The first sessions focus on getting to know you, exploring your nutrition needs, and setting goals together to support your safety and well-being, with subsequent sessions guiding your progress toward a healthier relationship with food and your body.

Sessions are typically 50-55 minutes in length and primarily via telehealth at this time.

Nutrition Therapy & Treatment Approaches

- Individual nutrition therapy

- Family-Based Therapy (FBT) for adolescents and families

- Intuitive Eating and non-diet nutrition counseling

- Weight-inclusive, evidence-based care

- Individualized medical nutrition therapy

Nutrition care is individualized and tailored to each client’s medical history, goals, and relationship with food.

Conditions Treated

- Anorexia nervosa (AN)

- Bulimia nervosa (BN)

- Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

- Compulsive and emotional eating

- Chronic dieting and disordered eating

- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

- Celiac disease

- Diabetes

- Elevated cholesterol and dyslipidemia

This list provides examples and is not exhaustive. If you have any questions or would like more information about a particular service, please feel free to reach out.

Lauren provides nutrition counseling services taking into account individual needs with a whole-person, HAES®-aligned/body-inclusive, non-diet approach.

Embark Nutrition Counseling, LLC was established with the goal to support clients' safety and well-being with quality coordinated care whenever possible for optimal recovery processes.

Embark Nutrition Counseling offers both insurance-based and self-pay options.

Lauren is licensed in ME, MA, NH, and VT. She is in network with major insurance plans including:

• Aetna

• Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield

• Cigna

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

• Maine Community Health Options

• United Healthcare

*If Embark Nutrition Counseling is not in network with your insurance company, we can provide a superbill after each session. If your plan includes out-of-network benefits, you may be able to receive reimbursement directly from your insurance company.

-Self-pay (private pay) rate is $165/session.

*Unable to accept MaineCare & Medicare insurance plans at this time because of restrictions related to the limited diagnosis codes they currently approve for coverage.