Joanne Shepherd

Information for Patients

Description of My Practice

Nutrition for Women support women with PCOS through nutritional, emotional, and lifestyle care. I offer a specialist approach to women worldwide, including those with eating disorders or disordered eating, to help them understand and manage their PCOS symptoms through personalised, scientifically backed methods.

Type of Care I Provide

• Nutrition Professional
• Other

Practitioner Type

• Nutrition Professional
• Other

From the practitioner: About My Practice

Nutrition for Women support women with PCOS through nutritional, emotional, and lifestyle care.
I am an MSc level nutritional professional, NLP practitioner and former specialist registered mental health nurse, with a diploma in eating disorders, and further sports nutrition training. I have extensive experience across a wide range of physical and mental health issues. I offer a specialist approach to women worldwide to help them understand and manage their PCOS symptoms through personalised, scientifically backed methods.

From the practitioner: What Patients Can Expect

I have developed a specialist protocol to address a clients’ need’s holistically, encompassing nourishment, sleep, calm, movement, and connection. PCOS is complex, with wide ranging issues such as acne, weight gain, infertility, and unwanted hair growth. PCOS symptoms may follow a women through to menopause, where she may also benefit from support. Eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image issues frequently coexist with PCOS, and as such I also offer eating disorder recovery coaching. This covers a range of disorders including a poor relationship with food yo-yo dieting, emotional eating, restrictive eating, orthorexia, binge eating disorder, bulimia, and anorexia.

Health Concerns

• Mental Health
• Nutrition, Health, & Wellness
• Women’s & Men’s Hormonal Health

Medical Specialties

• Health Coaching
• Lifestyle Medicine
• Nutrition

Medical Conditions

• Eating Disorders
• Female Disorders
• Thyroid, adrenal and other hormonal disorders
• Weight or Metabolism concerns

Languages Spoken

• English

Graduate School Education

Sheffield University

Degree

BSc(hons), MSc, PGdip

Professional Associations

CNHC, NCFED, BANT, IFM

IFM Coursework

• Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice