Intuitive Eating Counseling

What is Intuitive Eating?

A framework for eating that uses internal body signals and rational thought to make daily food choices that align with your personal preferences, health and lifestyle. 

Intuitive Eating is weight inclusive, meaning it emphasizes improved well-being without prioritizing changing body weight, shape or size. 

The framework was developed by two dietitians in 1995 who realized that the traditional models of weight loss and diet plans were not working and wanted a better approach for helping their clients improve their health.

An evidence-based model with its own validated assessment and over 200 research studies to back it up. 

What Intuitive Eating is not:

A diet plan.

A quick fix.

A way to change your weight, body shape or size. 

A set or rules you must follow. 

Easy.

Who would benefit from Intuitive Eating Counseling?

  • Those who feel they have a poor or broken relationship with food. 

  • Those who feel they have a poor or broken relationship with their bodies.

  • Those who have been on multiple diets (yo-yo dieting) that “didn’t work” (weight regain) and are fed up with the cycle, but don’t know what else to do.

  • Those who have/had an eating disorder, are now stable and ready to re-learn how to eat sustainably.

Tell me more!

    • Weekly to bi weekly sessions to assess, discuss, evaluate and explore the concepts of intuitive eating as they relate to your story and needs. 

    • An ongoing plan to work on intuitive eating in your daily life, including worksheets and journal prompts to guide thought and promote change. 

    • Text or email access to me for questions, comments and concerns as they arise between our sessions. 

    • As a dietitian I am able to guide you in becoming an intuitive eater while managing underlying health conditions.

    • Discuss how diet culture, your family and society at large has influenced your eating habits and expectations about your body. 

    • Determine what food rules you have, which are helpful and which are harmful, and come to make peace with all foods without guilt or shame. 

    • Explore and practice interoceptive awareness as a way to reconnect with how your body feels at any given moment. 

    • Decipher how your emotions may interplay with your eating habits and how we can add additional strategies to process emotions. 

    • Learn how to successfully care for your here and now body, including use of gentle nutrition strategies as they relate to your needs and goals.

    • To put aside acts and aspirations of weight loss; it is not possible to truly embrace or work towards becoming an intuitive eater, with your well-being as the true goal, while also actively trying to lose weight. It is okay, and expected, to express the desire to change your body, as this is part of the process of letting go of diet culture, but intuitive eating is not a weight loss plan. 

    • Set intentions to spend time, daily, working on your plan. This is a process that takes time and patience!

    • Trust the process. 

    • Know your why.

How to get started

Schedule an inquiry call with me (or send me an email!) to see if we are a good fit for working together.

Note: I am a licensed dietitian in the state of Oregon. Therefore, I can legally see clients virtually in Oregon as well as Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan and New Jersey.

Dipping a toe

  • Four sessions held at intervals of your liking and need. These sessions will introduce you to the principles and practice of intuitive eating. Includes check-ins and access to Jules via text or email between sessions; journal prompts and worksheets provided.

  • $599

Wading in

  • Seven sessions held at intervals of your liking and need. This is enough sessions to get a basic understanding and practice of each intuitive eating principle or to dive deeper into one or two. Includes check-ins and access to Jules via text or email between sessions; journal prompts and worksheets provided.

  • $979, may be paid in two halves

Jumping in

  • Ten sessions outlined to discuss all ten principles of intuitive eating with opportunity to deep dive into those that resonate the most with your needs. Sessions held at intervals of your liking and need. Includes check-ins and access to Jules via text or email between sessions; journal prompts and worksheets provided.

  • $1299, may be paid in two halves.