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migraine and vestibular migraine

Migraine

Understanding Migraine

Migraines are more than just headaches, they are a complex neurological condition that can affect the entire body. They often involve changes in the brain’s chemistry, inflammation, and vascular function, influenced by hormones, stress, diet, environment, and nervous system sensitivity.

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As a Naturopath and Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, and someone who has personally experienced chronic vestibular migraine, I understand how debilitating these symptoms can be.


My approach combines functional medicine, naturopathic nutrition, and lifestyle support to help identify and address the root causes of your migraines — restoring balance and reducing frequency, intensity, and severity over time.

 

Migraines are unique to each person — understanding your body’s triggers is the key to lasting relief.

 

Common Symptoms & Triggers

Migraines can present in different ways — from visual auras and throbbing pain to dizziness, vertigo, and sensory sensitivity.
Because triggers are often multifactorial, understanding your individual pattern is essential.

 

Common Symptoms

  • Headache or pressure (often one-sided or behind the eyes)

  • Dizziness, vertigo, or balance issues

  • Nausea and vomiting

  • Light, sound, or smell sensitivity

  • Neck tension or pain

  • Fatigue or brain fog

  • Tingling sensations or visual disturbances

  • Hormonal migraine patterns (e.g. around ovulation or menstruation

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Migraines often arise from multiple interconnected systems, identifying your unique combination is where healing begins.

Working With Claire

Rather than masking symptoms, I help you understand the underlying systems driving migraine activity.

 

Migraine is rarely random. It is often influenced by a combination of factors such as blood sugar balance, hormonal fluctuations, hydration status, gut health, mitochondrial function and nervous system resilience.

 

Together, we focus on raising your migraine threshold by supporting the core systems that influence neurological stability.

 

This may include:

  • Balancing blood sugar – preventing the dips and spikes that commonly trigger attacks.

  • Supporting the gut–brain axis – improving digestion, microbiome balance and inflammation regulation.

  • Optimising hydration and electrolytes – essential for neurological and vascular function.

  • Supporting hormonal balance – stabilising oestrogen and progesterone fluctuations.

  • Mitochondrial and cellular support – using targeted nutrients to enhance energy production and resilience.

  • Nervous system regulation – building calm and stability through nutrition, breathwork and lifestyle support.

  • Identifying inflammatory and food sensitivity drivers – reducing triggers and improving tolerance.

 

When we support the systems that influence migraine, we can reduce their frequency and intensity naturally.​

 

Your Personalised Path to Migraine Management

Every migraine story is different. Whether you are at the beginning of your journey or seeking deeper guidance, I offer two supportive pathways.​ You are welcome to book a free discovery call so I can understand your unique picture and guide you towards the most appropriate option.​​

Option 1 - Working with Claire 1:1 with a Personalised Approach & Protocol

If you’re looking for deep & ongoing personalised guidance, you can work directly with me in one-to-one consultation package options (see my 1:1 Consultations Page). Together we will uncover the drivers of your migraines and build a tailored plan that supports your whole body. This can often be a quicker option to get to resolution and also relevant in complex and chronic cases!

 

I help clients:

  • Take a detailed case including your present and past picture, family history, medication, current supplement plan, current lifestyle and current diet and nutritional demands.

  • Identify and manage triggers and aim to raise your migraine threshold and restore more optimal biochemical functioning.

  • Explore body systems that may need support from nervous system, inflammation and immune response, the gut & hormones, through to other systems such as the cardiovascular system, lymphatic and endocrine systems.

  • Review your current symptoms including migraine but consider all symptoms - what is the body trying to tell us and why?

  • Consider inflammation and drivers

  • Optimise hydration, nutritional intake, nervous system regulation 

  • Support hormonal balance and metabolic energy

  • Build a personalised migraine toolkit designed to support you while we work

  • Explore broader functional insights through testing

Instead of masking symptoms, we explore root causes and design a plan that supports long-term resilience and fewer migraines. â€‹

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Every migraine story is different. I’ll help you uncover what’s driving your symptoms and create a personalised plan designed to calm inflammation, regulate energy, and support your nervous system.​

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By understanding your triggers and supporting your body as a whole, migraine management becomes achievable and empowering.

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Option 2 - Join my Online Self Paced Group Programme

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The Migraine Nourish & Reset Programme

12-Week Guided Group Programme

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See My Online Programmes for Upcoming Dates!

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This structured, supportive programme is designed for those living with migraine who want a self paced & supported online programme with the support of Claire in a group programme and the option to add in additional 1:1 options at any stage if desired. 

