Get the Support You Deserve

Join our Signature Supervision Program, accrue your hours, pass the test, and get your CNS.

Accrue 1,000 Hours

Launch Your Career

Pass the CNS Exam

Why did you go to graduate school?

If you’re like us, you’ve had your own health challenges and are deeply committed to wanting to help other people find healing through the power of functional nutrition. You know the “why.” Now it’s time for the HOW. And we’ve got you covered.

Signature Supervision is your solution to accruing CNS hours, finding a job and/or launching your practice, preparing for the board exam, growing your community, and most importantly, finally realizing that you CAN do this.

We’re glad you’re here!

We know that getting your CNS is super intimidating. If you’re like most people joining our program, you’re wondering whether you know enough to see clients. You are struggling with how to do all the things you need to do to get your CNS. And you’re feeling a little isolated in your nutrition journey.

That’s why our program is designed to support you in all the ways you need support. We provide clinical supervision so you can accrue your 1,000 hours, test preparation, shadowing opportunities, business support and so much more.

What’s stopping you from getting started today?

Welcome to

Signature Supervision

An all-inclusive CNS supervision program that includes test preparation, shadowing, business support, and so much more!

How we support you:

Individual and small group supervision

You’ll meet with a CNS Supervisor weekly to get questions answered and receive individual support and feedback to maximize your growth.

Shadowing

We know it’s important for you to watch experienced nutritionists work, so you can develop your own clinical signature. We welcome you to our client sessions regularly, and provide an opportunity to discuss and ask questions afterwards.

Business Advising & Accountability Support

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Overwhelm to Outstanding Workshops

Whether you need to get a refresh on charting, or learn to make nutrition diagnoses, we got you covered with weekly workshops in the first four months.

CNS Test Preparation

Studying for the CNS exam by yourself is zero fun. That’s why we do all our test prep live (it is recorded if you can’t make it), so you can ask questions and process in real time.

Practice Incubator

If you want to launch your own private practice, there’s no better place to start than Practice Incubator, an online, asynchronous course to support you in developing your practice. Inside you’ll find all the notes and forms you’ll need, plus videos, checklists, downloads, and more!

You know the power of functional nutrition

But you may be struggling with knowing just how to actually practice personalized nutrition. School did a great job teaching you the “what” and the “why.” But do you feel rock solid with the “how?”

We’ve developed Signature Supervision to support you in finding your own clinical signature. Rather than being carbon copies of us, we want you to find your own path that is unique to you. You’ll get support by engaging with nine different CNS supervisors - so you can copy/paste/edit/delete from our styles as you craft your own.

Ready to get started? 


It’s Time To Ditch The Overwhelm & Make It Happen!

Our goal is to be your cheerleaders, encouraging, mentoring, and supporting you in those moments that you aren’t sure you can do this. As a team, we’ve accrued over 10,000 hours supervising early career nutrition professionals. We know how to help. What’s stopping you?

Kind Words From Clients

  • “It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”

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  • “It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”

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  • “It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”

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Education Modules

What Nutrition Specialties Interest You?

Each month, we explore an education module jam-packed with videos, worksheets, handouts, and more. Our goal? To get you familiar with many different nutrition specialties, regardless of whether you want to practice within a particular niche, or want to be a generalist.

  • It really doesn’t matter what your specialty is, you’ll always have clients with co-occurring anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma. That’s why we start the first module with a deep dive into nutrition for mental health through teaching the FIGS Protocol for Mental Health. Trust us, you’ll need it!

  • You know how people should eat, but do you know how to positively impact their behavior around food? Do you know how to help clients cultivate a positive, healing relationship with food? Learn the fundamental skills all nutritionists should know.

  • Regardless of your niche, you will come across clients with eating disorders (recent statistics cite 1 in 10 Americans deal with an eating disorder). So it’s important for all nutritionists to know how to identify an eating disorder, how to refer out (when needed), and how to support clients who have difficult relationships with food.

  • Depending on the study, anywhere from 75 - 95% of doctor’s visits are caused by stress. One of the simplest ways to increase health is to support your clients to engage a healthy stress response by becoming aware of, and supporting, stress hormone physiology.

  • In this foundational gut module, we discuss all things motility. Your clients have Bristol Stool Chart numbers that aren’t supportive? We got you. Learn the SWIFT Protocol for Gut Healing to support your clients in achieving optimum gut health.

  • In your career, you’ll see many clients with cardiometabolic conditions. Discover the evidence-based nutrition approaches you can use to support metabolic health.

  • Often undertreated by conventional medicine, thyroid issues can significantly impact wellness. This module focuses on the nutrition supports you can provide to encourage the thyroid to perform optimally.

  • If your interest is women’s health, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll do a deep-dive into supporting pregnancy and lactation through nutrition.

  • If women’s health is your thing, you’ll love our module exploring reproductive hormones. You’ll learn how to support problem periods, lifecycle reproductive changes like puberty and menopause, and understand hormone lab interpretation.

