NUTRITION, MINDSET & HEALING
I work across nutrition, mindset, and healing, drawing on functional medicine, lived experience, and a trauma-informed understanding of the body.
Nutrition
I’m a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with over a fifteen years of clinical experience. My work with nutrition focuses on understanding how the body adapts to stress, environment, identity, and long-term patterns, rather than applying one-size-fits-all rules.
I take an evidence-informed, practical approach that considers gut health, energy, hormones, and metabolic health, while also recognising how culture, sexuality, and lived experience shape our relationship with food. The aim is nourishment, clarity, and long-term stability, not restriction or optimisation.
Mindset
Health is shaped not only by what we eat but also by what we’ve internalised. Many patterns around food, body, and behaviour are driven by beliefs formed through family, culture, trauma, and the pressure to belong.
This work focuses on understanding those patterns rather than overriding them. It involves developing awareness of how you relate to yourself, how you respond under pressure, and what tends to drive control, perfectionism, or self-criticism. Over time, this creates more consistency, self-compassion, and capacity for change.
Healing
Healing is about recognising the ways we’ve learned to cope and survive, and how those strategies can continue to shape the body long after the original threat has passed. Much of this lives beneath conscious thought, held in the nervous system and the body itself.
I draw on trauma-aware and somatic approaches, including breathwork where appropriate, to support regulation, integration, and reconnection. This work helps create the conditions for nutrition and mindset changes to take root, rather than forcing change through effort alone.
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About Daniel
Award-Winning Nutritionist & Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP).
Author and public speaker specialising in queer health, body image, and trauma.
Over 15 years of clinical experience working at the intersection of physiology, psychology, and lived experience.
Postgraduate training in trauma, psychedelics, and integrative mental health.
Breathwork facilitator with a trauma-aware, somatic-informed approach.
Letting Go of Perfect: A Gay Man’s Guide to Healing from Body Dysmorphia
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Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Body dysmorphia is rarely spoken about openly, particularly among gay men. Letting Go of Perfect is my most personal work to date, bringing together lived experience and clinical insight to explore how body image, shame, and control take shape.
This book is for anyone who has felt trapped by comparison, performance, or the pressure to be a certain version of themselves. It offers a more honest alternative to quick-fix body image solutions, focusing instead on releasing the pressure of who we think we should be and returning to who we truly are.