Services

Who is our ideal client? 

Totally About Diabetes, LLC is a service-based company that works with women 40 years old and above. These women have been diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes. They are looking for help to get control of their diabetes and improve their health.  It is never too late to start taking care of your health. Prediabetes and diabetes can be controlled by people who are willing to make the change.

The mission of Totally About Diabetes is to provide coaching, education, and support. Education and direction are needed to help people pursue health.

How does the program work?

Everybody’s body is different! Everybody’s goals and lifestyles are different. We need to get to know you. So, you will be evaluated to assess your needs and status before building a plan or making recommendations.

Diabetes and preventing diabetes is a full-time pursuit that has to be done by you, the client. We provide information, emotional and health support for you.

What services do we offer?

Education – we provide make -it – easy to understand education. Lifestyle behavior change is one program offered to prevent diabetes. Accommodations will be made for different learning styles. People learn differently and every effort is made to work with those differences.

Coaching – We work to inspire and assist you to take action on caring for yourselves. Every effort is made to move you from dependence to independence in your plan.

Support – We offer 3 levels of support.

1. Do – it- Yourself (DIY) training – you will be provided with program materials and videos for do-it-yourself training. This is designed for people who have basic diabetes knowledge and need a little reinforcement.
2. Done with You (DWY) training – You will receive a mixture of live instruction with program materials and videos. This format is designed for clients who need more intense instruction and training. There will be scheduled question and answer sessions and group teaching courses.
3. Done for You (DFY) training – This is the one-on-one (1:1) training program. The instructor is very hands-on with regularly scheduled accountability sessions. This is for the person who needs high-level intervention and training.

Membership

A monthly membership program is available. This membership provides monthly teaching, accountability, and goal planning. You will have a clear path to follow.

Why should you choose us for your education and coaching needs?

Trinette Stanford has been in nursing for more than 40 years. For the last 31 years, she has been a nurse practitioner, working as a primary care provider in a variety of settings such as rural health clinics, health department clinics, and lastly in a Veterans Primary Care Clinic. She provided care for people across the age spectrum from cradle to grave with all types of health concerns.  Caring for these clients provided practical experience in how to diagnose, treat, and educate a variety of clients and families. She specialized in diabetes care and management because she was seeing so many people with prediabetes and diabetes. Her focus was to make it easy for people to understand what diabetes is and give them the tools to care for themselves. The desire to teach about healthy lifestyles has become her focus since retiring from clinical practice. People need to know that they can thrive in life if they make self-care a priority.

Trinette is a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She enjoys spending time with her husband. Their latest endeavor is taking rides on the motorcycle.

Her philosophy of care –

• Make it Easy – She is able to explain hard and complex subjects so you can understand exactly what is going on with your body.
• Person- centered collaboration – The client is the center of attention. She helps clients meet their goals.
• Shared decision-making on a treatment plan – Input from the client guides the plan of care.