Supervision & Mentoring.

"Supervision invites you to own your magic."

Dietitian Supervision Resources Australia (DSRA) offers the following definition of supervision:

"Supervision is a professional activity that resources Dietitians personally and professionally to do their work well"

"Supervision is a joint endeavour in which the practitioner with the help of a supervisor, attends to their clients, themselves as part of their client practitioner relationships, and the wider systemic context, and by doing so improves the quality of their work, transforms their client relationships, continuously develops themselves, their practice and the wider profession." Hawkins and Shohet Supervision in the Helping Professional (2012)

DSRA goes on to describe what supervision is:

A structured and formal process which is strengths based with a clear purpose
Contained safely within a supervisory alliance built on mutual trust and respect between supervisee and supervisor
Built collaboratively by the skillful facilitation delivered by the supervisor and the content prepared by the supervisee
Focused on the practice of the supervisee
Committed to providing support, accountability and opportunity to learn from experience
Dedicated to incorporating reflection as a principal learning modality. Learning is at the heart of effective supervision.
Outcome focused delivering on the professional development of the supervisee and monitoring of professional standards
Centered on the welfare of the client and the quality and safety of service they receive
Relevant to dietitians in all domains and settings and spans professional, clinical, personal and cultural aspects of practice
A process which leaves the supervisee feeling supported, informed and clear
An evolving practice that will mean different things to different supervisees across their career span and development as a practitioner

Supervision with Elissa is like....

What are the benefits of supervision?

My primary experiences with supervision are increased self-confidence, greater job satisfaction and improved management of workplace stress and burnout. I would love to be able to support you to experience the same positive impact. I have asked some of my past and present supervisees and mentees to share their experiences of the work that we have done together.

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Inner Health Nutrition’s take on weight loss

How We See Weight-Loss

At Inner Health we help you work towards your healthiest self by focusing on your relationship with food and your body, not the size of your body or the number on the scales.

Food Freedom can only come when you embrace and enjoy all foods, taking your time to enjoy meals and the company you share it with. Loving food and loving what you eat will allow your body to settle to its lowest weight, through a reduction in non-hungry eating (ie. Emotional eating) over time.

This is very different from traditional dieting and weight loss programs that focus on removing particular foods, calorie counting, or in some cases removing food altogether. But the evidence suggests these methods don’t work. Instead we help you achieve food freedom, helping you find your happier healthier self by restoring your natural love of food.

Our Brisbane Clinic Is A No-Measure Zone

Shifting your mindset away from weight-loss or how much you weigh on the scales and focusing on behaviours and mindset around food and tuning into your natural body cues, you will feel lighter. So, you will never be weighed or measured in our offices. Instead we focus on helping you develop a positive relationship with food and your body.

The evidence strongly suggests that health is not synonymous with weight. Finding the healthiest version of ourselves instead requires us to focus on a positive, sustainable relationship with food, that allows our body to naturally tell us what we need. In fact, research is showing that those with higher Intuitive Eating skills are actually better off than their dieting counterparts in a number of health measures, including weight.

How we help you be your best

Inner Health focuses on food-related education and behavioural changes to bring out a happier, healthier you. You will learn how to identify when you are hungry, when you are satisfied, and when you are full.

You will no longer need to sweat about the small stuff like portion sizes and energy values, because you will learn to trust your body to know what it wants and how much you need to feel satisfied. Achieving food freedom and choosing nourishing, nutritionally dense and delicious foods will empower you to take back your health into your own hands. Inner Health’s promise to you is that by learning Intuitive Eating, you are more likely to achieve a stable weight and will feel free to live in your body which will settle to it’s healthiest weight.

Who is Intuitive Eating for?

If you have ever struggled with yo-yo dieting, you are not alone. Many people struggle with diets, our bodies are not designed to diet. Intuitive Eating is designed to work with our bodies, if you lose weight, it will be slow, but it is unlikely to come back on. The results you achieve will be for the long-term, not the short term. Anyone who has tried dieting before will find Intuitive Eating relieving.

Intuitive Eating will bring relief to anyone who has struggled with:

Unhappiness about their weight
A feeling of guilt or shame around food
Finding eating habits that are sustainable in the long term
Feeling like they lack control around food

Why can't I just use other diets?

95% of diets result in weight gain after the diet has been completed. They simply do not work, and at worst can hurt your metabolism and psychological health.

Calorie restricted weight-loss diets are designed to push your body into starvation mode. Your body mostly burns muscle, water and some fat in this mode. Unfortunately, after a period of restriction, your body then counteracts this by putting on extra fat once the starvation period has ended, for protection in case of future starvation. This means less muscle and more fat tissue in the long term, which is not a good outcome for anyone.

Diets are designed with short-term, fast weight-loss in mind, which is simply why they do not work. Intuitive Eating is designed to be sustainable in the long term, and so, achieves long term results without upsetting your body chemistry.