NutriBlooms is a Melbourne dietetics practice built around eight Accredited Practising Dietitians. We see clients at six clinics across Melbourne, in their own homes, and by telehealth anywhere in Australia. Whoever you sit down with, you are seeing a dietitian who is credentialled by Dietitians Australia and backed by the rest of the team.
- ✓ Eight Accredited Practising Dietitians, with in-house case conferencing to the Principal Dietitian
- ✓ Six Melbourne clinics, plus home visits and Australia-wide telehealth
- ✓ Medicare, NDIS, DVA, WorkCover, Support at Home and private health extras, with HICAPS at every clinic
- ✓ Dietitians Australia & Griffith University Quality in Primary Care Award, 2025
Who we are
NutriBlooms was founded by Racha Slim, an Accredited Practising Dietitian who wanted a practice where people were listened to properly before anyone talked about food. That is still how the clinics run. A first appointment is mostly you talking and us asking questions, because the plan that follows is only as good as the picture we start from.
The practice has grown to eight dietitians working across gut health, women’s health, diabetes and chronic disease, paediatric nutrition and feeding, sports nutrition, aged care and supportive cancer nutrition. Everyone is an Accredited Practising Dietitian.
How we work
Everything we do, we believe in doing differently.
Different by Design
Guided by Science
Focused on You
Meet our accredited dietitians in Melbourne
Racha Slim
Founder and Principal Accredited Practising Dietitian · Certified Fertility Dietitian
Racha founded NutriBlooms and leads the clinical side of the practice, including the in-house case conferencing that complex cases go through. She works primarily in weight management, behavioural and lifestyle change, heart health and hypertension, diabetes and blood sugar management, child nutrition, pregnancy and breastfeeding, and PCOS. She holds the Early Life Nutrition Alliance Certified Fertility Dietitian credential.
Simon Salerno
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Simon has special interest in Weight Management, Sports Nutrition, Eating Disorder, Digestive and Gut health(IBS, IBD), low FODMAP diet, Chronic Disease management such as Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Malnutrition, Disability, Oncology and Women’s Health.
Monica Ng
Accredited Practising Dietitian and Feeding Therapist
Monica is an experienced dietitian with special interest in paediatric feeding, fussy eating, and ARFID, alongside chronic conditions such as diabetes, kidney and cardiovascular disease. She also supports women’s health, including PCOS and fertility, using practical, evidence-based care.
Isabella Giardino
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Isabella has special interest in Eating Disorders, Gut Health, Women’s health (including PCOS, endometriosis & adenomyosis), paediatric nutrition and sustainable weight management.
Fadwa El Samad
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Fadwa has special interest in diabetes management, weight loss and lifestyle nutrition, paediatric nutrition, chronic disease management, meal planning and food relationship.
Kineta Sulemani
Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lead Support
Kineta has special interest in Gut Health, Allergy and Intolerance management, Chronic disease, Women’s health, Paediatric nutrition, and Eating Disorders.
Trent Frydas
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Trent has special interest in chronic condition management (including type 2 diabetes, cholesterol and heart health), sustainable weight management, and sports and performance nutrition.
Gemmah Weston
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Gemmah has special interest in women’s health, gut health, malnutrition and chronic disease management.
The team behind the clinic
Before you meet a dietitian, you will have spoken to one of these three. They handle bookings, referrals, funding paperwork and the HICAPS terminal, and they are the reason the clinical side runs on time.
Stephanie
Senior Admin
Stephanie keeps the systems behind the practice running, from booking and billing through to referral tracking across all six clinics.
Stephanie C.
Admin and Receptionist
Stephanie is often the first person you meet at the clinic, and the one who makes sure you feel looked after from the moment you walk in.
Salina Zeneli
Admin and Receptionist
Salina handles bookings and enquiries, and holds a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management.
Your action plan and pathway
Every client leaves their first appointment with a personalised action plan. It sets out practical objectives, the goals and milestones you and your dietitian have agreed on together, and the specific changes to try first. It is written down, because nobody remembers a 45-minute conversation.
Alongside it you get a pathway: what happens next, when we would review, and how ongoing support is structured if you want it. Goals are set with you rather than handed to you, and they get revised as your circumstances change. Individual results vary, and the plan is built to move with you.
- Assessment — your history, your bloods and reports where relevant, your routine, your food environment and what you have already tried
- Agreed goals and milestones — set with you, written into the plan, sized to be achievable
- Review — what worked, what did not, and what changes for the next stretch
- A letter to your referrer — a written summary back to your GP or medical practitioner after every course of care
What an Accredited Practising Dietitian is, and why all eight of ours are one
In Australia, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. Accredited Practising Dietitian, or APD, is different. It is the credential awarded by Dietitians Australia, the national body for the profession, and it has to be earned and then kept.
To hold it, a dietitian needs an accredited Australian dietetics degree. To keep it, they must log 30 hours of continuing professional development every year, maintain at least 150 practice hours in the previous 12 months or 450 across three years, work within the profession’s scope and standards, and remain subject to the Dietitians Australia audit and complaints process.
