About Bonny

I spent years looking fine on the outside.
While something underneath quietly came undone.

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from carrying too much for too long — and hiding it well. I know that exhaustion from the inside. Not from a textbook. Not from a case study. From my own life.

What I do now came directly from what I had to find my way through. And I found my way through because of kinesiology, holistic nutrition, and finally — finally — understanding why my nervous system worked the way it did.

I'm Bonny Thio. Kinesiologist, Accredited Practising Dietitian, and someone who has actually been where many of the women I work with are sitting right now.

Book a discovery call See sessions & pricing

My story

For a long time, I was very good at functioning. Type-A, driven, always showing up — while underneath, my body was quietly falling apart. Chest infections that kept coming back. Hair falling out. Missing periods. Anxiety that never fully switched off. Insomnia. I was doing everything "right" nutritionally, and none of it was touching what was actually wrong.

The pandemic split the crack wide open. A panic attack triggered interstitial cystitis that lasted eighteen months. I reached a place darker than I'd ever been — depleted in a way that felt structural. I saw practitioner after practitioner. Nothing got to the root of it. I was desperate.

That desperation was what finally cracked me open.

I discovered kinesiology — and understood, for the first time, why nothing else had worked. It gets to the places that talking and eating plans can't reach. The anxiety that had been running me for years began to lift. My body started to heal. In 2024, I was also recognised as AuDHD — which finally gave me language for a nervous system I'd spent my whole life trying to manage against the wrong blueprint.

I now run a neuroaffirming practice because I have been the woman in that chair, trying everything, feeling like something was still being missed. That's what I bring to every session — not just two degrees and a treatment table, but the actual experience of having been in it and found a way through.

Treating symptoms as separate compartments never works.
Treat yourself as a whole.

"From the first session she took the time to really listen. Her clinic room is warm and welcoming, and she has such a calming presence. After my follow-up I noticed a real shift — I felt clearer, more focused, and like something had genuinely changed for the better."

Danielle Terhaar · Google Review

What it's actually like to work with me

Sessions are quiet, unhurried, and honest. I ask questions that go beneath the surface — not to analyse you, but because the body responds to what's true, and we need to find it.

I'm direct. If I notice something, I'll name it. If something connects to something deeper, I'll say so. I'm also warm — I genuinely care about the women who trust me with this work, and that care doesn't switch off between sessions.

You don't need to have any background in kinesiology or energy work. You don't need to be spiritual. You just need to be willing to pay attention to what your body has already been trying to tell you.

Work with me Book a discovery call

The training behind the lived experience

I have two formal qualifications — kinesiology and dietetics — that work together in a way neither one does alone. Kinesiology reaches what talking alone can't. Nutrition addresses what the body needs to heal from the inside out. Together, they treat the whole person — and your body determines which thread we pull at any point.

Education

  • Master of Dietetics
    Deakin University, 2016
  • Bachelor of Human Nutrition
    majoring in Human Physiology · La Trobe University, 2013

Registrations & memberships

  • Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD)
    Dietitians Australia
  • Certified Emotions & Metaphysical Kinesiology™ Practitioner
  • Interest groups
    Mental Health · Integrative Medicine · Gastroenterology · Eating Disorders

Kinesiology training

By the Bay Kinesiology

Emotions & Metaphysical Kinesiology — Practitioner Certification

  • Mastery of the Five Elements: Core Essence & Character
  • Meridians of Chi Kinesiology
  • Chakra Healing Kinesiology
  • Transpersonal Chakra Kinesiology
  • Aura Balancing Kinesiology

Additional qualifications

  • Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certificate
    Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Certificate
    Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors
  • Certificate III and IV
    VFA Learning
  • Usui Reiki Master
    Level 1, Level 2 and Master

What I actually believe about healing

Your symptoms are signals, not sentences. Your anxiety, your exhaustion, your body that keeps getting sick, your inability to let things go — these are not character flaws. They are communication. The work is learning what they're communicating, and giving the body something different to work with.

I believe the nervous system is at the centre of almost everything. When it's stuck in survival mode, nothing else can function the way it's meant to — not your digestion, not your sleep, not your relationships, not your sense of self. Healing the nervous system is where most of the real work happens.

I believe in a neuroaffirming approach — meaning I don't expect your brain to work a certain way, and I won't ask you to override your nervous system with willpower. We work with how you're actually wired. That changes everything.

And I believe that the women who come to see me aren't broken. They've been carrying too much, for too long, with not enough real support. That's not a pathology. That's a situation we can change.

Work with me Explore sessions & pricing

Ready to stop just managing?

Book free call