Intuitive Eating Dietitian

HAES & Intuitive Eating Nutrition Support For Health | Melbourne & Online

Learn intuitive eating and find peace around food and body, and support your health and wellbeing without food rules and guilt, whether it's to stop dieting, heal disordered eating pattern, work on chronic health condition or build sustainable healthy habit.

If you are here

You might be...

You might be exhausted from the diet trends and keeping up with diet rules, or even experience diet burnout. The exhaustion is real and it's not because you are lack discipline. It's what chronic dieting does to you. And intuitive eating is designed just for that.

You can eat for both health and pleasure - and yes, it's possible.

What is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive eating isn't just a nice idea, but a framework with decades of research supporting its effectiveness on physical and psychological wellbeing.

It's not about eating whatever you want ignoring your health, or eating only when you're hungry, and stop when you're full. But to build a trusting relationship with food and body so that you can make health-informed choice that also honours your body's needs. It has 10 principles:

Reject the Diet Mentality

Let go of the belief that another diet will be the solution. Diets fail, not because you lack willpower, but because it's physiologically and mentally unsustainable

Honour Your Hunger

Keep your body fed with adequate nutrition. Ignoring hunger sends your body into a state of scarcity, making overeating and food pre-occupation more likely, not less.

Make Peace with Food

Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. When foods are forbidden, they become irresistible and guilt becomes the default response to eating them.

Challenge the Food Police

The voice that says you've been "bad" for eating a biscuit or "good" for skipping dessert is diet culture talking — not nutrition science, and certainly not self-care.

Discover the Satisfaction Factor

Pleasure matters. When you eat food you enjoy and feel good, you're far more likely to feel settled.

Feel Your Fullness

Learn to notice and pause when you're comfortably full. This is a skill can be learned, not a moral standard.

Cope with Emotion with Kindness

Food is one of many ways people manage emotions. It's not always a problem. We explore what you really need in the moment

Respect Your Body

You don't need to love your body to treat it with respect. Respecting it means accepting how your body is, and provide care for it.

Movement, Feel the Difference

Shifting focus from burning calories to how movement makes you feel - energy, strenth, stress relief, joy... When we make the shift, it's more sustainable

Gentle Nutrition

You don't need to eat perfect to support health. Learn to use nutrition information and your body as resource to guide food choices.

What does the science say

Mental Health

• Lower rate of depression, anxiety and stress

• Increased self-esteem by removing cycles of "guilt" and "shame" around food and body

• Greater life satisfaction when food thoughts, tracking, and following diet is no longer hinder life enjoyment 

Body Image

• Higher body appreiation and satisfaction

• Reduce body checking behaviours (e.g. mirror checking, weighing, measuring)

• Reduce body avoidance behaviours (e.g. avoid looking into mirror, weighing, being photographed; wearing baggy clothes)

• Reduce tieing your worth with your body

Relationship with Food

• Reduce disordered eating thoughts and behaviours

• Higher diet quality

• Greater sustainability in diet and movement habits

• Greater engagement in joyful and healthful movement

Physical Health

• Improve blood lipid and cholesterol profile

• Promote weight stability by stopping yo-yo dieting

• Improved blood pressure and lower inflammation level

• Better sleep and less digestive & gut symptoms

How It Works

No 2 people arrive here from the same place. The process adapts to where you are at right now.
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UnderstYour needs

We understand your food relationship, history with dieting, health needs and your goals to explore how we can implement IE in your life

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tailor your journey

Once we understand where you're at, we build path that's unique to you, most pressing to you, there's no set order, but whichever fits your needs

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Learn, Practice, Laugh

We unlearn, we relearn, we connect, we practice - even things that might feel uncomfortable at first. Slowly, you'll find your way to food freedom

Malcolm Tang Binge Eating Disorder Dietitian melbourne, australia - in person and online

Hey, I'm Malcolm!

I know how urgent and needed it feels to stay with eating good. In my 18 years of living with an eating disorder, the diet culture was like a dark cloud following me around. Not until when I learned and practiced intuitive eating, I felt like I was not the problem, and being able to enjoy food and life again.

My approach is grounded in Health at Every Size principles, non-diet approach, trauma-informed care and lived experience. As a trained Intuitive Eating Counsellor expanded my skillset and understanding to provide aid not only in nutrition, but also in emotional wellbeing and body image concerns.

Now as an Accredited Practising Dietitian, Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, I help people to enjoy food again, set up a personalised system to appraoch food, nutrition, body, movement and health, so food becomes easy and enjoying life becomes the priority.

Kind Words From Clients

I’ve worked with other dietitians and nutritionists before, but Malcolm is different. He’s so warm and non-judgemental. It’s like reconnecting to a decade-long friend who just gets it. It’s been a truly transformative experience.

