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  1. About
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  3. Clinic

Optimum Nutrition Clinic staff

The clinic team provides the essential support to students whilst they complete their clinical practice modules in year 1 and 2, helping them to move from theoretical knowledge to practical experience.

Our fully qualified Registered Nutritional Therapists mBANT rCNHC offer consultations and appointments to the public, and provide recommendations on how to improve their nutrition.

 


Emma Rees

BA Hons, FdSc, DipION, mBANT, CNHCreg, Registered NT

Acting Head of Clinics

  

Registered Nutritional Therapist Emma Rees is a qualified Nutritional Therapist with just under 10 years clinical experience.

Emma graduated from ION with distinction and a Foundation Science degree in Nutritional Therapy. Combining this with her teaching qualification, she currently leads the Clinical Practice One and Clinical Practice Two modules. She specialises in clinical skills and reflective practice. Emma is also the Year Two Course Leader.

Emma provides consultations in the North Essex/Suffolk area for clients with a wide range of health conditions, and gives talks in her local area. Emma serves as a Profession Specific Board Member of the CNHC. She is currently studying at Master’s level, with focus on research and reflective practice.


Ania Mason

DipION, mBANT, CNHC, IFM

Registered Nutritional Therapist 

  

Ania helps her clients feel the best they have felt in years by incorporating her scientific knowledge of human body and nutrition, up to date research and her coaching skills. 

Ania graduated from ION in 2018 with a distinction, set up her private clinic - Nutrified in West London and is now working at our clinic in ION. 

Ania’s special interests due to her own health journey are gastrointestinal health and its tight link to autoimmunity and hormonal health and she is also very passionate about brain health and fertility.


Leanne Gardner

BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, DipION mBANT, CNHC, DipSpLD (Dyslexia)

Registered Nutritional Therapist 

  

Leanne is excited to be able to spread the word that food and lifestyle changes can improve your quality of life.

She believes that health is not just the absence of disease but a place of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Leanne is a registered Nutritional Therapist as well as a charted Physiotherapist.

She consults in her clinic in South West London and at the ION clinic. Leanne is a passionate family advocate and enjoys working with children and families.


Sophie Lett

BA (Hons), DipION, mBANT, CNHC

Registered Nutritional Therapist 

  

Sophie graduated from ION with a distinction in 2018 and has since set up her own clinic in Winchester, as well as working with clients here at the ION clinic. 

Sophie's interest in nutrition started when her father became ill and she began researching the role food could play in supporting the body.  She became passionate about learning more and in particular the science behind nutrition and how she could apply this to her life and to support others experiencing health issues.    

Sophie is particularly interested in supporting women's health, especially in relation to hormones, stress, energy and the underlying role the gut plays in these.

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Key facts


Award 
Certificate

Duration
 

7-9 months

Study time
 

10-17 hours per week and weekend lectures

Course code
 

ED200PTC (attendance), ED200PTD (online learning), rNTSAC

Entry dates
 

October: ED201PTC, ED201PTD

January: ED202PTC, ED202PTD

May: ED203PTD

Tuition fees

£2,900 per course

Key facts

Course codes
C0502FTD (full-time) 
C0502PTD (part-time)

Award 
Graduate Diploma

Credits 
120

Duration
 

1 year full-time
2 years part-time


Study time

12 hours per week full-time
6 hours per week part-time

Entry dates
 
February

Tuition fees*

£6,900 full-time
£3,450 part-time

* For 2020/21 academic year. Fees for subsequent years may increase in line with inflation

Key facts

Course codes
C0501PTC (attendance)
C0503PTD (online)

Award 
BSc (Hons)


Credits 
360

Pathways 
1) clinical training pathway
2) qualified nutritional therapist degree top-up pathway

Duration
 

4.5 years part-time
1.5 years part-time (for degree top-up)


Study time

15-20 hours per week plus time to attend/watch lectures

Entry dates

Attendance (CURRENTLY ONLINE ONLY):
September

Online learning (CURRENTLY ONLINE ONLY):
September and February

Tuition fees

£4,600 per year, years 1-4
£2,300 year 5*

* For 2020/21 academic year. Fees for subsequent years may increase in line with inflation

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