WELCOME, WE ARE SO PLEASED TO HAVE YOU HERE
I'M RACHEL
Rachel is a Counselling Dietitian, Personal Trainer and Mummy with a love for nature.
Her favourite things are freshly baked bread, birkenstock sandals (she even got married in them), dungarees, the ocean, the first sip of freshly brewed coffee and morning sunrises.
About Rachel
Rachel is a Clinical and Counselling Dietitian and Personal Trainer who offers a deeply integrative and holistic approach to healing. She completed her BSc in Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Surrey, with clinical placements at Royal Surrey and Frimley Park hospitals. She went on to earn a Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Nutrition through the International Olympic Committee and later qualified in both Level 4 Counselling Skills and Hypnotherapy.
Rachel is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and has undertaken extensive further training in the neurobiology of eating disorders, developmental neuroscience, inner child healing, advanced cognitive behavioural therapy, hypnotherapy, body image and sexual trauma, addiction, tantra, applied polyvagal theory and rainbow mapping, as well as self-compassion practices. She is currently studying Nutritional Neuroscience, exploring the complex interplay between nutrition and the nervous, endocrine, vascular, metabolic, and immune systems which takes a compassionate counselling lens.
Her work blends clinical nutrition and neuroscience with a patient-centred, trauma-informed, and compassionate therapeutic style. She is deeply committed to seeing the whole person and supporting each individual's innate capacity for healing and self-trust.
Alongside her one-to-one work, Rachel is also a national and international clinical speaker. She provides mentoring, CPD training, and supervision for health and fitness professionals and consults for the NHS.
Counselling Dietitians
A counselling dietitian is a registered dietitian who integrates evidence-based nutrition care with counselling skills to support clients in exploring the emotional, psychological, regulatory and behavioural aspects of eating. This approach acknowledges that food and body concerns rarely exist in isolation and are often shaped by lived experience, relational patterns and nervous system responses.
In Dietitian Rachel's practise this may look like :
1. Relationship-focused care : Dietitian Rachel prioritises the therapeutic relationship and creating a safe, attuned space to explore the client’s relationship with food, eating and body image within the broader context of their life history and identity.
2. Gentle, evidence-informed nutrition support : Nutrition interventions are grounded in clinical evidence but applied with sensitivity to psychological readiness, capacity and lived experience. The focus is on nourishment not control.
3. Trauma-informed and psychologically aware practice: Dietitian Rachel leans into a trauma-informed framework and draw upon tools from therapeutic modalities such as motivational interviewing and nervous system regulation. Care is paced, collaborative and responsive to signs of overwhelm or shutdown.
4. Emphasis on sustainable, internal change: Dietitian Rachel's aim is not short-term compliance but long-term healing, supporting clients to build trust in their internal cues, restore flexible thinking around food and move toward values-aligned behaviours.
5. Collaborative, non-hierarchical approach: Dietitian Rachel views the individual as expert in their own body and experience, she offers guidance and support without imposing rigid rules or expectations, fostering autonomy and self-compassion
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6. Support for complex, layered presentations : Dietitian Rachel is skilled to work with individuals experiencing chronic illness, clinical and subclinical disordered eating, neurodivergence and fertility challenges, collaborating with other members of an MDT; where a multidisciplinary team is not currently established, she can assist in initiating and coordinating appropriate professional supports to ensure integrated, client-centred care.
7. Compassion and curiosity-led care : Dietitian Rachel sees behaviours around food as adaptive and meaningful, rather than being pathologised, they are explored with compassion and curiosity to uncover the underlying needs they may be serving.
8. Integration of neuronutrition and the brain–body connection : Where appropriate, Dietitian Rachel will incorporate neuronutrition principles to support brain health, emotional regulation, cognitive function, and nervous system stability.
Rachel lives on a small farm in the Sussex countryside with her husband, four children, and two mischievous beagles. She nurtures her clients and creates her courses, podcasts, and resources from a cosy little garden room,though it hasn’t always been this way.
At 18, Rachel became a solo mum, and her original plan to become a forensic scientist took a different turn. Driven by a love for movement, nourishment and helping others, she trained as a Personal Trainer, a path that allowed her to fund her studies and earn a degree in Dietetics and Nutrition.
During that journey, Rachel personally experienced, and recovered from an eating disorder. It was through her own healing and connecting deeply with others who were navigating their own struggles with food, body image, and identity, that she felt called to specialise in this field. Her work now combines clinical expertise, counselling foundations with lived experience, creating a practice that is as compassionate as it is evidence-based.
Movement has been something that has both allowed Rachel to push boundaries and connected her deeply to my body.
Rachel grew up as a dedicated gymnast and dancer, and later went on to represent Great Britain in Powerlifting breaking British records and proudly bringing home a gold medal from the European Championships. Following the loss of her father after his courageous battle with cancer, Rachel honoured his memory by completing an Ironman across Australia, raising funds for the team who had cared for him with such compassion.
If you popped over for coffee right now, you’d likely find Rachel in the garden with her children, tending to the vegetables or curled up with a good crime novel. She finds deep joy in the simple things and considers it an immense honour to walk alongside others as they move from a place of fear to one of freedom.
Rachel knows what it’s like to abandon yourself to live in fear of food, of eating, of what might happen if you dared to nourish, love, and care for yourself. She understands the ache of deprivation, not just of food, but of life, joy, and connection.
And she also knows what it means to come home to yourself, to heal the war with food, to become an inhabitant of your own body, and to reclaim your voice, your truth, and your joy.
Welcome in.
Just a few important things to Rachel ...
