Embracing Food & Body
At Appleman Nutrition, we believe nourishing yourself and your family can be both intuitive and joyful. Your relationship with food should be one of trust, not struggle.
WHO WE ARE
At Appleman Nutrition, we understand that your relationship with food is deeply personal.
It’s shaped by your history, your family, your culture, and your individual needs. That’s why we’ve built our practice on a foundation of compassion, clinical expertise, and the unwavering belief that all bodies deserve respect and nourishment.
Our philosophy is simple yet powerful: ALL foods can fit into a balanced, healthy diet. We know that “perfect” eating is actually rather imperfect, and that a person can be “perfectly healthy” without exercising strict control over their food intake. We believe in a diet that is inclusive and in a relationship with food that is intentional, mindful, and easily managed.
Whether you’re navigating the complexities of feeding your family, working through your own relationship with food and body, addressing an individual medical nutrition therapy need, or supporting a loved one through health challenges, we’re here to listen without judgment and guide you with evidence-based care that actually makes sense for your life.
You don’t need another set of rules to follow. You need someone who gets it, and we do.
OUR SERVICES
How We Can Help You
Individual Nutrition Counseling
Work one-on-one with our registered dietitians to address your unique nutrition needs and improve your overall relationship with food and your body.
Meal Support & Food Exposure Therapy
When eating feels overwhelming or limited, we provide gentle, supported experiences that help make mealtime easier and expand your comfort and confidence with food.
Family-Based Nutrition Counseling
Navigate the beautiful complexity of feeding your family with expert guidance that considers everyone’s needs, preferences, and developmental stages. From introducing first foods to managing picky eating, we help create peaceful, nourishing mealtimes.
Infant, Pediatric & Adolescent Nutrition
Support your child’s growth and development while fostering a positive relationship with food and body that will serve them for life.
Lactation Consultation
Support for both you and your newborn in the early feeding days, whether that looks like breastfeeding, formula feeding, pumping, or some combination of all three. Care can begin before your baby arrives and may continue through the early months, in your home or virtually.
OUR SPECIALTIES
Specialized Support for Life’s Complexities
Our evidence-based approaches help you move beyond the noise of unfounded posts and diet culture messaging to discover what truly serves your body and well-being.
Eating Disorder Recovery
Compassionate, evidence-based care that helps you eat adequately and without conflict, rebuild trust with your body and find peace with food, whether you’re just beginning recovery or need additional support along the way.
Perimenopause & Menopause
Navigate hormonal changes with nutrition support that helps you feel strong, energized, and confident in your evolving body.
Weight Management & GLP-1 Support
Scientifically grounded guidance for metabolic optimization and a centered mindset around food. Move beyond weight cycling and restrictive numbers focused approaches to eating in favor of addressing the nutritional, behavioral and emotional factors that influence how you are eating. For clients using a GLP-1 medication prescribed by their own clinician, we provide nutrition care alongside it. We do not prescribe medication.
Digestive Health
Optimize your gut microbiome and find relief from GI challenges resulting from IBS, Celiac, GERD and Crohn’s Disease. We work with you to provide tailored nutrition strategies that address your specific symptoms while honoring your food preferences and lifestyle.
Prenatal & Postpartum Care
Optimized nutrition through conception, pregnancy and the months after birth.
Lactation Care
Personalized lactation consultation and support during the prenatal and postpartum period to help you and your baby thrive.
OUR TEAM
Registered Dietitians Who Truly Understand
We are a team of registered dietitians with focused clinical interests with decades of combined experience.
What sets us apart isn’t just our clinical expertise, it’s the way we truly connect with and care for our clients.
We develop meaningful relationships with the children, adolescents, adults, and families who seek our guidance because we know that healing happens in the context of trust and understanding.
Our team approach ensures that your needs are regularly and thoroughly reviewed. We collaborate not just with each other, but with the medical professionals on your team- physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, and other specialists- to provide comprehensive care that addresses all aspects of your health and well-being.
Most importantly, we’ve been where you are. We understand the frustration of feeling disconnected from your body, the exhaustion of food rules that don’t work, and the worry that comes with wanting the best in nourishment for your family. Our work is defined by the trusting relationships we develop with you, our clients, because we believe that’s where real, lasting change begins.
Ready to begin
Ready to Begin?
Food doesn’t have to be complicated, and you don’t have to navigate your nutrition concerns alone. Whether you’re seeking support for yourself or your family, wondering if your relationship with food could be easier, or simply ready to try a different approach, we’re here. Because everyone deserves to feel at peace with food and confident in their body.
Rebecca Appleman, RD / FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Your first step is a complimentary discovery call with Rebecca, where you can share what’s on your mind and learn how our approach might serve you. No pressure, no sales pitch, just an honest conversation about what you’re experiencing and how we might help.
Insight from the practice
Occasional information and updates on nutrition and wellness from the Appleman Nutrition team.
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