You eat carefully, maintain good habits and still something feels wrong. Your energy is inconsistent. Your digestion is unpredictable. Your mood does not match your circumstances. These are not small inconveniences. They are often the surface expression of underlying nutritional imbalances that a standard healthy eating guide will never reach.
Clinical nutrition works at the root. It starts with a detailed assessment of how your body is actually functioning, identifies what is out of balance, and builds a precise, personalised plan to correct it.
Meet Claire Ward, Nutritional Therapist
Claire Ward holds a BSc Honours Degree in Nutritional Therapy from the University of Westminster. She is a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) and is accredited by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). Claire works to evidence-based standards and takes a root-cause approach to each patient she sees, drawing on current nutritional science and functional medicine research.
Her practice is not about prescribing a meal plan and hoping for the best. It is about understanding the specific biochemical picture of each individual and designing a protocol that responds to it directly.
What Clinical Nutrition Can Help With
Claire works with a wide range of conditions and health goals, including persistent fatigue and inconsistent energy, irritable bowel syndrome, bloating and digestive disorders, hormonal imbalance, perimenopause and menopause, weight management and metabolic health, stress-related nutrient depletion, immune system support, skin conditions with a nutritional component, and nutritional support during recovery from illness or injury.
If your concern is not listed here, it is worth getting in touch. Nutritional imbalances can underlie a range of health issues that appear entirely unrelated on the surface.
What to Expect
Your initial consultation is thorough. Claire takes a detailed health history, reviews your current dietary patterns, discusses your lifestyle and goals, and where appropriate recommends functional testing to assess nutrient levels, gut function, hormonal markers or other relevant indicators.
From this she builds a personalised nutrition protocol: a clear, practical plan that fits your daily life and targets the specific imbalances identified. Follow-up sessions review your progress, refine the approach and ensure results continue to build.
Nutrition as Part of Your Broader Care
Clinical nutrition works powerfully alongside physical therapies. For patients managing chronic pain or recovering from injury, osteopathy and sports therapy address the structural and musculoskeletal layer, while nutritional therapy supports the biochemical environment in which that recovery takes place.
Discover more about the full range of holistic wellness therapies available at Hever Health.
Our nutritional therapy articles explore the topics Claire works with most frequently. Why you are tired all the time identifies the nutritional causes of persistent fatigue that standard blood tests routinely miss. Hormonal imbalance and diet examines the evidence behind the relationship between nutrition and hormonal health. Nutrition for injury recovery explains how what you eat directly affects the speed and quality of tissue repair. IBS, bloating and food intolerance addresses the root causes of digestive symptoms that a standard elimination diet will not fully resolve. And what is functional testing and do you need it answers the question most patients ask when functional investigation is recommended.
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Ready to understand what your body is actually telling you? Book a clinical nutrition consultation with Claire today.