Digestive resilience
Gut Health, Energy & Nervous System Support
When your body feels stuck — exhausted, reactive, and hard to shift — it’s rarely one thing.
Digestive health, energy, and nervous system regulation are deeply interconnected. Poor gut function affects nutrient absorption, which affects brain chemistry and mood. Chronic stress dysregulates the nervous system, which disrupts digestion and sleep. Burnout depletes the very resources needed to recover from burnout. These systems talk to each other constantly — which is why addressing them together tends to work better than treating each one in isolation.
For women with ADHD, these patterns are especially common. A nervous system already working harder to manage daily demands has less resilience left for everything else.
You might recognise some of these:
In your gut and digestion
Bloating, discomfort after eating, indigestion, irregular bowel movements, food sensitivities, feeling worse after meals, or the sense that your digestion has never quite worked properly — even when you’re eating well.
In your energy and nervous system
Persistent fatigue that doesn’t improve with rest, feeling wired but exhausted, cycles of pushing through and crashing, difficulty switching off, or slow recovery from stress or illness.
Across the picture
Brain fog, low mood, emotional reactivity, unexplained weight changes, or the sense that everything just takes more effort than it should.
What we look at
Rather than treating each symptom in isolation, we explore how your digestive health, stress physiology, nutrient status, sleep, and daily rhythms are interacting — and where the most meaningful leverage points are for you.
This might include:
Gut health and digestion
absorption, inflammation, and gut-brain communication
Nervous system regulation
stress response, adrenal function, and resilience
Blood sugar balance
energy stability, mood, and focus across the day
Nutrient status
deficiencies that affect energy, mood, and recovery
Sleep quality
and what’s disrupting it
Where it makes sense, functional testing can help clarify what’s happening beneath the surface and make support more precise.
What this can feel like, in practice
When these foundations begin to settle, many women notice changes they weren’t expecting — not just in digestion or energy, but in emotional resilience, cognitive clarity, and the sense that life takes slightly less effort than it used to.
That’s not a coincidence. It’s what happens when your body finally has what it needs.
Whether gut health, energy, or nervous system regulation is your primary concern — or all three — I’d love to hear what’s been going on for you.
Hormonal patterns
Hormonal Health
Hormonal symptoms are rarely ‘just hormones.’ They’re usually a signal that your body is asking for broader support — and that several things need to be understood together rather than in isolation.
For women with ADHD, three hormones matter most:
Oestrogen
influences dopamine and serotonin production. When it drops — before a period, after ovulation, or during perimenopause — focus, mood and emotional regulation often worsen noticeably.
Progesterone
is your calming hormone. When it fluctuates or declines, it can show up as irritability, low mood, fatigue and brain fog — symptoms frequently mistaken for depression or burnout.
Testosterone
is often overlooked in women, but essential for drive, motivation, energy, confidence and vitality. Changes in testosterone can quietly erode a woman’s sense of capability without an obvious explanation.
Women with ADHD are also significantly more likely to experience PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) — a severe form of PMS driven by acute sensitivity to hormonal shifts in the second half of the cycle. If your symptoms follow a clear monthly pattern and feel disproportionate to what’s happening in your life, that pattern is worth investigating.
Where appropriate, functional testing — including the DUTCH Test — can build a clearer picture of what’s happening beneath the surface. And when replacement therapy is advisable, I work collaboratively alongside your GP or specialist.
You might recognise some of these:
Cycle-related symptoms
PMS or PMDD, mood shifts before your period, painful, irregular or heavy periods, or a diagnosis of PCOS that hasn’t fully been addressed.
During perimenopause or menopause
Increasing anxiety or low mood, disrupted sleep, hot flushes, brain fog, or the feeling that your body and mind are harder to manage than they used to be.
Across the picture
Low libido, loss of drive or confidence, unexplained weight shifts, skin changes, or symptoms that seem to move around without a clear cause — often connected to testosterone changes that are rarely discussed or tested.
What we look at
We work with the full context of your health and life stage to understand what your body needs most. This might include:
Blood sugar regulation
which directly affects hormone balance and mood stability
Gut health
including how hormones are metabolised and cleared
Nutrient status
key nutrients that support hormone production and signalling
Stress physiology
chronic stress profoundly disrupts hormonal balance
Sleep quality
and its relationship with hormonal rhythms
Hormonal patterns across your cycle, or through perimenopause and menopause
What support can look like
Hormonal health rarely shifts overnight — but with the right foundations in place, many women notice real improvements in energy, mood stability, sleep, and cycle regularity. The goal isn’t to override your hormones, but to give your body the conditions it needs to find its own balance.
If you’re navigating hormonal symptoms — at any life stage — I’d love to hear what’s been going on for you.
Family support
Supporting Children & Families
ADHD is often a whole-family experience. Many of the women I work with are also navigating focus difficulties, emotional regulation challenges, or digestive concerns in their children — and sometimes a parent’s own diagnosis comes precisely because they recognised something familiar in their child.
Children’s bodies respond remarkably well to nutritional support — often faster than adults. Small, targeted changes to diet, gut health, and daily rhythms can make a meaningful difference to focus, behaviour, sleep and emotional regulation.
You might be concerned about your child experiencing:
Gut and digestion
Bloating, stomach aches, food reactions, constipation, or a very limited diet driven by sensory sensitivities around food.
Behaviour, focus and emotional regulation
Difficulty concentrating, emotional outbursts, low frustration tolerance, impulsivity, or struggles with transitions and routine.
Energy, sleep and immunity
Persistent fatigue, disrupted sleep, frequent infections, eczema, or a sense that your child is never quite well.
Eating and nutrition
Extreme picky eating, strong food aversions, or anxiety around mealtimes — which can make it hard to ensure they’re getting what they need. Or they can show signs of food addiction or overeating.
My approach
I work closely with parents rather than placing pressure on the child. Mealtimes in ADHD households can already feel stressful — the goal is always to reduce pressure, not add to it.
Where it makes sense, I take a family-wide view. Supporting shared routines, nutrition and nervous system regulation often brings relief for everyone, not just the individual who sought help first.
I primarily specialise in working with women, but I do offer support for children and families where there’s a clear fit. If you’re unsure whether this is right for your child, the discovery call is a good place to start.
