New South Wales (NSW) - South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) - Annaleise Robertson

The Eating Disorder Coordinator in your local health district provides clinical consultation and support to health professionals and teams treating people with eating disorders. This service is only available for health professionals.

Annaleise Robertson is the local eating disorder coordinator for the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD), along with Joanna Williams.

Annaleise (she/her) is a senior clinical psychologist and supervisor who specialises in systemic and psychodynamic frameworks for working with people experiencing eating disorders, their families, and the professionals that support them. Annaleise currently works in the South-Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Eating Disorders Clinical Support Team and as the Eating Disorder Coordinator/Co-Program Lead (Wednesdays). Prior to this she worked at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead from 2012-2023, with extensive experience in evidence informed inpatient, outpatient and group therapy. She was lucky enough to spend two years living in London (2019-2021) where she worked at the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) and undertook further psychodynamic and systemic training at the Tavistock and Portman Institute.

Annaleise provides regular education, training, and supervision in eating disorders, including presenting conference workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Prague, London and New York. Annaleise has provided consultation with the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC), the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) as a group supervisor and is co-chair of the ANZAED Psychodynamic Special Interest Group. She also supervised the Family Therapy clinic at the University of Sydney (2022-2023) and lectures for postgraduate and undergraduate courses. She is passionate about valuing diversity and understanding the unique perspectives of everyone she works with.