Are you ready to stop the cycle of trial and error and take control of your health? Let’s get to work.
What is Functional Nutrition Counseling?
If you’re new to Functional Nutrition (or Medicine), I like to use the metaphor of a tree to describe how it works. Functional Nutrition looks at your body as a whole, and recognizes that all your body systems are interconnected, much like the branches of a tree are to its roots. Many times, in allopathic (or traditional Western) medicine, doctors will look at symptoms or specialize in one system (a lone branch or section of the tree), without recognizing the impact to the body’s other systems.
In Functional Medicine and Nutrition, we back up your symptoms to three key roots: genetics, digestion and inflammation. Without addressing those, it is challenging to find true resolution. Your symptoms, such as migraines, skin rashes, or achy joints, are telling us that there is imbalance upstream in a foundational body system like your digestive or immune systems, and we need to address those underlying factors - the roots - to help bring resolution.
In Functional Nutrition, we believe in the following three key ideas:
Everything is connected
We are all unique
All things matter
This means that everything in the body is connected (like a tree), no two people are alike (and therefore cookie-cutter protocols or diets aren’t sufficient), and that everything we do, feel, eat and believe matters. Everyone, especially you, should be viewed as an independent, bio-individual person - and therefore the roadmap to your body’s resolution will be unique to you.
How does Functional Nutrition & Health Counseling work?
As a Board Certified Functional Health Practitioner, I dig deep to uncover what might be at the root cause of any dis-ease or discomfort in your body. We will investigate how your digestive system is working, as digestion is the largest burden on the body each day, and assess whether or not your body can absorb the nutrients you’re ingesting. We will explore your nutrition, sleep and lifestyle habits to see what is supportive, and what may be counter to that. Together, we will make a plan for you that includes sustainable diet and lifestyle shifts, aimed at bringing balance back to your body and mind. As healing and finding health is an iterative process, we will meet frequently (bi-weekly) and use tracking processes, so that we can assess how these recommendations are working for you. We will adjust your plan real time to something that may work better, and also to allow for the natural ebb and flow of life. Throughout this process, you will connect more deeply with your body and learn to tune into it’s signals. You will become empowered with the tools you’ll learn to help ease your symptoms and restore balance in your body in a way that works for you. You might even get so excited by it that you’ll want to tell your family members and friends how to better support themselves, creating a positive ripple effect. I invite you to come nourish your body and mind as you embark on this transformational journey of health, and I would be honored to be your partner in the process.
Functional Nutrition Counseling Process
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Strategy Session
Our work together begins with a Strategy Session. This is a free 20-minute call where we discuss your health challenges, goals and deepest desires. We’ll talk about how the process will work so you know what to expect going forward. This is an informal yet intimate conversation that helps to assess if our working together is a good fit. As this call is complementary, you have nothing to lose and potentially everything to gain by taking this first step.
Complementary
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Premiere Health Analysis
All clients begin with a Premiere Health Analysis. This is a 75-minute session where we will dive deep into your health history, your intake questionnaire and any lab results you have shared. This session is a powerful time of discovery, and an important step in building intimate knowledge of your health challenges, timeline and goals, serving to set the foundation of our work together. In this session, we will develop our plan for working together going forward.
$275 (One time investment)
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All-Inclusive Monthly Counseling
Monthly Nutrition & Health Counseling is the most popular and comprehensive option for working together. The all-inclusive monthly plan includes two bi-weekly 40-minute counseling sessions and unlimited communication in between sessions via Practice Better. Healing takes time, and is an iterative process, and connecting on a consistent bi-weekly basis allows for recommendations to be implemented, tracked and adjusted in real time. You get to be the driver of the timeline in your health, and we will proceed as slow or as fast as you need. The monthly plan provides consistent support and accountability to enable you to make meaningful, sustainable change, and also to adapt and adjust in real time.
$349 monthly
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1:1 Counseling Session Packages
1:1 Nutrition Counseling session packages consist of a variety of individual sessions that can be used as needed, for scheduling flexibility. These are ideal for short-term counseling engagements (perhaps for an acute infection or a short term health challenge) or for someone who is in more of a maintenance mode. Session packages expires one year from the purchase date.
Contact me for package pricing
Monthly Counseling vs Individual Session Benefits
All-Inclusive Monthly Counseling
Monthly Nutrition & Health Counseling is an all-inclusive program, offering you the highest level of support and accountability for your health journey. We would meet every 2 weeks for highly personal, intentional and supportive sessions. During this time, we’d seek to uncover what is happening in your body and holding back your healing. We would focus on making small sustainable shifts over time to limit stress and promote healing. These shifts will accumulate into big and meaningful impacts on your health and life. You would also have direct messaging support between sessions to help navigate any bumps in the process and keep you moving forward.
