How my work has evolved
Where it all began
My interest in nutrition began with my own experience of poor health.
At seventeen, after reacting badly to antimalarial medication during a trip to Kenya, I developed a suddenly sensitive digestive system and numerous food intolerances. Before then, I had eaten freely and rarely thought about my health. Suddenly, food felt complicated and my body unpredictable.
A few years later, while volunteering in the Amazon rainforest, I became extremely unwell after drinking improperly purified river water. Although the acute illness eventually passed, I was left with debilitating fatigue, brain fog, aching muscles, bloating and abdominal pain.
I returned home searching for answers. Medical investigations did not reveal a clear explanation, yet the symptoms were affecting almost every part of my life. I struggled through university feeling exhausted, anxious and increasingly disconnected from the body I had once trusted.
Discovering a new path
A weekly meditation and breathing class became an unexpected turning point. It offered a small pocket of calm and helped me notice how closely my digestion, stress and nervous system were connected.
Soon afterwards, I began working with a nutritional therapist. For the first time, someone helped me look at the whole picture rather than treating each symptom in isolation.
Through nutrition, carefully selected supplements, testing and changes to the way I lived, my digestion gradually settled and my energy returned. I learned how to cook properly and discovered that nourishing food could be pleasurable, comforting and creative—not simply something to control.
The process was not instant or perfectly linear, but it changed my relationship with my health. I no longer saw my body as something that had failed me. I began to understand it as something that needed listening to and supporting.
That experience led me to train as a nutritional therapist. Gut health naturally became a central part of my practice, and it remains one of my key areas of clinical work today.
Motherhood changed the picture again
Many years later, pregnancy and motherhood brought a different kind of transformation.
While I was pregnant, our home was hit by a devastating flash flood. Overnight, the sense of safety and stability we had been building disappeared. We were uprooted from our home for almost a year, navigating pregnancy, uncertainty and a major renovation at the same time.
I then entered motherhood carrying not only the physical demands of pregnancy, birth and recovery, but the emotional weight of everything that had happened around us.
Becoming a mother showed me how incomplete so much health advice can feel when it does not account for the reality of someone’s life.
It is one thing to recommend beautifully balanced meals, restorative sleep, regular movement and time for nervous-system regulation. It is another to try to do those things while recovering from birth, feeding a baby, functioning on broken sleep and carrying the relentless mental load of caring for another person.
I experienced first-hand how easily a mother’s own nourishment can fall to the bottom of the list—and how often symptoms such as exhaustion, brain fog, digestive changes, anxiety or feeling unlike yourself are accepted as an inevitable part of motherhood.
How my practice has changed
Motherhood has made me a more compassionate and realistic practitioner.
I still believe deeply in investigating the underlying drivers of digestive symptoms, hormonal concerns, fatigue and persistent health problems. Gut health remains woven throughout my work because digestion influences how we absorb nutrients and interacts closely with our immune, hormonal and nervous systems.
But I am less interested than ever in creating perfect protocols that bear little resemblance to someone’s actual life.
My work now places greater emphasis on nourishment, resilience and practical support. I consider what someone realistically has the time, energy, finances and emotional capacity to do—not just what might look ideal on paper.
I have also developed a particular interest in supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum recovery and the years of motherhood that follow. The traditional idea of postpartum as a short six-week window does not reflect the lasting demands that pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, disrupted sleep and caregiving can place on a woman’s body.
This special focus does not mean I only work with mothers. I continue to support women at many different stages of life, particularly those experiencing gut problems, fatigue, hormonal symptoms and nervous-system dysregulation.
The way I work today
My approach combines nutritional therapy, functional medicine and health coaching.
Depending on what you need, our work may include:
- understanding your health history and the patterns behind your symptoms
- supporting digestion, nutrient status, hormones and energy
- functional testing where it is genuinely useful
- carefully considered supplements
- practical, nourishing food that fits into everyday life
- supporting stress regulation, sleep and emotional wellbeing
I do not believe health requires rigid rules, endless restriction or doing everything perfectly.
My aim is to help you understand your body, feel properly supported and find a way forward that is both evidence-informed and sustainable—so that you can feel more nourished, resilient and like yourself again.