Programs

I’m a dietitian specialising in medically supervised weight loss support and bariatric surgery care, with a degree in psychological science. I work through structured programs rather than one-off appointments, at the level where change actually happens: your habits, your patterns, and your relationship with food. Telehealth, Australia-wide.

I take on a limited number of new clients each month. Every program starts with a free assessment and a relaxed intro call.

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Who I work with

For people ready to change their relationship with food, health and self

I work with people who feel stuck in patterns that no longer serve them. Some are on a medically supervised weight loss program, or preparing for bariatric surgery, and want to make it count. Others have spent years cycling through restrictive diets, or find themselves caught in emotional or binge eating. My focus is not on control, but on understanding what sits beneath these patterns.
These challenges often show up in everyday life, such as:
  • eating for comfort, relief, or distraction rather than hunger
  • feeling pulled toward certain foods despite wanting to feel more in control
  • losing momentum after a strong start and falling back into familiar patterns
  • using food to cope with stress, fatigue, or emotional overload
  • long cycles of dieting that leave you feeling exhausted and disconnected
  • low mood, burnout, or anxiety that quietly shape motivation and behaviour
  • feeling disconnected from your body or unsure how to trust it again
  • struggling with weight changes and the emotional impact this has on confidence, identity, and self-worth
My work is about understanding these patterns with clarity and care, creating a sense of safety that makes real change feel possible. The goal is not perfection, but steady, sustainable progress that feels honest and achievable.
Every appointment is delivered via telehealth, so you can access support from anywhere in Australia.
What I help with

Where my work makes the biggest difference

Most care leaves a gap. Appointments are short, and they focus on the physical: the numbers, the test results, the script. Yet one of the most powerful levers for better health is how you actually live, eat and cope, day to day, and the deeper patterns driving it, and that’s exactly what rarely gets real support. That gap is where my work lives. And because good care doesn’t happen in isolation, I work alongside your GP, psychologist, surgeon and specialists wherever that serves you.
A medically supervised program opens a window. What you build inside it decides whether the change lasts. I provide the full lifestyle side: losing weight safely, protecting your muscle, meeting your nutritional needs, and then the deeper work most programs skip. Together we build the eating patterns, skills and sense of self that hold your results long after the medical phase is behind you. This is the heart of my Inside Out Program.
Weight loss surgery is a life-changing decision, and one of the biggest investments you will ever make in your health. I help you create a clear vision for the life and health you want on the other side of it, then support you comprehensively, nutritionally, behaviourally, and through every stage of change, so you can lose weight safely and sustainably, reach the goals that made you choose surgery in the first place, and build the approach and mindset that carry those results long term.
Emotional eating isn’t a discipline problem. For most people it’s an emotional regulation strategy: food has become the way you meet very real psychological needs, for comfort, relief, escape or reward. Our work together makes that conscious, honours the needs underneath, and builds more functional ways of meeting them, so food can go back to being food.
For people who have spent years losing and regaining, restricting and rebounding. Together we get underneath the cycle, the patterns and needs that keep it turning, and build the new beliefs, mindsets and approaches that foster true sustainability: a way of eating and living that doesn’t need to be started over every Monday.
Support for the relationship you have with your body and yourself: body image, identity, and learning to see yourself as someone worthy of care. Because how you see yourself quietly shapes every health choice you make.
Damian Kukulies accredited practising dietitian
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The programs

I work through structured programs rather than scattered appointments, for a simple reason: real change happens outside the appointment. That’s why good advice alone is never enough, you need structure and scaffolding around your week, your decisions, and your development. My programs are curated, not collections of isolated check-ins: each session builds on the last, following a deliberate architecture that takes you from where you are now to where you want to be. And every program is built on my Inside Out approach, working not just on what you eat, but on the patterns, beliefs and identity that decide whether change lasts.
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The Inside Out Program

For people on a medically supervised weight loss program. My flagship 12-month program, built for the window this stage creates. Thirteen one-to-one telehealth sessions structured across the year, personalised resources and Inside Out Practices built around your specific patterns, and support between sessions, because the moments that decide your results rarely happen inside an appointment. Together we cover the clinical foundations: losing weight safely, protecting your muscle, managing the medical side well. And then we do the work almost nobody offers. We work at the level of your lifestyle, your identity, and your relationship with sustainability itself: letting go of the all-or-nothing thinking you’ve carried into every previous attempt, and building a steadier, more balanced way of relating to your health, so your results still stand when the medical phase has done its part. This is the program my whole approach was built for.

Bariatric surgery programs

For people preparing for, or living beyond, weight loss surgery. Surgery gives you a powerful tool, and a time-limited window in which to use it. Both of my bariatric programs are built on the same clinically structured first year: fifteen appointments from pre-operative preparation through every stage of your first twelve months, four stage-by-stage guides, and a personalised roadmap. The Transformation Program is my most complete level of care, everything in the first year, plus unlimited support between appointments, resources created specifically for you, and structured check-ins through years two and three, the exact period when research suggests around one in five people experience significant regain, after formal support has usually ended. The Foundations Package provides the complete first-year clinical structure for people confident managing independently between sessions, and you can move up to the Transformation Program at any time. We’ll work out which fits you best on our intro call.

How to begin

Every program starts the same way. Take the free assessment, then we meet for a relaxed intro call, no pressure, no obligation, where I’ll have already read your answers and we’ll work out together whether we’re the right fit and which program serves you best. I take on a limited number of new clients each month, so the assessment is the first step.

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Practitioner services

Professional development for clinicians, teams, and organisations

Damian Kukulies accredited practising dietitian

Professional mentoring and clinical supervision

I mentor dietitians, psychologists, and allied health professionals who want to deepen their work with eating behaviour, client engagement, and behaviour change. Mentoring focuses on real clinical challenges and building clarity, confidence, and clinical depth.
Areas often explored include:
  • Integrating psychological insight into nutrition care
  • Working skilfully with emotional and binge eating
  • Behaviour change strategies that deepen client engagement
  • Reflective practice and clinical confidence
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Workshops and training

I deliver tailored workshops for clinics and organisations seeking a more psychologically informed approach to nutrition and health. Sessions are practical, clinically grounded, and designed to deepen skill, confidence, and impact
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Collaborations and projects

I’m open to collaborating with aligned clinicians, creators, and organisations on thoughtful conversations and meaningful projects. I’m particularly interested in work that explores the intersection of nutrition, psychology, behaviour change, and human wellbeing.
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