A Bit About Me
Hello, I’m Louise, a postgraduate qualified Nutritional Therapist, and I help professional women with adult acne, hormonal symptoms (like PMS, PMDD or endometriosis) and IBS symptoms feel more at home in their own skin and body.
I understand what it's like to feel self-conscious
I kept makeup by my bed for years. Not on the bedside table — actually by the bed, so I could put it on before my partner saw my face in the morning.
Cystic acne from my early teens. Period pain which was so bad that I'd brace myself to walk upright between lessons at school. Bloating, which I thought was just normal. Doesn't everyone undo their trousers at the end of the day? Fatigue, a GP told me, was just what being a student felt like. Nobody joined the dots, nobody asked me about food. I spent fifteen years convinced there was something fundamentally wrong with me.
My journey started with my daughter. She was six weeks old when she was put on omeprazole. At five months, her eczema exploded when she started having a bottle. I googled, cut out dairy and within days, she was off her medication. When I pushed for dairy-free formula on prescription, I had to fight for it. The system that had medicated a six-week-old without hesitation couldn't move quickly to support the solution I'd found myself.
But something else was shifting. With dairy and soy removed during breastfeeding, I was eating properly for the first time. My skin cleared, my periods - which had been irregular and painful- became regular. The exhaustion started to lift. I then discovered nutritional therapy was a real, science-based discipline. I felt something I hadn't felt in years: excited. I just wish someone had told me it existed sooner.
I retrained while pregnant with my son and quit my corporate job to study full-time. Then finished my final assignment just as my youngest was born. The career I'd left rewarded stress and didn't notice people. Nutritional therapy gave me back something I hadn't had in a long time - control over my work, my time and eventually my face in the mirror.
The women who come to me have usually tried everything: antibiotics, elimination diets, supplement protocols etc. They've been told their bloods are normal and to come back in three months, and they arrive not quite believing this time will be different. What I do first isn't hand them a plan but investigate. Functional testing that looks at the whole system - stress response, hormone clearance, genetics, gut health - to find what's actually driving their symptoms. Then we build, slowly, from foundations that fit their real life. Their schedule, their household and their relationship with food.
There are definitely no unsustainable restrictions or making food the enemy.
The women I work with stop keeping makeup by the bed. They go to the beach without spending the whole day dreading the moment their concealer sweats off. They stop checking their face before every meeting. They start feeling normal and confident. Some of them even use the word beautiful.
I know what that feels like to finally get to. I was a long time getting there.
My approach is simple and practical
I have a food first philosophy, but I am equally passionate about helping you find realistic ways to look after yourself in the middle of real life. I specialise in adult acne and that messy overlap between skin, food rules and self worth. I use an eating disorder informed, anti-diet approach, so we can improve your skin without sacrificing your mental health. I am trained in disordered eating and body image work, so we will always look after your relationship with food alongside your skin and hormone health. I am here to provide support and gentle accountability as you make changes and embed them into your daily routine for the long term, not just for a “good” week.
Let's Talk
Not sure if Nutritional Therapy is right for you? Fill in my short application form so I can understand a bit more about you, and then I will get in touch to discuss how my personalised approach could help.
There is no obligation to work with me afterwards, but it is a great opportunity to have a chat, ask questions and get a clearer sense of whether this is the right next step for you.