Nutritional Counseling & Meal Planning

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Nutritional Counseling & Meal Planning

Safe natural therapy to heal illness and improve well-being

Nutritional counseling focuses on helping clients understanding foods and their role in preventive nutrition.

Our nutritionists offer the following services:

  • FirstLine Therapy: A lifestyle modification program to guide your return to a path of extended health. FirstLine Therapy is a disease-reduction program with the primary goal of helping individuals achieve and maintain a healthy body composition (lean muscle-to-fat ratio) in order to improve health, manage disease, feel better, and reduce the risk of serious conditions.
  • Meal planning: Our nutritionists customize a meal plan for you based on your conditions, treatments plans, personal goals. You work directly with your nutritional counselors to achieve your health, weight and wellness goals.

Providers

Olivia Darrow

Olivia Darrow

Nutrition Provider

She collaborates closely with our Integrative Primary Care providers to help patients navigate their "at home instructions" of their whole-person care plans at Wholeheatlh Chicago.

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