Jessica Votaw

About Jessica

Growing up, I saw firsthand how poor nutrition affected my family, sparking my passion for dietetics. I’ve now spent the last 4 years using my own experience managing weight and understanding obesity's biology to guide my patients toward balanced, joyful eating and lasting health. My goal is to empower you with nutrition knowledge. In addition to being able to help you with meal plans, I also intend to go beyond the meal plans to help you to understand food labels, find healthy options in busy grocery stores, and learn simple, quick recipes that fit your life.

Approach to care

My care philosophy is to focus on creating sustainable habits to help my patients make long term changes to live happier, healthier lives. I encourage my patients to set SMART goals to make these changes in a gradual, comfortable way help them create new healthier habits in line with their personal goals.

Your first session with Jessica

I want to get to know you! What your health goals are and how I can best support you to achieve those goals. In your first appointment we will spend time talking about you and what your specific health goals are, I will take time answering your questions and providing you with the education and tools to help you reach your goals and we will finish by working together to create a game plan to get started on working towards those goals.

Location

📍 Chicago , Illinois

Education

Texas woman’s university (undergrad); Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital (internship)

Hobbies

Yoga, gardening, jewelry making, and trying new recipes.

Licenses and Certifications