Focusing on healthy living and good lifestyle choices, you can become empowered to be in control of your health. I will guide you so you will gain the knowledge, tools, motivation, and confidence to get to where you want to go.
Are you overwhelmed by so much information available that you don’t know where to start? Do you need an accountability partner who will give you time, space, and support to get to where you want to go? Are you fed up of trying to make changes to your lifestyle, your eating, your exercise routine, and nothing sticks?
With my support, encouragement, and navigation, you will invest in yourself and excel at living your best life.
The areas of focus are all linked:
Connections/relationships
Activity levels
Nutrition
Sleep
Relaxation or ‘me-time’
Hippocrates……If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
How I can help
Encourage you to start and continue good habits
Help you make personalised lifestyle choices
Suggest how to shop and prepare healthy meals
Encourage good and achievable activity levels
Simplify the overwhelming and conflicting health and dietary advice
Suggest how to practise good sleep hygiene
Ensure fulfilment in what you eat and how you live
Find control and balance in your life
Introduce relaxation techniques
Using skills and techniques learnt, such as transformational coaching, motivational interviewing, mind-body medicine knowledge and techniques learnt, such as transformational coaching, motivational interviewing, mind-body medicine knowledge, signposting to evidence-based therapies, positive psychology (focusing on what has, can and will work better), character strength spotting, goal setting, habit changing, I can navigate you to ultimate wellness. In short, together we can ground in strategies for success. I am a HeartMath practitioner, able to teach heart-focused breathing meditation skills to bring about coherence.
You are in the driver’s seat, I am your navigator and cheer-leader, helping you get safely and efficiently where you want to go.
We can meet in person in Edinburgh (at my house or somewhere nearby) or on Zoom/Skype or phonecall.
About Me
I recently qualified as an Integrative Medicine Practitioner, having completed a Masters (level 7) at NCIM, combining knowledge of evidence based therapies from allopathic and complementary medicine. This qualification works alongside functional medicine health coaching and the skills it offers. Integrative medicine focuses on the whole person and not just symptoms, illness or disease, looking for underlying causes.
My story with a systems biology approach (‘whole person’) to health started when I was diagnosed with a ‘progressive’ connective tissue disorder, lipoedema, and was told there was nothing I could do to prevent the progression. I read the Disease Delusion by Dr Jeffrey Bland and other books with similar information which explained how the root cause of disease must be treated differently to its symptoms, how we are made up of a system, the parts of which are connected, but ultimately good health isn’t as complicated as it once was thought to be. My lippy is under control through lifestyle choices which I practise every day and other areas of my life have benefitted, mental health, relationships, confidence, energy levels, sleep.
A love of people and a love of learning, but more importantly sharing what I’ve learnt with people, motivate me. I’m passionate about cooking and experimenting in the kitchen with different foods and flavours. Every day I challenge myself (and my lucky family!) to eat as many different vegetables as possible. I’m a qualified naturopathic nutrition adviser and a Mental Health First Aider. I am a qualified HeartMath practitioner, a science-based heart-focused breathing meditation tool that can help quickly change from feeling stressed to feeling calm, and I use this tool with clients to help their autonomic nervous system control. The techniques enable coherence, alignment of physical, mental and emotional systems to work in sync.
Passions include skiing, tennis (and other racquet sports), yoga, dog walking, wild swimming, learning to play the piano and improving the clarinet, cooking with local seasonal foods, gardening and foraging, reading journals and making raw chocolate!
Testimonials
Alexia drip feeds suggestions for change without them becoming too challenging, irritating, boring, infuriating and impossible to achieve.
The whole process has been extremely easy and fun! I’ve lost several pounds and I feel great!
Alexia was excellent and enabled me to have far more understanding of both my physiological and psychological make up and requirements.
With a general unpicking of habitual behaviours that Alexia was able to achieve and how small changes are catalysts to big improvements.
Alexia has extensive knowledge of nutrition, health and well-being and gave me many helpful tips and tools. She was so much more than a health coach as she showed endless patience and empathy in listening to all my anxieties.
Alexia’s approach was empathetic, and practical. She took time to tease out “who I am” and helped me understand what and why I was experiencing these issues.
The development of a positive action plan was very much a mutual exercise and as a result I was able to buy into the changes I needed to make.
Aside from her extensive knowledge of function medicine and how the body works, Alexia’s positive energy and collaborative approach has made a world of difference to me. Together, we’ve put in place healthy habits and routines that are achievable for me in the long term, but have improved how my body functions, and my relationship with it, in a very short space of time.
Alexia has helped me set up habits and routines that work for ME, and that don’t feel like it’s a diet…..I now feel like I’m looking after my body and rewarding it for everything it does for me, helping it to continue to do its best. Your energy and motivation gave me the energy and motivation. Your belief in me gave me self-belief.
If you are considering seeking coaching, or know that you want to work with a coach who is able to create a genuinely safe space for you, while also being willing to challenge your narratives with gentle humour and grace, then I whole-heartedly recommend that you work with Alexia and allow her to transform your life as she has mine.
Alexia’s enthusiasm, curiosity and authenticity enabled me to open up and develop.
If you want to learn more about yourself and want to take a journey to optimal health, you can work with Alexia confidently.
I enjoyed the experience and it has made me think more about nutrition. Alexia has a kind and understanding manner and good knowledge of what we should and should not be eating.