Private Client Nutrition & Therapy Services

 Welcome to Essence Nutrition!

Here you’ll find some details about our work to help you understand your unique experience. We are going to help you with healthy self-care, finding joy as well as nourishment in foods, banishing joyless patterns of eating, and working with where you are right now and helping you on this path to a better mind/body well-being. You’ll received customized nutrition education, but more saliently, you’ll learn how to get to know your own body, how to eat intuitively, and cultivate a healthy relationship with food. The best way to get started is by booking an initial nutrition assessment with an Essence team RD, and we can go from there. You and your dietitian can together decide how to proceed with follow-up care at the close of your initial session.

Our diverse and talented registered dietitian and psychotherapists team consists of specialists in:

• Gastrointestinal disorders and wellness (IBS, SIBO, IBD, Celiac’s, Motility Disorders, etc.)
• Food Allergies
• Sports Nutrition
• Eating Disorders
• Pediatric Eating Disorders
• Adolescent Health
• Family Nutrition
• Couples’ Work
• Pediatrics
• Picky Eating
• Starting Solid Foods for Babies
• Clients with enteral and parenteral nutrition needs (tube feedings)
• Women’s Health
• Fertility Nutrition
• Pregnancy Nutrition
• Postpartum Nutrition
• Men’s Health
• Menopause
• Diabetes
• Geriatrics
• Nutrition for Executives
• Oncology
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Liver Diseases
• Autoimmune Diseases 

Therapist Specialties:

• Anxiety and Panic Disorder
• Couples’ Work
• Depression
• Trauma
• EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Additionally, we retain a French culinary-school trained chef-RD hybrid. 

We refer our clients to our trusted network of allied health specialists such as physicians, acupuncturists, physical and occupational therapists, personal trainers, Pilates trainers, personal chefs, and home delivery meal services,.

We offer home visits, grocery store tours for individuals, couples, and small groups, and virtual visits.  Several of our dietitians are trilingual in Spanish, English, and French.

For our corporate, school, and dietitian-to-dietitian, and brand consulting services, please CLICK HERE.

You’ll experience some or all of the following after your Essence success (#succESSENCE). Imagine life when you ‘graduate’ from your work with us as you experience: 

• increased energy
• weight normalization; your weight will settle when you begin eating intuitively and mindfully. Many of us live above or below our body’s set point happy weight because we artificially force external cues on a process (hunger) that should be internal. We want your weight to become stable, because chronic dieting and weight cycling is associated with negative health risk factors.
• Reduced food decision fatigue
• Exciting meal and snack ideas crafted to YOUR schedule, preferences, and lifestyle
• Enhanced digestive wellness
• Intuitive Eating behaviors and Mindful Eating behaviors
• Increased dietary quality, diversity, and creativity
• Reduced body dissatisfaction
• Supported immunity
• Supported skin integrity
• More restful sleep
• Mindfulness surrounding food
• Permission to eat and enjoy foods you love
• Enjoying a large variety of foods, prepared in a variety of different ways, so you access the widest and most diverse net of nutrients
• The ability to make the best food choice according to what your body is asking for; no matter where in the world you are
• Enhanced fitness, mobility, strength, and agility as you find joy in movement
• Distance from stress and anxiety surrounding food
• A whole new PHILOSOPHY surrounding food, movement and health – not JUST a “meal plan”! Think of this as NUTRITION THERAPY! 

Your work will involve one on one counseling from the most elite nutrition professionals, all of whom have worked previously in hospital settings. You’ll receive training on our innovative Essence philosophies and can apply these principles wherever you are in the world. Our dietitians support you as YOU wish; intensely (daily or weekly) or more sporadically (monthly, or longer) to respect the success involving accountability and support. You can even choose to integrate fitness and mental health paradigms into your work with us via our preferred specialists. What matters most is your commitment, motivation, planning, prioritizing, and dedication to this process. And do remember – it is, indeed, a PROCESS. Nutrition and health behavior change is often NOT instant – it’s SLOW and STEADY; which renders it SUSTAINABLE. We want to be as realistic and truthful with you as possible RIGHT from the get-go; your journey will be magnificent if you invest, commit to, and embrace this process. Our mission is to feed your essence; which means to inspire you to pursue health in a way that is appropriate, meaningful, and joyous for you. We can’t wait to work with you!

PRIVATE CLIENT NUTRITION & THERAPY SERVICES

NUTRITION COUNSELING SESSIONS

We may meet in-person at our various offices throughout Miami or via phone/video.
60-90 minutes (length dependent on client need)
Your Initial Assessment is a deep dive wherein we assess your health and nutrition status and begin to outline goals in order to create a long-term nutrition strategy that is considerate of your own pace. Please note – we do not create “meal plans.” Meal plans ultimately become a crutch and do not honor your ability to honor your own food decisions and needs. While we will educate, guide, and facilitate your knowledge base about nutrition – and certainly provide copious meal and snack examples; we operate under a largely therapeutic approach that finds rigid meal plans to be restrictive, anxiety-provoking, and largely unhelpful in the long-term. You’ll still receive a LOT of education about food and nutrition, we just won’t mandate that you cut your apple in half and only eat x calories per day – that’s joyless. You will learn to define your own hunger and fullness in the scope of what YOUR body and brain need for optimal nourishment and how to prioritize your own self care by anticipating hunger (packing food / having it prepped, etc.) We’ll also discuss movement, sleep, supplements, referrals to other health professionals, and introduce our core nutrition philosophies to you.

