Dietitian

cohealth dietitians work with you to help you find the foods and ways of eating that are the best for you and your body. Our dietitians can help you decide what to change or not to change about your eating, provide any nutrition information you want, and create a food and eating plan. This is always made to fit your individual health needs, taste preferences, budget, and social circumstances. cohealth dietitians do not recommend restrictive diets (dieting) and do not believe that you need to lose weight to improve your health. Our dietitians can support you to find the ways of eating that are most helpful for your health needs and that improve the way you feel about food and your body.

Service details

Individual appointments

At cohealth our experienced dietitians can see you individually to help with a variety of food, eating, and health concerns including: 

• if you’re not sure what to eat for your health. 
• your mental health or medication has changed your appetite or the way you eat. 
• you have a low appetite or concerns you are not eating enough 
• if you’ve had to cut food or food groups out of your diet (e. g. due to allergies, intolerances, or vegetarian/vegan eating) 
• diabetes or blood sugar levels
• high cholesterol or blood fats 
• adding variety to your diet to give your body the nutrition that it needs. 
• heart health and blood pressure
• gut health or liver health concerns
• trouble chewing and swallowing 
• eating as well as you can on a budget
• if you would like to stop dieting and are not sure what to do next.
• what or how to eat to get the most out of your exercise or movement.  

We have dietitians who have extra training in the following:

• homelessness,
• paediatrics (children aged >6 months)
• disordered eating.  

Nutrition groups

Our dietitians also run group sessions where you can talk about:

• Eating well for your body’s needs as you get older
• Getting the nutrition you need for your movement goals – for energy, stronger muscles and stronger bones
• Managing meals and choosing foods for better mental health and mood
• Choosing foods that work best for you when you have chronic pain

Group sessions with a dietitian suit people who would like to share ideas with other people and talk about practical ways to eat better.

For children/teens

Some of our dietitians have the extra training to see children/teens aged 6 months – 17 years about the following nutrition and feeding concerns:

• improving the nutritional quality of diet
• expanding the variety of accepted foods
• constipation
• growth is slowing down/concerns about growth on the growth charts
• issues with first foods/progressing to family meals
• strong food preferences, food refusal and other mealtime challenges
• the feeding relationship between parents/carers and the child/teen

Please note: for concerns about children’s body weight – cohealth dietitians focus on nourishing growing bodies for health and wellbeing and do not recommend restricting food for weight loss.

The first appointment with a children’s dietitian will be a telephone assessment (up to 60 mins)- to ensure that cohealth is the right service for the child and family. Alternative services will be suggested if cohealth is not the right service.

To help us decide if cohealth is the right service for your child/family – please provide the following information with your referral: growth charts, health summaries, medication lists and any other relevant information.