Anti-diet dietitian in austin
Feel better in your body. Heal your relationship with food. Care for your whole self.
Whether you’re stuck in diet cycles, healing from an eating disorder, managing a health condition, or just want to eat well without the stress, you deserve support that meets you where you are.
Anti-diet nutrition support for people ready to improve their relationship with food.
anti-diet dietitian in austin
Feel better in your body. Heal your relationship with food. Care for your whole self.
Whether you’re stuck in diet cycles, healing from an eating disorder, managing a health condition, or just want to eat well without the stress, you deserve support that meets you where you are.
Anti-diet nutrition support for people ready to improve their relationship with food.
If you want to feel confident in your relationship with food and get your brain space back, you’re in the right place.
Nutrition Counseling For
Food Relationship Healing
Intuitive Eating
If it’s exhausting to think about food all the time and you’re tired of starting over every Monday, intuitive eating could be the framework you need. You’ll learn to trust your hunger, fullness, and satisfaction instead of following external rules that keep you stuck in food anxiety.
Eating Disorders
Disordered eating is incredibly common and often misunderstood. We’ll work on stabilizing your eating, calming the food anxiety, and rebuilding trust with your body—all from a weight-inclusive, trauma-informed approach that actually supports recovery.
Emotional Eating & Binge Eating
If you’re caught in cycles of restriction and binging, feeling “out of control” around food, or using food to cope with stress, we’ll address what’s really driving these patterns—without more rules or restriction.
Health Condition Support
PCOS & Hormone Health
Tired of being told to “just lose weight” for your PCOS? I’ll help you support your hormones and manage symptoms through gentle nutrition approaches—no carb restriction or weight loss focus required.
Blood Sugar Support
Whether you have diabetes, prediabetes, or insulin resistance, we’ll work on sustainable approaches to blood sugar balance that don’t recreate diet mentality or trigger disordered eating patterns.
Digestive Health & IBS
Managing digestive issues doesn’t have to mean eliminating entire food groups or living in fear of eating. We’ll find gentle approaches that support your gut while maintaining food freedom.
Life Stage nutrition
Fertility & Preconception
Preparing your body for pregnancy doesn’t require perfect eating or dramatic lifestyle changes. We’ll focus on nourishing approaches that support fertility while protecting your relationship with food.
Postpartum Recovery
After having a baby, your body needs nourishment and recovery—not restriction. We’ll work on sustainable eating patterns that support healing, energy, and mental health during this demanding time.
Perimenopause & Menopause
Navigating hormonal changes, energy shifts, and body changes without falling back into diet culture. Learn to support your changing body with compassion, not control.
Ways To Work With Me
Work With Me 1-1
Personalized support for your specific needs—whether that’s eating disorder recovery, managing PCOS, or just wanting to feel normal around food again. We’ll work at your pace to create sustainable changes that fit your real life.
Love Food Again
Group coaching that combines expert guidance with peer support and anti-diet community. Learn to trust your body, challenge diet culture, and heal your relationship with food alongside others who understand the journey. Community changes everything.
Courses & Free Resources
From learning about nutrition during perimenopause without diet culture to short courses on Intuitive Eating, to my free resource page.
Book a discovery call to get clear on your path to peace and freedom with food.
Your body is not the enemy.
If food feels stressful and you’re constantly fighting your body, something needs to shift. Not fixing—healing.
Our culture teaches us that our body size determines our worth. This creates disconnection, anxiety, and a constant battle with the very body that’s trying to keep us alive.
Here’s what’s true: Your body already knows how to eat. You can rebuild trust with its signals and find a way of nourishing yourself that feels peaceful instead of punishing.
This isn’t about eating perfectly or looking a certain way. It’s about addressing the real problem—the systems that taught you to distrust yourself in the first place.
A non-diet, healing approach to food understands that no two bodies are alike.
If food feels stressful, there’s something deeper going on. We’ll work to address the source and build sustainable nutrition solutions.
Here’s what I know: Addressing the systems that create food dysfunction is essential for healing. Once you understand this, you can rebuild how you think and act with food so you feel balanced and normal—while actually enjoying eating again.
Your food choices don’t happen in a vacuum. Cultural beliefs about “healthy food” and “healthy bodies” are shaping your decisions, often in ways you don’t even realize.
Let’s rewrite the story.
Hi, there.
I’m Emily
I’m an anti-diet dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor who helps people reject diet culture and find sustainable approaches to food and health. I’m HAES-aligned, trauma-informed, and bring a gentle, feminist lens to nutrition care.
