About nutrition counseling
Nutrition counseling can be conducted in both a one-on-one and group setting. Nutrition counseling illuminates food behaviors, provides people with nutrition information, supports experimentation with new behaviors, and assesses outcomes. Nutrition counseling is a collaborative relationship between the client and the dietitian. This relationship helps to build and hold motivation as well as assist in meeting health goals. At Nutrition for life, we like to think of this relationship as walking a path together, not pushing or pulling.
Sessions:
The nutrition counseling sessions can be conducted both in person and virtually. Determining how often or how many sessions one needs is based on individual assessment and client goals. Some people meet with a dietitian just once and others come weekly, monthly or once a year.
Initial visit:
Initial visits are used to get to know one another and gather important information. The goal is for the dietitian to have an in depth understanding of what brought you to seek help with your nutrition, and establish goals. These sessions last about 50 minutes. We will discuss medical history, eating and lifestyle behaviors, exercise routines, grocery shopping, supplement use and weight history to name a few. At the end of the session, we typically set measurable goals and discuss the frequency of follow up visits.
Fee: $200
Follow up visits:
Follow-ups last between 25 and 60 minutes. In these sessions the goals are evaluated and altered as needed. Depending on how things are going, these session could include ongoing nutrition education and counseling, exploring obstacles and challenges, meal planning (when appropriate), making grocery lists, etc.
The best results have been seen in those who attend weekly visits for the first month or two and biweekly or monthly thereafter.
Fee: $100-180
Body Composition Test:
Body composition tests are available using Body Stat® metabolic machine and skinfold calipers for body fat and lean body mass calculation.
Fee: $75
Insurance & payment
All practitioners are Nutrition for Life are contracted with Optum/Monarch Healthcare. If you have this insurance, you will need to obtain a prior authorization from your medical doctor. Please contact our office if you have any questions about this process.
All other insurance plans are considered out of network. Our office would be happy to provide you with a superbill that you can submit to your insurance company for reimbursement but we can not guarantee the visit will get reimbursed and require payment upfront.
Our office accepts cash, credit cards and checks.
Appointment cancellation policy
Time is set aside in the dietitians schedule explicitly for you. Since we cannot fill appointment times on short notice, a minimum of 24-hours notification is required if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment. If the notification is given in less than 24-hours from the scheduled appointment, there will be a $75 charge for the missed appointment. For this reason, credit card information is required to secure your appointment.
Directions to our office
The office can be tricky to find. Please plan to arrive at your appointment 10 minutes early. Once you arrive at the office, you will enter in to our waiting room. To your right you will find a wall with buttons that correlate with the different providers at this location. Please find your providers name, press the button, and take a seat. Your provider will come get you from the waiting room.
There is no front desk receptionist. Please do not open the door that goes beyond the waiting room. Our practice shares office suites with other healthcare practitioners who along with our dietitians, are in patient sessions throughout the day. To respect the privacy of both our patients and clinicians, it is important that you wait in the waiting room until your dietitian comes to get you.
Driving Directions:
- From the 5 freeway, exit Crown valley Parkway towards Mission Hospital and The Shops.
- Turn left on Bellogente (the light by Chili’s restaurant).
- Go up the hill in to Crown Valley Center.
- At the water fountain, turn right and park.
- We are located in the building that says “Boswell Insurance”.
- Our suite in #100, located on the ground floor under the staircase.
Address:
26461 Crown Valley Parkway
Suite #100
Mission Viejo, CA 92691