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Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists Series

Every month I write a counseling tidbit and share it with colleagues.  Over 7000 of your colleagues are finding them helpful. 

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The Next Round Table Conference Call is Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Noon (Eastern Time)

No need to register. 
Just call: 1-218-862-1300
Conference Code: 163008


The Recording of the Spring, 2013 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.

25 attended. Topics included:

  • The value of focusing on the positives of what the client is doing.

  • How to convince administrators and team members of the value of this new way of working with clients.

  • How to clue patients in that this will not just be “education.”

  • The value of working with mindfulness, especially with people with eating disorders.

  • How to handle conflict with spouses that come into a session.

  • What about when the conflict is just in body language?

  • How to address parent guilt when working in a pediatric obesity setting?

  • Some examples of supporting each other to continue to grow in skills.


The Recording of the Winter, 2013 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here

Almost 40 attended and 9 got a chance to contribute. Topics included:

  • Getting co-workers to buy into client-centered counseling processes
  • The power of using affirmations especially with the WIC population
  • How to build referrals for a private practice
  • Addressing food fears
  • How to approach a first session with someone who likely has an eating disorder and doesn’t think so
  • When a client does not speak English and you need to work with a phone translators
     

The Recording of the Fall 2012 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here. Twenty-nine attended.

Topics included:

  • Success with handling a client personal question.

  • How to deal with high cancel rates in employee wellness program.

  • When a client says they “lack motivation.”

  • Working with teens and children when the child says they won’t do something and Mom insists they do.

  • Groups discussion of how to handle meal planning (or not), meal planning sites and helping clients feel like they go home with something.


The recording of the Summer, 2012 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here. Thirty-seven attended.

Topics included:

  • How to handle limited time

  • Ideas for working with clients who are coming back and not making changes

  • What about clients how seem to want a food plan?

  • When clients are afraid of eating due to GI conditions

  • Resources for beginning a private practice


The recording of the Spring, 2012 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here. Thirty-five attended.

Topics included:

  • How to respond to clients’ unrealistic expectations

  • Ideal frequency of visits and how to talk about this with clients

  • Focusing sessions, especially when a client has lots of goals and ideas.

  • Taking less time with documentation

  • How to vary reflections and make them more powerful


The recording of the Fall, 2011 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.

Topics included:

  • How to get a private practice going.
  • Using reflecting to address a client’s need for therapy.
  • The struggles of doing phone counseling.
  • Ways to approach clients who are turning to food for emotional reasons and those who don’t seem to understand how much their diet is effecting their health.

The recording of the Summer, 2011 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.

I was overwhelmed by the number of people who called into this Round Table call and apologize that we didn’t get to hear from everyone. Some shared successes and we had a chance to talk about a few challenges: 
• How to handle the difficult conversation with clients when you tell them their insurance will not cover their visits. 
• Responding to a client who says, “I know what I’m supposed to do…”


The recording of the Special Winter 2011 Call, Awakening Your Courageous Heart, is available here.

With my Guest, Lorraine Cohen, we addressed:

  • How to distinguish intuition and fear 

  • The single most important factor in unhooking from fear 

  • The impact your stories have on creating your fearfull reality and how to take your power back 

  • Ways you might be unconsciously sabotaging your success and well-being 

  • One profoundly powerfull tool that will empower your faith, trust, and courage to navigate any of life’s challenges 

About Lorraine Cohen

Creatively inspiring and innovative, Reverend Dr. Lorraine Cohen is recognized as a cutting edge expert in the fields of personal growth, spiritual evolution, and conscious entrepreneurship. Founder of Powerfull Living, she is a gifted spiritual life coach and advisor, published writer, speaker, and popular radio broadcaster. For more than 20 years, Lorraine has coached thousands of conscious business owners (including me) to overcome the limitations of their mind to know their value, claim their Divine Power, and live their purpose in alignment with their spirit. Learn about her at http://www.powerfull-living.biz/


The recording of the Fall, 2010 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.

It was also a celebration of the 100th Counseling Tip! Fifteen Tip readers joined in to share their favorite Tip and share how they have used it. I acknowledged those on my "team" who help me get them out and shared the experience of writing them. 


The recording of the Fall, 2009 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available here.

Topics included:

  • How to build referrals (and a recommendation of Jessica Setnick’s valuable webinar, Double Your Referrals)

  • How to market a practice on the web and in ads

  • Struggles with collecting fees, whether to accept insurance, etc.

  • Guilt over accepting money for sessions when client seems to not be reaching goals.

  • …and more


The Spring, 2009 Nutrition Counseling Round Table call was a 50-minute, lively, free-wheeling discussion among 6 of your colleagues. It’s free to listen to the recording. Thanks to everyone who called in.

Topics included:

  • How to engage with clients who are a "captive audience" such as teens or those in a dialysis unit 
  • Coping with anxious clients who want us to "fix" them (and right away)
  • Clients who are doing better medically, but are resistant to continued work on normalizing their relationship with food

The January '09 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer click here. To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click here.

 Topics included:

  • Addressing family dynamics when working with children
  • Helping clients turn around negative self-statements
  • What about when clients lie to us?
  • Responding to client food records
  • Ways to handle clients who have to tell us everything about their week

The September '08 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer click here. To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click here.

 Topics included:

  • What to do when we need motivation or get bored with our work.

  • Shifting to discussing with our clients about what is happening (or not) in a session.

  • How to best implement the Tips (one at a time.)

  • The value of recording sessions to learn from them.

  • How effective it is (nor not) to work with the appetite scale with a very heavy client.

The May '08 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer click here. To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click here.  

 Topics included:

  • Conversation Maps and their use in diabetes groups.

  • Setting up a website

  • A successful example of addressing resistance

  • Use of food records (or not)

  • Success with using the appetite scale

  • The power of listening carefully to clients

  • Some ideas for recording your sessions and learning from them

The March '08 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and listen to free. To download a recording to play on any computer click here. To download a recording to play on an mp3 player (lower quality recording) click here.

Topics included:

  • Recording sessions to learn about your counseling process.

  • Keeping clients on topic. 

  • Addressing alcohol use. 

  • When clients come back not having achieved goals

The Summer '07 Nutrition Counseling Round Table Call is available to download and listen to free.  Click here.

Topics included:

  • The value of affirming clients, especially when they challenge or resist us.
  • A discussion of nutrition counseling on the phone, a growing area of practice.
  • …and more

"Test Drive" Phone Supervision or MI Coaching

Do you want supervision or motivational interviewing coaching, but are not sure what format will work for you or wonder if your learning style will fit with me or just want to check me out?  Ask for a 20 minute Complimentary Consultation. You could tell me about your practice and what you are struggling with now. We can explore goals for you to achieve. To set up a complimentary call just e-mail me at molly@mollykellogg.com.