Private 1-2-1 Consultations
Whether you are right at the beginning of your journey or have been living with your IBD for years and feel like you have tried almost everything, we are here to help you.
We provide a professional, evidence-based, compassionate, educational, and positive approach to nutrition to help you optimise your nutritional intake, reduce nutrient deficiencies, include as wide a range of foods as possible, remove fear from food, help you manage your symptoms and ultimately help to improve your quality of life.
We will also be your patient advocate, helping you to understand your condition better and ensuring you are getting the best care. We have partnerships with leading gastroenterologists and IBD specialist psychologists so if you need further support in these areas we know the best people to refer you to.
Our team have IBD too so we have a unique, compassionate understanding of your experience living with a lifelong digestive condition and everything that comes with that.
WHAT IMPROVEMENTS MIGHT YOU SEE WORKING WITH US?
During enquiry calls with any prospective patients, we are often asked what improvements they are likely to see after working with us. As we all know, everyone's experience with IBD is different and every one of our patients will be at a slightly different stage in their journey, so it's hard to give an exact answer.
However, over the years we have used evidence-based tools to track symptom improvement during our patients' journeys with us and these show:
By the 1st follow up appointment, patients see an average improvement in symptom scores of nearly 50%
By the last appointment, patients see an average improvement in symptom scores of nearly 80%
While we cannot guarantee that this will be the case for all of our patients, we can promise that we will do everything we can to optimise your nutritional intake, improve your symptoms and help to educate and empower you with knowledge about diet and your IBD. This way you will have a much greater understanding and confidence in what you are doing dietary wise to support yourself longer term.
See how we have helped other people like you here or read on to find out more about the appointment options we offer.
01. STARTER sessions package
2 hours of appointment time - usually split as a 75-90 minute initial and 30-45 minute follow up consultation (via video call)
Case analysis and health assessment
Personalised nutrition, lifestyle and supplement (if appropriate) plan after each appointment.
Support between appointments via secure messaging service, if needed.
This option may be suitable for you if you have already made some changes to your diet and lifestyle and want further support and guidance to make sure you are doing everything you can to support yourself. It can also be a good place to start if you are not sure yet about committing to a longer term option (see below).
We will ask you to complete a questionnaire ahead of your first appointment which includes your health history, current health status and a week long food and symptom diary. Then you will have your initial appointment which will be for 75-90 minutes. This gives us the opportunity to get to know you and for you to tell us about you and your life. We will talk about your journey so far, your symptoms, and your current diet and lifestyle. We will discuss your goals and what you’d like to achieve from our sessions together. We will also be able to answer any questions you have and clarify anything you are not sure about when it comes to your condition and your nutrition. We will then go through the dietary and lifestyle adaptions for you to put in place to set you on your way to achieving your goals. We will guide you on what the best, evidence based, changes would be for you, but we will also work collaboratively together to ensure any changes are manageable and fit into your lifestyle.
Your follow up appointment will be 30-45 minutes, depending on how much time we used at your initial appointment, and will usually be four to six weeks later. During this appointment we will discuss your progress and make any further changes as needed. If we think at this stage you would benefit from more sessions we can discuss this and arrange additional sessions.
All appointments are done via online video call (Zoom) so it does not matter where you live - we work with clients in the UK and across the world.
NB: It may be appropriate for you to have some further tests done either before or during our appointments together, for example, blood tests or stool tests. Usually we will be able to get all these through your GP or gastroenterologist on the NHS.
02. support sessions package
Three hours of consultations over approximately 12 weeks (via video call) - usually a 90 minute initial appointment and three 30 minute follow up appointments.
Case analysis and health assessment
Personalised nutrition, lifestyle and supplement (if appropriate) plan after each appointment.
Support between appointments via secure messaging service, if needed.
This option may be more suitable for you if you are in a flare, are at the beginning of your journey looking at nutrition with you condition, or need longer term support.
You will usually have appointments every two to four weeks initially but we will work out what is best for you time wise so you can get the most out of the sessions. We will ask you to complete a questionnaire ahead of our first appointment which includes your health history, current health status and a week long food and symptom diary. You will then have your initial appointment which will be for 90 minutes. This gives us the opportunity to get to know you and for you to tell us about you and your life. We will talk about your journey so far, your symptoms, and your current diet and lifestyle. We will discuss your goals and what you’d like to achieve from our sessions together. We will also be able to answer any questions you have and clarify anything you are not sure about when it comes to your condition and your nutrition. We will then go through the first dietary and lifestyle adaptions for you to put in place to set you on your way to achieving your goals. We will guide you on what the best, evidence based, changes would be for you, but we will also work collaboratively together to ensure any changes are manageable and fit into your lifestyle.
Your follow up appointments will usually be 30 minutes so we will usually have three of these but if we need more time at one or more of the sessions we will just use the time in a manner we feel is most appropriate for you so you can get the most from our sessions together. If you need further support once the 3 hours has been used we can add addition sessions on.
All appointments are done via online video call (Zoom) so it does not matter where you live - we work with clients in the UK and across the world.
NB: It may be appropriate for you to have some further tests done either before or during our appointments together, for example, blood tests or stool tests. Usually we will be able to get all these through your GP or gastroenterologist on the NHS.
Prices start from £350 for our Starter Package. Payment plans are available.