Lumen Gorrie is a queer, trans, AuDHD, chronically ill, disabled person, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Land. They are a clinical psychologist, advocate, board-approved supervisor, educator, lived experience speaker, and founder of the Appetite for Change Project.

Lumen’s work focuses on understanding and supporting the intersections of neurodivergence, gender, queerness, chronic illness, and disability; eating differences, difficulties, and disorders; and relationship with body. They work from an anti-oppressive, depathologising, trauma-informed, identity-affirming, body and weight inclusive framework, centring lived experience, autonomy, and community wisdom. Lumen is also passionate about unpacking, transforming, and redressing models and systems that harm marginalised folk, working toward approaches that are more affirming, inclusive, and accessible for all.

Outside of this, Lumen has a tiny dog (Nina) and slinky cat (Grimmeow) who they adore endlessly, and often hang out with while reading, baking sans recipe, or crafting trinkets.

Majella Jones is a queer, trans, bipolar AuDHDer, chronically ill, disabled dietitian and PhD candidate, living and working in Naarm on unceded Wurundjeri Land. Their work in private practice includes primarily supporting LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill people with eating differences, difficulties, and disorders. Majella's PhD is on trans health and nutrition, exploring trans health education and inclusive practice approaches.

Majella an advocate and educator on gender inclusive health and neuroaffirming practice, having delivered professional development workshops, spoken at conferences, and guest lectured at local universities.

Kai Schweizer is a researcher and PhD candidate with a focus on eating disorders, gender diversity, neurodivergence, and their intersections. He is a Research Affiliate at the Inside Out Institute for Eating Disorders, working on the IncludED study: Australia's first study of LGBTIQA+ body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders.

Kai’s PhD project will produce Australian-first guidelines for best practice in treating eating disorders in trans and gender diverse people. They are also a small business owner, providing consultation and professional development on supporting LGBTIQA+ people with eating disorders.

Hayden Moon is a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA+, Indigenous, and Disabled communities. He is an award winning performer, academic and advocate. They are also currently studying a PhD in Theatre and Performance studies.

Hayden has lived experience of anorexia and disordered eating. He is also Autistic and understands eating differences. Hayden hopes to use his experience to educate the broader community (especially clinicians) to adequately support LGBTQIA+, First Nations, and disabled people with eating disorders, in the most affirming way for their own healing.

Marie Camin is an Autistic clinical psychologist, advocate, researcher, and board-approved supervisor who joins us from Wurundjeri Country. Her work bridges clinical practice and research, with a focus on affirming, trauma-informed approaches that centre Autistic voices. She has advised on both private and government initiatives which impact the Autistic community, including the National Roadmap for Improving the Health and Mental Health of Autistic People.

In her natural habitat, Marie can be found wandering through gardens, plotting her next Magic: The Gathering deck, or scheming up ways to sneak more whimsy into psychology.

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Sandhya Menon is an AuDHD Developmental Psychologist and Author of the much-loved kids’ books The Brain Forest, The Rainbow Brain, and her latest creation, My Body’s Power Pack. She spends her days helping children and families build strong self-identities that celebrate and know their neurotype before the world tries to tell them otherwise.

Her work is a mash-up of sharp clinical knowledge, lived experience, and just enough whimsy to make even the trickiest concepts feel human (and yes, actually fun). She also draws from her collectivist family roots in Singapore and her neurodivergent self to call out Western and neuronorms that don’t serve our communities and make conversations truly inclusive and representative of our different realities. 

If you were looking for someone who can turn research into real talk while keeping it warm, inclusive, and a sprinkle of fun, we've found her. 

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Isobel Kelly is an Autistic and ADHDer psychologist working in private practice. Her clinical work focuses on providing collaborative assessments and support for Autistic and ADHDer adults who are experiencing eating disorders, eating difficulties & differences, and experiences of trauma. She is passionate about challenging societal biases around weight, body and eating, and neurotype, and strives to work from a holistic and intersectional perspective.

Steph Robertson is an experienced multiply-neurodivergent occupational therapist, speaker, and advocate, with a commitment to trauma responsive and neurodiversity-affirming practice. Steph draws on her professional, research and lived experience in her work. Through her work, she empowers individuals, parents, therapists, and educators to foster understanding, self worth, and connection within the neurodivergent community.  Steph delivers impactful talks, trainings, and resources designed to support the deep socio-political shift to more inclusive and affirming spaces for all people.

Esther Fidock is an AuDHD psychologist and the founder of The Neuro Nurture Collective, a telehealth clinic providing neurodiversity-affirming therapy and autism assessments for adults across Australia. With a background in trauma-informed care and a deep commitment to accessible, inclusive practice, Esther works with late-identified neurodivergent adults, many of whom have complex relationships with food, body, and identity.

Her work centres the lived experiences of autistic people and challenges traditional clinical models by prioritising safety, collaboration, and self-understanding. Esther provides autism assessments for adults, facilitates professional development relating to neurodiversity affirming practice, consults on research as a casual academic, and is a passionate advocate for systems change in mental health and allied health.

She brings warmth, clinical insight, and a strong values base to her work, always with the goal of making psychological support safer and more affirming for neurodivergent people.

Amy Woods is a Doctoral Candidate completing the Doctorate of Public Health, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Land. She is a clinically registered PACFA counsellor in private practice, and a lived experience consultant.

Amy has completed a Bachelors in Counselling, a Graduate Certificate in Forensic Behavioural Science, and has vast experience in combining lived experience work with clinical support. Amy is passionate about working in Eating Disorders, and the importance of honouring the diverse voices of lived experience.

Tina McPhee is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and a lived experience advocate, living and working on unceded Gadigal Land. She has experience as both a student, teacher, and object/subject of criminology, having spent time in prison and under community corrections orders.

Tina campaigns and advocates for the recognition and inclusion of lived experience expertise, and is working to see person-centred language replace harmful system language. In addition to her work with the Justice Reform Initiative, Tina teachers at UNSW, and is undertaking a PhD in Law about the collateral consequences of conviction.

Sandi James is a registered Psychologist and Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach with more than 15 years working in mental health, eating disorder, and addiction treatment. She is a lived experience clinician and dedicates her career to working with clients that feel let down by current systems of care and treatment approaches. Their primary focus includes mental health and trauma recovery, with a particular focus on co-occurring presentations including substance use or food and compulsive exercise related difficulties.

Sandi has extensive experience working with individuals and families to heal and recover from trauma, addictions, eating disorders, and mental health conditions. They are dedicated to working with clients and families from an inclusive and person-centred approach, to improve quality of life from a harm reduction perspective. She is a passionate and committed clinician, working alongside and guiding clients in the recovery process. Sandi is working towards her PhD conducting qualitative research looking at experiences of eating disorder treatment: identifying, responding to, and addressing harm experienced throughout the treatment process.

Jasper Peach is a trans, non-binary and disabled writer and parent. They are passionate about equitable access and inclusion, dismantling misplaced shame via storytelling.

Their current project is a mosaic memoir A Thousand Spinning Plates on Fire. This work of narrative non-fiction is an exploration of life across the intersections of queer, disabled, fat bodied, transgender, parent, non-binary, neurodivergent
and activist identities. Presented in prose, poetry and other forms, the work is non-linear and is the opposite of a redemption story with a neat and tidy ending. It is something new and lyrical, introducing the reader to satisfyingly loose ends. A scorchingly honest, tender and hopeful story of what it is to be human across intersections.