Trudy is an experienced Clinical Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbalist with over 20 years’ experience. Over the years she has worked with many students nearing the end of their studies and recognised the fear and disbelief they experienced when realizing they are now ready for clinical practice. Her passion to empower and guide the new practitioner led her to in-clinic mentoring, and over the past year she joined forces with one of her mentees, Miriam Connelly to create Simply Start – the foundations to your first year in practice. 

Miriam is a Clinical Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbalist and has several years’ experience working in a busy multidisciplinary clinic in admin and practice management. She has been practicing for over 18 months and has experienced firsthand the somewhat overwhelming journey of beginning in practice.

Together, Trudy and Miriam bring together their combined experience, knowledge, mistakes, stories, and struggles to form one of, what will be, your best resources yet! Simply Start is loaded with lists, tips, and tricks of the absolutes of beginning your journey of clinical practice. It is kept simple and it is kept real, with the main focus to ease the mental burden of this part of your journey as much as possible! It will assist in the overthinking of what to do first that often leads new practitioners into overwhelm that unfortunately can often stop them from beginning practicing or taking those first steps.

Let’s, simply start, together…

 Testimonials: 

‘Trudy inspired me to seek a career path as a nutritionist.’

‘I completed my clinical placement with Trudy during my second year of study. Trudy was an excellent role model for how a professional should interact with a client in clinic.’

‘Trudy is selfless and dedicated to helping her patients as I noticed how much time and effort she would put into ensuring that they would leave her consult room feeling empowered, inspired and hopeful about their health improving. Trudy is an inspiring mentor who I am truly grateful to have learnt from and been guided by.’