  • You can’t get through all of gastrointestinal nutrition in just one module! That’s why we include the second module, focusing on autoimmune GI conditions, SIBO, and more.

  • It may initially seem strange to spend an entire module on sleep. But if a client isn’t sleeping, the impact physiologically is massive. You’ll see blood sugar and cortisol shifts, increases inflammation, and even alterations in mood. It’s so important, we spend an entire month on it!

  • If you’ve ever experienced pain or chronic inflammation, you’ll know how devastating it can be. We’ll teach you to use nutrition, lifestyle interventions and mind-body medicine to support pain relief, lessen inflammation, and get your clients back to living their best lives.

PLUS, you’ll experience…

  • Weekly Case Consultation Group for an additional opportunity to get client cases reviewed and learn from supervisors and your peers

  • Private Facebook group

  • Client forms and notes templates

  • Shadow experienced supervisors during their client sessions

  • Convenient scheduling for 1:1s and group supervision

  • Mentoring and support from nine different CNS Supervisors

  • "This is WAY more helpful than graduate school."

    Laurie Payton

  • "I wish I'd signed up ages ago. I feel so supported."

    Jamie Kokot

  • "I couldn't have gotten my CNS without them."

    Lindsey Beumer

Find Your Own Clients

$2,999

Or eight monthly payments of $375

Investment

We provide Clients

$9,999

8-,12-, 18-, and 24-month payment plans available

Which option do I choose?

We know that your needs are unique to you. That’s why we have two program options to choose from. You can choose to provide your own clients (ideal for those already in private practice or with a full-time job in nutrition), or have us provide them for you (ideal for those who don’t currently have a private practice or full-time job in nutrition.

Either way, we have 0% interest payment plans from Affirm that can make this program easy to afford.

Not sure which option is right for you? Schedule an info call with one of our CNS Supervisors to discuss your options.

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Signature Supervision Options

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WHAT’S NEXT

Are You Ready To Get Your CNS?

Schedule a complimentary consultation with one of our CNS Supervisors to learn more

Still have some questions?
We’ve got you covered.

  • If you’re going with the “provide your own clients” option for Signature Supervision, the time it takes to gain your full 1,000 hours may vary. Select your school from our resources page and scroll down to use the calculator to determine how many hours it may take you.

  • If you select the option to have us provide clients, then YES!

    This option will require your full-time attention, and you’ll spend between 30-35 hours most weeks shadowing experienced supervisors and seeing your own clients.

  • A number of things, actually!

    First, we offer weekly opportunities to get personalized feedback from CNS Supervisors, so you aren’t left wondering what you should do with your clients.

    But we also provide ample opportunities to learn the business of nutrition from us as well - from shadowing to workshops to case consultation groups and more, we provide support for all parts of becoming a CNS.

    We believe that the best way for you to create your own clinical approach is to engage with multiple supervisors who have different specialties. That’s why we’ve invested so heavily in having a large supervision team (nine currently) that have different types of experience and clinical specialty.

    Even with the broad range of supervisor niche’s, we share one approach - a trauma-informed, personalized functional medicine approach to nutrition care that supports clients in achieving their optimum health.

  • We start three times a year, in January, May, and September.

    Want to start in a different month? Don’t worry! You can enroll in Starter Supervision 12 months/year, and then roll in to Signature Supervision at the next cohort launch.

  • Ultimately, it is up to you. Expect two hours/week to engage in supervision (this is required to get your CNS), but after that, it is up to you whether to engage with the bonus material including shadowing, case consultation group, business advising, Test prep, and workshops. If you came to absolutely everything, you’d be with us for 10-15 hours/week.

    Keep in mind, these 10-15 hours don’t all count toward your 1,000 hours. You’ll still need to see clients to accrue those hours.

  • Yes! We have many people participate in Signature Supervision that have full-time jobs in other fields. If this is you, we’d recommend that you look at the DIY version of Signature Supervision, as the version with clients provided is a full-time load.

  • If you’re sick or on vacation, no worries! Let us know and we’ll know not to expect you for individual or group supervision. For the rest of the bonus material, we do not take attendance, so you don’t need to let us know!

  • Yes! We have multiple 0% interest payment plan options through Affirm.

Meet Your CNS Supervisors

  • Liz Abel MS MA CNS LDN

    FOUNDER

    Liz is an integrative and functional nutritionist who helps women resolve unwanted symptoms such as sleep difficulties, digestive troubles, migraines/headaches, and hormone imbalances. Liz uses Intuitive Eating and practical approach to help her overscheduled, overworked clients return to feeling great. As a second career nutritionist, Liz leverages 20 years of communication, marketing and behavior change expertise. Liz began her private practice in 2012 as a health coach. In 2018 and 2019, Liz opened and ran an Integrative Health Center in Wilmington, Delaware. And in 2020, timed perfectly with the pandemic, Liz returned to her small private practice where she continues to see clients virtually. She is also adjunct faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health. Learn more about Liz and her private practice at freeandabel.com.

