Supporting women in creating a more grounded relationship with food, body, health, and self.
A coaching practice founded by a Registered Dietitian, integrating evidence-based nutrition, body image support, and compassionate care through every season of life.
Welcome
Welcome to The Becoming Collective.
Here, nutrition is about more than food. Together, we explore the ways our relationship with food, body, health, and life influence one another — and, ultimately, how we relate to ourselves.
Whether you are
- Navigating eating disorder recovery
- Seeking freedom from years of dieting and negative body image
- Supporting an adolescent or young adult through recovery
- Moving through pregnancy or postpartum
- Managing a chronic health condition — diabetes, hypertension, celiac disease, food intolerances, IBS, and more
- Building a new life abroad
This work is individualized to your unique needs and current life circumstances.
The Becoming Framework
Nourish. Trust. Embody.
Three interconnected pillars will guide us.
Caring for your body without diet-culture pressure — grounded in evidence-based nutrition.
Rebuilding trust in your body, your choices, and yourself.
Feeling confident in applying what you learn into how you actually live.
Kind Words
From the women I've worked with.
Working with Rachel over the past year and a half has truly changed my life. She helped me heal my relationship with food and overcome my eating disorder in a way I never thought was possible. Because of her, I'm able to surf, lift weights, spend time with the people I love, and live a full life while feeling properly fueled. I finally feel like I have my light back — I have my personality back. I'm so grateful for her guidance, compassion, and unwavering support.
I've never felt so seen. Rachel has a gift for making you feel truly cared for while offering thoughtful, practical guidance that leads to lasting change. Working together helped me build a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with food and myself.
I genuinely look forward to our sessions every week, and the advice she gives me has truly helped me to see hard things differently. I am so grateful for Rachel's help, and I can't wait to continue working with her.
The Becoming Framework
Nourish. Trust. Embody.
Three interconnected pillars that guide every coaching relationship. Rather than separate steps, they work together — supporting the way you care for your body, reconnect with yourself, and carry that work into everyday life.
Nourish
Care for your body.
Nourishment begins with meeting your body's needs with consistency, compassion, and curiosity — not criticism or control.
Together, we move beyond diet culture, food rules, and all-or-nothing thinking to build a way of eating that feels nourishing, flexible, and sustainable. Food becomes a source of care and enjoyment rather than something to fear or perfect.
Depending on your goals, this work may include eating disorder recovery, nutrition for chronic health conditions, pregnancy, or simply learning to eat with greater confidence and ease.
Trust
Reconnect with yourself.
Healing often begins by learning to listen again.
Together, we cultivate trust in your body's signals, your choices, and your ability to care for yourself. Over time, this creates more space for flexibility, confidence, and self-compassion — and less room for fear, perfectionism, and external rules.
This work may include body image support, rebuilding trust in hunger and fullness signals after chronic dieting or an eating disorder, navigating emotional eating, and reconnecting with your body's innate wisdom.
Embody
Live what you've learned.
Growth becomes meaningful when it begins to shape everyday life.
Embodiment is the practice of bringing what you've learned beyond our sessions and into the moments that matter most — sharing meals with friends, navigating pregnancy, settling into a new country, caring for your health, or moving through an ordinary Tuesday with greater presence and confidence.
Healing isn't separate from life. It becomes part of the way you live it — not through perfection, but through greater trust, flexibility, and self-connection.
Why This Framework
Because every woman arrives with a different story, but the work often shares a common foundation.
Evidence Before Trends
Grounded in nutrition science rather than fear, misinformation, or diet culture.
Flexible, Not Rigid
Your care evolves alongside your goals, health, and everyday life.
Whole-Person Focused
Food is one part of the picture. We also consider your environment, health, relationships, identity, values, and lived experiences.
About
Hi, I'm Rachel.
Registered Dietitian and founder of The Becoming Collective.
My Story
Like many people, I grew up surrounded by diet culture and the belief that changing my body would lead to confidence and happiness. After years spent chasing that idea, I traveled to Italy and saw a completely new way of approaching food that involved slowing down, connection, culture, and enjoyment. I began questioning everything I thought I knew about nutrition, health, and what it truly meant to care for myself.
