Supporting Your Postpartum Nutrition + Lactation Journey
At Whole Women Nutrition, we specialize in postpartum nutrition counseling, lactation support, and pregnancy nutrition to help mothers and families thrive.
Whether you’re navigating feeding challenges, recovering postpartum, or seeking to heal your relationship with food, we’re here to provide expert, compassionate care.
Our Postpartum + Lactation Services
Lactation Consultations
Breastfeeding is a unique journey, and every mother-baby duo has different needs. Our lactation consultations provide personalized guidance for:
- Preparing for breastfeeding during pregnancy
- Addressing latch and supply issues
- Navigating challenges like tongue/lip ties, mastitis
- Introducing pumping, bottle feeding or navigating bottle refusal
- Transitioning back to work while maintaining breastfeeding
- Weaning support
*Available in-person (San Diego area) and via telehealth.
Postpartum Nutrition Counseling
The postpartum period is a time of healing, nourishment, and adjustment. Our postpartum nutrition counseling is designed to support:
- Nutrient replenishment for recovery
- Managing postpartum fatigue and mood
- Supporting milk supply through nutrition
- Gentle, intuitive eating after pregnancy
*Covered by select PPO insurances.
Take the Guesswork Out of New Motherhood
Downloadable Nutrition & Lactation Guides
Get expert-crafted nutrition and lactation resources to support your journey:
Insurance & Payment Options
We accept the following PPO + HMO insurance plans for nutrition counseling and lactation consultations:
- Anthem
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- United Healthcare
- Oscar Health
- Prime Health
- Health Net of CA
- Cigna
For those without insurance coverage, we offer private pay options.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you take insurance?
For nutrition consultations: We are not billing insurance directly at this time, however we encourage calling your insurance provider to request reimbursement for out of network nutrition therapy.
We can provide you with a “superbill.” You can submit this medical receipt to your insurance provider and seek reimbursement depending on your providers out of network benefits.
If you are seeking care for an eating disorder, you can request a diagnostic code from your mental health clinician or physician and I will bill this on your superbill.
For lactation consultations: I am in network with most insurance plans **Anthem, Aeta, Blue Cross Blue Shield, United, Oscar Health, Prime Health, Health Net of CA and Cigna **.
Book an insurance covered consultation here.
What are your session fees and how long are sessions?
Nutrition Consultations: Initial sessions are 60 minutes and billed at $210 and follow up sessions are 45 minutes and billed at $170 for non package sessions. We do offer a limited number of reduced fee schedules for students and families with limited resources.
Lactation Consultations: Insurance typically covers 6-9 consultations, this can vary based on your health plan. We work with a billing partner who can assist you in verifying your benefits when you book an appointment.
How often do we meet and for how long?
Nutrition Consultations: Given nutrition therapy is not a linear course, I do not offer prescriptive packages. I do recommend we schedule a weekly session for the first 3-4 meetings while beginning our work to explore behavior change and create intentional goals. Oftentimes after these first few sessions we will move to an every other week cadence for meetings however this is entirely dependent on you and your desired pace and capacity. I view this discussion as a collaborative choice to help support you in making changes at your pace with support and guidance along the way. At our first visit we may set an initial goal and through frequent follow up meetings we will incorporate sustainable behavior changes you can work with in between sessions that you can carry with you. For more acute eating disorder concerns I recommend weekly follow up sessions in conjunction with your therapist and medical doctor.
Lactation Consultations: Follow up visits are essential to providing support and resolution of feeding challenges. After our initial visit we will discuss when to schedule a follow up visit based on our care plan.
Do you give meal plans?
Nutrition Consultations: At our first visit we will discuss your history, current needs and future goals. This will help provide us with information about how much structure from a meal plan will be helpful for our work. Many times a meal plan can be a helpful guide in relearning intuitive eating and during eating disorder recovery can be an important tool. However, I do emphasize that my goal is to help you move away from external guidelines such as meal plans, calories, macros etc and help you to trust your body. I am familiar with a variety of planning approaches such as exchanges, the plate model, carbohydrate counts so we can customize your plan.
Do you only work with women?
I work with teens ages 13 years old and up, young adults and adults in my nutrition practice.
What is it like to be in a session with you?
Nutrition consultations: Nutrition therapy is a process specialized unique to dietitians trained in a specialized approach to working with those who suffer from eating disorders and disordered eating. You do not have to have an eating disorder in order to benefit from this approach!
Nutrition therapy sessions often mirror a combination of a therapy session in which there is plenty of space for exploring thoughts, feelings and processing but more specifically around experiences with food, eating and your body. I truly believe in safe connection as a ground place for thinking about change. I am not a therapist however I use a therapeutic approach that is trauma informed to allow for safety when discussing vulnerable issues around food and body image. As a dietitian, I am trained in providing medical nutrition therapy and will share evidenced based recommendations around your physical needs.
Lactation Consultations: Our team views the postpartum space as sacred and view it as a privilege to be able to support families in such a vulnerable time. At our lactation consultation we will weigh your baby, check feeding positioning to optimize comfort and create a care plan with goals and recommendations according to what challenges you are facing.
What is your approach?
Nutrition consultations: I use a combination of therapeutic modalities alongside nutrition science to help you move towards shifts you would like to see in your life and relationship with food. I have specialized training in using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Most importantly, I believe in being a radically open human and helping you to live in alignment with your true essence and values to help heal your relationship with food and body.
Lactation consultations: I offer non judgemental support for your feeding goals and encourage parents to consider their mental and physical health as part of our goals.
Postpartum + Lactation Support for the San Diego Area
We serve clients in Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista, San Marcos, Escondido, Encinitas, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe, Carmel Valley, and La Jolla
