Somatic nutrition therapy for embodied belonging
Reimagining nourishment through science, safety, and soul, for women navigating eating disorders, chronic conditions, and burnout.
BRISBANE + AUSTRALIA WIDE
How I can support you
You might be here because you’ve been searching for:
why do I binge eat or feel out of control around food
why my body feels so sensitive, reactive, or overwhelmed
eating difficulties alongside chronic illness, fatigue, or burnout
how to feel better in my body or improve body image
how to stop the binge–restrict cycle
help with binge eating or bulimia
why am I always bloated or uncomfortable in my body
why nothing seems to work for my gut or hormones
a painful or obsessive relationship with food
Many of the women I work with arrive here after years of trying to fix symptoms that never quite made sense in isolation. I work with women navigating:
disordered eating and eating disorders
binge eating, restriction, and binge–restrict cycles
body image distress and disconnection from the body
chronic digestive symptoms (including persistent bloating)
complex conditions such as hormonal imbalances (including PCOS and endometriosis), dysautonomia, POTS, and MCAS
fatigue, burnout, and nervous system dysregulation
This work is especially suited to you if you feel like nothing has worked - not because you’re broken, but because the deeper layers of your body and nervous system haven’t yet been met.
Maybe you’re bone tired
Food is the source of your deepest pain and your truest hope. Some days you restrict, some days you binge, some moments you feel glued to the mirror checking every angle.
And the shame spirals; cycles that feel like they will swallow you whole, only to leave you aching with the feeling like you’ve been doing this forever.
On the outside, you look like you’re coping - you learned early on the art of holding it all together: carrying the weight of the world in your heart while wearing a smile on your face.
On the inside, you’re unravelling. Your spark dimmed to a mere ember. Your sense of self muffled by the internal dialogue of not enoughness.
Why nothing has worked
You might have spent years trying to fix yourself. The talk therapy, the meal plans, the mantras, willing yourself to stop bingeing, to eat normally, to stop freaking out about food or the scales. You’ve tried and tried. And it feels like you’re getting nowhere.
But what if the reason you’re getting nowhere is not because you were failing. But because the approaches were unable to meet the reality of your body. What if you have been trying to create deep, lasting change in a system that fears depth.
“You don’t need another food plan, you need safety in your body”
How this work is different
At Alitus, eating struggles, chronic symptoms, and burnout are not treated as pathologies to suppress, but as intelligent adaptations shaped by stress, trauma, and unmet needs. We gently untangle these patterns through somatic nutrition therapy – weaving together nervous system repair, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based physiology to create lasting change.
Our approach bridges science and soul. We honour hormones and neurobiology alongside seasonality, rhythm, and the sacred feminine arcs of becoming. The body is not a problem to solve, but a landscape to tend with reverence and curiosity.
Alitus emerged from recognising that information alone is rarely enough. We have reimagined dietetics to include the nervous system, the sacred, and the rhythms of real life - because true healing requires more than a meal plan.
“Alitus is a place where perfection softens, self-criticism quietens, and healing unfolds at the pace of safety”
THE PROCESSFoundation Consult 1 // 90 mins // $280AUD
Our work begins by getting to know you as a living story shaped by everything your body and nervous system have learned in order to survive, cope, and belong. This is a slow, grounding session where we begin to make sense of your experiences with food, your body, stress, and safety, at a pace that feels respectful and manageable.
After you book you will receive an email with the following:
✓ appointment details
✓ a gentle new client questionnaire
✓ your client welcome pack
Foundation Consult 2 // 90 mins // $280AUD
In this session, we begin building an embodied understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, connection, nourishment, and rest. Using conversation, reflection, and creative mapping (words, imagery, or simple drawing), we make visible the patterns your body has developed to protect you.
