NDIS Dietitian

Initial consultation or home visit

Expert nutrition advice from qualified Dietitians and Nutritionists starting with a comprehensive 1:1 appointment where we take the time to understand you and your needs. This includes a comprehensive anthropometric assessment. If you are experiencing mobility issues or are not comfortable attending the clinic, we can also visit you at home.

Report writing

Tree of Life Nutrition offers evidence-based reports written from professional Accredited Practicing Dietitians. These are tailored to your needs and to achieve the best reasonable outcomes for your care under the NDIS scheme. Our aim is to provide a high-quality report that features the right detail of your personal circumstances and/or your progress to determine or continue the appropriate level of NDIS support.

Nutrition therapy

Comprehensive nutrition therapy for your individual circumstances, which may include:

• food and nutrition counselling to support behaviour change;
• advice about healthy meals or special diets;
• feeding therapy;
• systematic desensitisation;
• building practical skills around cooking, meal planning and shopping; and
• communication support in relation to food, nutrition and health.

Menu or meal planning development

Plan to eat well, and you’re halfway there! Tree of Life Nutrition can help empower your skills in planning a balanced and healthy menu that is entirely based around your individual abilities, tastes and capacity. We meet you wherever you are, including if you have a limited budget, cooking skills, tastes or cooking facilities. We can also plan balanced meals for children with special requirements.

Shopping and pantry development

Healthy eating starts in the fridge and pantry. Tree of Life Nutrition can help you develop a wholesome pantry with nourishing foods that don’t need to cost the earth! Here’s some of the ways we can support you with shopping as required:

• Budgeting skills
• Personalised supermarket tour (in-person or via Zoom, Skype or Facetime)
• Shopping lists and tips
• Healthy pantry food lists
• Label reading education

Meal preparation and cooking skills

Your Tree of Life Nutrition NDIS Dietitians can meet you wherever you are in your cooking ability and bring time-saving, value, and skills to your weekly meals. We offer:

• Healthy recipes, with cookbooks available for purchase featuring the scientifically-backed Mediterranean Diet
• Cooking classes
• At-home cooking lessons via home visits

Ongoing support

• Discussions with providers to establish nutritional changes to improve health and wellbeing.
• Ongoing education, monitoring and support.
• Provide education to carers on how to support you with your cooking, shopping, planning and preparing.

Other ways we help

• Corporate health programs
• Exercise programs and personal training