What happens before my first consultation?

A questionnaire and food diary will be sent to you to complete prior to your consultation. The health questions are purposefully detailed and the information provided will make a big difference to your consultation and the help your practitioner can give.

Nutritional or functional tests

Your practitioner may also discuss with you if you require any functional or nutritional health tests through your doctor or completed with another laboratory. Tests may require a sample of blood, urine, hair, saliva or your stools. Some tests require you to visit a laboratory while some may be easily conducted in the comfort of your home.

What happens after the consultation?

A tailored nutritional action plan will be sent within 72 hours of your appointment for you to incorporate straight away. This will include action points that you have previously agreed with the practitioner on dietary and lifestyle changes with information sheets and recipes to accompany these. You will also receive a personalized supplement programme and information about conducting health tests (if required).

Exclusive gift for new clients

After your initial consultation, your first set of Wild Nutrition products (as personally recommended by your nutritional therapist) will be gifted to you free of charge. This is to welcome you to working with us as part of your journey towards optimal health.

How many consultations will I need?

Nutritional therapy is a step-by-step process, and several sessions are therefore required in order to complete this process. The work you do with the practitioner is deliberately intensified, so that you reach a position of balance in a shorter period of time (far greater progress than you would achieve by yourself in a much longer period of time). It varies from client to client but, commonly, a client should have a follow-up appointment within 4-5 weeks of the initial consultation. This can be followed by a further consultation 4-5 weeks later and an additional follow up 6-8 weeks after that. Further follow-ups may be necessary and mutually agreed. Please expect the need to book at least 2 sessions following your first appointment. You may then be placed on a maintenance plan once the intensified months are completed. Our ethos is very much to give you the necessary tools to let your body take care of itself in the longer term, so that you have a feeling of control over your body and life.

Follow up consultations

Follow-up consultations are usually 30 minutes, but you can also book a one-hour follow up. These are scheduled between three and six weeks after the first consultation. Nutritional therapy is a step by step process, often working towards not one but many goals or outcomes. Follow-ups are your opportunity to ask any questions about your ongoing programme, discuss any changes you are experiencing, go through any test results and more. You will receive another updated and adjusted plan after any follow up consultation.

Appointments can be made to see one of our therapists in person or via Skype. Please use the Bookings page or call 01273 477898 to make an appointment.

• Test results may give helpful general insight which forms part of your unique health picture. This is especially important when an issue is suspected from symptoms, but a test would allow a more confirmed position. This allows the practitioner to choose the most accurate way forward.
• Regular testing provides a means of monitoring change and progress, where a before, during and after view can be helpful.
• Tests may identify your levels of nutrients including vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. This is particularly helpful if there are suspected issues of deficiency, insufficiency or even excess.
• Functional tests may give us a very comprehensive picture of the digestive system, neurotransmitter function or hormonal changes (such as the sex, adrenal and thyroid hormones) that may be affecting your mood, sleep or menstrual cycle, for example, that would otherwise have been missed in standard testing. Sophisticated private testing is able to show shifts and changes over a period of time which can be more accurate than one single measurement.
• Tests may help to identify how well you tolerate certain foods or food groups.
• Tests for genetic variations can empower you with the knowledge to adapt your diet and lifestyle in a way that will optimise your health and offer prevention against disease.
• At certain life stages (e.g. pre-conception, menopause), tests may be helpful to optimize health during that specific stage.

Your practitioner will speak to you about testing, if required, during your consultation. Please note that the price of tests is not included in your fees for the consultation.

Our support is client-centred, putting you at the centre of the consultation and recognising your unique biochemical status as well as any nutritional, immunological, detoxification, endocrine and gastro-intestinal imbalances.

We believe that lifestyle, as well as diet, plays a big part in health. We help you to understand this and how lifestyle changes can support all areas of health including emotional and psychological well-being.

