Meet Naarm/Melbourne based dietitian Jacinta Sherlock!

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Jacinta is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) with over 10 years of clinical experience.

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As an Autistic, Queer professional, Jacinta brings lived experience of healing from trauma and an eating disorder to a practice that is genuinely trauma-informed, person-centred, neuroaffirming, and deeply compassionate.

  

They are not just your average dietitian – they're a compassionately provocative force. Jacinta seeks to redefine what it means to be a dietitian and a helping human and this is evident through their holistic approach to food and eating. Jacinta is also committed to indigenising their own ways of being and knowing, and to centring advocacy for more humane and trauma-informed standards within dietetics as a profession.

What makes Jacinta truly special is their approach to nutrition counseling. "Everything is context, and context shapes behaviour" – they have been likened to an eagle taking a bird's eye view of the landscape that has shaped and continues to influence your eating habits. It's not uncommon for a client to say "You've hit the nail on the head". Jacinta uses these insights to identify the beneficial interventions that will support you in the process of change. It's a session characterised by collaboration, curiosity, compassion, empathy, and a commitment to support you achieve lasting and meaningful change.  

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Core Principles

• Collaborative — sessions are led by you, progressing at a pace that feels right

• Non-diet & weight-inclusive — health and wellbeing are not defined by body size

• Trauma-integrated — sensitive to your life history and the layered experiences that shape eating and behaviour

• Nervous system regulation — building capacity within your window of tolerance

• Permission over restriction — flexible, permission-based, non-judgmental language around food

• Evidence-informed — grounded in current clinical research, supervision, and best-practice guidelines

• Holistic & individualised — looking beyond symptoms and behaviours to the whole person

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Areas of Expertise

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Eating & Disordered Eating

• Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder (BED)

• ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)

• Disordered eating and complex relationships with food

• Credentialed eating disorder clinician — adolescents and adults

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Mental Health & Neurodiversity

• Mental health nutrition

• Autistic and ADHD (neuromagical humans) eating support

• Trauma-integrated care

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Inclusive & Community Specific Care

• LGBTIQA+ health

• NDIS participants

• Perimenopause and menopause nutrition

• Veterans (DVA) Health

 

General & Medical Nutrition

• Gut health / IBS

• PMOS (previously PCOS) and hormonal health

• Heart disease and chronic disease management – High cholesterol, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver

• Weight management (non-diet, weight-inclusive approach)

• GLP-1 medication support (Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy) — ensuring nutritional adequacy and exploring your relationship with food

• Sports nutrition

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A Note from Jacinta

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I developed Dietetics Done Differently based on the support I wish had been available when I was seeking help for my own trauma and eating disorder — care rooted in common humanity, not assumptions and judgment.

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Navigating systems both personally and professionally has given me a particular kind of understanding. I know what it feels like to need help and not quite find it in the form you needed, to feel like a square peg being forced into a round hole. That experience shapes every session: a commitment to curiosity - meeting you where you are, without pressure, and without a predetermined idea of who you are, who you should be or what you should want.

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My healing is not separate from my clinical practice — it is the heart of it. The patience and compassion I have embodied is what I bring into the space we share.