I’m Katy Bradbury, a women’s health practitioner, an advocate, a mother of two girls following infertility, and a deeply paradoxical, perplexed and imperfect human who profoundly gives a shit about the world and other humans.
I deliver my medicine with a combination of compassion and rage. I use science and a root cause approach to assist us in finding answers, and we use your body plus your internal and inherited knowledge as the compass throughout it all, accessing your unconscious mind for help as we go along.
I don’t judge, I don’t believe there is a one size fits all approach when it comes to healthcare, and I don’t enter into my work with you with preconceived notions about what needs to happen.
I do witness, I do appreciate and accept you for who you are, and I do let you lead the way, using a range of techniques based on my two decades of work and study across caregiving arenas.
I’m not interested in telling you how to “fix” yourself. I’m here to walk alongside you as you remember what it feels like to trust your body, listen to your needs, nurture your health in all its complexities, and come back to the wild human that was there all along.
Though I’m a registered nutritionist (amongst other things), my medicine isn’t just about food — it’s about dismantling the layers of oppression, stress, and shame that prevent you from truly thriving.
Why I Do This Work
I’ve witnessed the struggle of women and femme-folk in so many arenas, for so long. From mental health, to struggling with fertility, to the burden of motherhood in the nuclear family, to navigating the perils of midlife and perimenopause in a capitalist, hyper-productive, anti-cyclical world and frankly my friend, I’m fucking done with it.
I believe that women’s health is a radical act of reclaiming our sovereignty, and that through tending to ourselves we can tend to the world which is in desperate need of some mothering and uncensored feminine rage. Our health is intricately tied to the systems of power that shape our lives, and so much of what we’ve been taught about health is rooted in a patriarchal, colonial, and corporate capitalist agenda.
This work is about returning to a space where health means feeling well, supported, and alive — in our bodies, in our communities, and being in communion with the natural world and with other humans.
My Experience & Approach
My formal education and training spans evolutionary and medical anthropology, nursing, public health, nutritional therapy, neuroscience and behaviour change, eating disorders, coaching, hypnosis, women’s health and fertility. Over the last two decades, I have worked in the care sector, in the NHS and in private practice.
My approach isn’t one-size-fits-all.
It’s grounded in relational work, where the connection between us is the cornerstone of the healing process. We work together to unpick what’s underneath your symptoms, whether that’s a disconnection from your body, internalised oppression, a mismatch between your needs and your reality, burnout, or a need to reclaim your power. We’ll focus on nourishment, embodiment practices, emotional wellbeing, and an intersectional understanding of health.
THERE’S NO QUICK FIX
This is about unlearning what you’ve been taught and coming back into your body with gentleness and respect.
What Makes Me Different
My whole career has been a bit of a goldilocks journey:
Anthropology was too armchair
The NHS was too reductive
Nutritional therapy was too hyper-individualised
And yet, I’m so grateful to each of these stepping stones because they’ve enabled me to take a truly holistic approach. One which sees health through an evolutionary, root cause, feminist, and decolonial lens, rooted in compassion and collective care.
Credentials
I used to glean my sense of self worth from my credentials but I have moved away from that now. If this is important to you, feel free to ask. I spent years trying to prove my worth by undertaking formal qualifications so there’s a long list!
Ready to start?
If you resonate with what I’ve shared,
I’d love to talk more about how we can work together.