IBS & Nutrition Support
Whether you’re struggling with IBS, constipation, food intolerances or other gut health concerns, you’ll receive tailored nutrition and lifestyle support designed to reduce symptoms and optimise your gut health long term.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Living with IBS can feel frustrating, isolating and completely exhausting. The bloating, pain, urgency, or constipation can take over your day before it even begins. You might avoid certain foods, decline social events, or always plan ahead for bathroom access just to feel a little safer.
When tests come back “normal” or you’ve been told to simply “reduce stress” or “watch what you eat,” it can feel incredibly invalidating.
You may feel like you’ve tried everything; seen your GP, naturopath or nutritionist; tried every gut health supplement promising the world; or cut out dairy and gluten. But you still feel lost and even more confused than ever before!
If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone and you deserve support that takes your symptoms seriously and gets to the root cause.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional gut disorder affecting around 1 in 7 people. It’s known as a disorder of the gut–brain connection, meaning symptoms come from how the gut and nervous system communicate, not from damage, inflammation, or disease.
What is IBS?
This is why your tests might look perfect, but your gut still doesn’t feel right.
Symptoms can vary widely from person-to-person and may come and go, often without a clear pattern.
Common IBS symptoms include:
Abdominal pain, cramping or discomfort
Bloating and distention
Diarrhoea, constipation, or a mix of both
Increased gas or flatulence
Urgency or feeling of incomplete bowel motions
These symptoms can affect confidence, mental health, relationships, and your social life, not just digestion.
IBS Symptoms
There’s no single test for IBS. Diagnosis is typically made based on your symptoms after other conditions such as coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, or bowel cancer have been ruled out. Tests like bloodwork, gastroscopies and colonoscopies often come back normal, which can feel confusing but is actually expected with IBS.
A health professional (doctor, gastroenterologist or dietitian) will assess:
Your symptoms
Your medical history
Any red flags
Potential dietary or lifestyle triggers
It’s also important to know that hair analysis tests, at-home DNA food intolerance kits, and similar tests are not scientifically validated and often lead to unnecessary food restriction without improving symptoms.
How is IBS Diagnosed?
My Approach to Supporting Clients With IBS & Digestive Concerns : The 3-Step Gut Reset Method
Step 1: Settle Your Gut
We begin by calming your gut so you can get relief quickly and feel more in control. In this phase we may:
Reduce common trigger foods
Adjust fibre intake
Personalised supplement use targeted to gut symptoms
Support digestion through hydration, meal timing, eating behaviours, movement and stress management
Reduce bloating, pain and urgency using simple lifestyle strategies
Outcome: Your symptoms start to ease and you will experience less bloating, fewer flare-ups, more predictable digestion.
Step 2: Understand Your Triggers
Once you're feeling more stable, we explore what’s driving your symptoms. Together, we look at:
FODMAP testing (if appropriate)
Food + symptom patterns
What changes helped (and what didn’t)
Other contributors like stress, fibre type, meal structure, intolerances, etc.
Outcome: You get personalised clarity around your root causes. No more guessing, no more confusion.
Step 3: Future-Proof Your Gut
With triggers understood, we focus on rebuilding confidence and future proofing your gut health. This may include:
Increasing food variety with particular focus on foods containing fibre, prebiotics and probiotics
A personalised plan for flare-ups
Long-term sustainable routines
Outcome: You feel empowered, confident and able to manage your gut for life without restriction or fear.
Whilst I specialise in IBS, I also have extensive knowledge and experience working with all gut health conditions including but not limited to functional constipation, food intolerances, Coeliac disease, SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), Reflux or GERD, and Diverticular disease.
I am also experienced in the field of women’s health including endometriosis and PCOS, as well as weight management, binge eating and healthy eating.
Alongside The Gut Health Clinic, I work as a bariatric dietitian supporting clients post-weight loss surgery with Dr Jon Morrow at Discover Weight Loss.
Other Nutrition Support I Offer
“Bianca was amazing in helping my husband, Josh, improve his gut issues. She is friendly, knowledgeable, and very easy to work with, which made the whole process feel manageable and supportive.
She provided structured guidelines on exactly what to follow and a FODMAP food list, which made it simple to understand and stick to. Everything was practical and easy to apply to everyday life.”
— Holly (former client)