About me

I have always loved food and been amazed by how it affects everyone's life and every culture. It plays an intricate part in bringing people together. We all have to eat!

I became fascinated by nutrition when I realised the enormous impact that everything we eat and drink has on our health and wellbeing.

This was my inspiration for becoming a dietitian. I love sharing all aspects of food and nutrition to enable others to feel as well as they can.

My nutritional experience….

Learning about how food affects health was really highlighted through the nutrition module of a childcare course I did in Dublin, Ireland a long time ago! I was fascinated by what I learnt back then am still am fascinated today by this same topic.

In 1997 I enrolled in a dietetics Degree course at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Dietetics with High Honor in the summer of 2000. I then spent almost a year completing an internship at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor, MI, after which I was permitted to sit the registration Examination for Dietitians, which I passed in 2001.

A few months later I began working as a Registered Dietitian in a community setting in Onslow County Health Department in Jacksonville, NC.

In 2006 I moved back to Ireland where I am from. I set up in private practice in 2008. I had a variety of experiences here from 1:1 consultations to giving courses in nutrition at primary as well as vocational schools.

Some years later I moved with my family to Germany. Whilst waiting to have my qualifications recognised in Germany I gave cookery courses in the local vocational school and did some non paying nutrition counselling.

I was employed initially at a weight loss center, easylife in Mainz. I subsequently began giving a course in English on dietetics at the Training Center for Nutrition and Dietetics in Mainz, which I still do every year. I have worked as a dietitian in the clinical setting of the Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik, a large interdisciplinary hospital in Wiesbaden and my last employer was Stimmel Sports, a sports center based in Worms where the onus is on physiotherapy and fitness as well as the physical and mental health of the clients.

I have returned to private practice which I am really excited about, since January 2025.

What I do in my free time?

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What I do in my free time? *

I like to be in my garden…..wandering about and gazing in wonder at the beauty of nature unfold.
I also love photography and to take pictures of all this beauty…… be it flowers, shrubs, trees, herbs, fruit plants or vegetables!
I really love relaxing by sitting on the terrace with a cup of tea looking out into the garden!
I enjoy cooking and eating!
I like walking in nature, be it through fields, in woods, in the mountains or along beaches
I love to travel to different places and experience new things and different cultures
I really enjoy doing Pilates and Yoga…..when I do it!
I love getting stuck into a good book.
I like listening to music and singing
I like good conversation.
I love spending time with family and friends