Alex Howard Group

Our Team

Leadership Team

Alex Howard
Founder and Chairman

Alex Howard is Founder & Chairman of The Optimum Health Clinic, which he set up after his own 7 year struggle with ME...

Kirsty Cullen
Chief Executive

Kirsty worked within the executive recruitment industry for 10 years, operating at senior management level...

 Jess Thompson
Clinical Director

Jess completed a psychology degree in 1995 followed by a PGCE in primary education and, after a 10 year career in teaching...

Bebe Kohlap
Practice Manager

Bebe entered into nutrition quite unexpectedly when she went to an open day at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, just to...

Psychology Team

Clinical Director

Jess completed a psychology degree in 1995 followed by a PGCE in primary education and, after a 10 year career in teaching...

Lee became interested in psychology following his own journey in recovering from ME, he crashed in 2016 preceded by years of...

Sam has had an interest in health, healing modalities and therapeutic practices since her 20s, and trained in a number of them..

Nicky was first diagnosed with ME in 2008 following a viral illness, she was able to recover and return to work as an external..

Originally from Scotland, Denise worked as a music journalist before becoming a web developer for The Guardian newspaper...

Charlotte initially trained as a musician and worked as a performer and teacher for several years before embarking on...

Ana Bárbara’s interest in integrative health and psychology began while dealing with her own chronic illness...

Nutrition Team

Kirsty Cullen
Chief Executive

Kirsty worked within the executive recruitment industry for 10 years, operating at senior management level...

Claire Sehinson
Head of Research and Protocol Development

Claire is an educator, researcher and functional medicine trained nutritional therapist. Claire has over a decade of...

Sara Jackson

Having worked in senior management roles in the fashion industry in her first career, a cancer diagnosis caused Sara...

Helen Halliday

Helen spent the first 15 years of her career in marketing and advertising where she held various senior management roles...

Lesley McLauchlan

Lesley chose to study food and nutrition having suffered from ME as a teenager...

Sanna Anderson

Sanna spent the first 10 years of her career in the financial industry enjoying the challenges of the corporate world...

Juliana Bernardes

Juliana has passion for nutrition and brings energy, tenacity and sharp clinical focus to her practice. Juliana has completed...

Martina Cowen

Martina's journey into the world of nutrition started after pursuing a career in logistics, where she discovered...

Jessica O’Dwyer

With a deep-rooted passion for nutrition that was nurtured from a young age, Jessica embarked on a journey that was inspired...

Julia Alderman

Nutrition and healthy living have always been a huge part of Julia’s life. She has used nutrition to overcome her own health...

Jana Papajova

After working in fashion for over a decade, a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnosis brought Jana to The Optimum Health Clinic...

Support Team

Johanne Cluff
New Client Coordinator

Having suffered with ME/CFS for many years, Johanne became determined to find a way back to good health. On her road to...

Taru Towers
New Client Coordinator

Taru's first career was in the film and arts sector before she retrained in nutritional therapy at the University of...

Sarah Benjamins
Nutrition Support

Sarah grew up in a food conscious environment, raised in the 1970s by one grandmother who had been an army cook...

Nicola Endean-Jones
Nutrition and Admin Support

Nicola comes from an administrative background, having worked as a legal secretary for over 20 years...

Kinga Christodoulou
Admin Support

Kinga started work in OHC in January 2013 as an administrative assistant. After 3 years as an open market sales person Kinga...

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