Nutrition Counseling
Registered Dietitians provide nutrition counseling. Nutrition counseling is about far more than meal plans or nutrition education. Registered dietitians provide nutrition counseling to help people build a healthier, more trusting relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.
What Does Nutrition Counseling Look Like?
Food choices are shaped by more than nutritional knowledge (accurate or inaccurate!) alone. Personal beliefs, culture, family experiences, emotions, identity, neurodivergence, health conditions, body image, and lived experiences all influence how people eat and how they feel about eating. Individualized nutritional counseling explores these influences with curiosity and compassion while helping clients develop practical, sustainable ways of nourishing themselves.
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Working collaboratively with therapists when appropriate, registered dietitians combine evidence-based nutrition care with counseling techniques to help clients challenge food rules, reduce fear around eating, reconnect with their body's needs, and move toward greater flexibility and freedom with food. Dietitians also help clients strengthen interoceptive awareness, which is the ability to recognize and respond to internal body cues such as hunger, fullness, satisfaction, energy, and other physical sensations that support nourishment and well-being. Sessions may include experiential learning such as trying foods together, meal support, exposure work, grocery or restaurant planning, and hands-on problem solving.
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No two relationships with food are the same. Care is individualized to each person's goals, values, culture, medical needs, lived experiences, and lifestyle rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all meal plan.
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Nutrition counseling can support eating disorders and disordered eating, ARFID, digestive concerns, GLP-1 nutrition support, food allergies and intolerances, ADHD- and autism-related eating challenges, body image concerns, food insecurity and food labor, LGBTQIA+ affirming nutrition care, and much more.
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A unique benefit of receiving nutrition counseling at MadCity Psychology is the ability to meet consistently and at a frequency that matches your needs. Whether you're looking for weekly support, more intensive nutrition counseling during recovery, or ongoing accountability, regular sessions provide opportunities to practice new skills, process challenges as they arise, and make meaningful progress over time.
Our Registered Dietitians.
The ability to provide supportive nutrition counseling is what sets a specialized eating disorder registered dietian apart from general dietitians and eating disorder therapists.
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