It's all about you!
But here's a little bit about me...

Hi, I'm Shirley.  Welcome to my website!  I’m excited to be here to help you along the healthy path, learning to make good choices surrounding diet and nutrition that can both improve your current health and act as insurance towards a longer, healthier and happier future. 

Based in South County Dublin, my working life started off like many others, working in administration in busy offices, in IT, architecture and law firms.  After getting married I took some time off to raise my family and consider my future.  I had found office life uninspiring and have always been drawn more towards helping people so over the years between babies I expanded my learning and my experiences by completing a diploma in counselling and psychotherapy, group facilitation training, working as a volunteer on an anxiety/panic attack/OCD helpline for eight years, qualifying as a pharmaceutical medical counter assistant and becoming a foster parent. Many of these skills I can now draw upon in my work with you as a client. 

For many years I have been and continue to be an administrator on the national online support group for parents of children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes in Ireland.  In 2024 in my capacity as a parent of a child with diabetes and a member of the Diabetes Ireland Advocacy Group, I was invited to be the voice of a carer in the stakeholder group meeting of the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes Policy & Services Review, a project that will determine national diabetes care for all forms of diabetes in the coming years.

I have a particular interest in diabetes and metabolic health, along with gut health and also in ADHD - an area in which I am currently furthering my education and studies.

A BIT MORE BACKGROUND
Having grown up in a family where my parents grew all our own fruit, vegetables and potatoes, kept hens to supply us with eggs and where my mother cooked all meals from scratch and baked weekly batches of soda bread and brown scones I have always had a healthy approach to food and cooking. 

It wasn’t until we fostered a little boy with ASD and later on when one of my own children was diagnosed with the autoimmune conditions Type One Diabetes Mellitus and subsequently Coeliac disease that I really began to understand first-hand the huge impact diet can have on health and the significant role the right diet can play in maintaining, supporting and very often improving not just overall health but also targeting management of specific medical conditions and related quality of life. 

When I came across an article in a magazine about the College of Naturopathic Medicine and Nutritional Therapy I knew that this was something that I wanted to know more about - a way to help people using food! I reached out to CNM in Dublin and after three years study, including 200 hours of clinical experience, I became a fully qualified Nutritional Therapist which enables me to combine my two passions in life; helping others and healthy nutritious food! 

In my clinic, my mission is to share my knowledge with others and empower people to take back control of their health using simply diet and lifestyle changes.  

Living with ill health can be exhausting and debilitating.  Nutritional Therapy looks at every aspect of your health often identifying and uncovering issues that may have been previously overlooked yet that can be an important part of piecing together the jigsaw puzzle needed to understand what has gone wrong in the first place to lead you down the path of ill health. 

I believe that somewhere along the way many of us have lost sight of real food and the reasons why we need to eat it.  Foods that are grown locally, picked from trees, meadows, hedgerows and harvested from the fields around us all contain important nutrients provided by nature just for us!  Honey from the beehive.  Meat sourced from animals raised in an environment natural to them as much as possible. Wild caught fish. Natural foods that are packed to the brim with essential nutrients, micronutrients, and anti-oxidants required by our bodies to maintain optimal health. 

If you are fed up living with chronic symptoms of poor health and everything you have tried so far just hasn’t helped or made you feel worse, why not try give me a call and together we can look at helping you to take back control over your own body and future health.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates