Eat in Peace

01/12/2025

If your uni experience was anything like mine, your counselling skills training was basically:

✨ Build rapport
✨ Ask open-ended questions
…anddd that was kind of it 🤷‍♀️

The truth? Counselling skills are so much more layered, relational, and human than what most of us were taught.

(some are taught heaps betters than others!)

If you’ve ever felt like you graduated with the MNT knowledge but very few practical tools to support humans, you’re not alone.

The human, relational stuff comes with practice and intentionality — and that’s totally okay. You’re doing it now, right when you need to 💕

29/11/2025

I’d love to support you!

✨ Nutrition Counselling ✨

I work with you to heal your relationship with food and eating — whether that feels like restriction, binge eating, confusion, worry, difficulty feeding yourself, constant food noise, or not feeling in sync with what your body’s needs are.

Your relationship with food is shaped by so much: trauma, neurodivergence 🧠, dieting history, weight stigma, mental health, ableism, lived experience and so many more co-occurring experiences

We unpack this together, and I support you to put the pieces back together in a way that truly makes sense for you 💗

✨Meal Support✨

For those moments when eating feels overwhelming, lonely or too hard to do on your own — I offer gentle meal and snack support sessions either in person or in an online group space.
Practice regulation, feel accompanied and build trust and safety with food again.

🌱 Individual & Group Supervision for Dietitians 🌱

I offer reflective, confidential and trauma-aware supervision for dietitians working in eating disorders, mental health, neurodivergence and weight-inclusive practice.

I also offer supervision to new/early grads from various areas of Dietetics focusing on counselling skills, relationships and engagement in addition to clinical topics through a reflective practice.

Whether you’re wanting individual support or to learn and grow alongside others in group supervision, I’m happy to support you.

🤔 To work with me, you can send me a DM, or visit the link in my bio 💕

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27/11/2025

🤗 Hello! I’m Nicole — Dietitian, Professional Supervisor, and Credentialled Eating Disorder Clinician. I support both clients and fellow dietitians through a gentle, reflective, trauma-aware lens.

✨ I run a solo private practice in Melbourne. I may grow one day, but for now I’m exactly where I need to be.

🙃 My nutrition counselling is weight-inclusive, trauma-aware and fat-positive. I support people with:
• Eating difficulties and (“eating disorders”)
• Nourishing in ways that honour your neurotype, nervous system & mental health
• Body image concerns
• Recovery from chronic/lifelong dieting
• Relearning body-led, intuitive eating whatever that looks like for you

🫶 I’ve recently expanded into Professional Supervision for Dietitians wanting to deepen their skills in non-diet, trauma-informed practice. I love supporting Dietitians to grow confidence, clarity and capacity in this work and themselves.

🧐 A note on my values:
I recognise the privileges I hold and the ways they shape my experiences in the world. It matters to me that I do my best to understand, centre and learn from my clients’ lived experiences. I make mistakes and I’m committed to doing better 💗

🤗 Outside of work I’m a mum of three (all at different stages of chaos!), a wannabe gardener and plant-parent, i try to move my body in fun ways, I watch TV shows, and listen to 90s grunge/rock/metal while I clean and contemplate life.

😌 Thanks for being here.
I’d love to know — what would you like to see or hear more about?

👇🏻 Say hello below
💌 or reach out via DM anytime.

25/11/2025

Hey Dietitians! We are taught and work in a system that values productivity, demands answers and fixing, and often rewards “doing” over presence - it’s easy to forget that relationships matter.

Your presence matters.
Your values matter.
Your way of holding space matters.

Clients don’t just come to you for nutrition knowledge.

They come for:
🌿 the way you listen
🌿 the permission you give them to be human
🌿 the safety they feel in your company
🌿 the steadiness you offer when things feel overwhelming

You don’t need to be the most outgoing, “professional”, loudest or the most experienced dietitian.

You just need to be you — grounded in your ethics, values, your compassion, and the way you show up.

And you will find your people.

✔️ Save this to remind yourself that you matter!

21/11/2025

I can’t wait to support more Dietitians in 2026!!

NEW Group Supervision for Dietitians 😍

I’m now taking expressions of interest for a group (max 4) of dietitians who want a space to reflect, feel supported, and grow.

This space will support early and mid-career Dietitians from various sectors who are working in, aim to work in or would like support in the areas of Eating Disorders, mental health, trauma informed practice, weight inclusive approaches and counselling skills. 