You’ll leave with:
✓ a personalised somatic map of your patterns and responses
✓ a clearer understanding of how safety, activation, and shutdown may show up for you
✓ a shared language we can use throughout our work together ✓ a regular space in my calendar (weekly, fortnightly, or monthly) for a 3-month (minimum) period
Ongoing Consults // 50 mins // $190AUD
In our ongoing sessions, we slow down enough to notice patterns as they arise in real time, gently exploring protective responses, emotional landscapes, and the ways your body has learned to keep you safe. Nutrition, embodiment, and relational healing are woven in gradually and collaboratively, always guided by your capacity and readiness.
This is not a quick-fix approach.
It is a steady process of building safety, restoring trust in your body, and allowing change to emerge naturally over time.
Many clients describe this phase as learning how to live with greater clarity, regulation, and self-compassion - not by forcing change, but by understanding themselves differently.
The most potent part of healing is the journey itself, and so rather than sprinting towards a destination, we notice and celebrate along the way how you are…
feeling seen, maybe for the first time
learning how to understand your body, instead of fighting it
discovering the why behind what you do with food and body
accessing safety during moments that used to feel chaotic
feeling less afraid of your own patterns or symptoms
noticing small but powerful shifts
having more space in your day, your mind, your body, and ultimately, your life
Healing isn’t about optimisation, but relationship; with yourself, with food, with the world around you. With life.
When struggle is no longer the centre of everything, life can begin to look like
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a life of
waking up and the first thought you have is no longer about food or your body
making breakfast without calculating, negotiating, or punishing yourself later
ordering what you want at a cafe because it sounds delicious
going on holiday and eating gelato because it’s hot and you’re happy, not because you’ve earned it or will make up for it later
saying yes to spontaneous dinners, last-minute take-aways, and birthday cake, without rehearsing rules or spiralling afterwards
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You walk into a changing room, a beach, or a supermarket aisle and feel present instead of panicked, grounded instead of scanning, in your body instead of above it.
You learn how to sense when you’re slipping into comparison, collapse, or self-criticism, and you have tools to come back, rather than spiral.
You buy clothes that feel like you, not clothes you hope will make your body smaller.
You learn to say “I’m not talking about my body today” and actually mean it.
Your body becomes a home, not a threat.
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When you feel that familiar surge of panic - the heart racing, the tightening, the urge to restrict, run, or binge - you don’t shame yourself or feel like you’re back at zero.
You feel the activation, recognise it,
and know how to soothe, tend, and respond.You have inner resources you can reach for when life gets big and you’re navigating the messy middle.
Triggers don’t derail you. They simply remind you: “I can come back to safety.”
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You keep chocolate, bread, biscuits, and “fear foods” in the house, and days go by without thinking about them.
You eat one biscuit because you want one, not twelve because you weren’t supposed to have any.
You attend family dinners without shrinking, apologising, or people-pleasing through your plate. You say “I’m good, thanks” when someone pushes food on you, instead of eating to manage their feelings.
You don’t panic before social events because you no longer believe that food has the power to ruin you.
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Eating stops feeling like a constant battle between discipline and collapse.
You don’t spend everyday mustering willpower just to get through breakfast.
Movement feels like something you choose, not something you owe.
Meals no longer feel like a moral test you constantly fail, but simply part of the rhythm of your day.
Your body becomes a companion.
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You can name what you feel and meet it with curiosity, without instantly translating it into food.
You recognise sensations, urges, and impulses as information, not emergencies.
Emotions move through you, rather than feeling like they will take you out.
You develop a felt relationship with your intuition, that tells you what you need in this moment.
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You remember what brings you alive: what you love; what you value; what makes you laugh.
You stop outsourcing your identity to the size of your body and start inhabiting the person you are becoming.
You feel the spark again - that quiet pulse of you underneath the noise.
It becomes easier to show up in relationships, work, creativity, sex, and connection because you’re no longer consumed by survival.
You exhale, and think, “Oh, there I am.”
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You say yes to:
travel
spontaneity
photos with friends
dancing at weddings
swimming in the ocean
picnics, barbecues, road trips
hobbies that make you lose track of time
You’re no longer terrified that life will overwhelm you: you have capacity, choice, presence.
