Early Career Dietitian
Hi! I’m Anna. I’m now officially 1.5 years into working with The Healthy Eating Clinic after graduating from university, and wow, I’ve learned so much during this time and now have extensive experience working with clients who present with a wide range of conditions and goals.
My key passion lies in the practical side of nutrition.
With a cheffing background, I love helping clients fall in love with healthy cooking that actually tastes delicious. Nutrition can be incredibly complex, but often it boils down to the simplest things. My aim is to reduce all the buzzing food noise and overwhelming overload of information coming from social media and elsewhere, and to help break nutrition down into simple, manageable steps.
This approach has the long game in mind, it’s about lifelong change, not a fad diet that lasts two months.
What you can expect from me:
- I am not the food police! I’m here to support you in a way that works specifically for you
- I can provide education on the foundations of nutrition, tailored to your goals and health conditions
- I can help you understand how appetite works and how to regulate it using the right foods and systems
- I can help you find balance with food, improve your relationship with food, and get out of a restrictive mindset (my personal favourite)
- I can provide the basics of how to build healthy meals, with loads of ideas
- I can help you untangle the mess and break down the key priorities impacting your nutrition and health goals
- I’ll be your biggest cheerleader and supporter through it all
I pride myself on providing my clients with a warm, welcoming, and non-judgmental space. I aim to be someone you feel comfortable sharing your concerns with openly, and someone you can trust to support and facilitate your health journey in every way I can.
Anna can help you with:
General Health and Wellbeing – healthy eating, weight maintenance, weight loss or weight gain through balanced and healthy habit changes, managing nutritional deficiencies, malnutrition, healthy ageing, HAES (healthy at every size) and weight neutral practice, and vegetarian and vegan eating.
Gut and Digestion – low FODMAP diet, food intolerances, food allergies, maximising and improving gut health, digestive issues (diarrhoea and constipation).
Chronic Disease – support for heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease, lowering cholesterol and/or blood pressure, osteoporosis/osteopenia, type 2 diabetes management, reducing insulin resistance, fatty liver and other liver conditions, and post-cancer nutrition support.
Anna’s Qualifications:
- Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) with the Dietitians Australia (DA).
- Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University, 2024
- Certificate III of Commercial Cookery, Le Cordon Bleu, 2020
Q&A with Anna!
What’s your favourite food?
Everything. All of it in my mouth now, please!
What’s your favourite cooking method?
This is a bit left field…but I love cooking over a campfire when I in the middle of nowhere under the stars. The half charred smoke flavour is so comforting to me.
Why did you become a dietitian?
I fell in love with healthy cooking! I started experimenting with different ingredients and pushing boundaries with flavours and cooking techniques, all whilst prioritising healthy food. After pursuing my lifelong dream of going to culinary arts, I decided I wanted to push myself further academically and decided to study nutrition. It was here I realised I had been battling for years with an unhealthy relationship with food, and this was the catalyst that drove me to have a deep interest in the psychology of eating.