About Me

I’ve been passionate about food & health for my whole adult life. Becoming a Nutritional Therapist has brought together many strands that have run through my life so far: Nourishing food, helping relationships, taking and encouraging time in nature, regular movement, caring about our impacts on the natural world and above all, taking time to nurture and develop ourselves and those we hold dear.

I’ve followed a mix of dietary patterns over the years, and I feel most aligned with my values when I eat mostly plants. But now that I have a family I have chosen not to rule things out, so I don’t claim to be vegan or even vegetarian. The term flexitarian sounds to me like someone who lives off yoga alone, but it’s probably the closest definition to how I eat now.

Formal training in Naturopathic nutrition helped my understand why something that helps one person can have a very different effect on someone else. There is no single nutritional prescription that can help everyone equally, or indeed help everyone at all. One person’s gut-becalming kefir grains can be another person’s histamine-promoting tempest.

As with so many things in life, context is key, and one of the things I love about working in nutrition is joining dots and making connections that clarify how your individual context impacts the affects of foods on your mind and body. I also love witnessing the changes that can come from making more deliberate choices about what and how we eat. Most of all I love passing on my passion for understanding the transformative power of food in a clear and meaningful way that you can carry with you into the future.