Kiara
Early education teacher, Melbourne

Before meeting Malcolm, I felt trapped in a cycle of binge eating and self-loathing. And I was skeptical about whether I could break free from binge eating. But Malcolm’s approach was different— rather than telling me to have a stronger willpower, he helped me see that my struggles was a reflection of deeper issues with my mindset and habits. He focused on helping me change my mindset, build self-awareness, and develop healthier coping mechanisms. Through Malcolm’s guidance and practicing BFF, I learned to approach food and my body with kindness and understanding. It’s incredible how much my perspective has changed, I never truly listened to my body until now. I’ve let go of the guilt and shame that once controlled me, and I now have a balanced, positive relationship with food. I’m so grateful for their expertise and support.

Haley
Marketing programmatic manager, Melbourne

Malcolm has supported me all along no matter what I did. There were times that I thought I messed up but Malcolm just supported me and we found a way to work it out. This support is everything I could ever ask for.

Stephanie
Management trainee, London

I can’t thank Malcolm enough for how my life has changed. From our very first session, I felt truly seen and heard. Malcolm understands the emotional side of eating and I got endless encouragement and gentle pushes in the right direction.

Joey
Accountant, Vancouver

Malcolm is so supportive and compassionate during my journey. Everything I implemented stayed effortlessly. I couldn’t imagine that I could enjoy food and my life the way I do now.

Lara
Financial Analyst, Sydney

Malcolm’s very patient and attentive, great at giving alternatives without being pushy. He never makes you feel bad about yourself or the choices that you make when it comes to food.

Sherilyn
Music teacher, Melbourne

Want to experience how it would feel?

Tuning In

A mini program to tune into your body's need, restore your connection with your body and build trust with it.

What makes working with an IE dietitian different?

Intuitive eating is widely misunderstood

Even within health professionals. There are many incluencers, coaches and even dietitian (I know it because I and many of my friends did) misinterpreting it as a weight loss tool or a way to sell their approach and products.

  • Straight From the Source
    Working with a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor (CIEC) means you're guided by someone who has completed 80+ hours of study, weeks of supervision by the original creators, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, ensuring the framework is applied as it was intended.

  • Non-Diet, Weight-Inclusive Practice
    No Calorie targets. No routine weigh-ins. No framing health promoting intervention as a weight loss tool. This is a clinically grounded posiiton, to support long term success.

  • Diet Culture Literacy
    Many intuitive eating advocates are doing great job on promoting it, but when it comes to guiding people, it's common to mislook or fall for diet culture trap, because it's sneaky. A trained IE counsellor are trained to spot diet culture from miles away so you won't get diet advice disguised as food freedom.

  • Understand Medical Nutrition + Intuitive Eating
    As a trained dietitian and IE counsellor, I support people to practice intuitive eating AND manage their health conditions, whether it's diabetes, PCOS, IBS, etc, without restrictions or rules, when the diet culture tells you that's the only way.

Common Questions & Concerns I Hear

How does IE help improve diet when you eat what you want

Intuitive Eating has been shown to improve diet quality in multiple folds:

1. Heal relationship with food: when food no longer being the only source to sooth, distract, numb or control, you are able to stick to your eating.

2. Demoralising food: moralising foods as "bad" actually triggers "forbidden fruit effect" - making them more desirable. When all foods are equal, your body don't get swayed by the forbidden feelings

3. Marring nutrition and satisfaction: it means that your food choice is nutrition informed, but guided by your satisfaction, and we help you connect the dots how your body feels after eating different food to learn what your body need - and they need a balanced diet.

I have a health condition, I don't know if it's for me

Yes, definitely in most cases. Intuitive eating can be married into medical nutrition therapy seamlessly. We help clients practice intuitive eating while managing/treating: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver, diabetes, PCOS, gut concerns, etc.

Do I not need to change my weight even I'm at higher weight?

In intuitive eating, changing your weight isn't a goal. Instead, we focus on behaviours, health, nutrition and mindset that help you maximise your health, wellbeing and quality of life. And during this time, your weight will naturally shift to a point that's metabolically most healthy and happy for your genetic and body.

How long does it take?

Honestly? It varies.

It really depends on your current relationship with food, health conditions, history of dieting, underlying mental health factor and issues that might come up in the course. I take a very personalised approach with my clients.

Some people feel meaningfully different in a few months; for others, it can take longer to unlearning and/or working through different issues. We go at the pace your nervous system needs

I have another question...

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Malcolm is a non-diet binge eating dietitian
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Malcolm providing eating disorder nutrition counselling at Prahran WellSpace
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Malcolm is a certified intuitive eating counsellor and body image coach based in Melbourne, Australia, serving international client
Malcolm is a binge eating dietitian - accredited practising dietitian (APD)
Malcolm is a binge eating dietitian and credentialed eaing disorder clinician (CEDC) by ANZ academy for eating disorder
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I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and work. I pay my deep respects to Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I’m committed to providing inclusive, respectful care for all bodies, identities, and backgrounds.

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