Mood Matters Dietetics Resource Library
Resources I love and recommend.
What is This?
This is a handpicked library of the business tools, clinical resources, and educational supports I use and trust in my own practice.
You’ll see affiliate links throughout this resource list. These don’t cost you anything extra, ever, and I only include products and platforms I personally use and believe will be genuinely helpful in practice.
Evidence-based resources to deepen your understanding of food and mood.
Practical tools to help clients build skills and support mental well-being.
Resources to help you practice with greater awareness and inclusivity.
Learn About Mental Health Nutrition
Evidenced-based resources to improve your clinical knowledge.
Deep dive into scientific literature with me and our peers.
This once-a-month meeting is a low lift to keep up-to-date with the research world!
Also try your university’s library. Sometimes city libraries have access to journals as well.
A non-profit education hub dedicated to furthering the field of Nutritional Psychology, including courses and a library.
Founded by Felice Jacka at Deakin University, this site compiles research and offers resources on nutrition for mental health
Made for dietitians to help them navigate complicated medication regimens.
Books
Resources to Support Your Clients and Patients
Apps, books, websites, and more
By Drew Ramsey, MD
This gives a client-centered, actionable overview of nutrients that can improve mental health.
The 6-week meal plan is a good recipe source, but I don’t encourage clients to try to follow it to a T.
By Felice Jacka, PhD, OAM
Dr. Jacka is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and is adept at translating research to real-world implementation as she is at designing the study in the first place.
Food tracking and more.
From David Wiss, the food tracker is free of charge and allows clients to track by food groups rather (rather than nutrients) and record mindfulness cues.
There are paid education modules available.
You don’t have to make that handout you need!
Well Resourced is virtual store front for handouts (and more) all created by dietitians.
Perfect for clients who have a disorder of the gut-brain connection, particularly IBS.
This is app-based gut-directed hypnotherapy. I find this much more preferable to a Low FODMAP Trial for most of my clients.
Personal And Professional Development
Grow your confidence, strengthen your leadership, and build the internal skills you need to thrive in your practice and your life.
Books for Systems
- Profit First – for money management
- Atomic Habits
Courses & Websites to Learn Business Skills
Books to Learn Business
Books on IDEA
- Eating While Black
- Culture, Foodways, & Counseling
- White Fragility
- How to Be an Antiracist – There is a workbook and podcast to support this book as well.
- Antagonist, Advocate, and Allies – This one is still on my TBR list
- Just Roots Consulting has a great starter list.
Books to Improve Counseling Skills
Websites and Courses on Counseling Skills
- Dietitian Counseling Skills
- EDRDPro – This is an excellent membership for anyone interested in eating disorders, body image, or learning counseling skills.
Websites and Courses on Body Image
Books on Body Image
Books for Mindfulness
Advocacy, Inclusivity, and Equity
Resources to Make a Change
These are tools and organizations that help support more accessible, inclusive, and equity-focused care.
They’re useful for staying aware, learning, and integrating more thoughtful practices into everyday work.
An app that connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers or professionals for visual assistance.
In my experience, most calls last less than 5 minutes.
A mutual aid directory that helps connect LGBTQ+ individuals with a community-based support system.
The primary action is for volunteers to”stand in” for family members for individuals who don’t have support from their own.
A free series of assessments designed to help individuals explore and reflect on their unconscious biases.
Harvard also offers Digital Accessibility resources.
An organization offering frameworks and resources to help educators and leaders build more equitable systems and practices.
A literacy-support tool that improves digital accessibility for neurodivergent and multi-lingual learners.
They have workplace tools available.
A practical framework for reducing unintentional bias in everyday decision-making.
I actually just found this book and haven’t read it yet.
Evidence-based tools for improving access, cultural humility, and trauma-informed systems.
Supports the recruitment and retention of students and professionals from underrepresented groups in nutrition and dietetics.
Community and Networking
Building a supportive network is one of the best ways to grow professionally, stay inspired, and find collaboration opportunities. These are the places I turn to for connection, learning, and community.
This seems more successful for local networking rather than online businesses.
Build and Run a Business
Tools I use in the various aspects of my businesses.
My go-to practice management platform for scheduling, charting, secure messaging, and program delivery. Built with nutrition professionals in mind.
A reliable, HIPAA-compliant (with BAA) system for email, file storage, and documentation that keeps everything organized in one place.
