The brain health nutritionist

Qualifications, What I Can Do For You & My Story..


Qualifications
 

I hold a BSc Hons degree in Nutritional Medicine (2006) and am a registered member of the British Association for Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), which sets the standard of excellence in science-based personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine.
 

I have extensive experience in female hormonal health, including conducting a small study on the effects of diet and supplementation on premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Alongside my clinical practice, I also spent five years as the nutritional expert for a London-based food supplement company, gaining further expertise in evidence-based nutrition.

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What I can do for you
 

I help people save time, money, and energy when navigating their health. As a busy 50-year-old working mum of two preteen/teen boys, I understand the high demands of modern life. That’s why my plans are always practical, sustainable, and tailored, with coaching along the way. I also share lifestyle hacks that keep me and my brain healthy while reducing comfort eating.
 

My goal is to empower people—whether you’re suffering the effects of chronic illness, seeking to protect and optimise your health, or wanting to manage your weight and improve your relationship with food. Chronic stress can disrupt brain function, mood, resilience, hormonal health, vitality, pain perception, metabolism, and longevity—and it often increases cravings. Stress also negatively affects the gut, and a healthy gut is essential for a healthy brain, and vice versa.
 

By addressing nutrient deficiencies and health imbalances, and ensuring you are well nourished, you become more resilient and better equipped to face life’s challenges. Good nutrition and self-care fuel a positive cycle of health and wellbeing.
 

I take a warm, compassionate, down-to-earth, and non-judgemental approach. I can also work with your GP or consultant to provide integrated healthcare, creating a plan that’s safe alongside medication where appropriate.

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My story
 

I decided to undertake a nutrition degree (my second degree) in my 20’s when I was feeling miserable due to severe weight gain I couldn't shift from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). And even before that, I had (undiagnosed) ADHD & my life had been blighted by PMDD (the two often co-exist) - premenstrual dysphoric disorder which robbed me of a week of every month since my teens. None of which doctors were able to help with.
 

Then in 2007, whilst also completing my nutrition training, I took on too many simultaneous projects - typical behaviour of an impulsive ADHD brain, doing up our first property and organising our wedding. And with a strong genetic vulnerability, I had a severe mental health crisis & burnout. I experienced depression, anxiety, culminating in 6 weeks being bedridden with post-viral fatigue & fibromyalgia (a chronic pain disorder).

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Finally, in 2010, after 3 preceding miscarriages, plus a very traumatic pregnancy & delivery, I experienced an acute postnatal mental illness, being hospitalised ten days after my first son was born (unfortunately bipolar runs heavily on one side of the family.) 

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I have overcome these traumas and debilitating struggles, with no more PMDD - despite being in the midst of the perimenopause. And in my spare time, I captain a netball team. See the blog for more on my personal story. And for my experience with ADHD- see here.​

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It’s become my life’s passion to help people get better with tailored evidence-based nutrition, functional medicine & nutrigenomics using all my clinical & personal experience, plus a constant thirst for knowledge.

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You can & deserve to feel better.