Explore and Rebuild Your Connection and Beliefs Around Eating and Your Body.
Embodied Nutrition Counselling for Eating Disorders and Body Liberation.
Tried This Thing They Call ‘Recovery’ and Still Finding Life Tough?
If your past experiences have involved weight stigma, left you feeling misunderstood, let down or pushed into places with your recovery that were too scary.
Please know that it’s not you.
Traditional approaches to ‘eating disorder’ recovery often forget there’s a complex and wonderful human at the core, trying their hardest to exist in a world that can feel too big and too much.
Recovery Support That Meets You Right Where You Are.
I offer size-inclusive, trauma-informed nutrition counselling, in person in Essendon, Melbourne or via Telehealth Australia-wide.
Going beyond meal plans and food monitoring, our work together can include:
- Expansion of thinking
- Liberation from diet culture
- Moving through the conflict and grief of distancing yourself from the goal of weight loss
- Finding unrestrained pleasure in eating
- Recovery in a bigger body minus judgement or dietary restriction
- Navigating the harms of anti-fat bias in the world without further harming yourself
- Discovering what really nourishes you, your life and your soul
welcome
Hi, I’m Louise.
Your Humble and Human Nutrition Guide.
I’ve been providing care as an ‘eating disorder’ dietitian for over 17 years now and understand that recovery is rarely a neat and linear process.
What I’ve witnessed to be more supportive of healing is a gentle curious space, free from judgement and pressure to ‘progress’ on an arbitrary timeline.
My work is complemented and informed by:
- Nervous system and attachment relational therapies;
- Language and constructs of embodiment;
- Social justice frameworks;
- Internal Family Systems; and
- Humans and human experiences.
How Nutrition Counselling at Compassionately Nourished Works
Our relationship is the foundation of our work together, so our first few sessions will be an opportunity to get to know one another and ensure the fit feels ‘right’ and aligned.
I won’t tell you what to do, but instead offer guidance as you explore what you want to work on or experiment with.
Expect that things may feel easy one session and challenging the next – this process is often messy and that is OK.
If you’ve got a wider support crew, I’ll work closely alongside them, while always holding you at the centre.
Session Length:
1-hour initial session
50-minute review sessions
Frequency:
Fortnightly – monthly depending on the level of support that you need
Session Fees:
Initial: $200
Review: $150
How to Know We’ll Make a Great Team.
I’m the first to admit I’m not everyone’s cup of tea (coffee, chai, soup…)
But if you are:
- looking for someone welcoming, accepting, affirming, radical and person-centred;
- willing to meet your body where it is rather than viewing it as something that needs fixing;
- open to discussions around cultural issues that impact your relationship to food and body;
- comfortable with getting uncomfortable when there isn’t a neat formulaic path;
- in it for deep enquiry and exploration, not just a few ‘education’ sessions; and
- OK with the occasional cameo from my cats Tux and Sadie 🐱
I would love to walk beside you as you bravely give recovery another go.
Body Liberation Starts Whenever You Are Ready
Get in touch about my appointment availability.