When connected through Google Workspace and properly configured, Voice becomes a HIPAA-compliant option for business calls and texts.
Meghan has been my insurance biller for years, taking the biggest bottleneck and learning curve off my plate.
A flexible, customizable website platform that makes it easy to build a site you can grow with over time.
Wix and Squarespace are other options, but don’t have the SEO and customizable options that WordPress does.
A simple way to stay on top of website privacy and cookie consent requirements with tools that adapt to new regulations.
A hosting provider known for excellent support and speed. Great for a fast, stable WordPress site without the tech headaches.
SiteGround is a good alternative and offers introductory pricing.
One of the most widely used resources for digital accessibility, especially useful if you maintain a website, including training and tech support
A web browser plug that evaluates your site for accessibility.
A user-friendly design tool for creating graphics, presentations, handouts, and social media content. No design background needed.
A scheduling and automation platform that helps streamline your Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook posting.
A writing assistant that helps clean up grammar, clarity, and tone while you’re drafting content, emails, or website copy.
There’s even an inclusivity checker to make sure you avoid biased language.
A free photo library where you can find clean, professional images for blog posts, presentations, and social content.
I don’t use this much anymore. Because it’s free, you tend to see the same images over and over. A paid Canva subscription offers more options.
My email marketing platform of choice. Complex to use, but offers a variety of list-building, automation, and product options.
Edit videos by editing the generated captions. You can also remove awkward gaps, verbal fillers, and “fluff.” And, videos longer than 3 minutes generate “magic edits” – < 60-second videos for use on social media.
In addition to editing uploaded videos, you can also record directly on the platform. I use the free version correctly, but the paid version has great features I’ll use in the future.
My project management hub for organizing tasks, content planning, and long-term business goals.
I even use this for household tasks and personal goals.
The free version is more than I need as a soloprenuer, but a team would benefit from a paid subscription.
A free accounting tool that makes invoicing, receipt tracking, and basic bookkeeping straightforward for small practices.
An essential tool for understanding how people use your website: what’s working, what isn’t, and where to focus your efforts.
Helps you monitor site performance, fix SEO issues, and understand how your pages show up in Google search.
Deep dive into how readers use your site, with a variety of insights (such as “rage clicks”) and even short recordings of scroll and click behavior during a session.
Similar to Google Analytics, but for tracking performance on Bing
An affiliate program that allows you to link to anything sold on Amazon.
This program has notoriously low pay-out.
However, if your link takes them to Amazon, anything they buy counts towards your payments.
Mid-tier ad network for sites that don’t have enough visitors for the higher-tier networks.
My blog displays Journey ads, however, they have recently come under a lot of scrutiny for monetizing AI-slop websites.
Mediavine and Raptive are higher-tier ad networks, and better options if you have the traffic.
Place resources you created for sales to other dietitians.
Consider: handouts, presentations, worksheets for clients, or education for dietitians.
Affiliate Marketing
Outside of Amazon, there are a variety of affiliate programs. Consider:
Consider products you already use and love, and see if they have an affiliate program.
That’s what I did when putting this library. If a product I use doesn’t have an affiliate program, it’s still here vs finding a different option that I’m not familiar with.
This is the self-publishing branch of Ingram Content Group.
Similar to the better-known Amazon KDP program, but better.
Ingram Spark offers better paper quality and a large distribution capability. Meaning, you can sell your self-published book on Amazon AND in bookstores.
Erica Julson is amazing. She has a background in teaching, making her content very easy to understand.
I started with her SEO Made Simple Course, which was incredible.
Her new membership has been invaluable in learning the ropes of email marketing, automations, and product creation.
Free resources include her blog, Facebook group, and Podcast, which has been transitioning to a YouTube channel.
Heather Neal has done wonders with her annual RD Entrepreneur Symposium (I think this is where I first found Erica).
She also offers group coaching and programs to help scale your business.
Hannah and Morgan offer fantastic, sassy business advice on a wide range of topics on their podcast.
Their Accountabilty Club is a quarterly membership that includes group coaching and co-working sessions.
They also occasionally put out great free webinars. (This was the first place Asana started making sense in my head. And when I got stuck, Morgan jumped on a virtual meeting within minutes and helped me figure it out).
AND.. They received the BHN DPGs 2025 Excellence in Media Award.