As the food and nutrition experts, dietitians are passionate about improving the health of Nova Scotians. Spotlight on is one way that DNNS showcases the talented dietitians in our province and the many ways they are working to improve the wellbeing of their communities. 

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Jillian Walsh, RD, RP (Qualifying)

Clinical Director and Nova Scotia Team Lead at Change Creates Change Eating Disorder Care

Jillian Walsh is the Clinical Director and Nova Scotia Team Lead at Change Creates Change Eating Disorder Care in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Jillian founded Change Creates Change and has dual credentials as both a Registered Dietitian and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). Jillian helps children and youth living with eating disorders and provides support for parents to help their child through eating disorder recovery.

Jillian graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and completed a dietetic internship at Eastern Health in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She then went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and completed a practicum at the London Health Sciences Centre Adult Eating Disorders Service. Jillian is experienced in delivering both individual and nutrition counselling and group psychoeducation to children, adolescents and adults and has worked at various eating disorder programs across Canada. She has been working with eating disorders for 8 years. Jillian is experienced in Family-Based Therapy (Maudsley Approach), Emotion-Focused Therapy, The Maudsley Model and more.

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