Supporting Complex Health Conditions
Here at Urban Wellness, we specialise in working with individuals with more complex health histories and symptoms.
Working with Nicola
Nicola strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to be well, no matter how long they may have been struggling. To achieve that level of wellness can often be challenging, and it needs not only a multi-system approach, but personalisation to the individual, as well as support and accountability.
Working with Nicola you will receive unlimited support not just in our sessions together, but in-between our sessions too. Nicola will also take a deep dive into your whole health history, choose the most informative functional tests, tailor any supplement recommendations, and ensure that your nutrition & lifestyle plan fits in around you so that it is realistic and achievable.
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Nutrition and functional medicine for complex and chronic conditions
At Urban Wellness we specialise in supporting individuals who have more complex, chronic, health conditions. We regularly work with individuals who have been referred to us by other practitioners, or directly with clients who have seen may doctors and specialists and yet don't feel like they are any closer to feeling better or having their symptoms eased or resolved.
Complex conditions often have more than one system or cause at play, and this may include gut health, immune system dysregulation, inflammation, food sensitivities and stress. This is where functional medicine steps in!
Functional medicine is all about a multi-systems approach: we look at you as an individual, and how all the systems in your body are connected, looking for what may be the drivers or triggers for your symptoms.
We then work with you to ensure that we personalise our work to you - no protocols! This is about working with you, and your body, to uncover what support you and your body needs to then give it the capacity to achieve wellness.
Key areas that we work with
Below is an example of some of the conditions we support clients with, many of which can be overlapping.
GUT HEALTH & MICROBIOME HEALTH: Gastroparesis, slow bowel motility, SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), Intestinal Permeability ('leaky gut'), chronic constipation, IBS and IBD including Ulcerative Colitis and Coeliac Disease
FOOD INTAKE OR FOOD ANXIETY: fear of introducing new foods, long-term restrictive diets, food sensitivies, emetophobia (fear of vomiting), ARFID (Avoidance Food Restrictive Intake Disorder), OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and selective eating
HISTAMINE CHALLENGES: MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome), chronic urticaria or hives, histamine intolerance, itching, and headaches or migraines
HORMONAL IMBALANCES & STRESS: puberty, menopause, PMT and PMDD, adrenal dysfunction, 'burnout', chronic fatigue, nervous system support
MENTAL HEALTH AND BRAIN HEALTH: depression, anxiety, antidepressant withdrawal, brain fog, concentration challenges, and neurodivergence, including Autism and ADHD
OTHER CONDITIONS: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), autoimmune conditions, viral conditions (e.g. EBV) and Lyme disease, heavy metal and mould toxicity
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