Who can benefit from Nutrition Counseling?
Nutrition counseling is an integral part of treatment for persons with eating disorders or chemical dependencies. Persons taking certain drugs, such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors, used to treat depression and anxiety disorders, need to follow a tyramine-controlled diet to avoid dietary interference with their medication.

Some may benefit from a dietary assessment in order to work towards improving health and decreasing the risk of certain diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and gastro intestinal disorders.

What is the process of Nutrition Counseling?
The initial assessment and interview provide the basis for identifying areas that need change. Individualized meal plans are devised based on ones needs. Working together goals are set that will bring you closer to your health ideal.Through education, prioritizing change, and problem-solving your goals obtainable.

Making dietary change is a gradual process. An individual may start with one or two easier dietary changes the first few weeks and gradually make additional or more difficult changes over several weeks or months.  In making dietary changes, each individual's situation and background must be carefully considered.
 

What are the benefits to ongoing Nutrition Counseling?
One of the biggest benefits is to have somebody working with you one-on-one to help identify needed areas of change,  have help thinking through potential problems, such as changing eating behaviors may mean involving others, purchasing different foods, planning ahead for social events, or bringing special foods to work.

Nutrition counseling is an ongoing process that can take months or years. In follow-up nutrition counseling sessions, the individual and counselor analyze food records together and problem-solve behaviors that are especially difficult to change. Follow-up counseling also allows the opportunity to reevaluate goals and strategies for achieving those goals.