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Join the Signature Supervision Program
Accrue your hours, pass the test and get your CNS®. Schedule your info session by December 1 to be considered for the January 2024 cohort!
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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® can be super intimidating. Like many people joining our program, you’re wondering whether you know enough to see clients, struggling to do all the things, and maybe feeling a little isolated in your nutrition journey.
That’s why our program is designed to support you in all the ways you need. 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
Hatch your inner entrepreneur with live guidance and accountability in a small group setting so that you can increase your client hours. Achieve your credential while building your business and generating income.
Overwhelmed to Outstanding Workshops
Whether you need 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 course to support you. Inside you’ll find all the notes and forms you’ll need, plus videos, checklists, downloads, and more!
Join us for Open House Week!
Wanna get the tea and kick the tires? Join us for Open House week, November 3-10. You’ll get exclusive access to get a sneak peek of Nested Health Coach Certification and Signature Supervision for CNS Candidates.
Are you interested in getting your CNS®
Download our helpful guide to planning your Supervised Practice Experience (SPE).
You know the power of functional nutrition
School did a great job teaching you the “what” and the “why.” But you may struggle with how to put it into practice.
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 Program Participants
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"Hands down, the best investment I’ve made in my life."
Katie O.
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"Clinician's Incubator was a critical investment in my education. I graduated having no clue how to start a business, meet with clients, or find success. After working with this incredible program I am a significantly better clinician than I would have been. I have a successful practice now that's growing. It has been worth every penny and every minute."
Alison M.
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"Clinician's Incubator is awesome. I started my internship with another practitioner and it didn't help me at all."
Stephanie M.
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"The supervisors are experienced nutritionists who do everything they can to help you. They put a lot of time and effort into each individual and have a lot of knowledge in both the clinical and business side of nutrition!"
Jamie K.
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"I highly recommend this program to those looking to increase their knowledge, enjoy being challenged, desire to build confidence, and are interested in connecting with those with similar aspirations and interests."
Kylie O.
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"I didn't learn any of this in school."
Michelle O.
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"These supervisors have a wealth of knowledge to share regarding nutrition practice and life. They share it in a kind and human way. Having multiple points of view really helped put things in better perspective."
Anna P.
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.
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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!
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You know what 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.
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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.
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Research suggests 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.
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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.
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In your career, you’ll see many clients with cardiometabolic conditions. Learning how to help someone with their cardiometabolic conditions is non-negotiable. Creatively, we also give you tools on how to work with a client to use a continuous glucose monitor.
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Thyroid symptoms are commonly under recognized and dismissed 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.
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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 and herbs.
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If women’s health is your thing, you’ll love our module exploring reproductive hormones. You’ll learn how to support problem periods and hormone imbalance through hormone lab interpretation
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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.
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Sleeping problems impact our clients massively. Yet there are so many factors that impact a client’s sleep. With so many possible influencing factors, learn how to target the most important.
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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 get…
Weekly Case Consultation Group for an additional opportunity to get client cases reviewed and learn from your supervisors and your peers
Access to private Facebook group
Downloadable client forms and notes templates
Opportunity to shadow experienced supervisors during their client sessions
Convenient scheduling for 1:1s and group supervision
Mentoring and support from nine different CNS® Supervisors
Comprehensive CNS® test preparation
Supportive weekly workshops to get you from Overwhelm to Outstanding
Signature Supervision
$375/month
Eight month minimum
Investment
The time it takes to complete your CNS® hours varies. Some people come out of school with a large chunk of hours, others need the full 1,000.
Click on our Resources page to use our calculator to better understand how many months it will take you.
Many people ask why our program has an 8-month minimum. It’s because that is the minimum amount of time it takes most people. As an example, 1000 hours at 30 hours/week will require 8 months to complete. And that’s without any time off for illness, vacation, or slow client weeks.
Most program participants complete their hours within 8-12 months in our program.
If you don’t complete your hours by month 12, don’t worry! Continue to complete your hours with either 1:1 or small group supervision.
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"This is WAY more helpful than graduate school."
Laurie P.
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"I wish I'd signed up ages ago. I feel so supported."
Jamie K.
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"I couldn't have gotten my CNS without them."
Lindsey B.
When do I start?
The Signature Supervision program launches three times a year, in January, May, and September.
If you’re interested in starting early, we recommend you consider Starter Supervision. This highly flexible, less intensive supervision program provides up to four months of individual supervision with a dedicated supervisor, plus access to some bonus material including Practice Incubator, shadowing, and some workshops.
While you do not need to begin with Starter (you can begin directly with Signature), many people choose Starter initially to get help setting up their private practice, or to continue to see clients for follow-ups that they initially saw as part of a school program.
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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What’s Next
Are You Ready To Get Your CNS?
Schedule a complimentary info session with one of our CNS Supervisors to learn more
Still have some questions?
We’ve got you covered.
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The time it takes to accrue your 1,000 hours varies. Visit the resources page for your school to discover how many months it may take you.
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We have program participants with many different needs. Some currently are working in another provider’s office, some are intending to launch their own private practice.
It is our goal to support you in whatever path you take. If you’re working in another provider’s office, you’ll get clients there.
If you want to launch your own private practice, we will support and coach you so you can acquire clients that way.
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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 learn is to engage with multiple supervisors with 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 specialties, we share one approach - a trauma-informed, personalized functional medicine approach to nutrition care that supports clients in achieving their optimum health.
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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, then you’ll roll in to Signature Supervision at the next cohort launch.
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Different people have different needs. At a minimum, you’re expected to attend your weekly group supervision session as well as a minimum of a monthly 1:1 supervision session.
The following activities are highly encouraged but not required: Shadowing, Case Consultation Group, Test Preparation, and Workshops.
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Yes! We have many people participate in Signature Supervision that have full-time jobs in other fields. If fulfilling your 1,000 hours takes longer than twelve months, rest assured we have other supervision programs you can join to complete your hours.
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We created Starter Supervision to provide a slower start for people who are still in school or who want to begin building a private practice prior to starting Signature Supervision.
Starter Supervision is available for 1-4 months, depending on your needs, after which you’ll roll into the Signature Supervision program.
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Upon acceptance, to save your spot in Signature supervision a $375 deposit is required which will become your last month’s payment.
Moving forward, we auto-bill your credit card $375 the first of the month.
Meet Your CNS Supervisors
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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.
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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 sees clients at Nutrition Hive, and 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.
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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 Nutrition Hive.
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Emily Cerda
MS CNS LDN
Emily Cerda is a clinical nutritionist specializing in pediatric allergy, anxiety, and attention. In her private practice, Beyond Behavior 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shaina Painter
MS CNS LDN CN
Shaina Painter is a licensed Clinical Nutritionist at Nutrition Hive and Clinician’s Incubator alum. She is passionate about guiding her clients to transform their relationship with food, unlock their innate healing potential and become their most vibrant selves, all through a root cause lens.
Shaina specializes in supporting folks struggling with disordered eating and a negative relationship with food. She works as a generalist, seeing clients suffering from GI conditions, hormonal imbalance, mental health concerns, and autoimmunity.
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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.
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Aaron Mlnarik - Test Prep
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.
Got questions?
info@cliniciansincubator.com