At Southern Maine Health Care (SMHC), registered and licensed dietitians provide reliable nutrition information, tools and support to help you achieve and maintain your health goals. We provide objective nutrition information through personal, one-on-one counseling sessions to help patients separate facts from fads. Our outpatient nutrition counseling services are available in person or via telehealth for residents of Maine and New Hampshire.
Outpatient Nutrition Counseling Services
- General Nutrition Counseling
- Intuitive eating
- General healthy eating
- Weight Management
- Unintentional weight loss
- Unintentional weight gain
- Weight fluctuations
- Disease Management
- Diabetes and prediabetes
- Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary
- Renal
- Oncology
- Pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Gastrointestinal Concerns
- Celiac disease
- IBS/IBD
- Lactose intolerance
- Gastroparesis
- GERD
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Nausea/vomiting
- Gastric surgery
- Short bowel syndrome
- Pediatric Nutrition
- Failure to thrive
- Picky eating
- Disordered Eating
- Anorexia nervosa
- Binge eating disorder
- ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
- Bulimia
- Orthorexia nervosa
- Purging disorder
- Night eating syndrome
- Other unspecified disorders
- Other
- Anemia
- Difficulty chewing/swallowing
- Food allergies
- Food safety
- Wound healing
- Nutrition support
- Older adult nutrition
Meet Our Team
Alissa Mathieu, RD LD recently returned to Maine after completing her dietetic internship at the University of Kentucky Hospital and VA Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. She graduated from the University of Maine in 2021 after earning a Bachelor of Science in food science and human nutrition. Her goal is to provide a creative, innovative, and patient-centered approach for those seeking medical nutrition therapy in the outpatient setting. She is specializing in pediatrics and seeing patients with eating disorders, in addition to any other referrals.
Katelyn DeRaps, MS RD LD, has been a registered dietitian at Southern Maine Health Care since 2020. Katelyn has a background in clinical nutrition working both as an inpatient and outpatient dietitian. Katelyn received her Bachelor of Science in medical biology at the University of New England and completed her dietetic internship and master’s degree in human nutrition at the University of Maine. Katelyn has worked individually with patients with a variety of health conditions. With an interest in oncology, Katelyn is also a member of the SMHC Cancer Committee.
