Hi, I'm Jess.

I'm an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with nine years in private practice. Most of them spent working with people whose relationship with food is genuinely complicated. Not "needs-to-eat-more-vegetables" complicated. The kind of complicated that keeps you up at night, shapes every social situation, and has often been met with advice that made things worse, not better.

That's the work I'm here for.

I work with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing eating disorders, neurodivergent eating challenges, and complex nutrition concerns. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the belief that care should adapt to the person — not the other way around.

What brought me here?

Early in my career, I became deeply invested in eating disorder work. Not in spite of how complex and challenging it is but because of it. The people I was working with were trying so hard, and still finding themselves misunderstood, unsupported, or falling through the cracks of a system that should have caught them. I couldn't stop thinking about that.

The more I worked in this space, the more I noticed that people weren't struggling because they lacked motivation or insight. They were struggling because the support available often wasn't built for how their brains, bodies, or lives actually worked. Nearly ten years on, that observation still drives everything I do.

I became increasingly interested in the space between what sounds straightforward on paper and what is actually possible in real life. The space between "just listen to your body" and a body whose signals are genuinely difficult to interpret. Between well-intentioned advice and the realities of sensory differences, executive function challenges, chronic illness, or simply being overwhelmed.

Part of what deepened my understanding along the way was discovering later in life that I'm AuDHD. Like many people, that realisation helped make sense of things I had felt for years but couldn't quite explain — and it gave me a different perspective on healthcare, both as a clinician and as someone navigating systems myself.

SafePlate Dietetics was built from that understanding. Not because I have all the answers, but because I believe people deserve care that starts from where they are — rather than where they're expected to be.

Who I Support & How

I work with people whose relationship with food is genuinely hard. This includes people with eating disorders at all stages of illness and recovery, autistic people and ADHDers where food is complicated in specific brain-based ways, folks managing complex medical conditions alongside eating difficulties, and families doing Family-Based Treatment who are exhausted and need practical, genuine support not another thing to feel guilty about.

I also work with people across diverse gender identities, sexualities, and relationship structures, and aim to provide care that is affirming, respectful, and free from assumptions.

It also includes many people who have sought help before and left feeling unheard, misunderstood, or unsupported. That part I take particularly seriously.

My approach is trauma-informed, neurodivergence-affirming, and non-weight-centric — and those aren't labels I've added to a profile. They shape how I run appointments, what I consider a good outcome, and how I respond when something isn't working.

In practice, that means:

Weight is not the primary measure of health or recovery progress.
Sensory differences, interoception challenges, and executive function are taken seriously as clinical factors — not dismissed as preferences.
Sessions go at your pace, with flexibility in how we communicate — camera off, notes, a support person, typing instead of talking — whatever works for you.
I'm honest about what I know and don't know, and I change approach when something isn't landing.
I work closely with your GP, psychologist, psychiatrist, and wider care team — eating disorder recovery rarely happens in isolation.

I've learned that recovery rarely looks the way people expect it to. Progress is often messy, non-linear, and frustratingly slow — but I've also seen people build lives that once felt impossible to imagine.

What I hope SafePlate Dietetics feels like?
More than anything I hope it feels like something Different

What I specialise in

Eating disorders and disordered eating

Including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, OSFED, and severe and enduring presentations where quality of life is as important a goal as any clinical target.

Neurodivergent eating

For autistic people, ADHDers, and those with other neurodivergent profiles where food and eating are complicated in specific, brain-based ways. No formal diagnosis required.

Nutritional rehabilitation

Support for people rebuilding their relationship with food after restriction, hospitalisation, or intensive treatment — paced carefully and never rushed.

Complex medical presentations

Many of the people I support are managing eating disorders alongside chronic health conditions that add another layer of complexity to food and nutrition. This might include gastrointestinal disorders, gastroparesis, enteral feeding, hypermobility and connective tissue disorders, dysautonomia, and related presentations.

While these aren't my primary area of specialty, I have experience working alongside people navigating this overlap and understand that standard nutrition advice isn't always enough. My role is often helping make nutrition more achievable within the realities of what someone's body is dealing with, while collaborating closely with their wider healthcare team.

Family-Based Treatment (FBT)

Supporting families of adolescents through FBT, including the Safe Plate Meals service — take-home family meals that remove some of the cooking, planning, and kitchen burden from home mealtimes.

Step-Down Support

Bridging the gap between intensive care and standard outpatient treatment through the SafePlate Step-Down Program.