Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance, and individual care. It treats the whole person while seeking the root cause of health concerns, rather than simply treating the symptoms. Nutritional Therapy can help to reveal the contributing factors that are driving your health problems. Sometimes this may be obvious, but it often takes time and a lot of insight to understand why you may be suffering from a certain health condition. Once discovered and addressed, however, this leads to a longer-term resolution, as changes tend to be permanent when the root causes can be addressed.
Nutritional Therapy works in synergy with your body ensuring that you have all the nutrients needed to support your natural healing mechanisms. A wide range of tools is used to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. Nutritional Therapy promotes the benefits of good, wholesome, unprocessed foods, supplements, and changes to lifestyle to promote optimum health.
Why Nutritional Therapy?
Some people simply want to check that they are on the right track with regards to healthy eating. Others may want to lose weight or get help with their symptoms. Nutrition and lifestyle approaches to healthcare have been shown to support the health of all the major systems of the body. Typical priorities in nutritional therapy consultations include support to achieve:
- optimal energy levels
- healthy blood sugar balance
- improved and optimized immunity
- emotional and psychological wellbeing
- optimal gastrointestinal health
- identify and address food intolerances
- hormonal balance, optimal thyroid function
- balanced biotransformation and elimination
How can it help?
- Nutritional Therapy can help you understand how your existing diet may be impacting your well-being.
- It will teach you how to nourish your mind and body by understanding the nutrients you need – specific to your lifestyle or health conditions.
- It can help you to understand which supplements are beneficial to support the body if/when appropriate
- It can be a real education, understanding more about your physiology and how food and stress affect how you function
There are a wide range of laboratory functional tests that can be used to identify nutrient deficiencies or biochemical imbalance and where possible, NHS tests will
be recommended.
CONSULTATIONS
LF Holistic Therapies & Training offers one to one consultation/s with a professional nutritionist and packages tailored to your specific health and nutritional needs. The practitioner spends time with the patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease.
One to One Consultations
Before the first consultation, a health & nutrition questionnaire and 3-day food diary will be provided for the client to complete. During the consultation, we will take the information you have already provided and discuss it further to ensure you get a realistic plan that is tailored to your individual needs. An initial consultation typically lasts 90 minutes, and in this time, I will ask detailed questions such as:
- current health concerns
- symptoms
- diagnosis and treatment
- medical history
- lifestyle
- levels of physical activity
- use of medication and supplements
- diet
I will also discuss with you whether functional tests would be useful to determine underlying causes or nutritional deficiencies and recommend nutritional supplements where appropriate.
Following the consultation (within 24-48 hrs), I will send you an Individualised Health Plan summarising your health goals and providing dietary and lifestyle recommendations. You will also receive a Supplement Plan where relevant.
The length of treatment is individualized to the patient. However, I always recommend a follow up treatment 2-3 weeks later after your first initial consultation to assess your progress and achievements, answer any questions you may have, review the test results together, and make any necessary adjustments. Further follow-ups may be required depending on each individual situation and how quickly your body responds to Nutritional Therapy and the severity of your symptoms.
Initial consultations are preferably carried out in person, but when needed follow up consultations can take place by phone or WhatsApp/Zoom.
Treatment plans will often be communicated to your G.P. or healthcare provider with your permission. It is important that all medication is reported on the questionnaire. Thorough checks are done during the analysis of the questionnaire on all pharmaceutical prescriptions and over-the-counter medication, to ensure nutritional recommendations are safe with no contraindications.
INITIAL CONSULTATION
During the initial consultation there will be a thorough review of your current health status, along with diet and lifestyle, identifying where nutritional deficiencies exist and where diet and supplementary support may be of benefit to you.
Initial consultation generally lasts around 1hr 30min
Individualized Health Plan will be given to you within 48hrs after IC. However, any follow up consults would need to be booked and paid for separately. If you choose to continue working with me longer term following your initial plan, this cost is redeemable against your chosen package.
