JOSEPHINE MONEY (APD, CEDC)

She/Her

Eat Love Live Founder & Clinical Director

Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD)

Accredited Nutritionist (AN)

Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC)

A Message from Jo 

If you are looking for the usual Bio and list of things I have done that is below. I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself as the founder and clinical director of Eat Love Live and our sister organisations Eat Love Live Education (which is for health clinicians).

I am a small fat woman. I was a fat child and teenager who grew up in the 80s and 90s. 

(There are many other parts of my identity and experience that have shaped who I am and how I come to my work but for today I think that these are the most important.)

For some this sharing of my experience will resonate and you will understand how this has shaped me. For others the highlight reel of what this means is that I was told overtly and subversively that my body was a problem and that I was failing at fixing it. 

This lead to a chaotic, complicated, dangerous and clinically disordered relationship with myself, my body and food. I was lost and I was struggling to find the support I needed to find my way. So, I became the clinician I wish I had at that time in my life. I created Eat Love Live to be the space my younger self craved. 

And as I developed professionally I found that the values that I have and the community I wanted to connect and grow with were not always reflected in mainstream professional spaces. I am so lucky to have found my community and be supported by amazing trailblazing women working in health care. As a leader at Eat Love Live I aim to curate and support a team of amazing like minded clinicians to provide passionate, individualised, compassionate care. 

(Above I have acknowledged the women who have supported me professionally this reflects dietetics as a female dominated profession. Eat Love Live not only for women and I acknowledge that food, bodies and eating disorders are not femme  only spaces.  But, as a woman, a mother of three girls and an aunt of four girls; my perspectives are colored by the experiences of women and this continues to my understanding of the experience of  marginalized identities.)

Eat Love Live Education is my step into strengthening the health care community and the workforce in eating disorder care, nutritional counseling and all therapeutic spaces, to be authentic, individualized and compassionate. 

I come to my work with my experiences informing me. But I only have one experience in one body. My greatest teacher is the amazing clients who have generously shared their experience with their bodies. The people who have taken the time to record their impressions to help others learn. 

I have not always gotten it right when supporting them and I acknowledge the harm I have caused in eating disorders and health care spaces along the way by upholding harmful messages and systems. I have reflected and learnt from this and will continue to do so. These lessons are the foundations of my passion and work today.

At this time I am not seeing clients, which I have complicated feelings about. I love holding space for clients and supporting them to unravel the complicated mess that is bodies, food and self. I love witnessing the healing; and at this time I am not the best person to do that.  At this time my emotional energy is needed to support my beautiful children and family and myself. 

I continue to be so passionate about making change in the world of bodies, food and eating disorders and know my energy is best directed to supporting the clinicians who are holding spaces and the wider systems of care. My work as clinical leader at Eat Love Live allows me to support our team to provide support for clients that I am proud of and feel confident that all our clients are well supported. My work at Eat Love Live Education helps to further support workforce development. Other roles I engage with are aimed at dismantling harmful systems of oppression and creating supporting systems of care. 

Thank you for being here and I hope that we are able to support you in the way you need at this time.

With Love, Jo 

Who is Jo? The professional stuff

Josephine is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC), Founder and director of Eat Love Live and co-Founder of Eat Love Live Education.  Jo has over 20 years experience, in the Eating disorders field,  providing  client centred, individual, social justice informed nutrition counselling. Jo has experience across a diverse range of settings including private, community and public health and in a variety of models including working with individuals, groups and program development. Jo is aware of the multiple privileges she has as a cis, straight, white, able bodied person  that makes it easier to move through this world then others. Jo appreciates the courage and generosity of her many clients who have shared their lived experience with her that have contributed to her own learning and skills in supporting others. Jo has lived experience of living in a small fat body and the challenges that come with this and is passionate to support others where she can.  Jo leads a team of experienced CEDC and APDs at Eat Love Live providing internal clinical supervision and case conferencing. Jo is passionate about continuing to upskill the eating disorder workforce to be trauma informed and practice in a social justice aware and weight inclusive lens through her Eat Love Live education platform, individual and group supervision and advocacy. Jo’s experience is from a range of places including: Eating Disorders Foundation Victoria, as an employee and latter a board member Eating Disorders Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Eating Disorder Program at The Melbourne Clinic The Big Girls Group at the Royal Women’s hospital, supporting women with PCOS. The Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery centre (BETRS); a joint initiative between St Vincent’s and The Austin hospital. Jo values working closely as part of a multidisciplinary team (Psychologist, General Practitioner, Psychiatrists) as this is advantageous to positive outcomes for her clients. It is important to recognise that many other factors can manifest in negative eating behaviours and food beliefs and that support from medical practitioners, mental health workers, social workers and support for families is important. This additional training has helped Jo develop skills in complementary psychological tools to assist clients to make positive changes. Jo engages in regular clinical supervision and reflective self-practice to ensure that she is providing optimum care for her clients.

