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Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing Naturopath | Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) | Certified Eating Disorder Clinician
Weight-neutral care for gut, hormone, chronic illness & mental health.

I also mentor natural health practitioners in disordered eating-adjacent clinical practice. Casey Conroy, BVSc(Hons), BHSc(Nat), MNutrDiet, APD, CEDC
Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) | Non-Diet Nutritionist | Naturopath | Medical Herbalist | Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC) | Provisional Sports Dietitian | Yoga Teacher | Strength & Conditioning Coach

I am an experienced health practitioner blending evidence-based science with traditional wisdom. My approach is body inclusive, LGBTIQA+ friendly, and neuroaffirmative. Deeply personalised, compassionate care for you and your family. Medicare & health fund rebates available, in person and Telehealth consultations available. At Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing we operate from a Non-Diet, Body Acceptance, Health at Every Size® philosophy which values people for who they are rather than what they look like. SPECIALTY AREAS:
- Eating, Weight & Body Image: Eating Disorders, disordered eating, emotional eating, diet recovery
- Nervous system: Neurodivergent Support (ADHD, ASD, SPD), CFS, stress resilience, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia
- Hormones: Menopause, painful & heavy periods, menstrual irregularities, low testosterone, HT support for trans folks

INTEREST AREAS:
- Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding
- Gut: Bloating, Constipation, IBS, SIBO, Reflux, Dysbiosis, Food Intolerances
- Sports & Performance Nutrition
- Acute Naturopathy (e.g. colds, flu, recent injury)
- Thyroid: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Grave's disease
- Cardiometabolic: High cholesterol, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes
- Musculoskeletal: Arthritis, fibromyalgia, sciatica

CLASSES: Yoga, AcroYoga, Strength & Conditioning - privates available! Message us for details. For more info visit https://www.funkyforest.com.au/how-i-can-help.html

Week 1 live call for DECIDE Cohort 2 🖤Last night we started with deconstruction: diet culture, scope, clinical reasoning...
08/10/2026

Week 1 live call for DECIDE Cohort 2 🖤

Last night we started with deconstruction: diet culture, scope, clinical reasoning, and the unexpected places food and body stuff shows up in natural health practice.

I felt so bloody happy teaching this.

The start of this year was really rough for me, and teaching something I care so deeply about felt like one of those beautiful “holy s**t, something good really did grow out of that” moments.

Getting to support other naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and natural health praccies to practise with more confidence, more care and less diet culture legit feels like a dream come true.

This course came out of years of clinical work, lived experience, unlearning, rebuilding, and a deep belief that “first do no harm” HAS to include disordered eating literacy.

Feeling very grateful 🙏🏼

Less diet culture. More first do no harm.

04/10/2026

Final DECIDE thoughts from bed, because I have done my workout, my hair is a mess, and rest is allowed and needed.

DECIDE is not hustle-culture wellness.

It's not about becoming a more perfect practitioner with more perfect protocols, scripts, and a more optimised everything.

It is about asking better questions...

Who benefits when bodies are treated as never-finished projects?

Who benefits when health becomes control?

Who benefits when practitioners are trained to fix, shrink, discipline, optimise and correct bodies in the name of care?

Natural health is not immune to diet culture because we use herbs, talk about root causes, order bloods, or say “holistic.”

DECIDE is for practitioners who want more disordered eating literacy, clearer scope, better questions, safer conversations, and a way to practise with less diet culture and more first do no harm.

Cohort 2 starts October 7.

Applications close tomorrow, Monday October 5.

Comment DECIDE or DM me DECIDE and I’ll send you the info.

Or apply via the link in bio 🖤

02/10/2026

Week 1 materials for DECIDE are now open, and this is where we start:

Deconstruction.

Not as a cute theory exercise, but as clinical groundwork.

The lens we practise through shapes the care we give. And natural health is not magically outside diet culture because we use herbs, talk about root causes, look at bloods, or say we're “holistic.”

Diet culture can sound very convincing in our world.

It can sound like gut health, hormone balancing, clean eating, inflammation, metabolic optimisation, parasite cleanses, or a trademarked, commercialised, supposedly personalised meal plan matched to someone’s blood results.
(Is this actually individualised care? Or is it just a tiny, rigid meal plan with a massive price tag? Anyways....)

