Denise Holz: Your Emotional Eating Coach, Weight Loss Coach, Life Coach and Nutrition Counselor

Partnering with you in your journey to break free from emotional eating and into the body and life you want.

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I am a nutritionist and a certified professional coach. Read my full bio.

We eat for remarkably good reasons, not because we lack will power. Ultimately, they are reasons of self-care, preservation and emotional survival in the only way we know how to provide it for ourselves. Once these reasons are touched, they begin to turn around.

Are you an emotional eater?
Do you:

eat when you are not hungry,

often eat beyond fullness,

binge at night or when you are alone,

feel out of control or compulsive about food,

sneak eat,

find that diets have not worked for you in the long run?

Then, you need more nourishment than a diet can provide.

Contact Denise and schedule your FREE Coaching Session!

You might say, “I am frustrated and discouraged. How do I know that this time I will be successful in losing weight and keeping it off?” .
Let me tell you why it will be different this time.

Starting another diet is like building another house on the same old foundation that can not sustain it. Soon, the house begins to slide and needs to be torn down. Then you again build another one on the same foundation and the pattern repeats. The foundation continues to not get the attention or repairs it needs in order to support the house for good. In working with me, you will be changing your foundation! .

Our inner world, our beliefs, feelings and thoughts, leads to our actions and causes our results. When we only focus on changing our actions, we struggle. When we focus on making changes in our beliefs, feelings and thoughts, we naturally do the actions that give us the results we want. Reasons for sabotage are eliminated. The path becomes clearer and easier. It has been an honor for me to witness my clients’ journeys and see this over and over again!

We will be going for your complete well-being – in body, mind and spirit.
In coaching with me, when you reach your goal weight you will already have the tools in place to stay there with ease and grace.

“I say that Denise was, at very least, a bright ray of sunshine in my life. She helped me to cut through to core issues that were hanging me up in every area of my life, including weight. Denise is extremely affirming and has a wonderful ability to help me to dream again and to achieve dreams that I have held in my heart for years. When I would get stuck, Denise helped me to see that I had the answers inside of myself. Her belief in my abilities helped me to believe also. Denise’s coaching worked synergistically with the counseling I had in the past and seemed to propel me further than counseling alone. When you find Denise, you find a blessing. I find that even though Denise and I are no longer working together, that her words, her hope, her belief in me, continue to help me with goals that I have. I am so grateful for Denise’s impact in my life.” - Shari S.

We will be using powerful questions, visualizations, journaling, and various coaching techniques, to peel back the layers, like with an onion, to get to the core of what’s going on inside you. You might think, “I can’t do it. It will be too painful. I can’t go there.”

Yes, you actually can!

Things unfold and reveal themselves one at a time according to how ready you are for them and not a moment sooner. You can use me as a safe place to explore and discover. I will be holding your hand with an extraordinary level of support and encouragement. You will stay motivated and inspired.

You will experience the joy that comes with getting to know yourself better - every bit of yourself. You will come to not reject any aspects of yourself, but accept and have compassion for all of you, for what you have experienced, come to believe and had to do to survive. You will come to understand and love yourself and experience the inner elation and peace that accompanies it.

“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
Ursula LeGuin

“Denise’s coaching is a unique mix of nutritional knowledge with a deep level of understanding and compassion. Her undivided attention, encouragement, and wisdom created a secure environment where I could explore my beliefs and practice success. She’s an expert in her field.” - Rebecca R.

The paradigm of coaching is excellent for weight loss. Coaching is based on wellness and the belief that we are creative, resourceful and whole. We know ourselves and have our own answers. We just need a supportive, dedicated partner to facilitate our process of getting to it. That’s who I am for my clients. We may pull valuable information from the past, but then move forward with it, not stay there. If one needs to stay in the past to process it longer before letting go of old ways, then a therapist is indicated. Coaching is goal oriented and moves forward with momentum.

"I’ve tried so many diets and groups in the past and they felt restrictive. But working with you feels expansive. I feel a lot of freedom. There’s something about your presence that supports me in going to those places inside myself.
Denise, I can’t say enough about how much I appreciate our work together. Actually, it feels more like play. I cannot believe how my life has opened up to so much more than I ever dreamed possible for myself. Thank you, thank you, thank you!" - Marlene

If you are an emotional eater and feel the pain of it, let’s talk.