Presentations:

• Overcoming barriers and challenges within an MDT when working in community and private settings. ANZAED 2025 Conference. Pre Conference Workshop.
• Creating Inclusive Eating Disorder Spaces. ANZAED 2025 Conference. Melbourne. Poster.
• Radical Client Centred (RCC) Framework. ANZAED 2025 Conference. Melbourne. Poster.
• Compassionate Approaches to Eating Disorders. Eat Love Live Education 2025. Melbourne. Workshop
• GLP-1 Agonist and Eating Disorders. What to say when Clients Ask. Eat Love Live Education 2025. Online. Webinar. 
• BUPA Body Peace Panel. BUPA X Eating Disorders Victoria 2025. Online Panel. 
•  Advocating for your self in health Care. Hard and Soft Workshop A Plus X Eat Love Live 2025. Melbourne. Workshop. 
• Through the wilderness - navigating ED in systems of oppression. ANZAED Autumn Workshops 2024, Hobart. Workshop. 
• Sharing the Wisdom: Identifying obstacles and navigating challenges in providing effective nutrition treatment. Nutrition SIG Panel. ICED 2024.  New York. Panel.
• Creating Inclusive Eating Disorder Spaces. ICED 2024.  New York. Poster.
• Radical Client Centred (RCC) Framework. ANZAED 2024 Conference. Melbourne. Poster.
• My Body, My Voice: Report Launch. WHISE 2024. Online Panel. 
• “I've done the basic training; Now what?” Intermediate skills in supporting individuals with eating disorders. Eat Love Live Education 2024. Short Course. 
• "So what if you're fat? You still deserve good healthcare!", Weight Stigma Awareness Week panel discussion. Eat Love Live Education 2024. Webinar. 
• Understanding the dietetic management of PCOS from a weight inclusive perspective. ANZAED 2023 Autumn Workshop Series 2024. Geelong. Workshop. 
• Not Looking Like the Stereotype of an Eating Disorder. Body Matters 2023. Podcast. 
• "What I wish I knew as an emerging dietitian in the eating disorders and mental health spaces." Eat Love Live Education 2023. Webinar. 
• So What if your Fat; You deserve Healthcare. BOPO Expo 2023. Melbourne. Lecture. 
• Professional Supervision in Practice. Education in Nutrition 2022. Webinar.
• Binge Eating Disorder. EDFA 2022. Webinar.
• Binge Eating: Case Studies. Education in Nutrition. 2021. Webinar. 
• Weight stigma. Education in Nutrition 2021. Webinar. 
• Weight Stigma in Clinical Practice; How to educate clients about stigma to promote eating disorder recovery. AED WS-SJ SIG, AED Nutrition SIG, ANZAED WS-SJ SIG. ICED 2020, Online. Panel 

Committees and Boards: 

ANAZED Autumn workshop Series planning Committee. 2026

Monash University Course Advisory Board. Nutrition and Dietetics. 2025. 

ANZAED Weight stigma and Social Justice SIG. 2020-2022. 

Eating Disorders Victoria. Board of Management. 2005. 

BOOKING DETAILS: 

Jo no longer has capacity to accept referrals in her role as Clinical Director. For all client and referral enquiries, please contact reception via:

Email: reception@eatlovelive.com.au

Phone: (03) 9087 8379

Fax: (03) 9445 9261