After my initial career as a food stylist and home economist, working with photographers on magazines and recipe books, I explored my love of food in more depth and qualified from the Institute of Optimum Nutrition in 2004 as a Nutritional Therapist. With particular interests in weight management and eating distress, further training in counselling skills and with the National Centre For Eating Disorders helped me understand the importance of listening to each individual's concerns, working together to support nutritional change, in a relaxed and unpressured environment for a healthy body and mind.