We want to know if we will click well together and want to be partners in your journey to your natural weight. Therefore, I offer a one hour complimentary coaching session.
Please call me or e-mail me to schedule it and to answer any of your questions regarding working with me: (206) 24–Coach or (206) 242-6224 or denise.holz@myprivatecoach.com. I look forward to meeting you!

I commend you for being courageous and wanting to heal your food and weight issues. As you know, it’s not about the food. It’s a doorway to your whole life. What is in your way of being at your natural weight are the same things that are in the way of living the rich fulfilling life you want. Good for you for being ready!

When we partner together in the Freedom from Emotional Eating process, You will:

Learn a refreshing strategy of eating to ensure Mother Nature’s cooperation in losing fat.
Receive expert nutrition counseling for your specific needs.
See all your important hidden reasons for keeping yourself heavy.
Discover the limiting beliefs that you have aligned your life to.
Name what is causing you to turn to food; the root of your hunger.
(Once these above truths are touched they begin to turn around.)
Address and diminish the reasons you keep yourself heavy.
Entertain new empowering beliefs by which to live and eat.
Explore your heart’s desire and begin to give yourself what you are really hungry for in life.
Learn how to handle difficult emotions.
Discover new perspectives and ways of operating in this world.
Eat mindfully, with choice, satisfaction and pleasure, the way you want to live!
Benefit from highly specialized, personalized attention – this is not a once size fits all program.

Along the journey, you will experience:

Aha! moments, breakthroughs and insights that move you forward
Natural laws that make the game of life easier and more joyful to play
Losing the pull to turn to food for gratification
Tuning into your body to know what it wants to eat and how much
Desire for nutritious food and self-care
Losing weight while enjoying eating like never before
Accessing the wise women inside you
Gracefully speaking your truth and being your pure authentic self
Honoring your values
Compassion and acceptance for yourself and the joy that comes with getting to know yourself better
Increase in energy and vitality
More balance, inner peace and fulfillment

Freedom from Emotional Eating

The complete package: weight loss coaching, nutrition,
counseling, emotional eating coaching, life coaching
Minimum commitment 3 months or 12 sessions
$695 for the first month
$495/month for the following months

You get:

Week 1 and 2:

2 hours coaching call per week

In order to work most efficiently in our 12 weeks together, our first 2 weeks will be more concentrated by meeting 2 hours a week.
We will:

establish your eating strategy
eat a meal together
begin to unravel what’s behind your emotional eating
visit your future self
begin the shifts that are waiting to happen
Follows-ups and check-ins as jointly designed with you in-between calls
Unlimited e-mails as needed
Resources/materials specific to your needs

(If you live in the greater Seattle area, we have the option of meeting face to face. Whether we meet in person or on the telephone, you will experience a powerfully effective process.)

Week 3 and 4:

1 hour coaching call per week
Follows-ups and check-ins as jointly designed with you in-between calls
Unlimited e-mails as needed
Resources/materials specific to your needs

2nd and 3rd months:

1 hour coaching call per week
Follows-ups and check-ins as jointly designed with you in-between calls
Unlimited e-mails as needed
Resources/materials specific to your needs

- No long distance charges –

Ongoing services are available as jointly designed by you and me.

You deserve to set yourself free from emotional eating and carrying the heaviness of food and weight issues. It is your right to have the light body and fulfilling, peaceful life you were meant to live.

Lose Weight Naturally

Eating with Fun and Freedom: Weight Loss Coaching
and Nutrition Counseling
(This is the above program minus the emotional eating component.) Minimum commitment 1 month or 4 sessions
$495/month

You get:

1 hour coaching call per week
Follows-ups and check-ins as jointly designed with you in-between calls
Unlimited e-mails as needed
Resources/materials specific to your needs

You will:

Experience a paradigm shift of losing weight and keeping it off by eating with satisfaction, pleasure and fulfillment rather than deprivation, guilt and oppression!
Learn how to achieve satisfaction, pleasure and fulfillment every time you eat, so that you can experience the feeling of having “enough”.
Adopt a refreshing, sustainable strategy of eating to ensure Mother Nature’s cooperation in losing fat.
Tune into exactly what your body wants to eat and how much.
Acknowledge what your mind wants to eat and make room for it.
Know how to calm cravings and mood swings.
Receive expert nutrition counseling for your specific needs.
Lose weight while enjoying food like never before!
Eat the way you want to live; with trust, mindfulness, freedom and fun.

- No long distance charges –

Ongoing services are available as jointly designed by you and me.

It is finally time to be your best self!