Hi, I’m Casey - a dietitian, naturopath, and educator specialising in disordered eating, body image healing, and weight-inclusive healthcare.
I help people rebuild trust with food and their bodies, and I teach natural health practitioners how to support clients without unintentionally reinforcing restriction or diet culture. I work with clients across Australia via Telehealth and from my clinic in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.
Over the past decade I have developed a particular focus on the intersection between natural health practice and disordered eating - an area where many practitioners feel uncertain or underprepared.
My work integrates evidence-based nutrition, herbal medicine, intuitive eating, and mind-body practices.
If you’re curious about the formal credentials behind all that, here’s the official version.
I help people rebuild trust with food and their bodies, and I teach natural health practitioners how to support clients without unintentionally reinforcing restriction or diet culture. I work with clients across Australia via Telehealth and from my clinic in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.
Over the past decade I have developed a particular focus on the intersection between natural health practice and disordered eating - an area where many practitioners feel uncertain or underprepared.
My work integrates evidence-based nutrition, herbal medicine, intuitive eating, and mind-body practices.
If you’re curious about the formal credentials behind all that, here’s the official version.
Photography by Emelia Ebejer @mimi.littlewild
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Casey Conroy (she/her)
Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD)
Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor Naturopath & Herbalist Master of Nutrition and Dietetics (Public Health Nutrition)
Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) with Distinction Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Honours) Yoga Teacher 350RYT; Yoga For All Certified Instructor; ASCA Level 1 Strength & Conditioning Coach; Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Teacher; Fertility Yoga Teacher; Certified AcroYoga® Instructor; Zenthai Flow Instructor; Yin Yoga Teacher (in certification) Member: AIDNSoc, Dietitians Australia, NHAA |
I have been an Accredited Practising Dietitian since 2012 and a yoga teacher since 2006. After many years dreaming of adding herbal medicine to my clinical toolkit, I completed my naturopathy training in 2023.
My work focuses on helping people heal their relationship with food, body, and health. I have a special interest in supporting those experiencing disordered eating, chronic dieting, body dissatisfaction, and weight preoccupation - patterns that have become deeply embedded in modern wellness and diet culture.
Alongside this work, I also support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, chronic stress, insomnia, neurodivergence, and women’s reproductive health concerns. Naturopathic medicine offers many beautiful tools for supporting these complex, interconnected areas of wellbeing.
My practice is weight-inclusive and aligned with the Health at Every Size® paradigm, meaning that health is supported through sustainable behaviours, nourishment, and body respect rather than weight control.
I work with people across the lifespan and warmly welcome women, men, children, adolescents, and gender-diverse clients who are seeking a compassionate, non-diet approach to health.
Who I Work With
I commonly work with people experiencing:
- Chronic dieting and weight cycling
- Binge eating, emotional eating, or restrictive eating
- Body dissatisfaction and food guilt
- Gastrointestinal symptoms, especially those linked to restrictive eating patterns
- Hormonal or reproductive health concerns complicated by low energy intake
- Neurodivergent eating patterns (ADHD, sensory differences, irregular eating)
- Burnout, chronic stress, anxiety, or sleep disruption
I also support pregnant and postpartum women, as well as adolescents navigating body image and food challenges.
Photography by Emelia Ebejer @mimi.littlewild
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Influences & BackgroundMy approach to health has been shaped by many threads.
I grew up exploring forests, learning about bush foods, and watching my Chinese-Malaysian mother weave Chinese medicine into everyday cooking and family life. My father, an avid meditator and wilderness wanderer, instilled a deep love of nature and contemplation. Before becoming a dietitian, I trained and worked as a veterinarian and environmental researcher, experiences that strengthened my fascination with ecology, physiology, and the intricate connections between living systems. That early training continues to shape the way I think about health today - as an interconnected system rather than a collection of isolated symptoms. I also bring lived experience of disordered eating and full recovery into my work, which allows me to hold space for clients with both clinical knowledge and genuine understanding. Across my clinical work I integrate:
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Teaching, Supervision & Practitioner Education
Alongside my clinical work, I am deeply passionate about education and practitioner mentoring. I have previously worked as a lecturer and clinical supervisor at Endeavour College of Natural Health, supporting nutrition and naturopathy students in developing safe, compassionate, and evidence-informed clinical practice.
In recent years, my teaching has increasingly focused on helping natural health practitioners recognise and safely work with disordered eating and chronic dieting patterns in clinical practice — an area that is often overlooked in traditional training.
I regularly provide clinical supervision, practitioner mentoring, guest lectures, and professional education for practitioners who want to build confidence working with complex food and body image concerns. I am currently developing a practitioner training program designed specifically for naturopaths and natural health practitioners who want to confidently support clients experiencing disordered eating.
Through this work I aim to help shift the culture of natural health practice toward weight-inclusive, trauma-informed and evidence-based care.
