Carly Taylor (APD/ CEDC) 

She/Her

Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD)

Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC)

 Intuitive Eating Counsellor

With over nine years of experience as a registered dietitian, certified eating disorder clinician and intuitive eating counsellor, Carly Taylor takes a scientific and evidence-based approach to supporting your nutrition goals. Food and body worries can be complicated.  Your physical and mental well-being is Carly’s top priority.  Her extensive experience in the public and private healthcare systems has led Carly to develop a special interest in supporting people with eating disorder recovery and those experiencing the physical and emotional effects of years of dieting.  Working with Carly, you will experience individualised, compassionate, comprehensive care grounded in science. She will help you navigate nutrition based on evidence and what your body needs.  Carly also understands that a collaborative care team offers a uniquely supportive environment. And will work with your broader healthcare team (as necessary) to help you explore your connections to food and how nutrition impacts other areas of your life.   Carly’s process is to listen, guide and support you in making positive changes – in mind and body – for the long term. If you’re ready to acknowledge, challenge, and move beyond your negative relationship with food, reach out. When she’s not in the clinic, you’ll find Carly in her vegetable garden, watching sports, or somewhere in Melbourne getting a fix of art, food, or music.

booking details:

Carly is currently accepting new clients aged 18 years & above.

If you would like to make a booking with Carly, you can contact reception or book online via: 

Phone: (03) 9087 8379

Online booking system: Carly's online booking link

What will happen at the first session with an Eat Love Live Dietitian?

EAT LOVE LIVE POLICY

We require that all clients be linked in with regular medical support to ensure their ongoing medical safety.

We require clients to be engaged with or planning to engage with psychological support to ensure that we are providing safe, ethical and evidence-based support.

AGE LIMITS FOR ACCEPTING NEW REFERRALS: 

Please note some practitioners have boundaries on the age of clients they will accept as new referrals. 

We request that for all new clients aged 15 years and younger that a pre-assessment questionnaire be completed to assist us in triaging the young person and family. 

For all clients aged 15 or younger we request that the initial assessment be with the parents/ carer only. 

Eating disorders do not just affect the person but families as a whole.

This is an important part of the assessment process and will help us to get a clear history of the development of the eating disorder and aid in setting up a treatment team and clear treatment goals moving forward. 

Family Based Therapy/Treatment (FBT) is the gold standard for supporting children and adolescents with eating disorders. The Eat Love Live team are not trained in FBT or family therapy. 

We can be an adjunct to this important treatment process, provide a safe space for discussion around meal planning, information about eating disorders, physical and psychological risks associated with the eating disorder, normal puberty changes to the body, guidelines to adequate amounts of nutrition and help clear many of the myths about food and bodies in our community. 

We appreciate that accessing paediatric and adolescent services is difficult and there are long wait lists. As with all clients, we insist that all adolescents are linked in with a multidisciplinary team including a GP and a mental health clinician - be it a psychologist or psychiatrist. And we suggest that clients make the referral to CAMHS/CYMHS and / or private family therapy and be on the waiting list for this support. 

Along with the GP or paediatrician we can provide information and support while families are waiting for this important more intensive support.

Parents can speak with their GP or Paediatrician about referrals to these supports.