 

You will receive:

  • Weekly structured learning modules with video content, handouts, tasks and practical ways to implement these areas

  • 12 weekly live zoom sessions to recap material and then group Q&A sessions with Claire (these are optional & designed for support)

  • Assess your migraine picture with my migraine management wheel to help you understand, identify and focus on areas to put your efforts to your unique picture. 

  • Understanding how nutrition, diet, food choices, hydration, electrolytes, sleep, routine, stress and nervous system support, exercise, lifestyle and enviromental factors, hormonal health, gut & digestive, immune system and inflammation and how a personalised migraine toolkit as well as supplements and naturopathic approaches can help support you.

  • How to support your nervous system and why this is important alongside online class support for breath-work, yoga, meditation to support you with option to continue deeper work if you wanted to. 

  • How to build a migraine tool kit personalised to you.

  • Supporting migraine days and migraine friendly recipe ideas to support nutrition, inflammation and more

  • Modules on hormones, digestive, gut health, hydration, inflammation, energy & lots more!

  • Sensory management and neuromodulation guidance

  • 12-month access to programme materials to work through at your own pace and revisit as needed. 

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You can also choose to deepen your support at any time by adding optional 1:1 consultation options with Claire at any time with options such as:

  • 1:1 diet & supplement review & feedback

  • Option to add 1:1 consultations or packages if you prefer a personalised analysis and protocol roadmap

  • Functional medicine testing options from blood work, hormonal, gut work, food intolerance testing, genetics & more.

  • 1:1 support calls to help support you at any time

  • Bach Flower blending for emotional support 

 

Designed to help you understand your migraine symptoms, raise your migraine threshold & build long-term resilience - this accessible programme combines professional naturopathic guidance with Claire’s lived experience of chronic migraine, alongside structured live 1:1 group Zoom support.

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Functional Medicine Testing

Functional medicine testing can help uncover the deeper factors influencing your skin health. These tests are recommended for your consideration to help deepen our understanding of your unique picture and provide a more focused, personalised approach.

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Depending on your symptoms & picture we may have the option of using the following options to help deepen & support our journey: 

  • Insight & Advance Wellness Checks - Focussing on key areas such as iron, vitamin D, B12, Inflammation & more to assess optimal functioning rather than traditional disease state ranges

  • Metabolomix Testing - Comprehensive profile offering detailed insight into energy, processing nutrients, managing inflammation, metabolic. oxidative stress, antioxidants & methylation for example with options to add omega, toxic elements & genetic SNP checks

  • Food Intolerance Testing – help identify inflammatory reactions that may be contributing to migraine & gut support needed.

  • Womens Health+ Hormone - Comprehensive nutrition & genetic testing panel covering hormones, nutrition, genetics, metabolism & more to  understand areas such as HPA axis support, sex hormone, nutrient, metabolism support to focus our journey. 

  • Comprehensive Stool Test – To evaluate microbiome diversity, digestion & gut inflammation potentially influencing histamine & neurotransmitter balance

  • Mira Hormone Tracking – Real-time at-home tool to monitor fluctuations in oestrogen, progesterone, and LH that can trigger hormonal migraines.

  • DUTCH Hormone Test – A detailed assessment of sex, stress hormones, metabolites & cortisol rhythm to explore hormonal drivers of migraine.

  • Nutrigenomics with LIFEcode GX – Explore gene influences for inflammation, methylation, detoxification & mitochondrial energy pathways related to migraine susceptibility.

  • SIBO Breath Testing – Detect bacterial overgrowth possibly contributing to bloating, nutrient malabsorption, histamine & systemic inflammation.

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Functional and genetic insights provide clarity , helping create a highly tailored plan to rebalance your body & support long-term migraine relief.

“Claire has been a life saver. I came to her in the summer after years of suffering from dizziness and migraine.
I really wasn’t sure where to turn with my diet and approach. Claire has been amazing at helping me manage all of this. Her advice on food and lifestyle has been invaluable. Claire has also been able to advise me on supplements and the ones that would help me with my symptoms.
Things improved really rapidly, after a few months I was feeling a lot better and my symptoms were less and less. Even when I’ve felt like some symptoms have crept back in, Claire has been there to guide and help. Claire has been able to offer even more support with my trigger foods, offering lifestyle advice and guidance which is ongoing.
Thank you so much"

Jayne, UK

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BOOK A FREE 

CONSULATION CALL

Often migraine journeys are poorly understood plus incredibly debilitating. Your picture if often unique and each consultation package is designed to build a comprehensive understanding, uncovering your unique triggers, restore balance, and help you feel confident and in control again.​

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This call is the perfect opportunity to discuss your goals and discover which approach is best suited to you.

 

Let’s work together to help your body function at its best — naturally.

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