For Practitioners
If you’re a naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist, or other natural health practitioner, you may already be noticing how frequently disordered eating patterns show up in clinical practice — often in subtle or unexpected ways.
Many practitioners were never formally trained to recognise or navigate these patterns safely, particularly within natural health frameworks that emphasise optimisation, elimination protocols, or dietary control.
Through my practitioner education, supervision, and upcoming training programs, I support clinicians to develop the skills needed to:
✨ You can join the waitlist for my upcoming practitioner training Disordered Eating for Natural Health Practitioners.
Many practitioners were never formally trained to recognise or navigate these patterns safely, particularly within natural health frameworks that emphasise optimisation, elimination protocols, or dietary control.
Through my practitioner education, supervision, and upcoming training programs, I support clinicians to develop the skills needed to:
- Recognise hidden disordered eating patterns
- Support nutritional adequacy before optimisation
- Integrate weight-inclusive and trauma-informed care
- Work confidently with clients experiencing complex food and body concerns.
✨ You can join the waitlist for my upcoming practitioner training Disordered Eating for Natural Health Practitioners.
Outside the ClinicWhen I’m not in the clinic you’ll most likely find me:
I also write regularly and have contributed articles and columns to several publications. |
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Areas of CLinical Focus |
Eating and body image concerns
Mental health and neurodivergence
Weight and metabolic concerns
I practise from a weight-inclusive, non-diet approach informed by the Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating frameworks. My focus is on supporting health, nourishment, and sustainable wellbeing rather than weight as an outcome. |
Additional Clinical INTEREST AREAS |
Alongside eating and mental health concerns, I also work with clients experiencing:
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Tertiary Qualifications |
Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) with Distinction
Endeavour College of Natural Health (2014–2023) Master of Nutrition & Dietetics (Public Health Nutrition) Griffith University (2010–2011) Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Honours – Research Major) University of Queensland (2004–2008) |
Professional Development & Continuing Education
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I maintain an active continuing education practice and have completed extensive training in:
My training has included programs and workshops with leading educators including: Fiona Sutherland, Marci Evans, Shane Jeffrey, Julie Duffy Dillon, Tara Macgregor, Rick Kausman, Lindo Bacon, Russ Harris and others. (Full professional development history available upon request.) |
Professional Memberships |
Awards |
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YOGA & Movement Background |
Movement and mind-body practices have been part of my life for over two decades.
I have been teaching yoga since 2006 and have completed over 1500 hours of yoga teacher training across multiple traditions including Yin Yoga, Zenthai Flow, AcroYoga®, prenatal yoga, fertility yoga and inclusive yoga for diverse bodies. I am also an ASCA accredited strength and conditioning coach and enjoy integrating strength training and movement education into discussions around body autonomy, resilience, and wellbeing. |
Movement, Meditation & Bodywork |
Alongside nutrition and herbal medicine, I have explored a wide range of movement, somatic and contemplative traditions over the past two decades.
This includes training in:
These experiences inform my appreciation for the ways mind, body, spirit, food and environment interact in health and healing. |
Speaking, Workshops & retreat facilitation |
Over the years I have facilitated workshops, retreats and educational events across Australia and internationally. Past roles have included:
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A Few Random Things About Me
If you can’t already tell - I’m not your typical dietitian-naturopath.
I live in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland with my two children, Archie and Kairi, where we spend a lot of time exploring forest trails, growing food, and making herbal medicines.
As a working mum, I understand how messy and complex real life can be... which is why my approach to health is always grounded in realistic, sustainable care rather than perfection.
- I love farmers markets, second-hand bookstores and fresh donuts.
- I will never ask you to count calories (unless we are temporarily using structure during eating disorder recovery to support adequate nourishment).
- My fridge always contains butter, dark chocolate, fermented things, miso, and fruit bread.
- I’m a simple home cook: maximum nutrition, minimal dishes!
- I love wildcrafting herbs and making my own plant medicines.
- I talk to plants (Mugwort is currently my favourite).
- I’m a weight-lifting convert and love strength training.
- I also love bushwalking, campfires, art, forests, prog metal (long Live TOOL), and slightly questionable 80s glam metal.
I live in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland with my two children, Archie and Kairi, where we spend a lot of time exploring forest trails, growing food, and making herbal medicines.
As a working mum, I understand how messy and complex real life can be... which is why my approach to health is always grounded in realistic, sustainable care rather than perfection.
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Work With Me
If you’re looking for support with your relationship with food, body image, or complex health concerns - you can book a consultation or free suitability call by clicking the button below.
If you’re a practitioner wanting to deepen your skills in this area, you can join the waitlist for my upcoming practitioner training in Disordered Eating for Natural Health Practitioners.
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What is an accredited practising dietitian?
As an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), I meet the national professional standards required to provide medical nutrition therapy and evidence-based nutrition care.
APDs are recognised providers for Medicare, DVA and most private health funds, and maintain ongoing continuing professional development and ethical practice standards through Dietitians Australia.
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