Meet Sarah Grant
Hi, I’m Sarah. I'm the founder of Gut Reaction, a private online nutrition clinic specialising in eating disorders and disordered eating. For the past twelve years I've been helping people find their way out of a difficult relationship with food. I’d love to help you too.
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
A BANT Registered Nutritional Therapy and Behaviour Change Practitioner with over twelve years of clinical experience, I am one of a small number of practitioners in the UK to have completed specialist Advanced Practitioner training in Nutritional Therapy for Eating Disorders.
I support adults experiencing disordered eating and eating disorder recovery. Areas of specialist focus include binge eating disorder, emotional eating, compulsive overeating, orthorexia and the long fallout of chronic dieting. Many clients also seek support for related concerns including digestive symptoms, fatigue, anxiety and low mood.]
Eating disorder recovery often works best as a team effort so, where needed, I work collaboratively alongside GPs, therapists and other health professionals to ensure clients receive joined-up, safe and effective care.
My approach combines personalised nutritional guidance with evidence-based behaviour change, drawing on Intuitive Eating, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and body image healing to support both the physiological and emotional dimensions of disordered eating.
At the heart of my work is a proprietary framework, The 7 Dynamics of a Healthy Relationship with Food and Your Body, developed over a decade of clinical practice and designed to guide meaningful, lasting change across the spectrum of disordered eating.
I take a holistic, weight-inclusive, compassion-led approach, respecting body diversity and helping clients prioritise life-enhancing behaviours free of diet culture and restrictive food rules.
To better understand potential functional and biochemical imbalances, I selectively offer testing to help assess gut function, nutrient status and food sensitivities.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Nutritional Therapy for Eating Disorders: Advanced Practitioner Programme
Diploma in Nutritional Therapy (DipNut, mBANT, rCNHC)
Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor (CIEC), trained with The Original Intuitive Eating Pros
Applying Intuitive Eating and Non-Diet Approaches in Practice (London Centre for Intuitive Eating)
Psychological Approaches to Obesity (National Centre for Eating Disorders)
Body Image Healing (Marci RD Nutrition: Food and Body Image Healers Training Institute)
Extensive training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) including ACT for Body Image Concerns, ACT for Self-Esteem and ACT for Mindfulness and Acceptance
Level 2 Counselling Skills
Certified Food & Spirit™ practitioner
Member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (mBANT)
Member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (rCNHC)
Gut Reaction is fully insured for Nutritional Therapy
I invest in regular CPD and clinical supervision, maintaining a particular focus on eating behaviour, body image, gut health and nutritional science. I am fascinated by the complex interconnections between food, the gut and our psycho-emotional wellbeing.
my personal story
I came to this work through my own body…
As a child I was a notoriously picky eater, and by my teens and twenties it felt like I was paying the price. Persistent digestive symptoms, bloating, a general fogginess that took the edge off daily life.
When a stressful period in my mid-twenties pushed my gut health to a new low, discovering nutritional therapy changed everything. Having more understanding of what was driving my symptoms, nourishing my body properly, and addressing what was actually going on rather than managing symptoms - this all genuinely transformed how I felt.
I trained as a nutritional therapy practitioner and set up Gut Reaction in 2013 and began helping others do the same. The focus of my early practice was supporting IBS and digestive concerns, alongside weight management.
But something began to shift. The more people I worked with on weight loss, the more I witnessed the damage that diet culture caused: the shame, the exhaustion, the deep sense of personal failure in people who were not failing at all. I realised that focusing on weight loss was a difficult promise to make to anyone, given the extraordinary complexity of factors affecting any individual's body and relationship with food.
Something about working in this space felt fundamentally misaligned with my values, and I couldn't ignore it.
I also had my own small but instructive lesson. A period of very low carb eating ended, as restriction so often does, with a rebound that surprised me with its intensity. What had felt natural and health-motivated had quietly tipped into something my body needed to correct. That experience gave me a visceral understanding of what restriction does to appetite and eating behaviour - whatever the intention behind it.
Around the same time I discovered Intuitive Eating, a framework that shifted the focus from controlling food to rebuilding trust with it. A game changer, it transformed both how I worked and how I understood my own relationship with food and body, including my long familiarity with the orthorexic mindset that can develop when health-focused eating quietly becomes its own kind of preoccupation.
"Twelve years of working with people through their most difficult moments around food, alongside my own personal journey, mean I bring genuine compassion and a deep respect for how unique each person's story is to every client I work with."
What twelve years of working with people struggling with binge eating disorder, emotional eating, compulsive overeating and the long fallout of chronic dieting has taught me above everything else is this. It is almost never really about the food. It is about what food has come to represent: safety, control, comfort, relief from feelings that need a different response. And it's about a body that has been underfed, overfed, fought with or ignored for so long that its own signals can no longer be trusted.
The work I do now is all about helping food find its proper place in my clients' lives. It's not the everything, not the enemy, not the solution to feelings that deserve something better. It's just food: nourishing, ordinary, enjoyable food.
I feel really proud of the work I do here at Gut Reaction. I know it changes lives.