FAQ

• An Eating Disorder Dietitian supports recovery by providing nutritional counseling to bring about physical nourishment and improved eating behaviours
• They collaborate with you and your healthcare team to motivate change and navigate towards better health outcomes
• Dietitians are experts in nutrition, giving them a sound ability to challenge food beliefs, debunk nutrition myths and correct misinformation
• They challenge diet culture and the many ways society's dieting obsession, which is often disguised as wellness, fuels eating disorder behaviours
• It is very difficult for a person with a starved brain to successfully engage in psychological intervention. Re-nourishment is vital for recovery to begin, making the Dietitian an essential piece of the recovery puzzle!

• Improve quality of life through nutrition to assist older people to remain independent and living at home
• Screen for malnutrition and prevent malnutrition from occurring
• Improve variety and nutritional value of texture modified diets
• Review and recommend oral nutritional supplementation
• Menu planning and recipes to support clients specific needs
• Support nutrition and food hygiene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle
• Manage chronic conditions through medical nutrition therapy 

HAES® is a framework for care that brings light to weight stigma. It challenges the idea that we can judge a person’s health by their body size and shape or that weight loss will improve a person’s health outcomes. There is overwhelming evidence to support intentional weight loss to be ineffective and almost impossible to maintain long term. Our bodies are simply not designed to maintain weight loss after intentional restriction. In fact, after restrictive weight loss for 95% of people it is regained within 5 years (with the addition of more weight). This is likely the bodies clever way of protecting from the next restriction (or famine). 

HAES® is a massive shift from how most of us understand health, it makes sense for it feel uncomfortable and take time to get your head around. 

The Health At Every Size® Principles are: 

1. Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealising or pathologizing of specific weights. 
2. Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs. 
3. Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities. 
4. Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control. 
5. Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.

The HAES principles are unpacked in more detail on the ASDAH website -  https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/

You may be eligible for a rebate from Medicare if you have an Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) Program referral or an Eating Disorder Management Plan (EDMP) referral from your GP. 

Alternatively, most private health insurance cover Dietetics under 'Extras', depending on your level of cover you may be eligible for a rebate. Please check with your provider prior to your session. 

If you have a Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) Gold card, and a referral from you GP, the cost of your sessions will be covered by DVA.

Please note we do not Bulk Bill. All services incur an out of pocket fee. 

If you are experiencing financial hardship due to loss of income or low/no income, we have a limited number of reduced fee places available. Please email felicity@returnnutrition.com.au with specific details and you will be notified of the options available.

Full payment is required on the day of your appointment.

As an Accredited Practicing Dietitian, I can support NDIS clients if they are plan managed or self managed. Fees - as per NDIS pricing arrangements for Dietitian. 

NB: Return Nutrition is not a registered NDIS provider. 

If you need to change your appointment, please get in touch at least 24 hours prior to your appointment time. Cancellation fee may apply if 24 hours notice is not given.