About Lorna
Lorna Driver-Davies is a Clinical Nutritional Therapist focusing on nutritional therapy for women's health. With extensive experience over 14 years, she has supported thousands of women to optimise their hormones, menstrual cycle, vaginal and pelvic health.
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She has particular specialised clinical expertise, academic focus and passion for supporting clients diagnosed with Endometriosis and Adenomyosis.
She also has significant skills and experience working with perimenopause and menopause.
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Her extensive background in women’s health nutrition allows her to effectively co-support complex gynaecological conditions that often require surgical or medical hormone treatments. This expertise enables her to offer a sophisticated and collaborative approach to gynaecological health and wellbeing.
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She is excited about working with women who are looking to take positive control over managing their wellbeing.
Lorna Driver-Davies
In her nutrition practice, Lorna’s client protocols include functional medicine, naturopathy, and phytochemistry (herbs and botanicals). Together with gynaecological and hormone presentations, she recognises the importance of the gut and digestive wellbeing, immune function, cognitive, mood and mental wellbeing, systems of detoxification, musculoskeletal system, epigenetics, sleep, energy and stress response.
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Lorna offers laboratory functional testing (blood, urine, etc.) for nutritional status, body physiology, and hormonal biomarkers to create unique client programmes. She also collaborates with medical professionals. Referring to and receiving referrals from surgeons and other doctors has provided significant safe experience in combining nutritional strategies with medically prescribed hormones and other conventional treatments.
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Taking a keen interest in the latest scientific nutrition, dietary research and clinical developments, as well as gynaecological medicine and surgery, makes it possible for Lorna to offer her clients a unique experience and ‘blended’ viewpoint between nutritional therapy and medicine.
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Unusual for a Nutritional Therapist, Lorna has a unique background, training and experience in the application of safe herbal medicines and botanicals used in client protocols. Many of these scientifically backed herbs and botanicals are particularly supportive in women’s health scenarios, where vitamins and minerals would not be able to offer the same type of support, especially in cases of menstrual cycle, hormone optimization and women’s conditions.
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Training, academic achievements and experience.
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Lorna Driver-Davies, BA (Hons), DHNP, mNNA, CNHC
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Lorna’s training includes Nutritional Therapy and Naturopathic Nutrition. To further her skills, she trained in Herbal Medicine dispensing, thus enabling her to recommend the use of safe over-the-counter botanicals and herbs along with nutrients (vitamins and minerals) as part of her client programmes.
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She is fully insured, and also a member of the following associations: NNA (Naturopathic Nutrition Association) and the CNHC (Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council). She continuously stays up to date with her knowledge, practice and safe clinical working.
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Lorna lectures regularly and she mentors fellow nutrition professionals and medics. She has contributed academic case work to evidence-based and peer-reviewed publications. Her annual continual professional development (CPD) includes nutrition and naturopathic practice, as well as functional medicine.
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Lorna attends medical lectures and British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) events. She has also for many years been a regular speaker at the BSGE annual conference, lecturing on nutrition for endometriosis and endometriosis comorbidities.
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Lorna has attended live (sat in surgical theatre) laparoscopic gynaecological surgical procedures for endometriosis, adenomyosis and other gynaecological symptoms. Doing so has furthered her passion for gynaecological anatomy, physiology and disease. These experiences have increased her understanding of treatment for these common complications and conditions, providing her with a greater practical understanding of the procedures and their nuances. This keeps her informed of the latest advances in science and diagnostics and enables her to offer an integrated and complementary approach that includes nutrition and lifestyle.
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Lorna’s dual view and familiarity of both nutrition and medicine benefits her clients who have recently experienced medical treatment or are beginning the process of navigating treatment options.
Published work
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Evidence-based peer reviewed case analysis chapter on nutrition for Endometriosis, thyroid and hormone health featured in 'Case Studies in Personalized Nutrition’ (Personalized Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for Healthcare Practitioners).
amazon.co.uk/Personalized-Nutrition-Lifestyle-Healthcare-Practitioners-ebook/dp/B07X1M78JX
Approach, philosophy and more background
Undertaking dietary changes and other nutritional interventions can be challenging and Lorna’s philosophy is that the experience should not be complicated, stressful or exhausting, but a joyful experience that provides an opportunity to explore new tastes and smells and is easy for those with limited skill or time to prepare meals.
Lorna feels that practicing nutritional science and natural healing has always been in her DNA stemming from ancestors who include surgeons, pharmacists, apothecaries and, more recently, her mother and revered Medical Herbalist & Naturopath Dr Jill Rosemary Davies. The latter created a childhood environment giving Lorna a foundation and understanding of how healthy foods and medicinal plants can have an amazing effect on body and mind.
From the start, Lorna was brought up on natural, organic, homemade meals full of antioxidants and gut microbiome supporting herbs, spices, plants and wholefoods. There was also a focus on the provenance of meat, fish and dairy (local, free-range, and grass fed) and a preference for traditional ways of preparing food (fermentation, ‘live’ unpasteurised yogurt and slow cooking). She was also exposed to new concepts about health that were considered very ‘uncool’ or radical in the 1980s but today are accepted positively as scientifically validated. From her teens she keenly absorbed clinical information from her mother on the use of herbs and naturopathy to support women’s health.
All this has given Lorna the passion and drive to help others today and she still often lectures on plant chemistry and naturopathic practice alongside her mother to nutritional and herbal students, as well as other professionals.