Send the referral
Use the secure online form, or email referrals@bodybelongingclinic.com.au, with the person’s consent to be contacted, their contact details, referral reason, current supports and any relevant risk information.
Referrals made clear.
Specialist eating disorder and body image care, in the community, that fits how a person’s brain, body, culture and story actually work. From an ANZAED-credentialed clinician: Aboriginal-led, queer-led and neurodivergent-led.
Now accepting referrals
AMHSW, AASW member
ANZAED Credentialed ED Clinician
Neurodivergent-led
Medicare Better Access & EDP
Telehealth Australia-wide
In partnership with ADHD WA
A warm, credentialed front door.
A specialised home for clients where ADHD and disordered eating overlap, plus eating disorders, body image and identity-affirming care — with clinical experience spanning queer and gender-affirming services and perinatal and parent–infant mental health. Body Belonging Clinic welcomes referrals from GPs, psychologists, dietitians, psychiatrists, paediatricians, school counsellors, Aboriginal health workers, LGBTQIA+ services, allied health and community organisations.
Verify the ANZAED Eating Disorder Credential on connect·ed →
Medicare & EDP
Medicare rebates may be available with a valid GP Mental Health Treatment Plan, psychiatrist or paediatrician referral. As an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, Lauren can also work under an eligible Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan, giving eligible clients access to up to 40 Medicare-rebated sessions in 12 months, against 10 a year under a standard plan, where criteria are met. From 1 November 2025, a Mental Health Treatment Plan must be prepared by the patient’s MyMedicare-registered or usual GP practice for rebates to apply. Body Belonging is also a registered DVA provider: eligible veterans and their families can be referred for DVA-funded mental health sessions.
Telehealth + Nedlands
Appointments by telehealth across Australia, and in Nedlands from November 2026, including Quick Chair — a 25-minute bulk-billed telehealth session (MBS 91175) for eligible clients with a valid referral.
You diagnose. We’re where they land next.
With more WA GPs now able to diagnose and prescribe for ADHD, more people than ever have a diagnosis and need somewhere for the ongoing work. Body Belonging is that next step — a neurodivergent-led, affirming practice for eating, body image and identity, by an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) who knows the terrain from the inside. Refer knowing your clients land somewhere that gets it.
See where newly diagnosed clients land → Submit a referral online →
We close the loop on every referral.
We acknowledge every referral within 2 business days and offer your patient a first appointment within 2 weeks. You receive a written update after the first session, at each plan review and at the close of care, with direct access to Lauren, not a call centre. And because Body Belonging doesn’t assess ADHD or autism, there’s no diagnostic overlap with your own work.
Government-endorsed credential
Accredited Mental Health Social Workers hold a credential assessed by the AASW through a process endorsed by the Australian Government, and are Medicare-recognised providers of Focussed Psychological Strategies under Better Access and the EDP. Rebates are the same as for registered psychologists and occupational therapists delivering FPS. Body Belonging is also a registered DVA provider and takes WorkCover WA referrals for psychological injury, and social work is a funded therapy support under the NDIS.
Community care, before crisis
The WA Eating Disorders Framework 2025–2030 calls for earlier, community-based eating disorder care and stronger primary-care pathways. Body Belonging adds specialist community capacity on exactly that front — by telehealth across Australia, with in-person sessions in Nedlands from November 2026.
The overlap is documented
Peer-reviewed research links ADHD and autism with substantially higher rates of eating disorders and disordered eating, and ARFID co-occurs strongly with both — the overlap this practice was built for.
What helps in a referral.
When available, please include the client’s preferred name, pronouns, date of birth, contact details, Medicare referral pathway, current supports, relevant medical information, eating or body image concerns, risk concerns, cultural or accessibility considerations, and whether family, kin, carers or other practitioners are involved.
For urgent risk, medical instability or crisis concerns, please use emergency or acute services. Body Belonging Clinic is not an emergency or crisis service.
A two-page toolkit for your desk. Screening and its blind spots, the two Medicare pathways, the exact eating disorder plan eligibility test, the three review gates — including the session-21 specialist review that strands patients — and the neurodivergent and ARFID overlay. Download the GP toolkit (PDF) →
we kept one for them.
Stepping down from a public service.
If you are discharging someone, or they have not met threshold and you are looking for somewhere they can land, what you need to know is whether they will actually be held. This is what that looks like here, for children, young people and adults.
What helps at transfer
Not a form. Whatever you already have, including a discharge summary or an Eating Disorder Plan if there is one.
- where things stand, and whether they have been assessed
- current risk, and the safety plan already in place
- diagnoses, and who made them
- medication, and who is prescribing
- who else is around them, including any Aboriginal health worker or community service
- for anyone under 18, which parent or guardian holds consent, and any parenting orders I should see
- whether there is a Medicare plan and referral, and which kind
The Medicare referral usually needs to come from their own GP, or from a psychiatrist or paediatrician. If it isn’t in place yet, it’s worth starting before discharge.
If an eating disorder is in the picture
I also need recent bloods, ECG, observations and weight trend, who is doing the physical monitoring and how often, and the point at which you’d want them back. I don’t hold this work without monitoring running alongside it, so it’s worth settling before a first appointment rather than after.
Who I contact, and how consent works
For an adult, I contact them. For anyone under 18, I usually start with the parent or guardian you name, unless an older young person is managing their own care and we agree otherwise. From there, the young person has a real say in what’s shared at home, and I tell them at the start where that ends, which is their safety. Where guardians disagree about treatment, I’d rather know before the first session than in it.
What you get back
- the same standard as every referral here: acknowledged within 2 business days, and a first appointment offered within 2 weeks. Until I’ve confirmed, they’re still with you
- I contact them or their family directly to arrange that appointment
- a written update to you after the first session, and again at the close of care
- if their risk rises, you or their GP will hear it from me, and they know that from day one
Where my care stops
I’m a sole practitioner, with no after hours and no crisis capacity. Whatever we set up needs a route back to you, or to the right service, if things escalate. CAMHS Crisis Connect takes calls 24 hours a day on 1800 048 636 for anyone 17 and under, including from families and clinicians. For adults in Perth, the Mental Health Emergency Response Line is on 1300 555 788. In an emergency, call 000.
How we’d meet
Telehealth now, and in person in Nedlands from November 2026.
The fastest way to start
Email referrals@bodybelongingclinic.com.au with a line or two about where things are at. You don’t need to include names or identifying details until we’ve agreed it’s a fit. You’ll hear back within 2 business days, and if talking it through first would help, I’ll suggest a time to ring you.
Our secure online form keeps first contact to brief, general details; sensitive clinical information is collected afterwards through our secure practice system, so it’s always handled safely and respectfully.