Included:
Two 40-minute sessions (bi-weekly)
Unlimited messaging for ongoing support with Nicole via Practice Better
Easy monthly payments
Access to scheduling via Practice Better
Personalized notes and action plans after each session in Practice Better, supplying you with the recommendations and resources you need
Ability to track your nutrition, sleep, symptoms, movements and more via your phone or computer through Practice Better
15% savings on supplements and protocols via Fullscript
Premiere releases and discounts of newest resources, cleanses and group programs
Access to lab testing and other diagnostics through Evexia Diagnostics (at additional cost)
All for $349 monthly
Individual Session Package Options
Individual session packages are a great way to move forward in your health at a pace that works for you, allowing for maximum scheduling flexibility. Often, clients will select this option after completing foundational transformational work through the Monthly Counseling, when they are now ready to maintain their new skills with increased personal accountability. This option also works well for those who are self-driven and want to move their action plan forward on their own. Sessions can be scheduled as needed, but it is recommended they are booked within 4 weeks of another in order to make the most of your investment. Sessions packages expire a year from their purchase date and must be used within that timeframe.
Included:
Your choice of 3, 5 and 8 sessions (40-minutes each)
Flexibility to schedule sessions via Practice Better as needed within a reasonable time frame to keep you moving forward
Personalized notes and action plans after each session in Practice Better, supplying you with the recommendations and resources you need
Ability to track your nutrition, sleep, symptoms, movements and more via your phone or computer through Practice Better
10% savings on supplements and protocols via Fullscript
Access to lab testing and other diagnostics through Evexia Diagnostics (at additional cost)
Contact me for session package pricing
A healing framework
I use the framework of Connect | Clear | Calm | Nourish with my clients.
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Our therapeutic partnership will be founded in our ability to connect with one another, and for you to feel seen and heard by me. Additionally, I will be viewing you as one body, with all your bodily systems are interconnected. That means we won’t simply play target practice to only alleviate symptoms - rather, we are going to work on supporting your body foundationally and in a connected way to facilitate healing.
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A key part of reducing the stress load on your body will be clearing your inflammatory triggers. These are individual to the person, and will include exploration around food, lifestyle practices and your environment. By clearing your inflammatory triggers, you’ll start to feel relief from symptoms and gain new awareness around what impacts your body, and how, allowing you to make empowered choices in the future.
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When eliminating triggers for your body, we will also work to calm any inflammation and pain, soothe your nervous system and help shift the environment within your body to invite healing. Noticing how we react to stress and learning to calm our mind gives the body the space to breathe and restore balance.
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The process of nourishment will be infused throughout our work together. You will be encouraged to nourish not only your body, but also your soul. Once your body is ready, we will address nutrient deficiencies that may be due to leaky gut, a diet rich in processed foods or even medicines you regularly take. Addressing nutritional deficiencies will help you feel strong, energetic, clearer mentally and will help ease symptoms.
What clients have to say
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"I have been working with Nicole for the past 9 months on re-evaluating my diet and nutrition to alleviate symptoms of GERD and IBS, and ways to improve my nutritional health. Nicole is highly educated, patient and kind. She's an active and sympathetic listener who takes the time to dig deep into medical history and take a thorough holistic approach. There is no judgement. Her extensive knowledge about the mind-gut connection has totally changed my understanding of digestion, food elimination and mood. More importantly, her sensible and relatable approach to finding achievable solutions that work with my lifestyle has enabled me to make sustainable changes I can stick to long-term."
Jamie
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"When you suffer from gut problems like I do, there never seems to be a finite answer as to what is wrong. Each Practitioner has their own take on what is wrong with you, what you should do, and importantly what you can and cannot eat. However, Nicole has such a great overall approach to helping you out with both the potential problems you suffer from and all of the external factors that could be hampering your recovery. She gives wonderful ideas on how to change certain things in your life or ways you approach them that are manageable, attainable and that actually get results. I feel like working with Nicole has really helped me put into action those things that I knew I needed to change, but just could not do by myself. Nicole helped guide me to make them part of my daily or weekly routines. Nicole has also really helped me understand food and how to make it work for me with all my sensitivities which has just enriched my life so much more - I am SO thankful for her. "
Zoe
Curious about what Functional Nutrition and Health Counseling could mean for you? Book a complementary Strategy Session now to learn more.