That is the practical difference the credential makes: 30 hours of documented learning a year, every year, per dietitian. Across our team that is 240 hours annually going back into how we practise. It is also why APDs are the only nutrition professionals eligible to provide services under Medicare, the NDIS and DVA.
Recognition
Three awards in 2025, and a 2026 finalist place decided by public nomination.
Dietitians Australia & Griffith University Quality in Primary Care Award, 2025
Awarded by the national body that accredits the dietetics profession, for quality in primary care.
Local Business Award Winner — Outstanding Health Improvement Services, 2025
Recognising the practice’s work across its Melbourne clinics and telehealth service.
Quality Business Award Winner — Quality Rating Over 95%, 2025
An award title, assessed by the awarding body. It is not a customer review score.
In 2026 NutriBlooms was named a finalist in the East Melbourne Local Business Awards. Finalists there are drawn from public nominations rather than paid entries, so that one came from the people we see in clinic, on telehealth and during home visits.
Accreditations and organisations we work with
Where you will see us
Six clinics across Melbourne, all with HICAPS, plus home visits and telehealth Australia-wide.
- Blackburn (main clinic) — 21A Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130
- Lilydale (NutriBlooms Clinic) — 38 Hardy Street, Lilydale VIC 3140
- Ringwood — 65 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood VIC 3134
- Dandenong South — 77/125 Princes Highway, Dandenong South VIC 3175
- Roxburgh Park — 50 Arena Avenue, Roxburgh Park VIC 3064
- Epping and Lalor — 75 Childs Road, Lalor VIC 3075
Home visits matter most where fatigue, mobility or transport make a clinic appointment hard work, and they let us see the kitchen the plan actually has to fit. Telehealth covers the rest of Australia, including regional Victoria. Full addresses, parking and public transport details are on our Melbourne clinic locations page.
Funding, fees and referrals
You do not need a referral to see a dietitian at NutriBlooms. You can book directly. We also accept referrals from GPs and from medical practitioners including nephrologists, endocrinologists, oncologists, rheumatologists and gastroenterologists. Whichever route you take, we send a written letter back to your referrer after every course of care.
Medicare and the GP Chronic Condition Management Plan
Medicare changed on 1 July 2025, and here is how it works now. The GP Chronic Condition Management Plan, or GPCCMP, replaced the older plan types. Your GP refers you with an ordinary referral letter rather than a structured form, and no longer has to name the provider or set the number of services. Patient choice is explicit, so you decide which practice you attend.
A plan covers up to five subsidised allied health services per calendar year, or ten for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, shared across all your allied health providers rather than five each. A referral stays valid for 18 months from your first session, and plans written before 1 July 2025 can still be used until 30 June 2027. The current rules are set out by Services Australia.
Fees, stated plainly. NutriBlooms is a private practice. Medicare pays a rebate towards an eligible appointment and a gap fee applies, which you pay on the day. Current fees are listed on our dietitian prices page.
Other funding we work with
- NDIS — we are a registered provider
- DVA — for eligible veterans and dependants
- WorkCover
- Support at Home — including our restorative care and home visit services
- Private health extras — HICAPS terminals at all six clinics, so you claim on the spot
Explore related services
- All NutriBlooms dietitian services — every area our dietitians work in
- Melbourne clinic locations — addresses, parking and transport for all six clinics
- Dietitian prices — current fees and what Medicare rebates cover
- Referrals and the GPCCMP — for GPs, medical practitioners and referring teams
Frequently asked questions
NutriBlooms is a team of eight Accredited Practising Dietitians working across six Melbourne clinics, home visits and Australia-wide telehealth. Each dietitian has their own focus areas, and the team meets for in-house case conferencing with the Principal Dietitian, so your care draws on more than one set of eyes.
Accredited Practising Dietitian, or APD, is the credential awarded by Dietitians Australia. Every APD holds an accredited dietetics degree, logs 30 hours of continuing professional development each year, maintains a minimum number of practice hours, and is subject to the Dietitians Australia audit and complaints process. Every dietitian at NutriBlooms is an APD.
We have six Melbourne clinics: Blackburn, Ringwood, Lilydale, Dandenong South, Roxburgh Park, and Epping and Lalor. Blackburn is our main clinic. HICAPS is available at all six.
Yes. We visit clients at home, which suits people managing fatigue, mobility limits or transport difficulty, and we offer telehealth appointments anywhere in Australia.
No. You can book directly without a referral. We also accept referrals from GPs and from medical practitioners including nephrologists, endocrinologists, oncologists, rheumatologists and gastroenterologists.
Yes. We send a written letter to your referrer after every course of care, for every referrer type.
Yes. You can request a particular dietitian when you book. If your needs would be better met by a colleague, we will say so and help you move across.
NutriBlooms is a private practice, so a gap fee applies. If your GP has written a Chronic Condition Management Plan, Medicare pays a rebate towards up to five subsidised allied health services per calendar year, or ten for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, shared across all your allied health providers. We also work with NDIS, DVA, WorkCover, Support at Home and private health extras. See our prices page for current fees.
Book with an Accredited Practising Dietitian
Six Melbourne clinics, home visits and telehealth Australia-wide. Referral welcome but not required.