Studying nutrition science and intuitive eating challenged many of those previously held beliefs and ultimately inspired me to become a Registered Dietitian. Today, that experience allows me to approach this work with both clinical expertise and genuine empathy for how complex our relationship with food and body can be.
Clinical Foundation
My approach is informed by experience across:
- Higher levels of eating disorder care
- Outpatient nutrition counseling
- Meal support
- Medical nutrition therapy
- Women's health and pregnancy
- Chronic health conditions
- Supporting clients through significant life transitions
Working across these settings has shown me that lasting change rarely comes from rigid plans or quick fixes. It comes from individualized care that is grounded in compassion, patience, and a deep understanding of the whole person.
Living Abroad
Food, Culture & Belonging
Living in both Hawaii and now Barcelona has deepened my understanding of how culture, identity, and major life changes shape our relationship with food and body.
One of the greatest lessons I've learned is that our relationship with food doesn't exist in isolation. It's shaped by culture, identity, community, and the everyday realities of the lives we're living. Moving to a new place can shift routines, challenge familiar ways of caring for ourselves, and invite us to redefine what nourishment looks like.
That perspective has become an important part of my work, particularly in supporting English-speaking women navigating life abroad and creating a sense of home in a new place.
What I Believe
At the heart of my practice is the belief that life is too valuable to spend consumed by food rules, body shame, or the pursuit of shrinking yourself. I believe we all have so much more to offer than our appearance.
Food is meant to nourish us, but it is also meant to connect us — to culture, relationships, celebration, and joy. My goal is to help clients find freedom from the patterns that keep them stuck so they can spend less time worrying about food and more time fully in the present.
My Approach
Four principles that shape the work.
Evidence-Based
Compassionate
Weight-Neutral
Individualized
Work With Me
Coaching designed for you.
You bring the expertise on your own life. I bring clinical experience, evidence-based nutrition, and compassionate guidance. Together, we create an approach that feels supportive, sustainable, and uniquely yours.
What Working Together Feels Like
A balance of structure and flexibility.
Sessions bring together evidence-based nutrition, reflection, curiosity, and practical strategy. We move at a pace that respects where you're starting from, and we adjust as your circumstances shift — because they will.
Rather than chasing perfect adherence, our work focuses on building sustainable habits, greater confidence, and the ability to make choices that feel aligned long after our sessions end.
What Sessions Feel Like
A flexible rhythm, not a fixed agenda.
- 01Check In
We'll begin with what feels most important that day while staying connected to your broader goals.
- 02Explore
Together, we'll unpack challenges, celebrate progress, notice patterns, and make sense of what's coming up.
- 03Learn & Apply
When appropriate, we'll integrate nutrition education, reflection, and practical strategies that support your goals.
- 04Move Forward
You'll leave with a few clear next steps that feel realistic and supportive for the week ahead.
Coaching
Signature 1:1 Coaching
Individualized nutrition and coaching support designed to evolve alongside you.
Whether you're navigating recovery, body image, pregnancy, a chronic health condition, or another significant transition, we'll work together over time to build sustainable change rooted in nourishment, trust, and real life.
This may be a good fit if you
- Want consistent support and accountability
- Are navigating multiple or evolving concerns
- Value a collaborative, individualized approach
- Are looking for meaningful change rather than quick fixes
What's included
- Regular 50-minute virtual coaching sessions (frequency determined together)
- Individualized nutrition guidance and coaching
- Personalized resources and reflections, when helpful
- Coordination with your healthcare team, when appropriate
- Ongoing adjustments as your goals and needs evolve
Optional Add-On Support
For clients who would benefit from additional support between or alongside sessions, the following services are available for an additional fee:
- Meal support sessions
- Food log review and individualized feedback
- Parent or caregiver collaboration for adolescent clients
- Care coordination with your treatment team beyond routine communication
- Grocery shopping or meal planning sessions
- Additional check-in calls or messaging support
Recommendations for add-on services are always individualized and discussed together based on your goals and level of support needed.
Areas Coaching May Include
Coaching is always individualized.
These aren't separate services to choose between — they're areas clients commonly explore, often more than one at a time.
