Support Team

Grace Allen – Financial Controller

Grace joined the OHC in January 2012 to assist the Accounts department alongside her Management Accounts studies. After several years within the company Grace now holds the position of Financial Controller with an additional focus on HR procedures along with overseeing Diversity and Inclusion throughout the organisation. A keen runner, when she is not training for her next race she enjoys her most important responsibility to date, as mother to her two sons.

 

TTowers2smallTaru Towers – New Client Co-ordinator

Tarus’ first career was in the film and arts sector before she retrained in nutritional therapy at the University of Westminster. Her training in nutrition was based on holistic functional medicine principles, which make much sense to her both personally and clinically. An avid believer in the potent interaction between the physical and psychological, Taru is excited to join the clinic’s skilful team as a new patient coordinator.

 

johanna-cluffJohanne Cluff – New Client Co-ordinator

Having suffered with ME/CFS for many years, Johanne became determined to find a way back to good health.  On her road to recovery she gained a deep interest in hypothyroidism, and published Dr Durrant-Peatfield’s book The Great Thyroid Scandal.  She is currently studying for a Diploma in Nutritional Therapy at BCNH College of Nutrition and Health.  Johanne is passionate about helping people find their way back to a healthy happy life, and brings that passion to her role as one of the New Patient Co-ordinators at the OHC.

 

Joanna Healey – New Client Co-ordinator

Joanna is passionate about helping people improve their health with the right nutrition, she has a particular interest in food poverty and how this effects health. Joanna became interested in nutrition when she eradicated the symptoms of Endometriosis through nutritional support. Currently studying for a Bsc in Nutritional Science through CNELM, Joanna’s enthusiasm for helping those in need of support make her a welcome addition to the New Patient Coordinator team.

 

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Sarah Benjamins – Nutrition Support

Sarah grew up in a food conscious environment. She spent her childhood with a grandmother who had trained in domestic science and been an army cook, a pacifist grandmother who was a ‘pollo-vegetarian’, and a working mother who believed in the value of freshly prepared unprocessed food. Sarah also witnessed the physical and behavioural effects of food sensitivities in her younger brother, which dramatically demonstrated to her the potential power of what we put in our bodies.

Sarah’s fascination in the interaction between humans and their environment initially led her to study for a degree in Environmental Biology at Manchester University, and then on to study urban planning and regeneration in Liverpool, which became her first career. She began to have health problems in her thirties during a sustained stressful period at work, and sought help from a Nutritional Therapist. Impressed at the transformative effect of adjusting to the right foods and lifestyle for her, Sarah developed an appetite for understanding those mechanisms from a scientific perspective. This became the catalyst for her achieving a Masters degree in Nutritional Therapy at CNELM (Middlesex University).

As Sarah has her own experience of chronic, unexplained, and invisible illness, with fatigue and pain as the most debilitating factors, she finds it immensely rewarding to be working with the Nutritional Therapists at OHC in supporting people with CFS/ME. Alongside this work and her family, Sarah is currently undertaking the clinical training required to become a BANT registered Nutritional Therapist.

 

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 find out what they did and, to her surprise, left enrolled on a 3 year diploma course. Following the course she became a tutor and also ran a branch of the Optimum Nutrition Company, which sold various companies’ supplements to students and patients of nutritionists. She then went on to work for one of the UK’s leading health writers, managing his events and website. She joins the clinic team as the Practice Manager.

kinga photoKinga Christodoulou – Admin Assistant

Kinga started work in OHC in January 2013 as an administrative assistant. After 3 years as an open market sales person Kinga decided to change her career and emigrated to UK where she started working as a volunteer in a charitable organisation. For her dedication she received Unsung Women’s Award from Mayor of Haringey. Kinga also worked for supplementary school as a PA to the head mistress. Kinga is also a member of Association of Polish Teachers Abroad and passionate about helping children to reach their full potential.