**Q: How do you assess clients' nutritional needs and develop personalised treatment plans?**

A: By the time I write a clients nutritional plan we will have spent over 90 minutes together. We will have discussed their medical history, their family health history, their health goals, a comprehensive assessment of each system of their body to understand in depth what is going on with their hormone, liver, nervous or gut health for example. Before our session together they wills end me a 3 day food diary and - without judgement - I will look into the nutritional needs of the client. I will have received their bloods or other test results if relevant and recent. During the session I am doing some intuitive assessment of how they talk about themselves, the beliefs they have, the mindset work they may need to do and if they have the energy or motivation to crack on straight away. Some clients come to me so depleted they need a couple of weeks on some nourishing supplements just to stabilise their energy before we can even think about a nutrition plan.