This means the practitioners will be interested in more than just what you are eating. They will be examining the psychological and social aspects of your relationship to food and diet and how this informs your choices and habits. They will be learning about you as a person – what your life is like and how this influences your current health picture and potential to achieve personal health and lifestyle goals. For example, we care if you get enough sleep, are you happy in your job or personal life.

Where appropriate the team will inform your GP or other medical consultants of the treatment plan with your consent. This open communication encourages a collaborative approach to support your wellbeing. We also work in close company with other health specialists and where necessary may recommend you for supportive treatment such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, cranial osteopathy, counselling, yoga and more.

Practitioners maintain their professional practice and high level of understanding by regularly attending training with laboratories, established health institutes and nutritional or medical seminars. This enables them to keep up to date with latest research, practical applications and, most importantly, safe practice.

Practitioners teach and lecture to medical and nutritional professionals, members of the public and are regularly sought after as nutrition experts by the media.

Henrietta Norton

BSc Dip NT, CNHC, mBANT

Nutrition Director

• Registered nutritional therapist
• 13 years clinical experience
• Functional Medicine AFMCP graduate
• Registered Foresight Preconception Practitioner
• Currently completing MSc in Nutritional Medicine

Key areas of expertise

• Expert on endometriosis nutrition
• Hormonal, menstrual, gynecological health conditions (including PCOS)
• Female support (teenage > menopausal years)
• Stress and fatigue
• Fertility, pregnancy and motherhood nutrition
• Infant and children's health

Other areas of expertise & professional experience

• Founder and product formulator at Wild Nutrition
• Author of Take Control of Your Endometriosis and Your Pregnancy Nutrition Guide
• Expert comprehension of the uses and benefits of Food-Grown® nutrients

"My background is as a Mental Health Consultant, PCP Psychologist and a UKCP and EAP registered psychotherapist. I have worked in this field for 35 years with a special interest in the effects of food and hormones on mental health.I wrote an NHS approved Care Programme for the treatment of eating disorders in a therapeutic community addressing the whole person instead of just the disordered behaviour. It is from this professional experience as well as a personal viewpoint that I can thoroughly endorse the work of Henrietta and her team. Henrietta is an outstanding clinician and therapist with a rare wisdom and grace in her work, She combines integrity and knowledge with compassion and generosity and I have no hesitation in recommending her and her team to those in need of her help and advice." Eileen Murphy, clinical Psychologist.

Corinna Kitchen

BA (Hons), MIOBM

Biodynamic Therapy

• Licensed Biodynamic Psychotherapist
• 12 years clinical experience
• Biodynamic massage therapist

• Biodynamic therapies help to treat unwanted symptoms, support you in challenges you may be facing by creating a safe space for you to explore, share and unload the issues, empowering you to take control and bring joy to your life.

Bio-dynamic Therapy can help with:

• Personal development
• Dealing with challenging emotions, loss or relationships
• Decision making when at a crossroads in life or feeling stuck
• Creating a space where you feel empowered to take control and bring satisfaction to life
• Helping you to feel calm and balanced if experiencing stress or worry

Corinna tailors each session - maybe you need to spend time talking about something affecting you mentally or physically or perhaps you have a condition or pain that you need help with. Or, you simply need to stop, rest and let the stresses and strains of life fall away. Once your needs are understood, biodynamic massage treatment will start. Corinna uses a stethoscope to listen to the sounds of your gut. This provides crucial diagnostic feedback and guides effective treatment.

“Over the 14 years of experience i have had in practice i have acquired a deep appreciation of the multidimensional aspect of each human. Simply, we are not what we eat as commonly stated; we are what we eat, believe, experience, think and feel. Corinna's work is quite simply extra-ordinary, she has a gifted ability to talk directly to the soul and support a return to balance at the deepest level. Corinna's work completes our 360 offering at Wild Clinics, working gently yet deeply on those aspects of your thoughts of experiences that may be hindering your ability to health."