Life is no longer something you hide from, but something you can feel, hold, and enjoy.
How to know if you’re ready
You’re tired of swinging between control and collapse, and you want a way of living that doesn’t feel like constant effort.
Your body reacts before your mind can catch up, and you’d like to understand what’s happening instead of feeling taken over by it.
You’re exhausted by shame, and you’re longing for a way to heal that isn’t based on willpower or punishment.
You’ve tried all the food rules and mindset work, and something in you knows the real issue goes deeper than behaviour.
You want to understand yourself with compassion, not criticism.
You’re craving a space where nothing about you feels too much, too messy, or too complicated.
A small part of you, even if scared, is whispering that you don’t want to live like this forever.
You miss yourself - or realise you don’t even know who you are outside of managing food and body.
You’re tired of doing this alone, and you’re ready to be supported instead of surviving by yourself.
“you don’t need more control, you need trust in your body”
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSDO YOU WORK WITH WEIGHT LOSS GOALS?1No. Not because weight loss is immoral or shameful, but because the pursuit of it often reinforces the very patterns that cause harm. If body composition change is a long-term desire, we can honour the beneath-it needs (safety, security, belonging, acceptance), without replicating diet culture.
WILL YOU WEIGH ME OR TRACK MY BODY SIZE?2No. Your worth, progress, and identity are not measured in numbers.
HOW LONG DOES THIS WORK TAKE?3There is no fixed timeline for this work. Some people feel shifts early, for others changes unfold slowly. We move as fast as the slowest parts of you can go. We prioritise safety, capacity, and integration, over urgency or optimisation.
WILL I GET A PRESCRIBED MEAL PLAN OR DIET?4No. Meal plans and rules often reinforce the same control-based strategies that fuel disordered patterns. Instead, we explore nourishment, attunement, physiology, safety, preference, capacity. This may involve collaboratively creating some structure with food ideas and meal timings to support you, but only when your system is ready and always with compassion and curiosity, rather than a pressure to perfect and perform.
DO YOU WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH A DIAGNOSED EATING DISORDER?5Yes, if they are medically stable and available for collaborative, relational work. If someone requires urgent medical support, they will be encouraged to seek appropriate support. I can work alongside psychologists and GPs as part of longer-term recovery under a Medicare Eating Disorder Plan.
DO YOU WORK WITH TEENS?6At this time, I am only working with adults (18 years or older).
ARE YOUR SERVICES ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE REBATES?7Yes. Medicare currently offers a $61.80 rebate for 5 Allied Health appointments per calendar year as part of a chronic condition management (CCM) or Team Care Arrangements (TCA) plan, and for 20 dietitian appointments per year on an Eating Disorder Plan (EDP). Please note: you can continue to receive dietetics support once your allocated care plan sessions have been used up, however the cost will return to the full fee, unless you are covered by Private Health insurance.
ARE YOUR SERVICES COVERED UNDER PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE?8I am registered with Private Health Funds in Australia, and as such can offer health fund rebates. Different Private Health funds offer different coverage for dietitian services so I invite you to check with your provider regarding what they cover. Please note: Private Health Insurance and Medicare rebates cannot be claimed for the same session.
WHAT IS YOUR CANCELLATION POLICY?9At least 48 hours' notice is required to cancel or reschedule your appointment, so that the session time can be offered to someone else. A cancellation fee of 50% of the appointment cost will be charged if the appointment is cancelled within 48 hours of the appointment. Day-of cancellations or failure to arrive for a session, inclusive of forgetting it was scheduled, incurs the full session fee. Day-of cancellations impacts both clients waiting for a session and the practitioner who spent time preparing the session. For any appointments on Mondays, notifications of any reschedules are to be received by the latest the Friday midday prior. Weekends are considered out of hours. We do offer Telehealth sessions as an alternative should you be too unwell to attend in person. We thank you kindly for your understanding in this matter.
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