Hi, I’m Emily
founder / accredited dietitian / credentialled eating disorder clinician / intuitive eating counsellor / somatic IFS-informed practitioner / women’s circle facilitator
I work with women navigating painful and complex relationships with food and body, including eating disorders, disordered eating, chronic symptoms, and nervous system overwhelm.
Many of the women I support feel caught in cycles with food, disconnected from their bodies, or exhausted by symptoms that don’t seem to make sense - even after trying everything.
This work is my heart and soul.
Because I know the ache of feeling broken.
For much of my life, I lived inside that story - trying to be the good girl, to do things the “right” way, to keep the peace, all the while quietly losing touch with myself. Before I was a dietitian, I was a teacher; I knew how to show up and help others make sense of the world, even when I couldn’t make sense of my own.
My move to Australia from Scotland in my twenties brought with it the hope of a new life - the hope that an equator between me and my old life would bring a new body, a new peace. I threw myself into a career change - studying nutrition and biomedical science, hoping I might finally feel at home in myself along the way. Instead, I met the same hunger that had followed me since childhood: the ache to feel at home within myself.
ALITUS [LATIN] // NOURISH / SUPPORT / SUSTAINthe moment everything changed…
Years later, newly graduated and sitting with my first nutrition client, that ache spoke again. They’d come to me for weight loss, and even though I was still navigating a painful relationship with my own body, I performed like a good dietitian - I followed the textbook, preached the rhetoric, but something in me recoiled. Session after session I would leave with a sickness in my core - I was teaching them to shrink themself, just as I’d spent decades doing. The feeling in my gut whispered, there is no peace at the end of this road.
Because the problem wasn’t food, or weight. It was the story they carried in their body. The story I was still carrying in mine. And so, Alitus was born. A practice devoted to supporting women with eating disorders, disordered eating, and complex, chronic conditions through a somatic and nervous-system-informed lens.
APD / CEDC-D / MDIETST / BExNutrSc / BEd[HONS]dreaming an alternate path
I began training in alternate ways of practicing - mindfulness, intuitive eating, body trust, attuned eating. And as a I wove this into my practice, I began to fall back in love with being a dietitian. And slowly, ever so slowly, things began to shift within me too.
Until I hit another wall: these practices offered a gentler approach to nourishing the body, one woven with compassion and love, but still, something was missing.
I didn’t have the language spacious enough to fully hold what I was witnessing and hearing every day in my therapy room. I could intellectualise, reframe, contextualise, and formulate. But I couldn’t speak the language of the body.
The body reminds us that the nervous system, not willpower, determines when we feel safe to eat, to rest, to live. Slowly, a new way of practising began to unfold: one that married the precision of science with the poetry of the soul. A practice that honoured the living ecology of nourishment.
ALITUS PILLARS
Belonging
Alitus sees humans as ecological beings – shaped by land, season, and relationship rather than idealised wellness standards. Healing begins not with fixing, but with remembering that we belong to the living world. Nothing within you is broken; it is simply waiting to be tended.
Nourishment
Food is approached as care, continuity, and relationship – not morality or optimisation. Alitus restores safety with food through ordinary, steady rituals that rebuild trust in hunger, fullness, and pleasure. Nourishment becomes something we return to, not something we perfect.
Curiosity
The body is met with wonder rather than control. Grounded in physiology and trauma-informed science, we study patterns with humility, seeing symptoms as intelligent adaptations rather than failures. We are students of the body – not fixers of it.
Connection
Healing unfolds in relationship, not isolation. Through attuned therapeutic alliance and women gathering in circle, the nervous system learns safety through co-regulation and being held. Transformation happens where you are deeply seen.
Embodiment
Health is participation in rhythm, not constant progress. We honour circadian, hormonal, and seasonal cycles, trusting the spiral path of healing rather than linear performance. Embodiment is the quiet integration that emerges when safety, nourishment, and belonging are restored.
Today, this work is deeper than a profession for me.
my soul’s work
I don’t teach people how to control their bodies, or how to eat ‘right’; I help them learn how to listen to them.
When I step away from my work, you’ll find me out in nature with my husband and our cattle dog, pouring over a book, or creating chaos in my kitchen: small rituals that remind me that nourishment begins with presence.
Alitus isn’t a place to perform wellness. It’s a homecoming - to body, breath, and belonging, because you don’t need another food plan, you need safety in your body.
QUALIFICATIONS + ACCREDITATIONSAccredited Practising Dietitian [DAA]
Credentialled Eating Disorder Clinician [ANZAED]
Somatic IFS-informed Practitioner [Conscious Earth Institute]
Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor [Trained by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch]
Women’s Circle Facilitator [Honouring Heart Institute]
Master of Dietetics Studies [University of Queensland]
Bachelor of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences [University of Queensland]
Bachelor of Primary Education (hons) [University of Dundee]
I know how much courage it takes to be here. You don’t have to do this alone anymore.