Every dietetic journey is unique, but this is what you can generally expect when we conduct your health assessment and nutrition consultation together.
Join me for a free 15-minute opportunity to share a bit about your dietetic journey, ask any initial questions, and evaluate whether my experience and approach are a good fit for your needs. This Discovery Call is not intended as a health assessment, and I will not provide detailed advice or recommendations during our conversation. If I believe that I'm not the right Dietitian to support you, I will be transparent about it.
Before your first appointment, I will invite you to complete a Before We Meet form. This health assessment is designed to help me understand your overall health, symptoms, eating habits, daily life, and current capacity, as well as what you are hoping to achieve from our nutrition consultation. I will review this information before we meet to ensure we can make the most of our time together on your dietetic journey.
Your Initial Consultation provides an opportunity to share your experiences, ensuring you feel heard and understood on your dietetic journey.
I will clarify and expand upon the information you've shared, allowing us to develop a more precise health assessment of what may be impacting your nutrition and making it difficult to eat well or reach your important goals.
Together, we will identify the key areas that matter most and determine where your nutrition consultation should focus first. I will communicate my clinical thinking clearly, so you understand our approach and its rationale. Rather than attempting to tackle everything at once, we will establish realistic and manageable first steps.
Following your Initial Consultation, you will receive a written Consultation Summary that outlines our shared understanding, the priorities we have identified, and the first steps we have agreed upon together.
This summary will be a key component of your Journey Collection—a clear marker of where we are in your dietetic journey, what matters now, and what we have agreed to do next. I like to think of your Journey Collection as a personal record of this part of your nutrition consultation.
Over time, your Journey Collection may expand to include carefully selected explanations, practical tools, and reflections that support your goals. It could also serve as a place for you to document your own observations, learning, and reminders of what has been beneficial in your health assessment.
In this way, your Journey Collection will develop whenever there is something relevant and manageable to add, helping you to remember what we agreed upon, what you noticed, and what you learned—while also providing something useful to refer back to in the future.
Further appointments can be arranged individually to support your dietetic journey when they would be helpful. During these sessions, we can conduct a health assessment to review what has worked, what has been difficult, what you have learned, and whether anything has changed.
We can then adapt, pause, or replace our agreed steps, identify any new priorities, and add further resources to your Journey Collection as appropriate.
Importantly, the aim is not to keep starting again. It is to build on your existing understanding, apply what you have learned through our nutrition consultation to new situations, and continue developing an approach that integrates well with your health, circumstances, and everyday life.
My aim is that, over time, you will feel increasingly able to understand what affects your eating and nutrition throughout your dietetic journey. You will recognize what supports you and make informed decisions as your health, circumstances, and priorities change, especially following our health assessment and nutrition consultation.
I hope our work together will give you greater clarity and confidence, alongside practical strategies and resources that you can return to when needed—long after our work has finished.