Archives: Practitioners

De Cock

With my professional nutritional advice tailored to you, you are set for life!

I am passionate about good food. As a nutritionist since 2018 and a licensed dietitian since 2022, I want to help people live a healthier life. This can be done by consciously choosing tasty and healthy food at the same time.

You can reach out to me for nutritional advice either in person and/or online, but also for further education and training in these matters. I enjoy giving passionate presentations about nutrition and how it can be beneficial for your health!

Kearsley-Pratt

Annie is an accredited practising clinical dietitian. She practises in all areas of chronic diseases but has a special interest in assisting those living with metabolic diseases, especially diabetes, liver disease and overweight/obesity.

Annie believes the benefits of following a low carbohydrate or ketogenic diet aren’t limited to those with metabolic disease, and this nutrition lifestyle can benefit most individuals.

Annie is a keen distance runner and follows a low carb diet herself. At 53 years old, she still feels like she has the same energy levels she had 20 years ago, and attributes this to her low carb lifestyle. Annie would love to be able to support you on your low carb journey so that you can feel as good as she feels.

Carlson-Hawke

Perri is a clinical psychologist with experience working with complex presentations and with multidisciplinary teams. Originally from Queensland, Perri moved to Orange in 2012 where she completed her Honours in Psychology at Charles Sturt University. She went on to study Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney before obtaining her MPsych(Clinical) in 2016.

Perri works with individuals in the assessment and treatment of conditions such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. She supports people using special diets to treat psychiatric and other medical conditions and also works extensively with clients living with anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder and PTSD.

In her practice, Perri adopts a client-centred approach to supporting people with disordered eating. The evidence-based psychiatric approaches she uses include Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-E), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Perri has also undertaken specific training in Nutritional Psychiatry, Maudsley Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa, Imaginal Exposure Therapy and EMDR.

Hanks

Krisna Hanks is co-owner of Square 1 Wellness providing Low-Carbohydrate/Ketogenic (LCHF/Keto) nutrition coaching to individuals, groups, and organizations. She is the author of Finding Lifestyle Sanity: A Survival Guide and a certified Health Coach with decades of experience.

Ms. Hanks holds a Master of Science degree in Kinesiology from Indiana University and completed her MBA in the Executive Program at the University of San Francisco. Most recently she earned the title Coach Practitioner ™ from the Noakes Foundation, a select group of individuals chosen to train in the LCHF/Keto lifestyle. Her extensive health, fitness, and wellness certifications are listed below.

Goodin

Founded on a desire to make a difference, I provide weight management planning and support through my company Forever Body Weight Management.  I specifically tailor a comprehensive 24 week program  for each individual, based on their specific needs and preferences only using current scientifically backed methods. My objective is to educate, inspire, and support my clients to ultimately make lasting dietary, behavioral and lifestyle changes.  Clinics are delivered in 1:1 sessions face to face or via Zoom/Teams. After completion of the program, clients may wish to continue using my services if further support if needed, however my intention is always to provide each client with the knowledge, skills and autonomy to continue their own weight management into the future.

Services include:

  • 6 month weight management program designed to meet your specific needs and preferences (regularly reviewed)
  • An extensive written health, lifestyle and fitness screening survey for the purpose of health assessment, program design and client risk management
  • Referrals to medical and allied health professionals if required
  • Goal setting and progress monitoring
  • Agreed frequency of 1:1 sessions with a weight loss practitioner
  • Exercise and activity recommendations

Additional services if required:

  • Weekly in person group “topic specific” education and support sessions (limited to 8) with body composition  monitoring
  • Emergency support
  • Regular check-ins
  • Tailored menu planning with weekly shopping lists
  • Pantry organisation
  • Guided supermarket shopping session

