Services

Kelly offers a variety of services to help clients no matter where they are on their health journey. From personalized counseling in office to virtual coaching, from gestational diabetes teachings to workshops in infant self-feeding, Kelly is determined to help you & your family reach your health goals.

Kelly works with clients individually to help them reach their health goals. She will help you to become your healthiest version of yourself.  She offers in-office and virtual nutrition counseling and health coaching to those looking to improve eating habits. As a Registered Dietitian, she is able to provide Medical Nutrition Therapy, which can help those struggling with chronic, nutrition-related conditions.

She provides individual gestational diabetes education and nutrition counseling sessions, as well as baby-led weaning classes or individual education sessions to help ensure even the youngest members of the family are becoming confident with food.

Metabolism testing with Korr Reevue is her latest offering.

Kelly helps clients to develop healthy habits and eating patterns that will help them reach their goals – plans that fit into the client’s lifestyle and with foods they enjoy. However, change does not happen overnight. It is recommended to have at least two follow-up session to make sure all is going well or to tweak anything that may not be going smoothly.

Kelly meets with individuals of all ages for a variety of reasons, including:

• General wellness; increasing energy
• Improving relationship with food
• Optimizing lab values
• PCOS
• Diabetes, pre-diabetes, insulin resistance
• GI issues, such as bloating, constipation, and diarrhea
• Managing binge eating and intense cravings

She is an in-network provider for several insurance companies, including: Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and United Healthcare.

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Wondering What Will Happen at Our First Appointment?

So, what exactly will we do when we meet?

Here is an outline of how a typical first appointment will go:

• Establish expectations for discussion (What brings you here?)
• Discuss medical history & health concerns
• Go through a typical day in your life – times you eat, what you eat, your usual schedule, physical activity if applicable, etc…
• General nutrition info – we’ll talk best practices on things like: building balanced meals, Medical Nutrition Therapy as appropriate for chronic conditions, like diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or others, etc…
• Create an “ideal day” with food. We will do this together, based on your schedule and foods that you like. This is where we merge the ‘best practices’ with what is actually appealing and achievable FOR YOU, in YOUR LIFE.
• Set actionable steps to get you closer to where you want to be

At follow-up appointments, we will discuss what’s going well, what’s not, & new challenges that arise. We will always fine tune and adjust our action plan. We might also get to additional education that wasn’t addressed in our first meeting.

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That’s great, Kelly, but… will I lose weight by working with you?

Many people I work with have a weight concern. That is completely valid and I am happy to talk with you about that in depth. That being said…

I don’t generally focus on weight as an outcome with my clients. There are several reasons for that.

• “Weight loss” is not a behavior. You can’t add it to your to-do list (wake up, brush teeth, lose weight, eat breakfast…). I like to focus on actions that are fully within the client’s control.
• Studies have not shown that there is an effective intervention for long-term weight loss, that works for more than 2-5% of people. In fact, attempted weight loss through dieting is one risk factor for weight gain and increased body weight.
• I can’t tell someone’s health by their weight. If you were to see the clients I meet with on a daily basis, you’d see that I work with people in bodies of all sizes. Someone’s weight doesn’t tell me:
  • Their labs
  • Their activity level
  • How many fruits and vegetables they eat
  • If they eat fast food for every meal
  • If they eat at all
  • Their level of guilt, shame, enjoyment, or flexibility when eating

In my opinion, using weight as the main outcome is unfair to people of all sizes.

For those in larger bodies, it makes assumptions that they don’t take care of their bodies or nourish themselves, which is not true in many cases. It also can encourage drastic and unsustainable behaviors to solely encourage weight loss at the expense of health.

For those in smaller bodies, it makes assumptions that they are “healthy,” which means they might not be tested for lab abnormalities in blood sugar or cholesterol. That gives these diseases time to progress before treatment is prescribed and puts the client at a disadvantage.

That being said, weight may change while we work together and that is okay. I am not anti-weight loss, but I am anti- “lose weight at any cost” and anti- yo-yo diet. Drastic shifts in weight should be discussed, as they may be a result of a health condition.

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I help clients improve their health and well-being by nourishing and fueling their bodies.

Through respecting one’s body, we can & should expect to see:

• Improved labs (blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc…)
• Higher energy level so you can do all the things you love
• Decreased guilt & shame with food and eating
• Increased flexibility and variety with food choices
• Take action to get closer to the life you want!