My Process
We’ll work from where you’re at to improve your health and help you like (and maybe even love) eating again.
1. Book A Discovery Call
If you might want to work together, let’s chat and get to know each other a little. Set up a time that works for you in my online scheduler. If you don’t see any times that work for you or if you’d rather write to me to find out more before you book a discovery call, email me and we’ll go from there.
2. Choose A Plan
During the discovery call (or via email) we’ll talk about what’s going on for you with food, health, and your body image. I’ll try and understand more about you and your goals. Based on what you’re dealing with mentally and physically, and what type of format you work best in, we’ll decide together if individual work or my group program would be best. We’ll also talk about payment options and scheduling logistics.
3. Our Work Together
If you’re coming to me to heal your relationship with food or to find non-diet approaches to ongoing health issues, I usually suggest a 6-month committment to start, touching base weekly or biweekly. I typically see people for 6 months – 1 year, sometimes longer. Real solutions take time and committment. But everyone is unique and some people just need a few sessions to get what they need.
4. Fly Off On Your Own
Often this type of healing work takes time and practice. It’s not a one-and-done type of deal. Once the core of the food and body work can come to a natural end, we’ll come up with a plan to teeter off of our work and for you to continue practicing your new tools on your own.
build confidence with food and trust in your body.
What Clients Are Saying
Sydney Scott
“Working with Emily has transformed my relationship with food. I’ve finally unpacked the weight bias I’ve experienced and learned to fuel and energize my body in a way that supports my lifestyle and health. I enjoy food again and am way less stressed about it.”
Roslyn Dubberstein
“I no longer feel an urgency to eat certain foods and then “start over” the next day. It’s been really cool to allow myself to ENJOY the food! My relationship with food had dramatically improved.”
Have Questions?
Things You Might Want To Know
What conditions does your approach work with?
I am trained in helping people with many health concers including disordered eating, chronic dieting, eating disordres, PCOS, diabetes and prediabetes, cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol, fibroids, child feeding, perimenopause, and fertility concerns.
What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is an eating and self-care framework that provides structure and 10 steps to heal your relationship with food. It can help you attune to your body and understand your hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and your emotional relationship with and provide clear steps to improve these things. I use this approach inside my group program and with most (but not all) of my individual clients.
Do you work with people who have a goal of weight loss?
Will I gain weight working with you?
There is so simple answer to this question. I don’t see a lot of people gain weight while healing their relationship with food, but some do. If your weight is suppressed now because of an eating disorder or disordered eating, then yes, it might go up as you heal.
I don't live in Texas or Louisiana. Can I work with you?
Virtual nutrition and Intuitive Eating coaching is available to anyone internationally. Since I see all of my clients via a safe, easy to use telehelath platform, we can find sessions that fit your schedule.
What does a non-diet approach to hormone health involve?
If you are coming to me with PCOS, Hashimoto’s, another hormone condition, or even IBS and also with a disordered eating history, we’ll use a combined approach. Because stress, chronic dieting, and disordered eating can significantly effect our hormones, they need to be considered in any full approach to hormone health. I’ll look at the full picture and then we’ll come up with a path to address the whole you – mind and body.
In order to make nutritional tweaks to support your hormone health, your relationship with food needs to be addressed first.
Do you offer sliding scale?
I strive to make my services accessible to marginalized communities, especially those in larger bodies from transgender, non-binary, or racial/ethnic underrecognized communities. I offer sliding scale fees based on your income and give priority booking to clients from these underserved groups. Please inquire about my sliding scale rates and let me know if you identify with any of these communities.
How do your services integrate with my current healthcare plan?
I love to collaborate on care. I can look at your lab work, discuss the care you are receiving from you doctor, help guide you toward a new or different doctor, and collaborate with other practitioners. If you are seeing me for an eating disorder or body image, I would love to connect with your therapist.
What is your cancellation policy?
I have a 48-hour cancellation policy, whether you’re using insurance or not.
What can I expect from my first session?
Our first session is a thorough review of your health, relationship with food, past with dieting and eating, and current life. I want to get a full picture of what has brought you here, and brought you to this point. It will feel like a conversation, rather than me telling you what to do. At the end of the first session, I’ll do my best to tell you what I think our work will look like, but sometimes things evolve in time. Often, clients tell me our sessions feel like food therapy.
I have another question.
Please, reach out to me! You can email me at emily@emilyvaneck.com or get in touch on instagram at @emily.nutrition
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