BINGE EATING DIETITIAN
Our regular 1:1 sessions will be the backbone of our work together. We’ll work together to understand not just what you eat, but why and how you eat and move towards a place where eating feels flexible, free and intuitive.
To accompany our work together, you’ll receive access to our signature 12 module online program to support the work that we do in our 1:1 sessions. This is not a replacement for our sessions, but a way to support it so you get more out of each visit.
1:1 Dietitian Coaching Sessions
Nourishing Mind & Body Program
Nourishing Recipes
If you’re sick of feeling out of control or “addicted to food” and keep telling yourself, “tomorrow, I’ll be better”, we'll work together to break this exhausting cycle.
As a binge eating dietitian, I use a non-diet approach to help you feel calm, consistent, and in control around food (without dieting, judgement or shame).
Binge Eating Dietitian in Brisbane + Online
Does Eating Feel Harder Than It Should?
Maybe you binge eat late at night or once the day finally slows down and often in secret. Maybe certain foods feel impossible to stop once you start. You might spend a lot of mental energy thinking about food; planning it, avoiding it, promising to “do better,” then feeling frustrated or ashamed when nothing sticks.
You might notice that you eat more when you’re overwhelmed, bored, restless, emotionally drained, or struggling to switch off. You may even wonder why food feels so much easier than everything else.
As a binge eating dietitian, I work with many people who feel out of control around food but highly capable in other areas of life. People who’ve tried dieting, “mindful eating,” or just pushing harder; only to feel stuck in the same cycle.
understanding your behaviours
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non diet and weight-neutral
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supporting your body and brain
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How A Binge Eating Dietitian Can Help
Binge eating is not about discipline, control, or “bad choices.” It’s an eating disorder behaviour that often develops as a way to regulate a overwhelmed nervous system and a dopamine-seeking brain.
For many people, food becomes a reliable source of comfort, grounding, or stimulation when the body is stressed, under-fuelled, or emotionally overloaded. This isn’t food addiction, it’s the body and brain responding to unmet needs and prolonged restriction.
When binge eating is met with shame, dieting, or attempts to control it, the cycle usually deepens. Not because you’re failing, but because your system is trying to stay safe.
My approach is grounded in three main principles
We ease binge eating by supporting regulation, consistency, and enough nourishment, rather than relying on rules or willpower.
I don’t use restriction, weight loss, or food rules as treatment tools. Instead, we focus on permission, adequacy, and rebuilding trust with food and your body.
Rather than trying to stop binge eating through control or discipline, we gently explore what it’s doing for you.
What is the underlying reason causing the binge eating to occur
Understanding The Binge-Restrict Cycle
The binge restriction cycle looks like this:
- Under-eating during the day (either intentionally or unintentionally)
- Ignoring hunger
- Feeling ‘good’ when restricting
- Bingeing when the body and brain override control
- Followed by shame, guilt, promises to restrict again
We'll work together to unpack:
Repeating weekly menus to reduce overwhelm and decision fatigue
(and why dieting makes it worse)
How restriction might be showing up in your diet
Why the body seeks to binge after a period of restriction
How dieting increases binge eating risk - on a biological level
Why the pursuit of control creates the loss of control
Dopamine & Emotional Eating - Managing The Urge - Not Fighting It
If you binge eat, graze, or feel pulled toward food even when you’re not physically hungry, this isn’t a willpower issue. Often, it’s about dopamine and emotional regulation, especially for people with ADHD.
As a binge eating dietitian, I see how neurodivergent brains naturally seek stimulation, relief, or regulation. When you’re bored, overwhelmed, under-stimulated, emotionally flooded, or mentally exhausted, food can become the quickest way to feel calmer, more settled, comforted, or briefly energised. That doesn’t mean you’re broken; it means your brain and nervous system are trying to regulate themselves.
Dieting and restriction usually make dopamine- and emotion-driven eating worse. In our work together, we’ll focus on reducing urgency around food, increasing satisfaction, and building other supportive ways to meet emotional and dopamine needs, so food doesn’t have to do all the work. We’ll work with your brain, not against it.
You don’t need more rules. You need strategies that actually fit how your brain functions and how your emotions are experienced.
