
- $Some part of you really wants to learn how to take care of yourself.
- $You want to be kinder and not so hard on yourself all of the time.
- $You know deep down that you deserve to live a life free from this eating disorder.
Here’s how it works
As your eating disorder dietitian or nutrition coach, I work as part of a team. I work closely with your therapist (if you give me consent) as well as your doctor or psychiatrist.
The nutrition therapist on the team helps free up your psychotherapist so they can focus on other therapeutic issues (trauma, relationships, etc.) instead of talking about food, what to eat, how much, etc.
Both the nutrition therapist and your psychotherapist will often explore body image as it relates to the underlying issues. There are sometimes overlapping roles between the nutrition therapist and the psychotherapist.
If you currently do not have a psychotherapist, that’s okay, we can start our work together and I have many referrals for when that time is appropriate.
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What eating disorder recovery nutrition coaching addresses:
- $Stabilization of behaviors (restrict /binge /purge /exercise /etc.) and or weight as appropriate.
- $Mechanical eating and meal plans as needed.
- $Decoding disordered eating behaviors to uncover the “why” of what you are doing with food and your body.
- $Discover and challenge distorted beliefs/fears about food, weight, and exercise and how they may enable eating disorder behaviors.
- $Uncover barriers that cause self-sabotage and keep one feeling stuck.
- $Transition from structured meal plan to internal intuitive eating plan when ready.
- $Fear food challenges
- $Food rituals
- $Social eating
- $Dining out
- $Grocery shopping
- $Cooking
“Darling, I never step on the scale, because the scale doesn’t measure sexy.”
~Bella Dolce ~
Nutrition 101:
- $What and how much does the body need to thrive optimally for health and mental stability. We also discuss set-point weight theory, medical complications of eating disorders, and how to restore metabolism back to “normal.”
- $Learn techniques to regulate your nervous system and create safety with food and your body.
- $Live more embodied as you learn to let go of your disordered eating behaviors and habits.
- $Food logs/journals: keep track of what you eat to increase self-awareness and gain insight into triggers etc.
- $Distinguish between physical and emotional hungers.
Begin to discover the fundamentals of intuitive eating such as, hunger, fullness and satisfaction.
Get started with nutrition coaching for eating disorder recovery
90 minute Initial consultation session
$350
Follow up visits
$250
These 50 minute follow-up sessions take place weekly or every other week depending on what level of support is needed.. We work together as you dig deep into the roots of your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about food and your body, and start to feel shifts towards new behaviors.
Follow-up visits are for clients who have already completed an Initial Assessment Session.
Sessions Also Include the Following
Tools, Decoding Exercises, Journal Prompts, Worksheets, Practices and more.
Based on your needs, preferred learning style and how much time you have, you will receive specific practices to implement for integration. After each session, you’ll get an email recap including notes from that day’s session and recommended tools to help you continue learning and implement the work between sessions.
Food and Mood log Review & Feedback
You’ll have access to our food and mood log which is the first step in beginning to increase awareness around our patterns with food/body. You may receive open-ended prompts to help you build awareness and process your thoughts and feelings related to food and your body. This assists us in seeing patterns in your eating behaviors and if you’re using it (it’s totally optional!) we’ll review it with you in session.
Coordination of Care with Other Providers
If you’re working with a therapist, doctor, or any other health care provider, and if you provide us permission, we are happy to connect with them to ensure we are all on the same page and providing the best care for your recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long will this process take?
What if I want to lose weight? Can I still work with you?
We will talk about your desire to change your weight and your feelings about your body. We will be moving away from using changes in weight as a marker of “success.”
Do you accept insurance?
Answer: Our practice is out-of-network with insurance providers and payment is due prior to your appointment.
If you have out-of-network insurance benefits, these may apply to nutrition services.
We can provide you with a Superbill receipt that you can submit to your insurance company. Depending on your benefits, you may be able to receive full or partial reimbursement for your nutrition counseling sessions.
These benefits vary considerably between insurance companies and plans. However, many of our clients with out-of-network benefits have had success in receiving partial or full reimbursement. Others have had the cost of nutrition counseling applied towards their deductible, helping them to reduce medical spending across the course of the year.
We recommend calling your insurance company to ask about your specific coverage. They can inform you of whether you will receive any reimbursement for our services, or whether the cost can be applied towards any deductible.
