We help clients move away from fear, guilt, and rigid food rules and difficulties toward a more peaceful relationship with food. Clients often work toward making mealtimes easier, expanding food variety, reducing anxiety around eating, and feeling more confident and flexible with their food choices. Rather than focusing on perfection, we build realistic skills and sustainable habits that can support long-term recovery. We provide care through a HAES lens in an inclusive, non-judgmental space.

Our dietitian specializes in eating disorder and disordered eating nutrition counseling, providing individualized, trauma-informed care tailored to each person’s unique needs, experiences, and goals. We support individuals navigating:

  • Eating Disorders + Disordered Eating

  • Anorexia Nervosa

  • Bulimia Nervosa

  • Binge Eating Disorder

  • ARFID + Selective Eating

  • Orthorexia + Rigid Food Rules

  • OSFED

Eating Disorders + Disordered Eating

ARFID nutrition support focuses on helping you meet your nutritional needs while gradually expanding your ability to eat a wider variety of foods. We can work on food chaining, sensory preferences, fear-based food avoidance, meal structure, nutrition adequacy, and practical strategies for navigating eating at home, school, work, or social situations. Progress is individualized and may involve building from foods that already feel safe toward new foods in manageable steps.

ARFID + Selective Eating

Working with an eating disorder dietitian is a collaborative process centered around you, not a standard meal plan or a predetermined formula for recovery.

We get to know your relationship with food, your experiences, nutrition needs, and what you hope to work toward in recovery. Depending on where you are in your journey, nutrition counseling may include building more consistent eating patterns, working through food fears or aversions, challenging rigid food rules, increasing food variety, and developing greater flexibility and confidence around food.

Our approach to nutrition counseling is compassionate, trauma-informed, and non-judgmental, with personalized support that considers your needs, preferences, lifestyle, and recovery goals.

What to Expect From an Eating Disorder Dietitian

Nutrition Support During Eating Disorder Recovery

Nutrition counseling plays an important role in eating disorder recovery. Dietitians who specialize in eating disorders and disordered eating support your mental and physical well-being while helping you reach your nutrition goals.

We help you establish more consistent nutrition, challenge rigid food rules, work through food fears and avoidance, increase food variety, and rebuild confidence around eating. Depending on your needs and stage of recovery, sessions may include meal planning, meal support, food exposures, grocery support, nutrition education, and troubleshooting barriers.

Olive Branch Nutrition accepts Aetna, Anthem BCBS, Cigna, Oscar, and United Health Care.

Many insurance holders pay $0 for nutrition counseling, but insurance coverage for dietitians varies widely depending on your insurance company and your specific plan.

Some insurance plans cover a set number of nutrition counseling sessions per year, while others require a specific diagnosis for visits to be covered. Certain plans offer unlimited visits, while others limit the number of sessions, often based on medical necessity or diagnosis.

How Do I Know If Nutrition Counseling Is Covered?
Olive Branch Nutrition offers free insurance coverage checks. We contact your insurance company directly and advocate on your behalf to determine:

  • Your expected copay

  • Any coinsurance or deductible

  • The number of covered nutrition visits available for the year

  • Any diagnosis requirements for coverage

To complete an accurate insurance verification, we need:

  • Your insurance information

  • Your completed intake forms

  • A little time to speak directly with your insurer

This is why we ask for your information as early as possible: no surprises, no stress. We cannot complete insurance checks without sufficient lead time or complete intake forms.

What If My Insurance Doesn’t Cover Nutrition Counseling?
If your plan does not include coverage for nutrition counseling, Olive Branch Nutrition offers both Sliding Scale and Private Pay options, so you can still receive the care you need.

Access to nutrition support shouldn’t depend solely on insurance coverage.

Ready to Check Your Insurance Coverage? If you’d like to verify your nutrition counseling benefits or learn more about working with us:

We’re here to help you get the care you deserve, with clarity, honesty, and real support.

Insurance + Nutrition Counseling

“Lindsay is smart, empathetic, thorough, and an amazing professional to partner with when you're trying to unpack disordered eating. She truly is gifted at having the nutritionist background and know-how for how to reframe eating, but is also incredibly emotionally tuned-in to her clients as well. She truly meets her clients where they are at, and is great at providing accountability, goal-setting, but also a judgement-free zone where she understands where clients are, any roadblocks they have, and how she can help support them through their journey... It's so helpful to have Lindsay as a clinician who understands this and who can formulate a realistic plan where you truly feel like it is a partnership of working together. Would highly recommend.”

– Former Client via ZocDoc

“Lindsay is incredibly kind and patient. I never thought I'd be able to have a decent relationship with food, let alone a good one, until our work together. She went above and beyond to help me in my recovery, all with understanding and humor. I cannot recommend her enough!”

— Former Client via ZocDoc

“It was a pleasure working with Lindsay Wengler. She helped me understand my child and guided me through the process of introducing new foods. Now I can proudly say he eats well and enjoys healthy meals, without being forced or getting frustrated. Thank you so much.”

– Former Client via ZocDoc

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