Specialising in:

✓ Infants, children, teens, and adults
✓ Weight concerns (non-diet & traditional approaches)
✓ Healthy eating advice - including emotional eating, nutritional deficiencies, supporting neurodivergent individuals (eg ADHD, ASD, TBI)
✓ Disordered eating
✓ Diabetes (children and adults) - Type 1, Type 2 & GDM
✓ Heart health including high blood pressure, high cholesterol
✓ Lifestyle nutrition - vegetarianism, veganism
✓ Allergies - Coeliac disease
✓ Infant and children’s nutrition - food aversions/fussy eating, starting solids, weight management
✓ Nutrition to support rehabilitation and trauma via ACC - traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, serious injury, pain management, wound healing, enteral feeding, sensitive claims and trauma-informed care

Available via:

* Milford clinic, Auckland (via appointment)

* Online / telehealth (NZ-wide)

Background:

Ada is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and has over 20 years of experience. She has worked in a diversity of specialised areas, both with adults, children, and infants, at the different DHBs, Primary Health Organisation and Pacific Heartbeat - The Heart Foundation. She can read, write and speak fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.

Ada’s specialties lie in lifestyle and behavioural changes, long-term health conditions, and weight management. She has worked across various ACC contracts including sensitive claims for over 6 years.

Outside of work, Ada enjoys cooking, reading, and going for walks. She likes learning new skills with her husband and daughter! She also loves spending time with her family and friends because connection is what she values.

Ada’s approach:

Ada has a strong passion for empowering people to live a healthy and meaningful life using a holistic approach. She supports people in creating sustainable lifestyle changes that improve their health and overall well-being. She empowers her clients to take control of their own health, meeting them where they are at, and supports them to reach their own nutrition and wellness goals that matter to them. Her clients find her approach ‘practical, non-judgemental, encouraging, keeping them accountable and talking at their level’. She takes a neurodiversity-affirming approach in her practice.

Specialities and additional training

Ada holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health for her love of working in developing countries. She has also undertaken additional training in:

• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP),

• Time Line Therapy® 

• Certification in Results Coaching

• OPTIFAST® VLCD™ Accredited Healthcare Professional

• Cambridge Weight Plan Health Professional.