Nutrition Consultations

Shivaun is an experienced and accredited Dietitian with University qualifications and has been in practice for over 14 years. She is a mobile practitioner as she understands life is busy, and you don’t want to waste time commuting!

Shivaun is happy to visit your workplace, home, a local café or quiet spot, or she has a choice of private rooms in Sydney CBD.

Shivaun can help you with:

  • Healthy eating

  • Weight and body composition

  • Optimising your dietary intake to suit your genes

  • Heart health

  • High cholesterol

  • High blood pressure

  • Pre-diabetes and lowering risk factors, ie. elevated blood glucose levels

  • Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

  • Digestive health

  • Food intolerances

  • Coeliac disease

  • Pregnancy and fertility

  • Tailored meal planning

  • Meal and snack ideas

  • Shopping and cooking tips

  • Recipes suited to your dietary requirements, ie. low FODMAP, vegetarian

  • Guides to support you to reach nutrient targets, ie. calcium, folate

  • Label reading guides

  • Site visits to shopping centres, food courts, restaurants and cafés

  • Online analysis of menus

  • Nutrition presentations and public speaking

  • Corporate nutrition and consulting

What can I expect with a Nutrition Consultation?

 

Whether your objective is to manage a health condition or to simply feel happier and healthier, Shivaun can help you to reach your goals by providing practical tips and specialist knowledge to look and feel your best.

As you make nutrition changes, Shivaun will coach you along a journey of self-discovery, equipping you with the skills to change not only nutrition, but any area of your health and lifestyle in the future.

Sessions can include:

 

  • Thorough evaluation of your current health and background
  • Guidance in creating your health and wellness vision and nutrition goals
  • Exploration of your motivation to change nutrition
  • Detailed review of your current dietary intake
  • Ongoing monitoring of your dietary intake
  • Tailored meal plans
  • Meal and snack ideas
  • Shopping and cooking tips
  • Recipes suited to your dietary requirements, ie. low FODMAP, vegetarian
  • Guides to suppoort you to reach nutrient targets, ie. calcium, folate
  • Label reading guide
  • Site visits to shopping centres, food courts, restaurants and cafés
  • Online analysis of menus
  • Strategies to enhance helpful behaviours to speed up your success
  • Tips and tricks to remove barriers to making changes
  • Resources to support you to make changes, ie. how to identify triggers and plan for high risk situations
  • Evidence based information to help you continually improve your knowledge base
  • Tips and health hacks to boost your skills, ie. planning, cooking
  • Structured goal setting, ‘how to guide’ on creating action plans to support your goals, methods of tracking your progress

Investment

  • Introductory 15 minute session FREE – apply here
  • Initial nutrition consultation in-person at your choice of location $190 (60 minutes) or via phone/Skype/Zoom $140 (60 minutes)
  • Review nutrition consultations in-person at your choice of location $160 (60 minutes) or via phone/Skype/Zoom $120 (60 minutes) or $60 (30 minute)
  • Health Coaching Programs (3, 6 or 12 month) delivered via phone/skype/zoom – email Shivaun@discoveryhealthcoaching.com for program inclusions and details
Notes:

  1. No referral is needed to see a dietitian
  2. Health fund rebates are available with “extras cover” for dietitian (check with your fund to see if you are covered)
  3. Medicare rebates are available for those with a chronic disease management program

Before your Consultation

Keep a food record preferably for 2 – 5 week days & 2 weekend days noting time & amounts of food & fluids are consumed
For example: 2 slices of wholemeal bread with 1/8 avocado and 2 poached eggs

Email me for a food diary or use an App such as myfitnesspal and simply add me as a ‘Friend’ using my email address: shivaun@discoveryhealthcoaching.com.

To allow me to view your food diary you will need to go into settings, then ‘sharing and privacy’, then select ‘diary sharing’ and choose ‘friends only’.

Send me through:
1. Any recent results, such as body composition scans, blood or gene tests
2. Relevant medical history & relevant family medical history