Nutritional Therapy in Holborn, Central London

How a Session Works

What Your Plan Looks Like

A plan here is short and specific. Rather than a list of forbidden foods, you will usually get two or three changes with a clear reason attached: what to add at breakfast, what to do about the 4pm gap, how to make the meals that happen at a desk less of a write off.

The test of a plan is whether it survives a bad week. Cost, cooking time, who else you feed and how often you eat out are all part of the conversation, because a plan that ignores those is a plan you abandon by the second Wednesday.

Nutritional Therapy and Dietetics: the Difference

Dietitians are a statutorily regulated profession, protected by law and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, working largely in clinical settings with diagnosed conditions. Nutritional therapy is not statutorily regulated; practitioners register voluntarily with bodies such as the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council or the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine.

That difference matters when you choose. Nutritional therapy here is supportive, everyday care for wellbeing. If you have coeliac disease, diabetes, an eating disorder, kidney disease or another condition needing clinical dietary management, you should be under a dietitian or your medical team, and we will tell you that rather than take the booking.

Supplements and Testing

Food comes first here. Supplements are discussed where there is a reason, and always in the context of what you already take and what you are prescribed, since interactions are real and some combinations matter.

We are cautious about commercial food intolerance and hair mineral tests, which have a weak evidence base and can lead to unnecessary restriction. If a symptom pattern suggests something clinical, the right step is your GP for proper investigation, not a private panel.

What People Come With

The most common reasons are everyday rather than dramatic: bloating and irregular digestion, an energy dip in the middle of the afternoon, poor sleep alongside late eating, and the sense that eating has become chaotic during a busy period at work. Others come after a change in circumstances, such as shift work, a new baby, going vegetarian or vegan, or simply getting older and finding that what used to work no longer does.

Weight comes up often. The conversation here is about eating patterns, portion habits, alcohol, sleep and movement rather than a diet plan with a target attached, and anyone whose situation needs clinical management will be pointed towards their GP or a dietitian instead.

What Happens Between Appointments

• You leave with two or three changes, not a rewritten diet.
• A short food and drink record is usually kept, which is more useful than recall at the next appointment.
• Follow-ups are typically spaced two to four weeks apart so changes have time to show.
• Changes that did not work are as useful to report as those that did.
• Anything prescribed by your GP continues unchanged unless your GP says otherwise.

Nutritional Therapy, Ayurveda or Coaching?

• Choose nutritional therapy if your question is mainly about food, digestion and energy within a Western, evidence led framework.
• Choose Ayurveda if you would rather work within a traditional system that ties diet, routine and hands on treatment together.
• Choose coaching if you know broadly what to eat and the difficulty is habit, motivation and follow through.
• Choose acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine if you want to combine dietary change with a traditional medicine approach.

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