- Relationship with food
- Eating disorder recovery
- Body image
- Adolescents, young adults, and parent support
- Women's health, pregnancy, and postpartum
- Chronic health conditions (including diabetes, hypertension, celiac disease, food intolerances, IBS, and more)
- GLP-1 nutrition support
- Life abroad and cultural transitions
- Building sustainable routines
- Major life transitions
Good to Know
Frequently asked questions
Do you only work with women in eating disorder recovery?
No. Clients come for body image, pregnancy and postpartum, chronic health conditions, and adapting to life abroad. If you're working with a therapist or treatment team, I'm glad to coordinate closely with them.
I don't live in Spain — can we still work together?
Yes. Sessions are held virtually and I work with women worldwide. Support for life abroad draws on my own experience, but the approach applies anywhere you're rebuilding routines in a new place.
What if I'm not sure I'm ready?
That's a common place to begin from. Ambivalence tends to be part of the process rather than a barrier to it — we move at whatever pace feels possible.
Book a Call
Let's talk about your next step.
We will start with a free 20-minute call to see if this might be a good fit for you! I typically respond within 1–2 business days.
Reach me directly
Investment
Initial Consultation
A comprehensive assessment of your health history, goals, relationship with food, and current needs. Together, we'll begin creating an individualized plan for our work together.
Follow-Up Session
Continued nutrition counseling and coaching tailored to your evolving goals, challenges, and progress.
Coaching Plans
Meaningful change rarely happens in a single session. Many clients choose a coaching plan to provide consistency, build momentum, and support lasting change. Coaching plans include a reduced per-session rate while allowing our work to evolve as your needs change.
5-Session Coaching Plan
A focused container to build early momentum and consistency.
10-Session Coaching Plan
Deeper, ongoing support with the most reduced per-session rate.
Please contact me for coaching plan pricing and personalized recommendations.
Optional Add-On Support
For clients who would benefit from additional support between or alongside sessions.
- Meal Support (30 minutes)$75
- Personalized Nutrition Log Review$30
- Parent/Caregiver Session (30 minutes)$65
- Extended Care CoordinationUpon request
I believe individualized care should be as accessible as possible. If cost feels like a barrier, please don't hesitate to reach out. A limited number of reduced-fee coaching spaces and flexible coaching plans are available when possible.
Eating disorder support
If you're struggling with an eating disorder and need help beyond coaching, these lines offer free, confidential support from trained specialists.
- National Alliance for Eating Disorders Daytime helpline staffed by licensed clinicians, plus a free therapist-led support group finder. Call 1-866-662-1235 · M–F, 9am–7pm ET
- ANAD Eating Disorders Helpline Peer support, recovery mentorship, and referrals. Call 1-888-375-7767 · M–F
- Crisis Text Line 24/7 text support with a trained crisis counselor. Text "ALLIANCE" to 741741
Outside the US? The international directory at eatingdisorderhope.com lists region-specific helplines, and your local doctor can refer you to specialist care.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters.
This policy explains what information The Becoming Collective collects, how it's used, and the choices you have. Last updated: August 2026.
Who this policy applies to
The Becoming Collective ("we," "us," or "I") is a virtual nutrition and body image coaching practice operated by Rachel Halverson and based in Barcelona, Spain. This policy applies to visitors of this website and to individuals who contact the practice through it.
Information we collect
We collect information you provide directly to us, along with limited technical information that is automatically collected when you visit this website, such as essential website logs and cookies. When you submit the contact form, the information you provide may include:
- Your name and email address
- Your general location, if you provide it
- The nature of what you're seeking support with
- Anything you choose to write in your message
Because of the nature of this work, the information you share may include details about your health, your relationship with food, or other sensitive personal circumstances. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), health information is treated as a special category of personal data and given additional protection. We encourage you to share only what feels comfortable and necessary at this early stage, and to avoid including detailed medical or health information in the contact form.
How we use your information
Information you submit is used to:
- Respond to your inquiry and arrange an introductory call
- Determine whether coaching may be a good fit
- Communicate with you about working together
We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Legal basis for processing (GDPR)
Where GDPR applies, we process your personal information in accordance with applicable legal bases, including responding to your request for information and, where applicable, your consent to process any health-related information you voluntarily provide. Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us; this will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Third-party services
We use trusted third-party service providers to help operate this website and our coaching practice, including website hosting, email, and our secure client platform. These providers process information only as needed to provide their services and maintain their own privacy policies and security practices.
