About

I want to help people feel better physiologically and emotionally so that they can do the things that matter to them in their lives, particularly where conventional medicine hasn’t been able to provide all the answers”

Initially Rachel pursued a career in Medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, specializing in Immunology and Cellular Pathology in her Part II. She went on to work in Business Strategy Consultancy with Bain & Company in the UK and US before returning to healthcare to study for an MSc in Personalised Nutrition. She regards Nutrition and the Functional Medicine Approach as an alternative tool-kit that complements existing medical practice particularly in the field of chronic illness. She believes that a multi-disciplinary approach is in the client’s best interest and collaboration with a client’s medical practitioners is a fundamental ethos of her clinic. She has been interested in food, and cooking ‘health-supporting’ food for as long as she can remember.

Rachel has a practice interest in functional gut disorders and particularly how the microbiome of the gut may affect gut integrity, digestion and immune function. The production of butyrate from the digestion of fibre by bacteria in the gut and how it might influence autoimmune disease (particularly Multiple Sclerosis) was the subject of her MSc dissertation (click here to see an abstract). She believes that a disrupted gut microbiome and inflammation in the gut may be a common factor in the myriad of symptoms associated with autoimmune diseases.

Rachel is Registered Nutritional Therapist, accredited by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, approved as an Accredited Regsiter by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, a body accountable to Parliament.

She is also a Registered Nutritionist (mBANT) approved by the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy. This provides assurance that her nutrition consultancy work meets UK-wide standards of clinical professionalism and patient safety. She also keeps up to date with the latest clinical and research developments by following a regular programme of Continuous Professional Development. She also has a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner qualification in life-coaching.

She is currently proud to be Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, a leading training provider for Nutritional Therapists in the UK for over 35 years.