Frequently Asked Questions

I work with people with a variety of eating and nutrition-related concerns, however, the focus is coaching women who want to make long-term shifts in their eating patterns and to cultivate a healthier connection with food and their bodies.

Most of my clients come to me because they have a difficult relationship with food, with struggles such as yoyo dieting, compulsive over-eating, emotional eating, and poor body image.

Gut health is another area of special interest to me and many of my clients have digestive/gut-related concerns including IBS and bloating.

I also support concerns around food and mood, stress, anxiety, poor energy, blood sugar dysregulation, and menopause.

My approach to eating behaviour change and nutrition is personalised and holistic, valuing my clients’ physical and emotional wellbeing.

Please have a look at my private support programmes here.

I am a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and fully qualified, BANT Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Please check-out full details about my qualifications and further training here>

I am registered with a number of professional bodies including CNHC and have full professional indemnity insurance.

One-to-one support typically commences with a comprehensive assessment to build understanding of your diet, lifestyle, medical history, current health status and your relationship with food and your body. Our first session is typically 2-hours.

Where the focus of our work is making long-term shifts to eating patterns, I take a multi-disciplinary approach to coaching, and our sessions may include a combination of education, empathetic reflection, and intuitive eating skills, as well some supportive nutritional guidance.

(With nutrition-lead work, assessment may include laboratory tests to identify nutrition deficiencies, food sensitivities, gut function and other biomarkers of health, and nutrition guidance may be more directive.)

Each person’s journey is entirely unique and may take time, particularly when working on transforming ingrained eating patterns and emotional connections with food, healing body image, or health concerns are more complex.

Consultations are an 1-hour to 1-hour 15, and check-ins are about 20 minutes.

Online consultations take place via video link within my Practice Better client hub. This is a secure platform through which we can also share information, forms, follow-up notes, bookings and includes a private messenger service so I can continue to support you and answer questions in between sessions.

I am always keen to have a preliminary conversation with anyone who is interested in working together.

It’s important I feel confident that I’m the right person to help you with your specific challenges, and that you work with a practitioner with whom you connect.

You can book a complimentary 20-minute Enquiry Call with me here to discuss your needs or please feel free to email me at sarah@gutreaction.co.uk

You can discuss your requirements in complete confidence and ensure that you have all the information you need to make a well-informed choice.

I understand why you might be unsure. Online coaching and nutrition support is a relatively new thing, but rest assured, the support you will receive is no different to what I would provide in a clinic setting. Plus, many find the convenience of online support a real bonus.

Not weekends, but do I work a couple of weekday evenings, and offer 8am sessions too. I’m flexible about appointment timings so please just ask.

My regular hours are Monday afternoons, Tuesday evenings, Wednesday all day, Thursday all day and evening, and Friday afternoons.

Face-to face sessions are very limited as I do most of my work online, but I am currently seeing some clients from Shipston Therapy Centre in Warwickshire. Please do ask me if you have a preference to see me there.

Yes, absolutely. Whilst most of Gut Reaction’s clients are based in Warwickshire, around the Cotswolds, Berkshire or Surrey, I now work remotely with people across the UK, Europe and Australia.

Programmes are available from £290.

For more information, please see my programme pages or talk to me to discuss your needs as support can be tailored.

Complimentary 20-minute enquiry calls are available. These are recommended and part of our journey. Please contact me to book yours.

Support with your eating habits or nutrition may sound like a big investment in yourself, but what you will learn is both life-changing and will last a life time. Building a healthy relationship with food and your body may even save you money in the long-run.

Please talk to me as we can also work out a monthly payment plan to help make things more manageable.

I provide invoices and payments are usually made via bank transfer ahead of consultations. Payment plans are available.

This hasn’t happened before (fingers crossed!), but if you committed to a programme and decided not to continue immediately after the initial consultation, then at that point it would be possible to have the remainder of your programme refunded.

I don’t work with any specific insurances but if you have an insurance which covers nutritional therapy, I’m happy to work with them. It’s always worth checking.