Working together
One to one, and it takes six months.
The full assessment, my whole attention, and a plan that changes as your season does. Six months, because that is how long the foundational work takes when it is done properly.
Some of this will sound familiar.
You sleep eight hours and wake up as though you did not. Food you have eaten your whole life has started arguing with you, and the list of what is safe keeps getting shorter. Your cycle changed and nobody could tell you why. You are cold when other people are not. Your hair is in the drain. You feel the afternoon arrive in your body before you see it on a clock.
Your labs came back normal. Possibly several times.
None of that is in your head, and none of it means your body is failing. It means something upstream is not being met, and a body that cannot meet it starts making choices about what to fund.
What the six months involve.
It opens with a long assessment, because I would rather know what your body is doing than guess at it. Your history, your medications and exposures, a full symptom picture, and your food and mood journal.
Then we work in order. Foundations first, terrain underneath that, patterns after, and anything targeted last. When a case gets harder I follow the thread rather than adding to the pile, and it nearly always runs back to something plain.
Twelve sessions across the six months, every other week. Not weekly. Weekly sounds like more support and it is actually less, as it leaves you no time to walk anything out before we are talking again. I learned that the hard way, the way I learned most things.
Email check-ins between sessions, answered during office hours. You are never stuck for two weeks wondering whether to keep going.
Progress here is capacity-based rather than time-driven. If your body is not ready for the next thing, we do not do the next thing.
Why the entry point is six months.
It is how long the foundational work takes when it is done properly, and a shorter first container mostly produces somebody who has started and stopped, which is worse than not starting.
Autoimmune disease is the reason I do this work, so it is the ground I know best. Layered, long-standing pictures need depth and they need pacing, and both of those need time.
After the first six months you can continue in three-month blocks.
What it costs.
Six months — $8,400, or $8,000 paid in full.
Quarterly — $4,200 a quarter.
There is a family rate for households doing this together. Ask me.
Payment plans exist. Ask me for those too. I would rather have the conversation than have you decide against it alone and in silence.
If six months is a lot to decide cold.
Start with an assessment rather than a container. Ninety minutes, and at the end of it you know what is going on and what it would take, including whether the answer is neither of my programs.
Assessment — $500. Your full history and symptom timeline, your questionnaire read properly, your food and mood journal, and a straight recommendation.
Assessment with blood chemistry — $700. The same, plus a functional read of blood work you already have.
That second one is for results already in your hands, and reading three years of them as a pattern is the part that takes real time. I can also order labs when something needs looking at, and the lab bills you directly for those.
Enroll in a three- or six-month container within thirty days and the whole fee comes off the program.
This is an assessment and not treatment. You will not leave with a protocol, because a protocol built in ninety minutes is a guess with a price on it. You will leave knowing what I see.
What is actually open.
One to one may or may not have room this fall, and that depends on how our school schedule lands rather than on anything strategic. A couple of places should free up.
If the door is shut when you get here, the list is not a holding pattern. It is how I fill a place when one opens, and I work down it in order.
Who I am not for.
If you want a meal plan and no questions, I am the wrong person, and there are people who do that well. If you want somebody to tell you food is the whole answer, I will disappoint you.
If what you are describing belongs with a doctor, I will say so rather than take the money and work around it. A Nutritional Therapy Practitioner does not diagnose, treat, or replace medical care, and I work alongside your doctors rather than against them.
Sometimes the root is trauma, and nutrition is not the tool for that. It does not mean I stop working with you. It means a clinical therapist walks beside you while I take the nutrition and the foundations, and neither of us pretends to do the other’s job.
There is another way in.
Groundwork is twelve weeks through the same five foundations, in a group of ten, with one session that belongs only to you.
Some women want the room. Others would rather not be seen and would do the whole thing alone with me if money were no object. Neither is the braver choice. The thing that matters is which one you will actually turn up to.
Start here.
Tell me what is going on and which of these you are drawn to. I read every one of these myself, and if I think you want the other one I will say so.
Her real gift is in her 1:1 consults. She is smart, kind, has firsthand knowledge and experience, and is able to tailor the program to you, your budget, and your symptoms.
— M.O.