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Drop-In Sessions
Join us at a FREE online Drop-In Session fortnightly on a Wednesday. You will have the opportunity to get personalised support from Paediatric Dietitian Dr Lyza Norton, as well as meet with carers who have navigated their loved one’s disordered eating.
Carers have a large role to play in developing a child’s healthy relationship to food, exercise and body image. By meeting with the team, you will learn whether your loved one is experiencing disordered eating, how to talk to them about it, and how to take early action towards gaining a healthy relationship with food, exercise and their body.
Parents and carers can join a 15-minute time slot with our expert and carer who has been there before. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and receive individualised support tailored to your unique situation on how to navigate disordered eating in the home.
Please review the group guidelines here prior to joining the session.
To attend a Drop-in Session, please compete the form below.
How bookings works:
Dr Norton has extensive clinical experience as a Senior Paediatric Dietitian working across the acute and community sector in the area of eating disorders over the past two decades. She is passionate about integrating preventive interventions within the wider community and has research interests include the early years, food communication and preventive interventions.
Dr Norton has extensive clinical experience as a Senior Paediatric Dietitian working across the acute and community sector in the area of eating disorders over the past two decades. She is passionate about integrating preventive interventions within the wider community and has research interests include the early years, food communication and preventive interventions.
Dr Norton has worked as a research fellow in child eating disorders at the University of Melbourne, School of Population and Global Health. She currently holds an honorary position at University of Melbourne and adjunct research fellow position at Western Sydney University. Dr Norton recently consulted as the lead content expert for the development of Body Blocks, a program designed for early childhood educators, promoting food and body confidence.
Her PhD; Promoting positive food parenting practices for disordered eating prevention: Adopting a knowledge translation approach (completed in 2023), has resulted in an intervention designed for parents to reduce their child’s risk of developing disordered eating. Dr Norton is passionate about using evidenced based strategies and frameworks adopted from social marketing, co-design and knowledge translation science to assist families in the real world.
Kirstine Price is EDFA’s Nourish, Nurture, Notice Carer Peer Worker. She is passionate about supporting parents and carers to identify disordered eating early, with the hope of preventing eating disorders. Kirstine believes that there needs to be more awareness about eating disorders, and more support available to families. She wants to make sure that parents and carers don’t feel alone, and empower them to advocate for their child and feel more confident about having difficult conversations with their young person and care providers.
Kirstine Price is EDFA’s Nourish, Nurture, Notice Carer Peer Worker. She is passionate about supporting parents and carers to identify disordered eating early, with the hope of preventing eating disorders. Kirstine believes that there needs to be more awareness about eating disorders, and more support available to families. She wants to make sure that parents and carers don’t feel alone, and empower them to advocate for their child and feel more confident about having difficult conversations with their young person and care providers.
Kirstine’s background is a speech pathologist – she spent 15 years working in hospitals with adults who have communication difficulties due to stroke and other conditions. She now works as a researcher to improve outcomes for people with stroke.
Kirstine’s life radically changed when her daughter developed an eating disorder, that saw her face a hospital admission, a feeding tube, and time away from school and her friends. Even though Kirstine had experience working in healthcare, she felt totally unprepared with navigating the health service when her daughter required treatment. Throughout her daughter’s recovery, Kirstine has been continuously inspired by her resilience and humour. Life was so challenging and they had dark times, but the glimmers of laughter and silliness helped them through.
In her free time, Kirstine likes to read books and go for walks along the waterfront with her dog. For holidays, they go camping as a family on long trips – their recent trip was to Uluru through the Simpson Desert. She also travels regularly for work, with conferences planned to Sweden and Greece. Kirstine looks forward to travelling with her two daughters as they grow older, to share new cultural experiences (as well as Disneyland, of course).
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