Yive Yang

Accredited Practising Dietitian | PhD Researcher and Candidate | Credentialed Eating Disorders Clinician | Lived Experience Advocate

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

I am a specialist eating disorders dietitian (APD) and lived experience researcher currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (Translational Health Research) at Western Sydney University. As a dietitian, I am passionate about helping people to address their body image concerns and to support people through the process of finding food freedom, whatever that looks like for them. I work from a non-diet, anti-weight stigma, and trauma-informed approach, striving to provide compassionate, body-inclusive care to all individuals. I hope to work alongside each individual, and guided by their lived experience, empower them to discover what wellbeing means to them. I am also especially interested in working with neurodivergent individuals and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. My drive to help people is what led me to pursue a PhD in the topic of eating disorders. I am dedicated to expanding the knowledge base around what effective, person-centred treatment entails in the eating disorder field because I truly believe that each person is their own treatment expert. Through my research, I aim to help inform advances on our current dietetic ED treatment options by incorporating the lived experience of people who have suffered through an eating disorder.

Experience

  • Principal Accredited Practising Dietitian at The Recovering Place
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Principal Accredited Practising Dietitian - Offering medical nutrition therapy and assistance with chronic dieting, as well as eating disorders treatment. Located in MyHealth Ermington and MyHealth Ryde.

  • Associate Accredited Practising Dietitian at Liberation Nutrition
    Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

    Offering specialist eating disorders treatment.

  • Research Assistant at University of Newcastle
    Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 · 11 mos

    RA in the Physical Activity and Nutrition priority Research Centre assisting in conducting baseline and follow-up anthropometric assessments on program participants (both youngsters and fathers).