auckland dietitian and nutritionist melissa greacen

Melissa Greacen

Registered Dietitian - Auckland

BSc (Human Nutrition), MSc, NZRD

Melissa is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and has over 7 years’ clinical dietitian experience. She has worked with a variety of clients, both adults and children, throughout New Zealand and in the UK. During this time, she has worked as a community dietitian and a digital dietitian.

Melissa is passionate about helping people make sustainable lifestyle changes and supports individuals to become their best selves. She understands the importance of making balanced and realistic lifestyle changes and helps clients to meet their goals whilst enjoying delicious food and creating a lifestyle they love. Her specialties lie in weight management and lifestyle change, long term health conditions, gut health (including FODMAP diets) and paediatric food allergies and food aversions. Melissa has also completed her certificate in paediatric nutrition and dietetics and is a Monash Accredited FODMAP dietitian. 

Outside of work, Melissa is a mum to a baby boy and an energetic dog. You can find her out walking/running and enjoying meals with friends and family at home or at new cafes/restaurants! 

 

Melissa can help you with:

  • Weight management and lifestyle change - adults and children

  • Healthy eating advice - for adults and children including emotional eating, nutritional deficiencies

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

  • Heart health including high blood pressure, high cholesterol

  • Lifestyle nutrition - vegetarianism, veganism, paleo

  • Gut health - Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and the low FODMAP diet, Inflammatory Bowel Disorder, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, Coeliac disease

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

  • Inflammation - gout, arthritis

  • Oncology - nutrition support for those with or recovering from cancer

  • Nutrition for older adults - including osteoporosis

  • Nutrition to support rehabilitation and trauma - traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, serious injury, pain management, wound healing, sensitive claims

 

Melissa is currently on leave and not seeing any clients over this time.