Price of initial consultation – £135
FOLLOW UP
During the follow-up consultation, which takes place 2-3 weeks after initial consultation (in some cases can be 4-6 weeks after IC), we discuss your progress, any successes and setbacks. We may also review questions and any nutrition/physical activity journals kept. Consultations can be tailored to fit your individual requirements to ensure you get the most out of them and to lead you on the path to achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Any further follow-ups are usually at 1-2 month intervals.
At the end we adjust your goals, tweak your nutrition program or determine a maintenance plan, and schedule any future follow-up appointments, if needed.
For some follow ups we may take a trip to your local shops, check out the contents of your kitchen, cook some meals together, or work with reading food labels.
Follow-up consultations generally last around 45-60 min.
Price of follow-up consultation – £65
INITIAL CONSULTATION
Treatment plans will often be communicated to your G.P. or healthcare provider with your permission and it is important that all medication is reported on the questionnaire. Thorough checks are done during the analysis of the questionnaire on all pharmaceutical prescriptions and over-the-counter medication, to ensure nutritional recommendations are safe with no contraindications.
During the initial consultation there will be a thorough review of your current health status, along with diet and lifestyle, identifying where nutritional deficiencies exist and where diet and supplementary support may be of benefit to you.
Initial consultation generally lasts around 1hr 30min
Individualized Health Plan will be given to you within 48hrs after IC. However, any follow up consults would need to be booked and paid for separately. If you choose to continue working with me longer term following your initial plan, this cost is redeemable against your chosen package.
Price of initial consultation – £135
FOLLOW UP
During the follow-up consultation, which takes place 2-3 weeks after initial consultation (in same cases can be 4-6 weeks after IC), we discuss your progress, any successes and setbacks. We may also review questions and any nutrition/physical activity journals kept. Consultations can be tailored to fit your individual requirements to ensure you get the most out of them and to lead you on the path to achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Any further follow-ups are usually at 1-2 month intervals.
At the end we adjust your goals, tweak your nutrition program or determine a maintenance plan, and schedule any future follow-up appointments, if needed.
For some follow ups we may take a trip to your local shops, check out the contents of your kitchen, cook some meals together, or work with reading food labels.
Follow-up consultations generally last around 45-60 min.
Price of follow-up consultation – £65
Packages
BASIC HEALTH BOOSTER PACKAGE
6-week package with a detailed study of your health and lifestyle, together with dietary recommendations and on-going support during the period.
A goal-oriented package in which we look to achieve a realistic goal over 6 weeks, including:
- 3 one-to-one sessions (1x initial consultation, 2x follow-ups)
- other treatments provided by LF Holistic Therapies would be offered as a part of this package in order to achieve desired goals – up to 2
- an individualised health plan (emailed withing 24-48hrs after IC)
- 20 min follow-up conversation explaining the plan and answering any questions that you might have
- supplement plan (if applicable)
- recommendation on clinical/functional tests and interpretation (where appropriate)
- two 45-60 min follow up face to face or phone/skype calls during the 6-week period, together with ongoing email support
Price £360
FULL ULTIMATE HEALTH PACKAGE
12-week package with a detailed study of your health and lifestyle, together with dietary recommendations and on-going support during the period. Other LF Holistic Therapies treatments also included in this package.
A goal-oriented package in which we look to achieve a realistic goal over 12 weeks, including:
- 5 one-to-one sessions (1x initial consultation, 4x follow-ups)
- other treatments provided by LF Holistic Therapies would be offered as a part of this package in order to achieve desired goals – up to 4
- an individualised health plan (emailed withing 24-48hrs after IC)
- 20 min follow-up conversation explaining the plan and answering any questions that you might have
- three in depth food diary reviews and updated health plans, incl. recipe options
- supplement plan (if applicable)
- recommendation on clinical/functional tests and interpretation (were appropriate)
- four 45-60 min follow up face to face or phone/skype calls during the 12-week period, together with ongoing email support
- Full Package also includes shopping trips and/or cooking demonstrations with the client