Beautiful Mind Health
Holistic Nutrition Care for Children and Young People with Epilepsy, Autism, Learning Disabilities and their Carers: Meal Planning, Recipe Design, Personalised Nutrition, Herbal Remedies, Aromatherapy, and Lifestyle Support for Your Child’s Wellbeing. Cooking Sessions for Corporate Partners.
About us
Beautiful Mind Health was founded out of a personal journey, sparked by my daughter’s diagnosis with Lennox-Gastaut developmental and epileptic encephalopathy epilepsy syndrome, intellectual disability, and autism over 20 years ago.
My commitment to studying nutrition and biomedical research in epilepsy and autism continues, as does my participation in research projects across the UK, including work on seizure tracking apps, Epilepsy health app, SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) biomarkers, and neuro-imaging in genetic epilepsies.
I am passionate about supporting children and young people with epilepsy, seizures, autism and intellectual disabilities on their health journey by offering Integrated Personalised Nutritional Therapy and Naturopathic Care.
Please get in touch and I will do my best to support your family.
Maria Lloyd Jones
FdSc(Nursing), PgCert (FM), CNHC, MBANT, Dip ND, Dip NT, Cert VN, MEAprof (Epilepsy Action), ESNA (Epilepsy Nurse Association), BANT Nutrigenomic Councillor NgC
I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and a Naturopath registered with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council CNHC, PSA , hold professional memberships with BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine), Epilepsy Action (EA) and Epilepsy Specialist Nurses Association UK (ESNA).
After graduating as a Nurse, I studied Nutritional Therapy, the Principles of Functional Medicine and Research Principles at a postgraduate level, Naturopathy (herbs, essential oils, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine) and Nutrigenomics and became involved in patient/carer-led epilepsy research.
My NHS work involved nursing on cardiac, neurology, general medical wards, brain trauma and surgery units, hospices, rehabilitation and community-based district nursing service.
I keep abreast with current epilepsy and autism research in the areas of nutrition, functional and naturopathic medicine, medical advances and precision medicine. Caring for my daughter with complex drug-resistant epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism made me realise the importance of a personalised nutritional therapy approach that considers balanced nutrition, genetic predispositions, lifestyle, sensory and individual nutrient requirements and interactions with anti-seizure medications.
I believe in the importance of integrative approach to epilepsy and autism care with medical treatments and personalised nutrition and lifestyle interventions working alongside each other.
My specialisms include digestion, absorption, intestinal permeability, food intolerances, bowel movements, the microbiome, allergies and skin health, bone, immune, hormone and metabolic health.