Ada Cheung

Registered Dietitian - Auckland

BSc (Human Nutrition), PGDipDiet, MPH, NZRD

Ada is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and has over 20 years of experience. She has worked in a diversity of specialised areas, both with adults, children, and infants, at the different DHBs, Primary Health Organisation and Pacific Heartbeat - The Heart Foundation. She can read, write and speak fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.

 

Ada has a strong passion for empowering people to live a healthy and meaningful life using a holistic approach. She supports people in creating sustainable lifestyle changes that improve their health and overall well-being. She empowers her clients to take control of their own health, meeting them where they are at, and support them to reach their own nutrition and wellness goals that matter to them. Her clients find her approach ‘practical, non-judgemental, encouraging, keeping them accountable and is talking at their level’.

 

Ada’s specialties lie in lifestyle and behavioural changes, long-term health conditions, and weight management. She has worked across various ACC contracts including sensitive claims for over 6 years. She takes a neurodiversity-affirming approach in her practice.

 

Ada holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health for her love of working in developing countries. She has undertaken training in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®  and completed Certification in Results Coaching. She is also an OPTIFAST® VLCD™ Accredited Healthcare Professional and Cambridge Weight Plan Health Professional.

 

Outside of work, Ada enjoys cooking, reading, and going for walks. She likes learning new skills with her husband and daughter! She also loves spending time with her family and friends because connection is what she values.

 

Ada can help you with:

  • Weight concerns and lifestyle change - adults and children

  • Healthy eating advice - for adults and children including emotional eating, nutritional deficiencies, supporting neurodivergent individuals (eg ADHD, ASD, TBI)

  • Disordered eating

  • Diabetes (children and adults) - Type 1, Type 2 & GDM

  • Heart health including high blood pressure, high cholesterol

  • Lifestyle nutrition - vegetarianism, veganism,

  • Allergies - Coeliac disease

  • Infant and children’s nutrition - food aversions/fussy eating, starting solids, weight management

  • Nutrition to support rehabilitation and trauma - adults and children - traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, serious injury, pain management, wound healing, enteral feeding, sensitive claims and trauma-informed care