Crystal is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and a proud member of Dietitians Australia and the Optimum Intake Aged Care Team. With a deep passion for helping people, she believes in the power of food and nutrition to improve health, well-being, and quality of life. Taking a food-first approach, Crystal focuses on making nutrition simple, practical, and budget-friendly, ensuring that healthy eating is accessible to everyone. Crystal understands that nutrition plays a critical role in healthy ageing, reablement, and maintaining independence. She is committed to supporting older adults in optimizing their nutrition to promote strength, function, and overall wellness. Whether it’s preventing malnutrition, managing chronic conditions, supporting recovery after illness or injury, or enhancing enjoyment of food, Crystal takes a person-centred, holistic approach that respects individual needs, preferences, and goals. With a strong focus on reablement and wellness, Crystal collaborates with clients, families, and care teams to enhance functional capacity, prevent decline, and support healthy ageing through practical, evidence-based strategies. She believes that good nutrition is essential for maintaining mobility, independence, and quality of life and provides tailored advice to help clients nourish their bodies, stay active, and feel their best. Crystal is dedicated to empowering clients with the tools and confidence to make sustainable choices that support long-term health. She provides realistic, achievable nutrition solutions that prioritise whole foods while accommodating personal tastes, cultural preferences, and budget considerations. She also embraces a Health at Every Size (HAES®) and intuitive eating approach, fostering a positive relationship with food that removes unnecessary restrictions and guilt. Beyond her professional work, Crystal enjoys being active at the gym or Pilates, sharing good food with friends, and continuing to expand her knowledge in aged care nutrition. She is passionate about helping people feel their best at every stage of life and looks forward to supporting clients on their journey to wellness, strength, and independence.

Holly is an enthusiastic member of Optimum Intake’s Residential Aged Care team. She is focused on optimising the food, nutrition and the mealtime experience across aged care facilities, caring for both permanent residents and those temporarily placed for respite. She is a strong advocate for meals being more than simply food on a plate, she knows food can be more meaningful than just the nutritional quality alone, it can promote social connectedness, lift a person’s mood by igniting memories of years gone past and much more. Holly advises Aged Care Facilities on nutritional governance, policies and procedures in addition to educating staff and acting as a supportive voice for the consumer. Holly takes a collaborative approach with all her nutritional assessments, planning and recommendations. Ensuring that all people involved in the resident’s care (staff, food services and family) have the ability to contribute information, express ideas and issues, to form a personalised nutritional treatment plan, ongoing implementation, support and monitoring through her review process. Holly is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and a member of Dietitians Australia. Holly graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics and joined the Optimum Intake team in 2021. She is extremely passionate about assisting clients from different backgrounds and health conditions. She is particularly interested in; diabetes, cardiovascular disease, women’s health and optimising nutrition in the elderly. Holly looks forward to building a supportive relationship with Aged Care Facilities and the local community, to achieve optimal health and wellbeing for her clients.

Laura enjoys working with clients to assist and guide in the dietary management of conditions such as diabetes, insulin resistance, heart disease, gut issues including IBD and IBS, food allergies and intolerances, malnutrition, and bariatric care. Laura is passionate about helping all her clients to develop a healthy relationship with food by using a Non-Diet Approach and working within the Health at Every Size paradigm to support a healthy mind and body.

Rachel Tutill is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and a member of Dietitian’s Australia. Rachel has a special interest in the field of paediatric nutrition. She enjoys working closely with children and their families to support good health from a young age and fostering healthy feeding and eating relationships. She is aware of the many barriers of eating well, particularly for children, and can provide easy, practical strategies that fit within family lifestyles. Rachel has experience working with children with complex food histories and is able to work with children and their parents to increase food variety, assist with growth concerns, address allergies or intolerances, manage gastrointestinal issues and improve overall health outcomes. Rachel also has extensive experience working in the NDIS sector. She is able to support participants with physical, neurological and psychosocial disabilities to achieve good nutrition status and support optimal health outcomes. She has experience managing clients with complex physical needs as well as delivering practical hands on education sessions, cooking sessions or supermarket tours. She is able to personalise interventions to meet the needs of her clients to achieve their personal goals. Rachel understands the overwhelming amount of information available in the field of nutrition and is committed to ongoing study and learning to provide the best information and outcomes for her clients. Her goal is to empower her clients and make medical nutrition therapy more understandable and applicable to daily life.

Sarah is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) from the University of Newcastle. She is a kind and compassionate Dietitian who is committed to providing evidence-based practice and utilises an individualised approach to support you in reaching your goals. Sarah is a member of the Clinic team and the Community Aged Care team. She is passionate about simplifying nutrition and debunking the overwhelming amount of misinformation in our world today. She is dedicated to supporting and advocating for the elderly population as she understands the positive outcomes that optimal nutrition can have on their quality of life. Sarah embraces the Health at Every Size paradigm and a Non-Diet Approach throughout her practice and enjoys supporting individuals to create a healthy relationship with food. Her key interest areas include malnutrition and chronic disease management such as diabetes. Ultimately, Sarah’s goal is to educate and empower her clients to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing through providing them with practical strategies to create long term behavior change. Sarah enjoys living an active lifestyle as she loves to mix up her weekly exercise with CrossFit and yoga. In her spare time, you will usually find Sarah reading or trying out new restaurants with her friends and family. Sarah looks forward to supporting your journey towards optimal nutrition.

Jodie Sheraton is the Director of two Private Practice clinics; the award winning Optimum Intake Dietitians and the Myrtle Oak Eating Disorder Recovery Clinic. She is a university qualified Accredited Practising Dietitians and is a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with over 15yrs in the sector. Jodie leads a team of 10 eating disorder clinicians, an additional 16 dietitians and a team of 8 administration support coordinators. By combining her passion to celebrate the deliciousness, functionality and enjoyment of food, her university qualification and professional experience as an eating disorder dietitian in the public sector, she discovered the desire to create her clinics to provide client focused care and individualised therapy options for people living with an eating disorder and families supporting a someone with an eating disorder, with a philosophy aligning with the Health At Every Size (HAES), Body Acceptance and Body Positivity, evidence based therapies, Intuitive Eating and Non-Diet Approaches. With the success of both practices, Jodie has created a business, Elevated Dietetics, to support and elevate other private practice, clinic based, dietitian lead businesses to develop the business, delegation, leadership and decision making skills needed to create, grow and sustain a thriving practice. While creating harmony between work and lifestyle goals. Jodie offers 1:1 services and also a training program called Elevate your Practice and is taking new enrolments now.