The more forbidden a food, the more powerful and urgent the urge to binge eat can feel.
In our work together, I'll help you develop practical, compassionate tools to eat these foods with more ease and safety.
- Gradually reintroduce trigger foods with support
- Reduce your food fears
- Learn how to eat ‘off limits’ foods without spiralling
- Build food neutrality rather than food obsession
- Separate pleasure eating from loss of control eating
- Trust your body around foods you have feared for years
Over time, foods that once felt uncontrollable can start to feel… just like food.
Tools To Eat "Trigger Foods" Without Losing Control
ADHD and Binge Eating Connection
Many ADHDers forget to eat during the day, experience appetite suppression from medication, seek dopamine through food, and struggle with impulsivity and emotional regulation, often swinging between undereating and overeating.
I support ADHD clients with binge eating by:
- Using ADHD-tailored eating strategies
- Supporting medication-related appetite changes
- Recommending low-effort, realistic food options
- Providing tools to reduce and manage binge eating urges
- Helping build dopamine alternatives so food isn’t the only option
Hi, I’m Kiah Paetz, an Accredited Practising Dietitian, Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, and someone who has a personal history struggling with their relationship with food.
I didn’t start out knowing how to help people with disordered eating… I became a dietitian because I lived it. I spent years caught up in food rules, calorie counting, and the binge-restrict cycle, feeling like I was fighting my own brain every time I ate. That experience changed everything, it became the reason I studied nutrition, did advanced training in eating disorders, and moved away from diet culture entirely.
Today, I support people who feel stuck in binge eating, emotional eating, food noise. My approach is non-diet, weight-inclusive, HAES®-aligned, trauma-informed, ED-informed, and neuroaffirming. I don’t use restriction, food rules, or body shaming, I help you understand why these patterns exist and build strategies that actually fit how your brain and nervous system function.
You won’t find meal plans or “perfect eating” talk here, what you’ll find is compassion, practical support, and real tools to help food feel less tangled up with control, shame, or anxiety.
Whether you’re struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, or the ADHD-binge eating connection, I’m here to help you create a more peaceful, sustainable way of living with food.
Hey, I'm Kiah!
Meet Your Binge Eating Dietitian
How To Work With Your Binge Eating Dietitian
I offer online binge eating dietitian support via telehealth, making care accessible regardless of location. Many of my clients prefer telehealth as it reduces travel stress and time pressures.
messaging support
self paced program
nourishing recipes
1:1 dietitian sessions
Our regular 1:1 sessions are the foundation of our work together.
We’ll focus on understanding what’s driving binge eating, not just what you eat, but the patterns, triggers, and experiences underneath it. Together, we’ll work to stabilise eating, reduce binge frequency and intensity, and rebuild trust with food in a way that feels safe, supportive, and sustainable.
You’ll receive access to a flexible collection of nourishing recipes to support regular eating and reduce food stress. There are no rigid rules or “good/bad” foods — just gentle ideas to help you feel more confident with meals, snacks, and food variety, wherever you’re starting from.
Alongside our sessions, you’ll receive access to my signature online program designed to support binge eating recovery and your relationship with food. This program complements our 1:1 work, offering education, reflection, and practical tools you can revisit between sessions to deepen progress at your own pace.
Binge eating challenges don’t only show up during appointments, and support shouldn’t either. You’ll have access to between-session messaging so you can ask questions, get reassurance, and receive guidance when things feel tricky, overwhelming, or triggering.
1:1 Dietitian Coaching Sessions
Nourishing Mind & Body Program
Nourishing Recipes
Messaging Support
Frequently Asked Questions
- Consistently eating enough
- Saying goodbye to restriction
- Regulating stress and emotional overload
- Reintroducing forbidden foods
- Supporting ADHD food patterns
- Reducing shame and secrecy
- Rebuilding trust with your body.
- Daytime undereating
- Appetite rebound from ADHD stimulant medication
- Exhaustion - physical or emotional
- Reduced structure
- Nervous system overload
No referral is required to begin binge eating support and working together. However, if you do meet the criteria for an Eating Disorder Treatment Plan through your GP, you can access Medicare-rebated sessions.
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