  • Meg Bowman MS MA CNS CHES

    FOUNDER

    For Meg Bowman, nutrition is a vocation. She's quietly (sometimes loudly) disruptive of diet culture BS, and enjoys helping her clients and supervisees find their power. She sees clients with eating behavior, mental health, and GI challenges using a weight inclusive functional medicine lens. In her job as co-founder and clinical supervisor at Clinician's Incubator, she provides case consultations and mentoring for nutrition professionals. She loves dogs, books, and tea, as well as a good joke and well placed swear word. Learn more about Meg here, and find her on Facebook @nutritionhive and on Instagram @nutritionhive.heath.

  • Alyson Roux MS MFA CNS LDN

    FOUNDER

    Alyson is a clinical nutritionist who specializes in working with healing relationship to food and eating disorders, mental health, related gastrointestinal conditions, as well as fertility support for those in recovery from ED. With her background working in the arts and entertainment industry, Alyson has special interest in working with artists and health behaviors. In addition to her private nutrition therapy practice in Los Angeles, Alyson is adjunct faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health. Alyson has presented on health education and nutrition topics at Actor's Fund, SAG-AFTRA, PGA, Dance Resource Center, and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Annual Symposium. For more information about Alyson's private practice, visit alysonroux.com.

  • Emily Cerda

    MS CNS LDN

    Emily Cerda is a clinical nutritionist specializing in pediatric allergy, anxiety, and attention. In her private practice, Thrive Inside Nutrition, she works with children, adolescents, and their parents to explore the influence of food on mood and behavior while building lifelong skills for a future of resilience and health. Emily also works as a Teaching Assistant in the Nutrition & Herbal Studies department at Maryland University of Integrative Health and as a Nutrition Consultant with Solid Starts, an online resource for baby-led weaning. When she is not working or homeschooling her kids, she enjoys gardening, long hikes with her beagle, and painting rocks to hide in her community.

  • Ashley Comparin

    MS CNS LDN

    Ashley graduated with a MS in Nutrition from American University and is currently working as a clinical nutritionist at Nutrition Hive as well as her work helping supervisees at Clinician’s Incubator understand the nuts and bolts of the Supervised Practice Experience to become a CNS. Ashley specializes in gut health, intuitive eating, and sports nutrition and enjoys photography, cooking, and hiking in her free time.

  • Tessa O'Toole

    MS CNS LDN

    Tessa is a Certified Nutrition Specialist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She blends her background in functional medicine with the principles of Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size.

    Tessa specializes in working with clients with disordered eating and eating disorders, stress and hormone imbalances, gut issues and mental health nutrition. Tessa enjoys working with clients to ditch dieting and build a healthy relationship with food. She is an alumni of the first cohort of Clinician’s Incubator Supervision Program and is a clinical nutritionist at Nutrition Hive.

  • Amber Pawula-Marcin

    MS CNS LDN

    Amber Pawula-Marcin is a clinical nutritionist specializing in metabolic and GI conditions. Her clients at Nutrition Hive rely heavily on her skilled research chops, and her ability to translate that research into actionable steps using skills mastered in her prior career as a health coach and chef. In her free time, you’ll find Amber in the kitchen creating delicious dishes for family and friends.

  • Shaina Painter

    MS CNS LDN CN

    Aaron is a clinical nutritionist with a specialty in integrative and functional medicine nutrition. Aaron earned his masters in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and has worked collaboratively with functional medicine practitioners treating patients with autoimmune conditions, chronic and degenerative diseases, genetic disorders, and those seeking anti-aging, preventive, and general wellness therapies.

  • Stephanie Thompson

    MS CNS LDN

    Stephanie is a functional nutritionist who enjoys helping women find answers to questions like “What the heck is going on with my hormones?”, “Why does everything I eat make me feel crappy?”, and “Am I just going to be exhausted and achy for the rest of my life?”. Her life-long career as a classical musician informs her clinical work, wherein she combines years of experience performing, teaching, and coaching with a strong belief in the art and science of nutrition. For more information about her private practice, where she helps clients struggling with hormone imbalances, GI distress, autoimmune conditions, and general wellness, visit wellwellwellnola.com.

  • Aaron Mlnarik

    MS CNS LDN

    Aaron is a clinical nutritionist with a specialty in integrative and functional medicine nutrition. Aaron earned his masters in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and has worked collaboratively with functional medicine practitioners treating patients with autoimmune conditions, chronic and degenerative diseases, genetic disorders, and those seeking anti-aging, preventive, and general wellness therapies.

Join Us!

We’d love to have you join us for Signature Supervision. Schedule an info session now with one of our CNS Supervisors so you can learn more about the options we offer and how they may help you achieve your dreams.