Enjoy Nutrition
14 Victoria Avenue
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 1ED
07719 443753
Jessica Barfield, BSc (Hons), PG Dip, MBANT, CNHC - 'Enjoy Nutrition'
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When I was 14 years old, I had a Saturday job in a whole-food shop, measuring out flours, grains and spices to customers who taught me all about their delicious and beneficial uses. It started a lifelong interest in nutrition. I'm not sure why I actually went to university to study Economics, because once I got my degree, I knew I didn't want a city job, I wanted to be involved in nutrition. However, life, expectations and paying bills meant that I spent the next few years in a variety of jobs from theatre to publishing to estate agent to carpentry until I eventually ran my own business in London selling original cartoon artwork.
My journey back to nutrition was prompted by the return of my daughter's osteosarcoma after less than a year off treatment. She was diagnosed when she was 12 year old. I had been very passive during treatment the first time around, but the return put me into full battle mode. My daughter jokes that I fought her illness with vegetables, and I did. She had to go through another gruelling round of chemotherapy and operations, but this time, I read everything I could about nutrition to find ways to support her through it. I also wanted her body to recover quickly and well, and for her still growing body to be able to develop as well as it possibly could after the onslaught of powerful chemicals it had to endure. My incredible daughter is now 19 years old and about to leave home to live and study in Sweden. But it was a rocky, bumpy, scary ride.
As a result, my interest in nutrition and its power to protect and rejuvenate was rekindled and I retrained as a Nutritional Therapist on the MSc course at the Northern College of Acupuncture in York (accredited by the University of Middlesex).
I am absolutely passionate about nutrition as a powerful tool not just for maintaining health, but as a therapy to restore lost health. And as it happens, my Economics degree has come in handy after all. It taught me the critical and analytical skills that help me to make sense of the many factors in a complex set of circumstances, such as a range or collection of symptoms, and to be able to analyse them and make connections. With the help of the evidence base, I can then arrive at possible causes and therefore potential solutions.
I call my practice 'Enjoy Nutrition' because I believe that everyone should be able to enjoy their food, no matter what their health and dietary needs are. I collaborate compassionately with people to achieve better eating habits that help them optimise their health, but that they can also enjoy.
Consultations
I prefer to see clients for a minimum total of 4 hours which is usually split between 3 and 5 appointments. The first consultation is for information-gathering, the second is to deliver results of researches and discuss how you want to proceed, and further meetings are for following up and planning further progress towards your goals.
Nutrigenomics
I am a trained Nutrigenomics Practitioner and for particularly complex cases I can use gene testing to investigate more deeply, at a biochemical level, what may be at the root of or driving a client’s health concerns. From this, a more targeted and specific approach can be identified as a starting point for action.
This service is also for people who have already taken a gene test such as 23andMe and would like some help with interpreting and acting on its results.
Training, qualifications & experience
BSc (Hons); Post-Graduate Diploma in Nutritional Therapy.
Member organisations
Accredited register membership
Areas of nutrition I deal with
- Adults and elderly adults
- Anaemia *
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME *
- Coeliac disease *
- Constipation *
- Crohn's disease *
- Diabetes *
- Diarrhoea *
- Digestive problems *
- Eczema *
- Endometriosis *
- Fibromyalgia *
- Food allergy and food intolerance
- Healthy eating
- Heart disease *
- High blood pressure *
- High cholesterol *
- Hyperthyroidism *
- Hypothyroidism *
- Infants and pre-school children
- Iron deficiency anaemia *
- Irritable bowel syndrome *
- Life stages
- Malnutrition
- Megaloblastic anaemia *
- Menopause *
- Migraine *
- Obesity *
- Osteoporosis *
- Polycystic ovary syndrome *
- Pregnancy and preconception
- Premenstrual syndrome *
- Psoriasis *
- Rehabilitation
- Rosacea *
- Schoolchildren and teenagers
- Skin health *
- Stress
- Thyroid problems *
- Tiredness *
- Weight gain
- Weight management
- Weight-loss
- Women's nutrition
* If you have been diagnosed or suspect you may have one of the medical conditions starred above, you should consult your GP for advice, diagnosis and treatment and always inform your health professional before starting any alternative or additional therapies, treatments or making any major changes in your diet or exercise programme.
Fees
£190 for 4 hours, usually split between 3 and 5 appointments (see above)
Alternatively, the hourly rate is:
£60 for 1 hour
£30 for half an hour
£20 for 15 minutes
Nutrigenomics Assessment (test price not included): £350
(This includes a one hour consultation)
Further information
My office is in central Harrogate within 5 minutes walk of the bus and train station. The number 36 bus to Ripon from Leeds stops right outside the office.
There is on-street parking outside the office, with good availability of spaces, but the time limit is one and a half hours.
There is a multi-storey car park round the corner on Tower Street, as well as a small outdoor car park there too. Both are reasonably priced and within 5 minutes walk of the office and there are usually spaces in both.
You can also park at Waitrose, 2 minutes away, for free for 2 hours
If you like to park and stride, try the top of Cold Bath Road or Tewit Well Road and walk across the Stray in both cases. These are both about 10 minutes away.
Harrogate, HG1 1ED
Type of session
| Online nutrition support: | Yes |
| Telephone nutrition support: | Yes |
| Face to face nutrition: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | No |
There are six long and low steps up the the front door which are accessible to a wheelchair that is being pushed. My office is on the first floor, but I have access to a ground floor board room for clients needing to avoid stairs.
Availability
Office Days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, some Saturdays