Sometimes we’re thinking about supplements, protocols and clever little interventions before we’ve even asked...

is this person getting enough food, enough energy, and enough consistency?

DECIDE is for practitioners who want to recognise disordered eating earlier, ask better questions, understand scope and referral, and stop accidentally prescribing restriction, fear or shame.

It's not a one-and-done badge. More like a catalyst.

Cohort 2 starts October 7.

Applications close Monday October 5.

Comment DECIDE or DM me DECIDE and I’ll send you the info.

Or apply via the link in bio 🖤

DECIDE is not for everyone. And I'm SO good with that.This is NOT a training for practitioners who want to keep doing we...
27/09/2026

DECIDE is not for everyone. And I'm SO good with that.

This is NOT a training for practitioners who want to keep doing weight-centric care as usual... but chuck some trauma-informed language over the top.

It's not for people who think disordered eating is rare, obvious, dramatic, or only relevant if someone has a formal ED diagnosis.

It's not for practitioners who have no interest in examining weight stigma, body control, internalised bias, scope, power, harm, or the ways health and wellness spaces can make people sicker while still saying it's care.

It IS for practitioners who are willing to do the more uncomfortable work.

And it is for practitioners at any stage.

Experienced practitioners. Compassion-fatigued practitioners. Practitioners changing direction. Practitioners who have been feeling uneasy about this s**t for years.

And yes, very fresh new grads too.

Eating disorder and disordered eating literacy is not advanced bonus content. It is FOUNDATIONAL health practitioner knowledge.

And please don’t assume DECIDE is not for you just because you still have your own unresolved food and body s**t.

A LOT of us do.

I certainly did when I first started doing CPD and training in this area. Learning more about eating disorders and disordered eating became part of my own recovery, because I wasn’t only recovering for me anymore. I was also learning how to practise in a way that didn’t pass the same shame and rigidity on to my clients.

You do NOT have to be perfectly healed to start.

But you do need to be willing to keep doing your own work.

DECIDE is here to help you recognise risk earlier, ask better questions, use screening tools thoughtfully, and know when to slow down, refer, collaborate or change direction. Taught by a fellow natural health praccie who understands herbs, nutrition, gut protocols, hormone work, functional testing, scope, and the reality of clinic.

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7.

Applications close Monday Oct 5 so everyone has time to get settled before the first live call.

Accessible pricing & payment plans available.

Apply via link in bio 🖤

23/09/2026

Eating-disorder informed care doesn’t mean throwing out your naturopathic, herbal medicine or nutraceutical toolkit.

It means getting better at asking:

What's actually driving this symptom?
Is this treatment supporting recovery?
Or are we accidentally treating around restriction, low energy availability or disordered eating?

I’m currently building new DECIDE practitioner resources around phytomedicines, nutraceuticals, GI symptoms, appetite, sleep, anxiety, menstrual concerns and more... all through an eating disorder informed lens.

Because I want practitioners to keep using the tools they trained in, just with more context, more confidence and less chance of accidentally reinforcing the problem.

The DECIDE resource library will keep growing too, with practical scripts, quick reference guides, clinical decision tools and resources designed for actual clinic use.

Next cohort starts 7 October. Applications close 5 October.

If this sounds like the clinical nuance you’ve been missing, head to the link in my bio to read more about DECIDE.

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤This is my 8-week practitioner training for naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and...
18/09/2026

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤

This is my 8-week practitioner training for naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and natural health practitioners who want to know what to do when food and body stuff gets complicated in clinic.

Because it does.

A client asks for weight loss, but there are binge-restrict patterns underneath.
Someone wants gut support, but their list of safe foods is getting smaller every month.
Someone looks incredibly motivated and “compliant,” but their whole life is organised around food rules, body checking, overexercise and trying to be "good".

Most of us were not properly taught how to respond to that.

DECIDE starts with deconstruction, because we all practise inside diet culture. We all have things to unlearn from our degrees, CPD, wellness culture, weight-centric healthcare, oppressive systems, our own body histories and the wider world we are swimming in.