Kumpf

I struggled my whole life to lose weight and keep it off. I went on my first diet when I was 9 years old. My goal was to lose 10 pounds, and I did. Over the next few years, I developed a keen interest in nutrition and started to read books like Everything You Wanted to Know About Nutrition by David Reuben, MD. Unfortunately, I didn’t maintain that weight loss and over the next 4 decades (yikes!) I yo-yo dieted my way up to a size 22, weighing in at 232 pounds. I’d heard about low-carb diets over the years, but I never tried it because I thought they were unhealthy, and honestly, it was scary thinking about giving up carbs. During the summer of 2011, I was desperate, so I decided to give the Atkins diet a try. Over the next few months, I went from a size 22 to a size 12. In late January of 2012, I was laid off from my job in publishing and given a generous severance package. I used this as an opportunity to follow my passion and went back to school to become a nutritionist. Along the way, I also became a personal trainer. What I learned was that the low carb/healthy fat (LCHF) way of eating works so well because when you don’t spike your blood glucose level by eliminating sugar and starches, your insulin level stays low, which transforms you from a sugar burner into a fat burner. Pretty cool, huh? And as a bonus, you can go for hours and hours without eating because you’re getting energy from your stored fat. I created The Real Food Formula to harness the power of LCHF into a 12-week comprehensive program that works. This is the secret to weight loss that I want to teach women like me, so they don’t have to go through what I did and spend decades on diets that don’t work. If you’re struggling like I was, contact me, I can help.

Priest

Hi there!

I am Rikki Priest. I’m a mum to 4yo & 5yo kids, a wife, and a general practice registrar (medical doctor), educator, and certified health and wellness coach currently practicing in Cockburn Medical Centre, Spearwood Western Australia. I offer telehealth and telephone services for new patients. These may not attract a medicare rebate dependent on current medicare requirements, please phone to enquire  (08) 9418 3722.

I am passionate about supporting my clients to work towards their own goals for a healthier weight and lifestyle including a combination of nutrition and activity behaviour coaching (motivational interviewing) and care coordination with counsellors, dietitians, nutritionists, and exercise physiologists +/- medication.

I have done advanced certification training in obstetrics, gynaecology, and women’s health and provide holistic pregnancy and postpartum care. My passion is preparing women for the transition known as Matrescence (motherhood becoming – similar to adolescence).

I am working towards Seasons of Matrescence practitioner training to support mothers and mothers to be through the developmental transition of becoming a mother and I also plan to do Circle of Security facilitator training and my Fellowship of Lifestyle Medicine in the future.

I am an associate lecturer, educator and researcher at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle. My research is focused on creating postpartum (beyond birth) support planning resources for doctors to use with their clients and exploring the views of GPs about this topic.

I am bubbly, friendly, and enthusiastic and I LOOOOVE my job(s).

I hope we get the opportunity to meet.

Feel free to connect here: https://www.facebook.com/dr.rikkipriest/

 

Ahern

Hi, I’m Sarah, a Prekure certified health and nutrition coach.

I’m passionate about helping women to lose weight, who are prediabetic or have type 2 diabetes by adopting the low carb/ketogenic lifestyle so they regain their health and live the best life possible.

As your health coach, I will guide and support you to achieve your health goals. I will hold space for you to see insight and understand your WHY. I’ll be your accountability partner and your own personal cheerleader!

Together we will challenge old beliefs and behaviors that don’t serve you anymore and you will learn how to change your relationship with food by moving you from a place of sabotage and emotional eating to viewing food as fuel for your body. You will learn to shift your mindset and create healthy habits that are sustainable long term.

I will teach you how to make that metabolic switch and go from being a sugar burner that stores fat to a fat burner. And I will teach you the benefits of being in nutritional ketosis.

Let me help you take control of your health, increase your health span, and feel confident in the body you are in.

Gregorkiewicz

Qualified as Naturopathic Acupuncturist in 2020, I practice Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture together with other modalities including electro-acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and qua-sha. At my clinic, I not only do acupuncture but also can advise on the diet and lifestyle changes that could improve my client’s quality of life.

Acupuncture itself can help manage or even treat certain conditions, however, I do recognise that diet and lifestyle can have a much bigger impact on the overall health and wellbeing. I am an advocate of low-carb and ketogenic diets and also animal-based nutrition. Please contact me if you’d like to work with me.

I myself am an advocate of low-carb and ketogenic diets which help me maintain my own good health. In regard to the low-car diet education I follow the work of Dr. Paul Mason, Dr. Ted Naiman, Dr. Bret Sher, Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Ben Bickman and others.

Sauber

Kelley is a health and wellness professional with over 30 years of experience. With a unique ability to center in on people as individuals, she achieves positive results for her clients.  She has helped many stabilize and even reverse the devastating effects of a high carbohydrate diet like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, depression, and lack of ambition.

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