If you are working with humans, I guarantee you are seeing people with tricky relationships with food 😖

Sessions are:
• 75–90 minutes via Zoom
• Monthly over 5 months beginning in Feb - Thursday mornings (Melb time)
• $90 per session

👉Click the link in my bio to apply 💕

Or

👉DM me “SUPERVISION” if you have questions, or if you want me to send the link directly

22/10/2025

Sometimes, the support you needed wasn’t what was offered.

If you’ve ever left an appointment feeling unseen, confused or misunderstood, I hear you.

Many of the people I work with have tried seeking help before, and it just wasn’t the right fit, or the right time.

Things I often hear are:
- “They just told me what to eat.”
- “No one asked how I actually felt”
- “It felt like it was all about weight, not me.”
- “They didn’t understand how hard change is.”
- “They didn’t see everything else happening in my life.”
- “I left feeling like I was the problem.”

If that sounds familiar — it makes so much sense that trying again might feel scary, overwhelming or unsure.

Reaching out for support is a big step — especially if it’s not your first time.

I love supporting humans who are seeking nutritional counselling and dietetic support after previous (not so great) experiences.

If that’s you, how might it feel to;
- start by slowing down.
- talk about what helps you feel safe.
- move gently, with curiosity instead of pressure.
- Collaborate instead of being directed 🤔

If you’ve been wondering what it could feel like to have support that actually meets you where you are, I’d love to connect with you.

🌿 feel free to check out link in bio or send a message to chat more about what that could look like for you.

20/10/2025

My door (and online booking system!) is always open for you.

Whether you’re looking to re-engage regularly after some time, or just needing the space to unpack some new things that have come up or to recenter (hello life!).

1 or 2 sessions is sometimes all you need to process or find a clearer path forward.

➡️ you can send me an email, DM or Book via the website xx

16/10/2025

For many people, reaching out for support can feel terrifying, and, can be a massive step. Having some expectation of what to expect can feel so so important to feel safe enough to explore some really tricky stuff.

There is no one size fits all. I don’t stick to a template for how to run sessions.

It all depends on how you are feeling an out coming along, why you reached out, and what kind of support you are needing.

You’re not “just another client” I’m seeing- I want to know about your life, your experiences and your goals.

So in a first session, we might
✨ Spend time exploring why you are seeking support
✨ Your previous experience with dietitians or health practitioners
✨ What your current concerns are with your relationship to food, eating and your body
✨ What you are hoping to be different, and what are your fears
✨ Your past relationship to food, eating and your body
✨ what you recall about food, and eating and bodies growing up
✨ Explore how your nervous system impacts your relationship to food, eating and your body

And this isn’t everything!

And, we might spend the full session speaking about 1 of these, or a few! But it’s always at your pace.

With your permission, I might guide you to find some strategies to experiment with to help you get where you’d like to be. And, strategies aren’t always food related.

I’ll also ask if I can share my learnings and understandings along the way if you’d like them.

We spend as little or as long on anything as you need or want to. I don’t run by a timeframe or length of time it takes to get to see changes. There’s no right or wrong.

👉 If you’ve been curious but unsure, you are able to start with just one session to see how it feels. I’ve got two spaces open next week for new clients and my DMs are open 💕

14/10/2025

~ When food and eating has felt complicated for a long time, often clients tell me they just don’t think it’s possible to feel more at peace.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to access support.

That’s where a space to support you to unravel some of your fear is a wonderful first step. We can figure it out together!

Sometimes it’s initially about what can you gently let go of, or gently invite in?

If this sounds like where you’re at at the moment, I have space for a couple of new clients next week and I’d love to meet you, just as you are. telehealth or in person in Hawthorn East)

💕 Learn more or send me a booking enquiry for a session via the link in my bio.

08/10/2025

We start October 14th!

I’d love to have you join us for Gentle Meal Support - a block of sessions designed to offer a space to eat with others, in a supportive environment.

I offer prompts and reflections as we go, and everything is an invitation - participate as you feel comfortable!

Http://eatinpeace.com.au/meal-support

➡️Dm with any questions 💕

08/10/2025

Do you follow me on Instagram? Here’s the link! I’d love to connect over there 💕

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04/10/2025

You don’t need to feel ready to start to heal.
Wanting something different is already a step. Showing up to yourself with curiosity is a step. Thinking about it is progress. 🌱