Then we get practical.

We look at how to recognise risk earlier, use screening tools thoughtfully, navigate weight concerns, have more intentional conversations about food and body image, and work out when to refer, collaborate, pause or change direction.

This isn't about becoming an eating disorder specialist.

It is about becoming a safer, more grounded, more ethical practitioner when this stuff is already showing up in your room.

Week 1 access opens October 1.
Live calls start October 7.

Accessible pricing and payment plans are available.

Apply via the link in bio, or comment / DM "DECIDE".

15/09/2026

For the praccie who has had that “oh s**t, I think there’s more going on here” moment in clinic.

Tomorrow’s free webinar is for you.

S**t, I think my client has disordered eating - now what?

Wednesday 16 September
12-1pm AEST

For naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and natural health practitioners who want to respond with more clarity, more care, and less accidental harm when food and body stuff gets complicated.

Link in bio 🖤

10/09/2026

More data isn’t always better healthcare.

For some people, tracking and testing is useful. For others, it can become another way of restricting, checking and trying to get the body “right”.

This came up in our DECIDE practitioner integration call this week. It’s something I think natural health practitioners in particular need to be able to spot.

If you work in natural health and want to get better at recognising when “healthy” starts sliding into disordered eating, come to my free live webinar next Wednesday - link in bio 🖤

07/09/2026

Who benefits when we’re constantly busy disciplining our bodies?

Shrinking, tracking, detoxing, correcting, cutting things out, trying to become cleaner, smaller, calmer, tighter, more acceptable.

Men absolutely experience eating disorders and body distress too. And there is also a very gendered pattern in how women and people who are read as women are taught to relate to appetite, softness, ageing, hunger, body size and “discipline.”

Natural health is not outside that culture.

This is why disordered eating literacy matters. Because food and body advice can support healing, but it can also reinforce shame, restriction, fear and body surveillance if we don’t know what we’re looking at.

Free webinar next week:

S**t, I think my client has disordered eating - now what?

Wednesday 16 September, 12-1pm AEST.

Link in bio 🖤

One of the things I really want natural health practitioners to get better at recognising is just how superbly ordinary ...
04/09/2026

One of the things I really want natural health practitioners to get better at recognising is just how superbly ordinary under-fuelling can look in clinic.

It doesn’t necessarily rock up announcing itself as weight loss, an ED, or a missing period. It can look like bloating, constipation, feeling cold all the time, brain fog, anxiety, s**tty sleep, low libido, fertility issues, recurrent injuries, getting sick a lot, or just feeling exhausted despite doing all the “right” things...

And because these are exactly the sorts of things people come to nats, nuts, herbies and other natural health praccies for, it can be SO easy to chase each symptom separately.

Gut symptoms? More gut testing.
Fatigue? Mitochondrial support.
Irregular cycles? Hormone herbs.
Feeling wired? Cortisol support.
Cold and exhausted? Let’s investigate the thyroid.

And sometimes those things 💯 deserve investigating. We’re good at that.

But if nobody has actually asked how much this person is eating, how regularly they’re eating, what they’ve already cut out, and whether their intake is keeping up with what their body is being asked to do... we can end up treating the adaptations to under-fuelling while missing the under-fuelling itself.

That’s why I bang on about adequacy before optimisation.

The wheel in this post is inspired by the RED-S literature, particularly the 2023 IOC consensus statement by Mountjoy et al. RED-S is sport-specific, but the low energy availability research is a useful reminder of just how many body systems can be affected when there simply isn’t enough energy available.

This doesn’t mean every person with bloating, anxiety or an irregular period is under-fuelled. It means adequacy deserves to be part of our differential thinking.

Sometimes, when you start looking properly, you have that uncomfortable clinic moment:

Sh*t. I think there might be some disordered eating here.

Which raises the next question… now what?

That’s what my next free live clinical training is about:

**Sh*t, I Think My Client Has Disordered Eating. Now What?**

📅 Wednesday 16 September
🕛 12pm AEST
💻 Live online & free!

Register via link in bio or DM me WEBINAR and I'll send you stuff!

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