About Urban Wellness
When your mood, energy, sleep, hormones or digestion don't feel right, it can be difficult to understand what's going on, especially when several things seem to be happening at once.
You may have been told that your results are normal, been offered medication for individual symptoms, or simply reached the point where you'd like to understand your health better rather than continuing to guess.
That's where we come in.
We combine personalised nutrition and functional medicine to help you understand your whole health picture, make sense of the factors that may be influencing how you feel, and give you the knowledge and tools to support your health for the long term.
Why I created Urban Wellness
Hi, I'm Nicola, founder of Urban Wellness.
My interest in nutrition and mental health began with my own experience. I grew up around mental ill health and saw first-hand the impact it could have, and then in my twenties I began experiencing panic attacks myself.
When my GP offered me antidepressants, I knew they weren't the right choice for me at that time. Instead, I wanted to understand what else might be contributing to how I felt.
For me, there wasn't one simple answer. Stress, diet, hormones, genetics and my emotional history were all part of a much bigger picture.
That experience sparked my fascination with the connection between our physical and mental health, eventually leading me to retrain in nutrition and functional medicine, and to create Urban Wellness.
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Making sense of the bigger picture
Over the years, I've met so many people who know something isn't right but don't know how the pieces fit together. Their mood has changed, but they're also exhausted. They're not sleeping. Their digestion has changed. Their hormones may be changing too.
That's the gap I wanted Urban Wellness to fill.
We take the time to understand your health history, nutrition, lifestyle, symptoms and circumstances and look at where the connections might be.
And we translate the science into plain English, so you understand your health, why we're making particular recommendations and what you can realistically do to support it.
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What started with my own experience has grown into an online clinic bringing together practitioners with different areas of expertise, specialist interests and clinical experience.
We have a particular focus on mood and mental health in midlife women, alongside specialist expertise in eating disorders and relationship with food, neurodiversity, gut health, antidepressant support and chronic or complex health needs.
Each of us brings something different to Urban Wellness, but we share the same approach: taking the time to listen, looking at your whole health picture and making complex health information easier to understand.
Together, we've developed real expertise in the areas we work in, while never losing sight of the fact that every person who comes to us is different.
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Meet The Team
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Nicola Shubrook
Founder & Clinic Lead
My clinical work focuses particularly on mood and mental health in midlife women, perimenopause and menopause, antidepressant support, ARFID and more complex nutritional and health needs.
Alongside my clinical work, I lead Urban Wellness and continue to write and speak about the relationship between nutrition, mental and physical health.
Irina Pollastri
Registered Nutritional Therapist & Eating Disorder Nutritionist
Irina is our lead practitioner for eating disorders and difficult relationships with food, working with teenagers and adults with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, disordered eating and food relationship concerns.
She also has sepcialist interest in working gut health, SIBO, reflux, food intolerance and PCOS/PMOS.
Sometimes nutrition is only one part of the picture
We don't believe nutritional therapy should operate in a bubble.
Many of the people we work with are also supported by GPs, therapists, psychiatrists, eating disorder teams or other healthcare professionals.
Where appropriate and with your consent, we're happy to work alongside the professionals involved in your care. And if we think you need support that sits outside our expertise, we'll tell you and help signpost you in the right direction.
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Conditions we support:
Our practitioners have experience across a range of health concerns, with particular expertise in mood and mental health, midlife women's health, gut health, eating disorders and relationship with food, and neurodiversity.
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