Chloe Adam

Our first consultation is about understanding you before deciding what needs to change.

I’ll want to know what has brought you to see me and what you would like to achieve — but also what achieving that goal would actually mean to you. How would you know things were better? What would feel different in everyday life?

From there, we’ll explore your current health, symptoms and health history alongside your eating patterns, lifestyle, stress, sleep, medication and supplements.

I’ll also be curious about your relationship with food. How do particular foods make you feel? What is happening around you when you eat? Does food sometimes have an emotional or comforting role?

There is no judgement, and you decide how much you feel comfortable sharing.

Understanding the ‘why’, not just receiving a plan

My initial consultations are structured but relaxed and conversational.

The first part is largely about understanding your health and circumstances. We can review your food diary together and consider not only what you’re eating, but the reality surrounding it — whether you have time for lunch, for example, or find yourself eating at your desk.

The second part involves more nutritional education. Depending on what is relevant to you, I may explain areas such as blood-sugar balance, digestion and the gut microbiome, women’s hormonal changes or the potential influence of stress.

I want you to understand the thinking behind the recommendations rather than simply leave with another list of instructions.

You’ll receive a written plan after the consultation, breaking our discussion into manageable steps. Rather than expecting everything to change immediately, this can involve one or two goals at a time, supported where useful by explanations, recipes and visual resources.

Where appropriate within my practice, I may also discuss supplements or whether additional testing could be worth considering.

Small changes that work in real life

If something repeatedly isn’t working, my first response isn’t to assume you need more willpower.

Often the problem is that somebody is trying to do too much, becoming overly focused on a particular food or setting themselves a change that simply doesn’t fit their life.

If avoiding a food is making you think about it constantly, for example, we might explore a less restrictive approach and practise eating it more intentionally — noticing the flavour and texture, enjoying it without distraction and then moving on without guilt.

Or we might make a goal much smaller.

If changing breakfast feels impossible, the answer may not be an entirely new morning routine. We can find the smallest realistic preparation step that makes change easier and build from there.

Progress doesn’t have to begin with an overhaul. Sometimes one achievable change is what makes the next one possible.

Personalised nutrition

My work is informed by personalised nutrition and Functional Medicine, looking across different aspects of health and lifestyle rather than treating a symptom entirely in isolation.

I also draw on my background in psychology and training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), particularly around the language we use, positive goal-setting and finding ways of approaching change that feel achievable.

The aim throughout is not to make your life revolve around your health plan.

It is to create a plan that can work within your life.