If you become a client
If we begin working together, the tools used to support your care are separate from this website. Intake forms, health information, scheduling, and coaching records are managed through Healthie or another secure client platform used by the practice. Those records are governed by separate client agreements and privacy documents provided to you during onboarding, not by this website policy.
How your information is stored & retained
This website is hosted by Netlify, and contact form submissions are processed through Netlify's form service. Contact form submissions may also be securely delivered to us by email.
Inquiry information is retained only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry, facilitate an introductory call, support an ongoing coaching relationship where applicable, or comply with legal and professional obligations. When it is no longer needed for these purposes, it is deleted.
International data transfers
Some of the trusted third-party service providers we use may process your information on servers located outside your country of residence, including outside the European Economic Area. Where required by applicable law, we use appropriate safeguards to help protect your personal information during international transfers.
Your rights
Depending on applicable privacy laws, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your information
- Withdraw consent or object to certain processing
- Request a copy of your information in a portable format
To exercise any of these rights, email rachelhalverson96@gmail.com and we'll respond within a reasonable timeframe. EU residents also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority; in Spain, this is the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD).
Automated decision-making
We do not use your personal information to make automated decisions or create profiles about you.
Cookies
This website uses essential cookies required for basic functionality. If optional analytics or other non-essential cookies are introduced in the future, they will be managed in accordance with applicable privacy laws and your cookie preferences. You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie banner displayed when you first visit the website.
Children's privacy
This website is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect information from them through this site. Coaching for minor clients is arranged directly with a parent or guardian.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent version.
Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please contact rachelhalverson96@gmail.com.
Terms of Use
Using this website.
These terms govern your use of this website. They're written to be clear rather than complicated. Last updated: August 2026.
Acceptance of these terms
By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the site.
Website purpose
This website provides general educational information about nutrition coaching, body image, and wellbeing. It's intended to share the philosophy and offerings of The Becoming Collective — not to provide individualized advice.
Intellectual property
All content on this website — including text, graphics, photographs, branding, logos, The Becoming Framework, and any downloadable resources — is owned by The Becoming Collective unless otherwise stated. It may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, or used without written permission.
Permitted use
You're welcome to browse this website for personal, non-commercial use.
Third-party links
This website may contain links to external websites, such as Healthie or Instagram. The Becoming Collective isn't responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party websites.
Website availability
Every effort is made to keep this website accurate and available, but uninterrupted access can't be guaranteed.
Limitation of liability
Use of this website is at your own risk. The Becoming Collective isn't liable for any losses arising from reliance on website content.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws applicable in Spain.
Changes to these terms
These Terms may be updated periodically. The "last updated" date above reflects the most recent revision.
Contact
Questions about these Terms may be directed to rachelhalverson96@gmail.com.
Coaching Disclaimer
A note on scope.
A little clarity about what this website and this work are — and what they aren't. Last updated: August 2026.
Educational purpose
The information on this website is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It's meant to share ideas and perspective, not to serve as personalized guidance.
Individualized coaching
Coaching is individualized and collaborative, and it's designed to support you meaningfully. It is not, however, a substitute for medical diagnosis, medical treatment, psychotherapy, or emergency care.
No medical advice
Nothing on this website should be interpreted as individualized medical advice or used as a replacement for consultation with a qualified healthcare provider. Please bring medical questions to your doctor or care team.
Results
Every person is different, and specific outcomes can't be guaranteed. This work is about building a more grounded, sustainable relationship with food and body — a process that unfolds differently for everyone.
Professional relationships
Viewing this website or submitting an inquiry form does not establish a coaching relationship. A coaching relationship begins only after both parties agree to work together and all onboarding documentation has been completed.
Emergencies
The Becoming Collective does not provide crisis or emergency services. If you're experiencing a medical or mental health emergency, please contact your local emergency services or seek immediate care.
Third-party resources
References or links to external resources are shared as a courtesy and don't constitute endorsements.
Personal responsibility
You remain responsible for your own decisions and actions throughout the coaching process. This work supports you in making choices that feel right for you — the choices themselves remain yours.
Contact
Questions about this disclaimer may be directed to rachelhalverson96@gmail.com.