Group Nutrition Programs
Group collaboration is powerful in achieving forward progress in your health. We are thrilled to offer some options for you that can be done solely in group or alongside your individual sessions with one of our RDN practitioners. Each group session is offered in the Central Austin office for $50 each.
In many instances, insurance will cover the cost. Call or email us to inquire about insurance coverage.
Adult Intuitive Eating & Diet Recovery Support Group
This group is to learn how diet culture has shaped our unrealistic beliefs surrounding food and our body image.
Over the course of 8-weeks participants will learn:
- What intuitive eating is
- How to challenge societal beauty standards and your story of body image
- Introduction to HAES and redefining what health looks like for you
- Learning to make peace with food and challenge the food police
- How do to nourish your body while honoring taste and cravings
- How change your body narrative and respect your body
This group is for adults to have a safe space to learn the beginning of intuitive eating while saying goodbye to diet culture and hello to body acceptance. Each week the group will meet virtually with Savannah Wierenga MS, RDN, LDN.
Who is this group for:
- Someone ready to make recovery a part of their journey
- Someone looking o begin to understand intuitive eating
- Someone wanting to begin to accept their body without judgement
- Someone who is willing ditch the diet culture and say hello to food peace!
Details and Registration
Dates: Monday Oct. 5th - Nov.23rd (8 weeks)
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Virtually via HIPAA Compliant Zoom - you will get a link once registered.
Fees: $50 per group (We will check into your insurance coverage for the class.)
Teen Body Image Group
An 8-week group for teens (13+) focused on laying the foundation of body image work as a core to developing a healthy relationship to food, body, and self.
This group is for teens to have a safe space to learn the beginning of body acceptance. Each week the group will meet virtually with Zoe Halbert, RD, LD, to cover topics:
- Feel confident around food – You know what and how much food your body needs and you make these decisions without guilt, shame or regret.
- Build the foundations to feel free from food-related obsessions, calculations, and worry.
- Be able to incorporate all types of foods into your life and enjoy using taste, pleasure and satisfaction as main factors in your food selection – while meeting your body’s nutritional needs!
- Feel grounded and calm around food.
- Move regularly, according to your body’s needs and what feels supportive.
- Feel at home in your body and treat it with respect.
Details and Registration
Dates: Monday, September 14 to November 2, 2020
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Virtually via HIPAA Compliant Zoom - you will get a link once registered.
Fees: $50 per group (We will check into your insurance coverage for the class.)
Meal Support Group
No current openings.
Bon Appétit!
The primary purpose of our weekly meal support is to help our “guests” develop a positive and enjoyable relationship with the food they prepare and eat. Our team has extensive experience with various treatment center programs.
Meal support is a way to reinforce and enhance the nutritional therapy provided in those programs in a fun and relaxing environment.
Join Zoe Halbert, RD, LD and Savannah Wierenga, MS, RD, LDN each Monday and Thursday to get meal support with a registered dietitian on an easy Zoom call.
This group is open to anyone seeking eating disorder and disordered eating recovery support.
Details and Registration
Dates: No openings at this time.
Time: Lunchtime - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Monday & Thursday
Location: 3724 Jefferson, Suite 104, Austin, TX 78731
Fees:
What to Bring: A prepared meal and a beverage, according to your personal meal plan.
Diabetes Education Group
Our diabetes education group is an 8-week class that walks you through the foundations of diabetes care and nutrition to help you build an understanding of how you can eat with freedom, while managing your diabetes.
Most of all, don’t let how you manage your diabetes isolate you. Share your questions, emotions, and feelings with your club. Chances are, someone nearby is dealing with something similar.
Join our next group this Fall 2020 virtually. Eating doesn't have to be limiting and boring - learn how!
Details and Registration
New Group Starting FALL 2020 - Join our waitlist now!
Our Group Programs can Work with Your Insurance
Even if you have one of the insurance plans listed below, we still need to verify nutrition services are covered. Please have your insurance card ready when you call us so we can verify benefits. Any quotes on benefits is NOT a guarantee of insurance payment - unpaid claims are your responsibility.
Plan to pay any co-pays or co-insurance fees at the time of your nutrition appointment. We take all forms of payment including cash, check, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Discover.
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