You’ll receive a customized, detailed visit summary and two weeks FREE of our Essence ON DEMAND CONCIERGE service*

Follow-up Visits:
30-60 minutes (length dependent on client need)
Follow-up visits allow us to review goals, discuss progress, construct strategies to navigate trouble spots, and navigate the who/what/where/when/why of what is vs. isn’t working for you. We’ll get into recipes, travel, and dig deeper into your life as it relates to food and health as we unravel any damaging behaviors and provide actionable and joyous nutrition solutions. Follow-ups are scheduled weekly or every other week.

BUNDLED PACKAGES

Essence Boost Package
Initial Assessment (60-90 minutes) + 3 Follow Up Visits (30 minutes each)*
The Essence Boost Package allows us to dive deeper into your nutrition world and even get into recipes, your local restaurant haunts, and strategies for events like weddings, parties, travel and cocktail hours. By the time you’ve graduated, you’re a butterfly hatching from its cocoon! If you’re working with us on Intuitive and Mindful Eating , you’ll undergo a solid foundation under these philosophies.
*Must be completed within 8 weeks of your initial assessment..

Essence Red Carpet Butterfly Package
Initial Assessment (60-90 minutes) + 6 Follow Up Visit (30 minutes), scheduled weekly or biweekly*
As a Red Carpet butterfly, you’ll be educated just like a miniature dietitian. You’ll learn how to make these habits stick and build a permanently positive healthy lifestyle. Once you’ve completed this intense yet effective experience, you’ll be well on your way to a permanent transformation.
*Must be completed within 12 weeks of your initial consultation.

Essence ON DEMAND CONCIERGE Membership*
Nutritional guidance in your pocket, ON DEMAND. Log your meals and movements in our easy app with our daily feedback. This is perfect if you just want to commit to an initial assessment, but need that accountability, motivation, and support to propel you forward, but don’t want to commit to follow-up visits. Just you and your Essence RD, on your own time. Includes: written feedback on meal logs, hunger-fullness awareness feedback, ability to ask any and all questions, recipe suggestions, and analysis of restaurant menus. [Dietitian will respond during business hours at least once daily.]
*Must complete at least an Initial Assessment before enrolling and dietitian must deem this clinically appropriate for you

COUPLES WORK

Got a significant other butterfly and want to share your #succESSENCE experience with them so you both are on the same wing (er, page about it all?)

Essence Couples’ Initial Assessment
1 initial assessment (90 minutes), conducted with both of you simultaneously

Essence Couples’ – Boost
1 initial assessment (90 minutes) + 3 follow-up visits (45 minutes each), conducted with both of you simultaneously
*Package must be completed within 8 weeks of initial consultation.

ESSENCE EXCURSIONS

Meal Support; 60 minutes; DINE WITH YOUR DIETITIAN as a form of meal support: Join your dietitian at a cafe/restaurant to develop skills and confidence in how to navigate a menu, choose nourishing and satisfying options, and – PLOT TWIST – this is an excellent opportunity to face any food fears or triggers while you and your dietitian unravel and discuss how to apply Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating in practice. How do you know “when” to order pasta, and “when” to order salad? It’s nuanced, and it’s INTUITIVE, but we’ll walk you through the process — and enjoy a wonderful meal/snack/conversation together.
[Client also responsible for all food and beverage cost.]

Grocery Store Tour – 60 minutes
Want to shop like a pro, WITH your pro? We got you. We’ll meet you at your favorite grocery store and shop with you to funnel all the things we discuss in session into REAL LIFE. We’ll go over all the best products for you, teach you label-reading tips, and expose you to all the glories (and scams) the supermarket contains.
*Can be added to any package.

PAYMENTS AND INSURANCE

Payments are billed via our secure charting software. We accept all credit cards, as well as Venmo, PayPal, checks and cash upon request. We do not accept any insurance, but we can accept HSA/FSA flex spending credit cards for all work. Please note that our rates are based on hourly work. Your visits may require overtime, for which you will be billed appropriately according to our hourly rates. Late fees for tardiness exceeding 15 minutes and cancellation fees for appointments missed or rescheduled within 24 hours of a booking apply. Thank you for your understanding. All packages must be paid in full and no refunds are available under any circumstances.We reserve the right to charge a travel fee for home visits. We reserve the right to charge a an additional weekend consult fee. Clients are responsible for all food and beverage costs for both client and dietitian incurred at supported meals.

**While every attempt has been made to bundle our services, please note that clients will be billed in increments of 15 minutes at our hourly rate for every 15 minutes that sessions extend beyond their scheduled allotted times. Thank you for understanding. We also reserve the right to bill our hourly rate for correspondence outside of session whether with you or other members of your treatment team.