Funky Forest Health & Wellbeing

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

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!

Ever had one of those consults where a client says something about food, weight or their body and you suddenly think…S**...
30/08/2026

Ever had one of those consults where a client says something about food, weight or their body and you suddenly think…

S**t. I think there might be some disordered eating going on here.

Maybe they’re cutting out more and more foods because their gut still isn’t better.

Or they’re trying to eat “clean” all day and then bingeing at night.

Maybe carbs are “bad”, the scales are being checked every morning, or their health goals seem to be getting increasingly tangled up with fear of weight gain or hating their body.

And then comes the fun part 😂

What do I actually do now?

Do I screen them?
Can I still work with what they originally came to see me for?
Do I change the treatment plan?
Do I refer?
Who to?
And how do I even bring this up without making the whole convo weird or causing more harm?

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

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

It’s for naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and other natural health practitioners who don’t necessarily work in eating disorders... but are realising that disordered eating, restriction and body image stuff still shows up in their clinics.

We’ll look at some practical ways to recognise when something deserves a closer look, what questions you can start asking, adequacy before more restriction, and a simple way to start thinking about when to stabilise, support or refer.

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

Register via the link: https://www.funkyforest.com.au/disordered-eating-now-what-webinar.html
🖤

28/08/2026

Have you ever been sitting with a client and, as they’re talking, a few things start adding up and you think…

"S**t. I think there might be some disordered eating going on here."

Maybe they’re cutting out more and more foods to try to heal their gut.

Or they tell you they were “bad” because they ate carbs.

Maybe they’re trying really hard to eat clean, stick to their calories and lose weight during the day… but they’re also bingeing at night.

Maybe they’re weighing themselves all the time, really struggling with their body, or wanting to launch into another restrictive diet, cleanse or bodybuilding prep when there are already a bunch of things making you wonder whether food and body image have become a bigger part of the clinical picture...

Recognising that there might be some disordered eating going on is one thing.

Knowing what the bloody hell to do next in an actual consult is another.

Do you screen them? Do you keep treating the thing they originally came to see you for? What happens to the elimination diet you were about to prescribe? Are you qualified to talk about this? When do you refer? Who do you refer to? And how do you actually bring it up without shaming them or making the whole conversation worse?

That’s what we’re getting into in my next free live clinical training:

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

This one is for naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and other natural health practitioners who want to feel a bit less lost when disordered eating or body image concerns start rocking up in the middle of otherwise very normal clinical work.

📅 Wednesday 16 September 2026
🕛 12:00pm AEST
💻 Live online
💛 Free

You do NOT need to specialise in eating disorders to come along! In fact, that’s kind of the point.

Register through the link in my bio. Or DM me and I'll send it your way x





20/08/2026

I kept getting messages from practitioners who’d registered for this webinar, meant to watch the replay… and then life happened and the 7 days disappeared 😅

So I’ve finally stopped putting an expiry date on it.

How to Avoid Unintentionally Reinforcing Disordered Eating in Natural Health Practice is now a free, on-demand clinical training you can watch whenever you actually have the time.

It’s for naturopaths, nutritionists, herbalists and other natural health practitioners, and we get into the stuff that can be really tricky in clinic... when “healthy eating” starts looking more like restriction, assessing adequacy before piling on another protocol, scope and referral, and what to actually do when something feels weird around food and body image in a client.

I also walk you through my Stabilise - Support - Refer framework, because spotting red flags is useful… but knowing what to do next is the bit we weren’t taught.

🎥 Around 60 mins
📄 Slides included
💛 Free

You’ll join my practitioner newsletter when you sign up, where I send occasional clinical resources and training updates. You can unsubscribe anytime.

Grab the free training through the link in my bio or DM me and I will send it to you!

19/08/2026

A client cried today when we talked about the possibility that her body might be worthy of comfort and care NOW, not after weight loss.

“I want to lose weight” is a something every natural health practitioner has heard in a consult. And often it holds so much more than weight. Comfort, grief, shame, pain, being judged, feeling desirable, ageing, hormones, a client wanting to feel "like themselves" again.

