Lisa Bojarski

Eating Psychology AND Mind Body Nutrition Practitioner

BA Psychology, GradDip Psychotherapy
Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor

Lisa specialises in the emotional side of nutrition and facilitates the exploration of how thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and experiences impact our relationship with food and body. Her holistic approach considers who we are as eaters to be just as important as the food we are eating. She will guide you towards more nourishing and intuitive eating behaviours, while honouring your personal story and helping you understand why you do what you do.

Instead of viewing eating challenges as something that is wrong with you, Lisa sees unwanted symptoms and behaviours around food as signals that something in your internal or external world needs attending to. She provides a safe space to talk and make meaningful connections between how you are feeling, how you are eating, and how you are living. Lisa will gently and compassionately support you to assimilate this awareness and begin to make more conscious and compassionate choices about how you feed your mind and body. 

Drawing from the field of Nutritional Psychology, Lisa always considers the bi-directional relationship that exists between the food and nutrients we consume and our mental and physical well-being. As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, she has an anti-diet approach to wellness and is Health at Every Size (HAES) informed and aligned.

Lisa is passionate about helping her clients regain their autonomy and cultivate a more joyful, peaceful, and positive relationship with food. Her transformative approach will empower you to honour your appetite, trust your hunger, allow for pleasure, respect your body, and experience true satisfaction while feeling more aligned in body and mind.

Lisa works in private practice from the Seven Senses Wellness Centre in Westmere and regularly collaborates with other practitioners to achieve best outcomes.

For more information visit: www.fourleaves.co.nz or contact lisa@fourleaves.co.nz

Yolande Johnson

Physiotherapist and BodySense Practitioner

NZRP, PNZ

PGCert Health Sciences (MindBody Healthcare)
Dip BodySense Therapy (Sweden)

I am a physiotherapist and BodySense practitioner with over 30 years’ experience working with clients of all ages.
I’ve worked in a number of specialist healthcare settings which have involved treating those with eating, breathing and pain disorders, with workplace injuries, disabilities, and with a variety of other complex and chronic conditions.

I have my own private practice and also work in close association with other specialist providers such as Shelly Beach Practice and Mint Nutrition.

I have post graduate qualifications in MindBody healthcare, have lectured at the Auckland University of Technology, am a qualified yoga and Pilates instructor and have specialist training in working with eating disorders.

Eating disorders have long been a special area of interest. After 9 years as a member of the multi-disciplinary team at the Regional Eating Disorders Service where I supported clients in all stages of recovery, I began working alongside the psychologists and dietitians at Shelly Beach Practice. As a physiotherapist, I complement the work of my colleagues by offering their clients body-oriented therapies to manage anxiety, exercise and body image concerns.

Physical therapy can play an important part in a client’s recovery. So often with eating disorders, a person’s perception of their physical self can become distorted which can lead to behaviours that can harm the body. My main aim is to help a client accept and respect their body and gain insight into how to better look after it. One of the keys to

recovery is helping them identify what hinders and also what helps them engage in healthy levels of physical activity and exercise.

I work in an holistic way, using a combination of therapeutic touch techniques for breathing and movement alongside sensory mindfulness and relaxation strategies. Treatment programmes are personalised and provide a balanced, holistic and practical approach to restoring health, wellbeing and function.

For more information, visit www.bodysense.co.nz