When mental health makes eating hard, nutrition support should meet you where you are.

Hey, I’m Jess! Your mental health dietitian.

Do you ever wonder “why is something as basic as eating soo hard for me”?! Mental health challenges can affect your capacity to eat, plan, cook, respond to hunger, manage your health, and care for yourself. Together, we can make sense of nutrition and find realistic strategies that work with your mental health, not against it.

Schedule a nutrition assessment

Mental health and nutrition affect each other in both directions.

That's why we don't look at food in isolation. We consider three connected pieces:

1. How nutrition affects mental health
What we eat can influence energy, mood, concentration, sleep, and how we feel physically. We'll explore how nutrition can support your mental and emotional well-being.

2. How mental health affects nutrition
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, stress, and other mental health challenges can affect appetite, cravings, food choices, motivation, planning, cooking, and your ability to follow through. We'll address those barriers—not just tell you what to eat.

3. How to care for your physical health, too
You don't have to choose between supporting your mental health and managing your physical health. We'll consider things like chronic health conditions, medications, energy, labs, and other health goals alongside the realities of living with a mental health challenge.

When mental health gets in the way of eating, it can look like...

  • Forgetting to eat or realizing you've gone most of the day without food

  • Having little or no appetite when you're anxious, depressed, or taking medication

  • Feeling overwhelmed by planning, grocery shopping, cooking, or cleaning up

  • Using food for comfort, stress relief, or emotional regulation

  • Feeling stuck between wanting to care for your health and feeling like you don't have the capacity

  • Feeling anxious, guilty, or confused about what and how much to eat

If you've ever thought, “I know what to do. Why can't I seem to do it?”—you aren't failing at nutrition. You may need nutrition support that accounts for what's actually getting in the way.

Your nutrition doesn't have to be perfect to be impactful.

When mental health makes eating harder, perfection isn't the goal. We'll find realistic ways to support your health while making room for enjoyment, connection, flexibility, and the foods you love.

What clients are saying:

  • "I would highly recommend working with Jessica to anybody and everybody! For myself, her awareness of emotional factors and the influence on intake was very helpful. It helped me learn and soak up the education and ideas more because I know she understood the mindset and beliefs I had always held."

  • "Absolutely would recommend !!! I can’t stress this enough, but I value [her] approach to nutrition and overall health/wellness . Often times we get consumed by the media and these fad diets that are for the most part unsustainable and I think what you provide is so much more ! You have made this experience less scary and have made me feel validated. You take the time to tailor the information and resources to my needs."

  • "I look forward to our visits every week! Since the beginning , it’s always felt like a safe space to talk about nutrition and different challenges that have impacted my health journey."

  • "Jessica has been awesome!! What I love most about Jessica was her communication and empathy. She always answered my questions in a way that I could understand and if she didn’t know the answer she would research it and message me or provide me with the information at our next visit."

  • "The kindness and nonjudgmental approach. I wasn’t expecting a rude or heartless interaction, but the degree of understanding and patience was exceptional and I really feel it supported my openness for further discussion, education, and honesty."

  • "Jessica is very knowledgeable and passionate about making sure her patients understand they have options with their eating."

  • "I now eat more foods, I consistently have more fruits and veggies and am way more mindful of what I eat allowing me to improve my health and diet and low my cholesterol without medication which has been huge!"

  • "I started working with Jessica feeling lost and rather hopeless as to what to do since stopping the GLP-1 I’d been on. I was almost scared of having my hunger drive back after being on med for so long. I was hoping to gain education/knowledge on balancing nutrients, managing and accepting return of prior baseline hunger and support with kindness to myself during the process. Those goals were undoubtedly achieved and more!"

  • "Jessica consistently made me feel inspired, supported and human. Not once did I feel there were stupid questions. Not once did I think you’d be poorly responsive to my choices. I knew I could come back the next week, discuss honestly both my successes and also setbacks/“failures”, and we would move on together as a team to new approaches and game plans. You never attempted a “one size fits all” approach. You will always be the little nutritional angel on my shoulder. :-) "

  • "Feeling supported has been helpful to me, 'Ok, not sure what this reaction was to food, or why I feel like crying about this food, but I know I can work it out with Jessica soon.' "

Ready for nutrition support?

If mental health has been making it harder to eat, care for yourself, or feel good about your relationship with food, nutrition counseling can help! It’s as simple as this:

1 - Book an initial nutrition assessment

Once you schedule an appointment we can run a benefits check to see if you have nutrition counseling covered (typically this takes 48-72hrs). Most clients pay $0 out of pocket with insurance!! I do my best to share this information with you before your first visit so there are no financial surprises. If you find out you do not have insurance coverage we can discuss self-pay options or cancel the appointment, which ever you prefer.

2 - Fill out simple onboarding paperwork

This sets clear expectations between the client and provider, so we can focus more on quality care and less on logistical questions.

What to expect: During your 90 minute initial nutrition assessment we will review your medical history, current food and eating routines, complimentary health routines, health concerns, and other relevant information. From there, we will co-create a nutrition plan and wellness vision, using your personalized health goals as guideposts for the content of follow up sessions. Follow up sessions are typically 60 minutes in length and start out at a weekly cadence, and then shift to 30-60 minutes at a biweekly or monthly cadence as confidence and motivation increases for the client. You can think of the initial assessment as the “information gathering” stage, and follow up appointments as the "learning and implementation” stage.

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