about nutritional therapist
Vanessa Marescialli
Why, hello there! I’m half English and half Chinese, a third culture child that was born in Zambia and has lived in seven countries from Australia, to the UK, the US and a few places in between, and now calls China home. I’m married to an Italian and have two teenage boys and two girly dogs.
I enjoy dancing in the kitchen probably more than I do cooking in it. I also love knitting (thanks lockdown!) and am building quite the yarn stash.
as for how i became a nutritional therapist…
It was my own physical and mental health struggles that brought me to this work.
Fed up with being fobbed off by medical doctors, psychologists, and endocrinologists, with fistfuls of pills yet no real hope of recovery, I decided to embark on my own research.
Although I didn’t realise it at the time, my journey was unraveling so much of my beliefs about food, health, and my own self-worth. I had always blamed my vices for my issues, but it became clear that this wasn’t just a case of ‘doing better’. There was shame to heal, intolerances to tend to, and a lifetime of patterns to unlearn.
Ultimately, this process of self-excavation gave me access to a level of contentment, agency, and exuberance that I believe everybody deserves. It has become my mission to help others nourish their minds and bodies more effectively, so that they too can lead healthy, pain-free, self-led lives.
This work isn’t just about nutrition.
It’s about transforming the way you see, treat and nourish yourself through:
Self-Knowledge
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Truly knowing yourself - from your biochemistry to your conditioning - is how you take back your health and your power. Through rigorous testing, precision nutrition, and deep inquiry into your emotional and physical wiring, we’ll create a pathway that is uniquely right for you.
Self-Trust
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Society teaches us to fight against our bodies, to override its intelligence with pills, formulas, and other people’s opinions. I want to help you listen to your gut - literally and figuratively - so that you become your own authority when it comes to your health and wellbeing.
Self-Responsibility
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It is both empowering and challenging to take radical responsibility for how we eat, think and act. By applying the latest in brain science and behavioural change, I’ll help you create boundaries, habits and routines that can change your life - one small manageable step at a time.
Self-Compassion
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Body work is emotional. It is self-compassion - not self-flagellation - that will sustain you through hard times and keep you on track. I bring a trauma-informed lens to your experience, and help you breath through the inevitable wobbles using breathwork and mindfulness techniques.
client love
“I’m just so much happier now. I’m bouncing out of bed and making choices that support my wellbeing and my mental health. I’m a completely different person. I can’t thank you enough, Vanessa.”
Biography
Vanessa Marescialli is a registered Nutritional Therapist, Integrative Health Coach and Neurolinguistic practitioner with a degree in Psychology, and combines these techniques to provide compassionate and effective solutions for her clients. Vanessa has a long-standing interest in the interplay between stress, our perception of stress and its management, in the areas of digestive health, autoimmune conditions, cognitive health and women’s health (including fertility and hormonal disorders).
Vanessa re-trained as a Nutritional Therapist after she was diagnosed with an increasingly common autoimmune condition, called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, after the birth of her first child. Her own struggles and success with making healthful and supportive changes to her lifestyle and health make her uniquely positioned to help clients who are ready, yet not successful, to make the necessary changes to support their own health challenges. She will guide you through the oftentimes, conflicting and sensational advice we see and hear in the media, to create a bespoke plan to suit your unique needs.
Vanessa trained at the UK’s eminent Institute of Optimum Nutrition (ION) and the New York Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has a degree in Psychology from Westminster University (BSc Hons). She is a full member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). Vanessa continues to update her knowledge and understanding with ongoing professional development and is currently undertaking a Masters in Clinical Nutrition with the University of Aberdeen.