Whole Body Mental Health

Your mind (brain) and body are connected. For example, psychological stress can trigger IBS and psoriasis. Physical illness can induce depressed mood. Your neurotransmitters(serotonin, dopamine and so on) are synthesised from nutrients.

My clinical philosophy of Whole Body Mental Health takes the status of your body (nutrition, illness or injury, sleep quality etc) into consideration when thinking about your emotional wellbeing and psychological concerns. This provides us with more treatment options and opportunities for effective intervention.

Monumental Health combines the latest research and principles of Nutritional Neuroscience and Nutritional Psychiatry with evidence-based psychological therapy. It presents the most complete approach to mental health available.

Complete care. Total wellbeing.

Kimberley Wilson

  • BA (Hons); MSc; MA; MSc (Nutr); CPsychol.

  • Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society)

  • Registered with Health & Care Professions Council

  • Former Governor of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust – Specialist Mental Health Trust and internationally renowned leader in psychological therapy provision and training

  • Former Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Training Committee in Counselling Psychology – The group responsible for monitoring and assessing the standards of Counselling Psychology training across the UK

  • Former Lead of Primary Care Mental Health/Psychological Therapies at HMP & YOI Holloway, Europe’s Largest Women’s prison

  • Former lead therapist of the North London Eating Disorders Group.

Clinic Specialisms

  • Nutritional Neuroscience is the study of nutrition as it relates to the development and function of the central and peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system is made up of nerves throughout the rest of the body. 

    Nutritional Psychology/Psychiatry describes the research and application of nutritional interventions designed to prevent and treat mental health disorders. 

  • Depression is common but complex, with a range of contributing factors. My treatment for depression starts with a comprehensive assessment that considers the potential contribution of your lifestyle and nutrition, as well as psychological factors, on how you feel.

  • Food is deeply symbolic, with meaning on a cultural and personal level. We we think of it as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and can turn to food for reward or for punishment, to soothe or to numb. There are many understandable reasons why it is difficult to have a relaxed and pleasurable relationships with food and your body. Therapy provides a space and a framework to understand and transform the way you think, feel and behave around food.

  • IBS is the archetypal disorder of the gut-brain axis, which benefits from an integrated treatment approach that considers the stress-sensitive nature of the disorder alongside knowledge of the impact of physiology, diet and the gut-microbiome.

  • The cultural mythology around ‘a mother’s love’ can mean that daughters who have/had a painful relationship with their mothers feel confused, isolated or to blame for what was wrong. In my practice there is time and space to work through the legacy of mother-daughter relationships that were less than picture perfect.