Nutrition therapy and Counseling

Offering individual sessions that are

  • Personalized

    During an initial consult, we discuss your current status and collaborate on a personalized plan to fit your needs and goals.

    Follow-up sessions serve as a check-in to celebrate progress and discuss challenges - this last part is the most important!

    The frequency of follow-up appointments depends on your needs and availability but generally ranges from every 2-4 weeks with private messaging in between sessions for guidance and support.

  • supportive

    Change is not easy and progress is seldom linear. We can be hard on ourselves when we struggle with sticking to plans. The shame that results keeps us feeling stuck or hopeless.

    Counseling is not about “doing the task”, but rather a willingness to understand the challenges and try something new.

    Rey’s role is to offer perspective, support, and guidance through the hard times so that we build confidence and competence to meet your goals.

  • integrative

    Nutrition goes beyond a “calories-in-calories-out” model, or one that relies on morality of “good” versus “bad” foods.

    At Insight Nutrition, nutrition is about supporting you to learn and experience how foods work (or don’t) in your body so that you develop a new kind of relationship. Of course there are biological guidelines, but we also need to take into account enjoyment, social relationships, environment, culture, and more.

 

On Cultural Relativism and the diet

As an AfroIndigenous dietitian working in a predominately White Eurocentric medical field, I recognize that many of our ancestral foods and dishes have been misrepresented as “unhealthy” in the scope of “a healthy diet”. Our foodways are a deep part of our ancestral heritage and identity as they are born out of stewardship of the land. Undoubtedly, colonialism has negatively altered many of those traditions and dishes over time into what I call a “memory” of what they used to be.

I am committed to reframing the narrative and practice around our cultural foods by upholding their nutritional and medicinal values. Whereas I am particularly well versed in West African and Latin American foodways as a member of those diasporas, I have some experience and can provide resources for folks of First Nations, Middle Eastern, and Asian heritage.

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