Eating disorder 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 living with an eating disorder and part of you wants recovery, while another part feels terrified of letting go, you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.
As an eating disorder dietitian with lived experience, I provide non-diet, trauma-informed, recovery-focused nutrition support. I work collaboratively with you and your multidisciplinary team, moving at a pace that meets you where you’re at, without shame or judgment. You don’t have to do this perfectly, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Eating Disorder Dietitian in Brisbane + Online
How An Eating Disorder Dietitian Can Help You
Recovery from an eating disorder is about more than food or body image alone. Eating disorders can affect your sense of identity, confidence, safety, relationships, and how you move through the world day to day.
As your eating disorder dietitian, my role is to walk alongside you, not to control or rush recovery, but to provide steady, compassionate nutrition support.
Together, we’ll create structure, clarity, and a flexible plan that meets you where you are, supports medical and psychological safety, and helps recovery feel more manageable and less overwhelming.
Support For Eating Disorder Recovery
- Anorexia nervosa
- Atypical anorexia
- Bulimia nervosa
- Binge eating disorder (BED)
- ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
- OSFED and mixed or unclear presentations
You don’t need to fit neatly into a diagnosis to deserve support. Recovery care is tailored to your experiences, needs, and level of support, and can evolve as your recovery progresses
My Approach: Considering Your Body and Mind
Your lived experience guides my approach just as much as the clinical evidence.
Because of this, I’ve completed additional training to ensure my care is:
Trauma Informed
Respecting your boundaries, sense of safety, and emotional capacity
Trauma Informed
I do not use weight-based goals or interventions
We work with your brain, not against it.
Respecting your boundaries, sense of safety, and emotional capacity
I don’t prescribe restrictive or rigid eating plans
Weight Inclusive
Non-Diet
Recovery is built on trust and working together, not pressure or control.
Neuro-Affirming
Collaborative
Trauma Informed
Gentle Nutrition and Meal Structure Guidance
I’ll support your recovery by:
- Creating structured yet flexible eating guidance that adapts to your needs
- Suggesting regular meals and snack ideas to support energy, stability, and consistency
- Helping you navigate hunger and fullness cues when they feel unreliable or confusing
- Supporting nourishment restoration after long periods of restriction or disrupted eating
- Reducing binge urges through consistent, adequate intake
Developing plans that feel realistic and appropriate for your current stage of recovery
Together, we’ll gently build sustainable food habits that support recovery — without pressure, rigidity, or perfection.
Repeating weekly menus to reduce overwhelm and decision fatigue
that meets you where you're at
You’ll receive access to a flexible collection of nourishing recipes to support regular eating and reduce food-related stress. There are no rigid rules or “good/bad” foods, just gentle ideas to support nourishment, food variety, and confidence with meals and snacks, wherever you’re starting from.
You’ll receive access to a flexible collection of nourishing recipes to support regular eating and reduce food-related stress. There are no rigid rules or “good/bad” foods, just gentle ideas to support nourishment, food variety, and confidence with meals and snacks, wherever you’re starting from.
Managing Fear Foods and Anxiety Around Eating
I can support you to:
- Gently unpack and loosen rigid food rules
- Explore fear foods at a pace that feels safe, supported, and manageable
- Reduce the intensity and impact of food-related anxiety
- Work through food exposures using grounding and nervous system–informed strategies
- Build confidence around meals, snacks, and social eating situations
Together, we’ll work towards a life where food takes up less mental and emotional space, so you can focus more on living.
This often may includes medical monitoring to support your physical safety and wellbeing throughout recovery.
Where helpful, care may also involve parents, partners, or other trusted people in your support network. Working together helps ensure you’re supported from all angles — so recovery feels contained, connected, and not something you have to manage alone.
Working With Your Team
Hi, I’m Kiah Paetz, an Accredited Practising Dietitian and ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician who supports people through eating disorder recovery with compassion, safety, and lived understanding.
I didn’t come to this work by chance. My path to becoming an eating disorder dietitian was shaped by my own experience of struggling with my relationship with food, including years spent in food rules, calorie counting, and the binge–restrict cycle. That experience is what led me to study nutrition, complete advanced eating disorder training, and step away from diet culture entirely.
Today, I support people experiencing anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and mixed or unclear presentations. My approach is non-diet, weight-inclusive, HAES®-aligned, trauma-informed, eating-disorder-informed, and neuroaffirming. I don’t use restriction, rigid meal plans, or body shaming. Instead, I help you understand why eating disorder patterns exist and work with you to build practical, realistic strategies that support both physical and psychological safety.
As your eating disorder dietitian, my role is to walk alongside you, offering structure, clarity, and compassion, while always respecting your lived experience, pace, and nervous system. Recovery isn’t about trying harder. It’s about having the right support.
Hey, I'm Kiah!
Meet Your Eating Disorder Dietitian
How To Work With Your Eating Disorder Dietitian
I offer eating disorder dietitian appointments via telehealth Australia wide, making support accessible wherever you live. Many clients prefer telehealth as it reduces stress, travel, and the emotional load of attending appointments in person.
messaging support
self paced program
nourishing recipes
1:1 dietitian sessions
Our weekly or fortnightly 1:1 sessions are the foundation of our work together. We’ll focus on understanding your eating disorder patterns — not just what you eat, but the thoughts, fears, behaviours, and experiences underneath them. Together, we’ll work to restore nourishment, support medical safety, reduce eating disorder behaviours, and rebuild trust with food and your body in a way that feels steady, supportive, and sustainable.
You’ll receive access to a flexible collection of nourishing recipes to support regular eating and reduce food-related stress. There are no rigid rules or “good/bad” foods, just gentle ideas to support nourishment, food variety, and confidence with meals and snacks, wherever you’re starting from.
Alongside our sessions, you’ll receive access to my signature online program designed to support eating disorder recovery and your relationship with food. This program complements our 1:1 work by providing education, reflection, and practical tools you can return to between sessions, helping reinforce progress at your own pace.
Eating disorder 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, receive reassurance, and get guidance when things feel overwhelming, triggering, or uncertain.
1:1 Dietitian Coaching Sessions
Nourishing Mind & Body Program
Nourishing Recipes
Messaging Support
Frequently Asked Questions
My approach is completely weight-inclusive. In many cases, we don’t use weight-based goals or targets as measures of success. Instead, recovery is guided by behavioural, emotional, psychological, and physiological markers, such as stabilising eating patterns, reducing eating disorder behaviours, improving energy, cognition, and supporting overall wellbeing. Many people make meaningful progress without being weighed at all.
That said, in some stages of recovery, particularly when there is medical instability, prolonged restriction, or malnutrition, weight restoration may need to be part of treatment for physical safety. When this is clinically indicated, it’s approached carefully, collaboratively, and as a health-protective measure, not a moral or aesthetic one. The focus remains on safety, nourishment, and recovery.
Where weight monitoring is required, it’s done thoughtfully and often in collaboration with your GP or treatment team, with clear consent and clear reasoning. The goal is always to support healing, stability, and long-term recovery, not to fixate on numbers.
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