As praccies, we don’t have to dismiss that distress. But we also don’t have to automatically turn it into a weight loss plan.

Sometimes the better clinical move is to slow down and ask what the request is really holding.

This is the kind of work we unpack inside DECIDE.

Cohort 2 starts October 7. Applications are open now 🖤
Link in bio.

Eating disorder-informed care is not separate from natural medicine. When we take the six naturopathic principles seriou...
17/08/2026

Eating disorder-informed care is not separate from natural medicine. When we take the six naturopathic principles seriously, disordered eating literacy sits right there at the roots.

Food and body advice is powerful af.

A protocol can look sophisticated and very scientific, yet still increase fear. A practitioner-prescribed program can still reinforce restriction, shame and body surveillance.

And I reckon natural health needs to get a bit (a lot?!) braver here.

First do no harm has to include food fear and body policing. Tangent on weight stigma pending 🫠

The healing power of nature has to include adequate energy. Some practitioner-prescribed weight loss plans sit around energy intakes many adults would struggle to function well on, let alone heal on. We do not optimise physiology by under-fuelling someone.

Treating the whole person has to include body image, stress, trauma, neurodivergence, culture, capacity and lived experience including with systems of oppression.

Identifying the cause has to include asking why the eating behaviour makes sense in context.

And prevention means we don't wait until someone has a formal ED diagnosis before we practise carefully.

If someone has disclosed bingeing, restriction, a current or past eating disorder, or significant distress around food and body... for f**k's sake, the next step is NOT a weight-loss program with weighed portions and food rules. I've lost count of the number of times clients AND praccies have told me variations of this s**t happening 🤬

The next step is proper screening, risk assessment, scope clarity and care.

This is why I made DECIDE.

For natural health practitioners who want more clarity, more care, and less diet culture BS when food and body stuff shows up in clinic.

Because it bloody will. It probs already has.

Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤

13/08/2026

Functional testing is not a substitute for feeding someone.

Methylation pathways, OAT testing, DUTCH testing, stool testing, food sensitivity testing, CGMs, nutrient testing, hormone panels, gut protocols, supplement stacks... they can all have a place.

I’ve used many of these tests. This is not “never test” or “never use a therapeutic diet.”

It’s: not instead of adequate nutrition.

A beautifully detailed protocol with all the biochemical backing in the world can still miss the bloody obvious...

the human needs to be fed.

If someone is not eating enough, scared of food, cutting out half their diet, or turning every recommendation into another rule, more data may not be the next best step.

Sometimes the most clinically useful thing is adequacy, regularity, capacity, less fear, and a body with enough energy to actually do what we’re asking of it.

That is not basic s**t.

It's foundational.

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤

12/08/2026

Eating disorder-informed care IS old school naturopathy.

First do no harm.
Treat the whole person.
Understand what is driving the presentation.
Support foundations before optimisation.
Use the least restrictive intervention necessary.
Work with the body, not against it.

With the rise of GLP-1s and the current weight-loss climate, I think natural health practitioners need disordered eating literacy more than ever.

Not as a cute little niche extra.

But as part of foundational, safer, more grounded, more humane care.

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤

06/08/2026

Casual walk to check on a sick chicken, during which my brain had the groundbreaking realisation that chickens are anti-diet philosophers. 🐔

They sunbathe. They dust bathe. They run for snacks completely un-self-consciously. They rest without earning it. They do not appear to be spiralling about whether their body is acceptable. They do not sell shred challenges.

Humans, unfortunately, live inside patriarchy, capitalism, weight stigma, purity culture, productivity culture and all the other little horrors.

Which is why food and body stuff never ends up in our clinics in a vacuum. We need to find out more than just how much weight a client wants to lose. We need to gently ask, with consent, what they have survived. What systems they are still having to survive.

This is why I care so much about disordered eating literacy in natural health.

DECIDE Cohort 2 starts October 7 🖤

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