Emma Hannem, BASc, MHSc, RD
You deserve nutrition guidance that makes food feel clearer, calmer, and possible again
Food can become stressful when you are trying to manage a health condition, quiet unpredictable digestion, or feel more at ease around eating without falling into rigid rules. Emma Hannem, BASc, MHSc, RD meets you in that real-life space as a Registered Dietitian who combines nutrition science with warmth, self-compassion, and practical strategy. As a dietitian in Cambridge at CARESPACE, Emma helps you move beyond confusion and into a plan that fits your health needs, daily schedule, food preferences, budget, and goals.What makes Emma’s care stand out is the way she translates complex nutrition information into steps that feel achievable rather than overwhelming. You are not handed a one-size-fits-all plan or judged for what has or has not worked before. You are heard, guided, and supported with evidence-based recommendations that respect the full context of your life.
Emma Hannem, BASc, MHSc, RD brings evidence-based dietitian care to real life, not the other way around
Emma Hannem, BASc, MHSc, RD provides comprehensive dietitian care for a wide range of nutrition concerns, from everyday eating patterns and meal planning to chronic disease management, digestive health, and disordered eating support. Her Master of Health Science in Nutrition Communication matters because nutrition advice only helps when it can be understood, personalized, and carried into the moments where you actually make food decisions.Through nutrition counselling, Emma helps you connect the science to your lived experience: what you eat, how you feel, what your body is asking for, and what changes are realistic right now. She brings particular depth in chronic disease, digestive disorders, and healthy relationships with food, but those specialties sit on top of a broad foundation of dietitian care. Whether you arrive with a clear diagnosis or simply a sense that food has become too complicated, Emma helps you find a steadier path forward.
Your care starts with listening, then turns nutrition science into a plan you can actually use
When you meet Emma, the first priority is understanding you: your health history, symptoms, routines, stressors, food beliefs, current habits, and what success would genuinely look like in your life. From there, she helps you build a care plan that is realistic enough to follow and flexible enough to last. You can expect clear education, collaborative goal setting, practical meal and snack strategies, and ongoing adjustments as your needs change.At CARESPACE Hespeler Road, Emma’s care also fits within CARESPACE’s coordinated multidisciplinary model. When appropriate, she can align nutrition recommendations with the broader support you receive from other regulated health providers, helping your plan make sense alongside your medical needs, mental health goals, movement goals, and overall treatment direction. That matters because food rarely exists in isolation. Digestion, energy, blood sugar, appetite, stress, medications, sleep, pain, and mood can all influence how nutrition works for you. Emma’s approach keeps those connections in view so your plan feels integrated, not fragmented.
Her training in hospitals, long-term care, eating disorder support, and nutrition communication gives you practical guidance with clinical depth
Emma holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Nutrition and Food from Toronto Metropolitan University, where she graduated with distinction, and a Master of Health Science in Nutrition Communication with accredited dietetic practicum training. That combination gives you more than nutrition knowledge; it gives you a dietitian trained to explain information clearly, adapt recommendations to real barriers, and support change without making food feel like a test.Her clinical training includes hospital settings, long-term care, and eating disorder support services. At William Osler Health System, she gained exposure to acute and complex healthcare environments. In long-term care settings such as Extendicare, she assessed nutrition status, developed nutrition diagnoses, created feasible intervention and follow-up plans, and documented care to clinical standards. Through Body Brave, she contributed to eating-disorder education resources and qualitative service analysis, strengthening her ability to approach food, body image, and behaviour change with care and nuance. She also holds a Certificate in Food Security and Advanced Food Handler Certification, and has contributed to published research on women’s health, giving her a broader understanding of how access, culture, life stage, safety, and health systems shape nutrition choices.
Whether your goal is managing chronic disease, easing digestive symptoms, or rebuilding trust with food, Emma helps you move forward without shame
In addition to comprehensive dietitian care, Emma brings special depth to chronic disease nutrition. If you are managing diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart health concerns, or another long-term condition, food advice can quickly become confusing or restrictive. Emma helps you understand what matters most, why it matters, and which changes are likely to have the biggest impact. Instead of handing you a long list of rules, she works with you to build patterns around fibre, protein, meal timing, hydration, grocery choices, label reading, and sustainable routines that support your health while still leaving room for enjoyment.Digestive disorders require the same balance of science and practicality. If bloating, reflux, constipation, diarrhea, food triggers, or IBS-like symptoms are shaping your day, Emma helps you look for patterns without making your world smaller than it needs to be. She can help you clarify what you are eating, when symptoms appear, what changes are worth testing, and how to protect nutrition adequacy while exploring digestive strategies. Her goal is not to make you afraid of more foods; it is to help you feel more confident about what supports your body.
Emma’s work in disordered eating and healthy relationships with food is grounded in compassion. If you feel stuck between wanting better health and fearing that nutrition support will become another set of rules, her approach can feel different. She helps you move away from all-or-nothing thinking, guilt, and diet-culture pressure, and toward nourishment that respects your body, your goals, and your mental well-being. For some, that means reintroducing consistency after restriction. For others, it means learning how to respond to hunger, fullness, cravings, emotional eating, or fear foods with more curiosity and less judgment. Across all three specialty areas, Emma’s strength is helping you make meaningful nutrition changes without losing trust in yourself.
