All Access Dietitians accepts clients nationwide and internationally, but please note that if there are medical nutrition therapy needs, we may modify the program structure to follow applicable state licensure laws. This will all be communicated at the beginning of the program before you officially enroll.

All of our Dietitian Coaches have outpatient medical nutrition therapy experience and are passionate about delivering a high-touch, coaching-focused program to help manage a variety of health goals and conditions including, but not limited to: 

• Intuitive Eating
• Weight Management
• Food Allergies
• Surgery Prep and Recovery
• Injury Recovery
• Healthy Aging
• Hormonal Imbalances
• Disordered Eating
• Eating Disorders 
• Pre-diabetes
• Diabetes
• Gestational diabetes
• PCOS
• Bariatrics
• Endometriosis
• Thyroid disorders
• Fertility
• Cardiovascular Health
• Sports Performance
• Women’s Health
• Digestive Health

Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RD or RDN)  have completed coursework from an accredited dietetics program, completed a 1200+ hour supervised practice program and passed a national registration examination. They have maintained extensive continuing education requirements for licensure.

On the other hand, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist or nutrition coach. For example, non-RD health coaches, holistic nutritionists, nutrition therapy practitioners, personal trainers with “certifications” in nutrition may have little to no formal training in nutrition. If they are not a dietitian, they are not allowed to assess or prescribe dietary recommendations to those with any disease or health  conditions. Insurance companies cover nutrition counseling from dietitians, not “nutritionists”. 

A health coach is like a sports coach that can help an athlete develop and excel at a sport. A health coach can help anyone excel at living better, even if they have chronic medical conditions. The coaching process is similar to talk therapy because it involves two people discussing ideas and issues. That said, it is different because the person who is being coached is in the driver’s seat, having full autonomy and creating their goals and the strategies on how to realize these goals. Your Dietitian Coach will not be telling you what to do. You will collaboratively brainstorm goals and only set goals that you feel confident in and that align with your personal wellness vision. 

Our team of registered dietitians also have intensive training as health coaches. Health coaching is a client-led and empathetic experience. The intention is to allow you to be self-directed, autonomous, and confident in your own health journey. At defined parts of the program you will have sessions where your Dietitian Coach puts on their “dietitian expert hat”, but the majority of the program they will be wearing their “health coach hat”. 

A key technique utilized by our Dietitian Coaches is motivational interviewing. You will be asked open-ended questions intended to help you elicit your own reasons for change. Instead of saying, “You need to eat better,” your Dietitian Coach might ask, “How might your life be different if you changed the habits that you’ve been trying to change?” This approach, which has been proven effective in many research studies, is so that you are changing for your own reasons, on your own terms, and are far more likely to succeed when compared with someone telling you what to do. That old approach is less motivating and is more likely to instill resistance to change, and therefore, no change.

According to a recent study in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, health coaching “results in clinically relevant improvements in multiple biomarker risk factors (including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, and cardiorespiratory fitness) in diverse populations.”

Health coaches help with a broad variety of health issues to prevent, treat and sometimes reverse chronic health conditions. This includes healthy aging, general wellness, weight loss, stress reduction, the management of chronic conditions, improving diet and exercise, and adjusting to a life-altering health event, like a heart attack, surgery, or new diagnosis.

Please complete this form or call 312-664-3456 and a member of our team will help get you started.

Please call our office at 312-664-3456 to speak to a member of our team.