Anita Dock, Dietitian, Nutrition Counseling, Cincinnati, Ohio
Find a new way of coping besides restricting or binge eating.
Let’s work together to help you be in control of your eating in a healthy and constructive way.
Everyone is different. Find success with a recovery program personalized to your individual situation and emotional needs.
Get everything you need to prepare yourself for success and support you in practicing those new strategies.
With your fresh understanding of your challenges and strategies, plan a future with your eating disorder behind you.
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Many people with eating disorders feel like their condition is controlling them.
Ruminating thoughts never stop. It is exhausting and isolating.
Taking back control in a healthy and constructive way means finding a new way of coping besides restricting or binge eating.
You can get expert support if it’s your first time seeking help or another step in years of treatment.
You can confidently work towards recovery and eating intuitively by getting to the root causes of your eating disorder.
When we work together, we focus on the underlying causes of your eating disorder. Working alongside your therapist, I help you address the psychological and emotional factors that contribute to disordered eating patterns.
Then, I work with you to understand more about nutrition as well as develop a range of tools, strategies and mindful eating skills that will support your journey towards recovery.
By developing positive food behaviors and attitudes, you can break free from the cycle of disordered eating and establish a new, nourishing relationship with food that lasts.
I review your medical history, medication review, lab review, and any information that may need to be addressed to ensure we can address your concerns' root causes.
This is an opportunity to review your current dietary habits while identifying challenges that affect your healthy relationship with food. We might adjust meal and snack times, analyze meal content, and evaluate nutrient content, while helping you learn to master intuitive eating.
Because healing comes from more than the food you eat, I take into account sleep, stress, and other integrative lifestyle factors. Working alongside your therapist or eating disorder team, this evaluation helps me really get to know the challenges you’ve been working through, and can tailor each session to your needs.
Looking at your past informs how your disordered eating may have started. Your individualized plan will address the root causes, while providing healing and support using a holistic approach that addresses nutrient deficiencies and the contribution of good nutrition for optimal mental health.
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I understand how overwhelming it can feel to start the road to recovery.
This is why I help my clients safely address the root cause of their challenges with eating.
For years, I have been working with people with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. I build a strong relationship with each person to help them experience freedom from their condition and live a full and enjoyable life.
My Qualifications
Certificate in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy
Everything needs the right balance. Balancing your diet is as important as balancing your life. Finding where imbalances are occurring and nudging them back into balance by addressing life-work balance, sleep, stress, and exercise, as well as your diet, creates transformative changes.
Many people give up on positive changes they’ve made because they don’t get the results they are looking for. By returning to the root cause of your weight challenges, we establish enduring habits that last a lifetime, and from this, you see how you can experience a new way of life.
Everyone is unique; therefore, each treatment must be personalized to your needs, lifestyle and goals. By working together with a plan that’s tailored specifically for you, you will find the changes are easier to make and keep.
We will talk about what you're experiencing and what you would like life to look like instead. In the process, we will get to know each other and make sure we are a great fit to work together.
Your personalized plan incorporates all the tools to help you create a new way of life. Soon these new habits will become established and help make your goals a reality.
See what it's like to experience health and energy across all aspects of your life - physical activity, sleep quality, mental and emotional needs and spirituality.
Special Pricing is also available for shared appointments with a friend, a family member or even the whole family.
Before your first appointment, you will be complete paperwork to document your medical, diet and weight history as well as any symptoms that interfere with your daily life. If you are struggling with disordered eating, there will be a separate questionnaire to address these struggles.
This is a one-hour session where diet, recent labs, blood sugar monitoring, lifestyle, and your relationship with food are assessed. Often a timeline is created to determine connections that might lead to the root cause of current health concerns. This lays the groundwork for your individualized plan to meet your goals. This plan might be a personalized meal plan, dietary modifications, lifestyle suggestions, or recommended testing/supplements.
These appointments are typically 30 minutes but might be longer depending on your needs. We review understanding of past concepts and provide new information or skills each visit. If you did testing such as nutrient testing, we will review your results and put a plan or protocol in place to address nutrients that are low as just one example. The functional medicine 5 R’s of Remove, Replace, Reinoculate, Repair and Rebalance will be implemented as appropriate for your care. Evaluating progress is a continuous process and goals are set regularly during follow-up appointments.
By your journey’s arrival, new ways to manage your nutrition and health challenges will be in place. Whether your goals were weight loss, blood sugar control or managing gastrointestinal ailments, making lifestyle changes can take time to course-correct. Having a knowledgeable clinician to provide a plan and support you on this journey is essential and is a rewarding, supportive and collaborative experience.
Take Advantage of Other Services:
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Come to the Cincinnati office or virtually through telehealth!
In the United States, the terms “Registered Dietitian” (RD) and “nutritionist” are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences when it comes to education, qualifications, and legal recognition.
A Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)] must have at least a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, dietetics, or a related field from an accredited university. As part of their education, RDs/RDNs must complete a supervised internship program, pass the national registration examination, and maintain their registration by completing continuing education requirements throughout their careers. RDs/RDNs are recognized by state and federal laws as qualified professionals to provide medical nutrition therapy and nutrition counseling, and develop personalized meal plans.
The educational background for nutritionists varies widely, ranging from self-taught individuals to those with degrees in nutrition or related fields. There is no standardized accreditation or certification process for nutritionists in the United States. Nutritionists typically provide general nutrition advice and education rather than individualized medical nutrition therapy. The scope of practice for a nutritionist can vary depending on state laws and regulations. Nutritionists are not universally recognized as healthcare professionals in the same way RDs/RDNs are, and their ability to provide nutrition counseling and advice may be limited in some states.
It’s essential to note that the term “nutritionist” is not regulated in many states, so it’s crucial to verify a practitioner’s qualifications and credentials before seeking advice.
On the other hand, the “Registered Dietitian” title ensures a higher level of education, training, and expertise in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
4881 Cooper Road,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
