Beautiful Mind
Holistic 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 Clinic 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 reading new research in nutrition and biomedical sciences 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 neuroimaging in genetic epilepsies.
I am passionate about supporting children and young people with epilepsy, seizures and autism 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
Maria is registered with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council CNHC, holds 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, she studied Nutritional Therapy, the Principles of Functional Medicine and Research Principles at a postgraduate level, Naturopathy (herbs, essential oils, homeopathy) and Nutrigenomics and became involved in patient/care-led epilepsy research.
The NHS work involved nursing on cardiac, neurology, general medical wards, brain trauma and surgery units, hospices, rehabilitation and community-based district nursing service.
Maria keeps abreast with current epilepsy and autism research in the areas of nutrition, functional and naturopathic medicine, medical advances and precision medicine. Caring for her daughter with complex drug-resistant epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism made her 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.
She believes in the importance of integrative approach to epilepsy and autism care with medical treatments and personalised nutrition and lifestyle interventions merging into holistic healthcare.
Her specialisms include digestion, absorption, intestinal permeability, food intolerances, bowel movements, the microbiome, allergies and skin health, bone, immune and metabolic health.