SideBy Care

Additional Care Between GI Visits

Digestive conditions can affect more than physical symptoms. Nutrition concerns, stress, uncertainty, and everyday challenges can also affect how you feel and your quality of life.

The SideBy Care Program is ordered by your GI provider and works alongside your treatment plan to provide behavioral and nutrition treatment between GI visits.

Whether you're newly diagnosed, experiencing a flare, in remission, or managing ongoing symptoms, your care is personalized to your diagnosis, symptoms, goals, and stage of treatment.

What You'll Learn

Your care is personalized to your symptoms, diagnosis, and goals. Depending on your insurance benefits, your care team may include a Mind-Gut Specialist and Registered Dietitian.*

Mind-Gut Specialist

• Evidence-based mind-gut techniques to help calm your body and digestive symptoms

• Skills for recognizing and responding to connections between thoughts, stress, behaviors, and symptoms

• Tools for building helpful habits and navigating the emotional and day-to-day challenges of digestive conditions

Registered Dietitian

• Personalized nutrition guidance based on your symptoms and goals

• Strategies for navigating food triggers, symptom flares, and treatment changes

• Guidance for maintaining nutrition and expanding food choices

• Practical approaches to meal planning, hydration, and digestive health

Services available may vary based on insurance benefits.

What to Expect

• Understand Your Symptoms: Identify factors that may affect your symptoms and quality of life.

• Personalized Treatment Plan: Receive a plan tailored to your symptoms, diagnosis, lifestyle, and goals.

• Virtual Visits: Meet regularly with your dedicated SideBy Care team through video visits. Each session has a goal and builds on previous sessions, while treatment remains flexible and personalized to your needs.

• Treatment Review: Review your progress and adjust your treatment plan as your symptoms and needs change.

• Continued Care: After the initial program, care continues through optimization sessions with your Mind-Gut Specialist and/or Registered Dietitian. These sessions help you maintain progress, strengthen helpful strategies, and address changes early to reduce the likelihood or severity of symptoms returning. Your care team is also available for additional guidance during treatment changes, flares, or remission.

Your Care Team

Mind-Gut Specialist: Provides evidence-based strategies to help you manage symptoms and navigate everyday challenges.

Registered Dietitian: Provides personalized nutrition care and strategies based on your symptoms and goals.

Care Advocate: Guides you through the program, answers questions, and helps coordinate your care.

Your GI Provider: Remains in charge of your medical treatment, medications, and overall GI care while staying informed throughout the program.

Services available may vary based on insurance benefits.

Why This Approach Works

Research shows that behavioral and nutrition interventions can help people manage digestive symptoms, improve quality of life, and address the day-to-day challenges of living with digestive conditions.

The SideBy Care Program brings these evidence-based approaches together through personalized virtual care that works alongside your GI provider's treatment plan. Learn more about IBD and disorders of gut-brain interaction (including IBS) research.

How the Gut and Brain Work Together

The gut and brain communicate through nerves, hormones, and the immune system, creating a two-way connection that can influence digestive health and quality of life.

Your digestive system and nervous system are constantly communicating. This is often referred to as the gut-brain connection.

This connection helps explain why digestive symptoms are real and how factors like nutrition, stress, sleep, and daily habits can influence one another. Understanding these connections can help explain why symptoms occur and identify approaches that support digestive health and quality of life.

Conditions We Treat

The SideBy Care Program treats people with:

• IBS

• Crohn's disease

• Ulcerative colitis

• Functional dyspepsia

• Chronic constipation

• Chronic diarrhea

• Other disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs)

Not sure if the program is right for you? Talk with your GI provider or schedule a free introductory call with our Care Advocate.

Why People Choose the SideBy Care Program

✔ Personalized care tailored to your needs and goals
✔ Works alongside your GI provider's treatment plan
✔ Regular virtual visits from home
✔ Treatment from a dedicated care team
✔ In-network with most insurance plans
✔ Practical skills you can use in everyday life
✔ Continued care through optimization sessions

Hear from Patients

Insurance

The SideBy Care Program is in-network with most insurance plans.

We verify your benefits and review any deductible, copay, or coinsurance before care begins.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this replace my GI provider?

No. Your GI provider remains in charge of your medical treatment and medications and receives updates on your progress throughout the program.

Can I participate if I'm in remission?

Yes. The program can be appropriate during active symptoms, flares, remission, treatment changes, and ongoing symptom management.

What happens after the initial program?

Care can continue through optimization sessions with your Mind-Gut Specialist and/or Registered Dietitian as your needs change over time.

What will I pay out of pocket?

Costs depend on your insurance benefits. We verify your benefits and review any deductible, copay, or coinsurance before care begins.

How do I get started?

Talk with your GI provider about the SideBy Care Program. If your provider orders the program for you, the SideBy Care team will verify your insurance benefits and contact you to help you get started.

Ready to Feel Better?

Get personalized care from a team that works alongside your GI provider to help you manage symptoms, improve nutrition and eating patterns, build practical skills, and improve quality of life.

Have questions? Schedule a free 15-minute call with a Care Advocate to learn more about the SideBy Care Program.

Call or text: 978-997-8840
Email: careadvocate@sidebycare.com

Medically reviewed by Jacqueline Chu, MD
Last reviewed: 8/25/26
Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants