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Services (Counseling & Wellness coaching) & insurance

Counseling

Essential Nutrition works with adults, children, teens and families. We believe that food and eating are important parts of our lives and should be enjoyed but should not generally rule or control us. For most people, healthy eating can be flexible. 

Services include

  • Individual or Group Counseling
  • Wellness Coaching  (see below)
  • Grocery Store Tours


In-Person or Virtual

  • Your session with us can be done in our comfortable office in Chapel Hill or by HIPPA compliant video or telephone.


Below are some of the more common nutrition issues that we have helped.

  • General Nutrition
    Reduce your risk of poor health through lifestyle management.
  • Weight Management.
    Achieve a healthier weight without deprivation.
  • Eating Disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Overeating and others not specified).
    Normalize eating and develop a healthy relationship with food.
  • Cholesterol.
    Lower your blood cholesterol and improve your lipid profile.
  • High Blood Pressure.
    Improve your blood pressure and lower your risk of stroke and heart disease through improved nutritional choices.
  • Diabetes.
    Improve your blood sugar management through carbohydrate counting, exchange lists or meal plans.
  • Athletic Performance.
    Enhance your endurance for training and competition.
  • Osteoporosis.
    Optimize your bone health by assuring an intake of adequate nutrients.
  • Cancer.
    Decrease your risk or get help managing symptoms of cancer and its treatments.
  • Family Meals.
    Help your family to be healthy, happy eaters who enjoy food and meals.
  • Digestion/Absorption.
    Food intolerances, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease. Specializing in FODMAP elimination. 
  • Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition.
    Support for patients on nutritional support.

Wellness Coaching

Coaching is an emerging profession that began about 25 years ago, first in executive leadership, followed by life coaching. Coaching for health and wellness started about ten years ago and it has been shown to be an effective approach to helping people make and sustain improvements in their lives.

The relationship between a coach and client offers a profound level of support, guidance, and encouragement to making changes, without being judgmental. Coaches help their clients become clearer on where they are, where they want to go, and how to get there.

Coaches provide instruction and mentoring to their clients, and help them set goals, define an action plan, and navigate the path until they reach their goals. Coaches facilitate learning and help clients put the learning into action. Wellness coaches work with people who want to make changes in their lives regarding eating, exercise and stress and generally work with people without mental health issues. Coaches focus on the present and help the client move towards the future. Coaches do not diagnose and may recommend that clients seek a psychologist or therapist for treatment, if appropriate. 

Kay Schlegel-Pratt became a certified wellness coach in 2009 through Wellcoaches Corporation.

Insurance

Essential Nutrition is a participating provider with the insurance companies listed below. We suggest you call your insurance company to find out if nutrition counseling is covered in your plan. Please call or email us to get more information about cost.

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield including the State Health Plan
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Please call us about others 


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