Carine Henry RD, Registered Dietitian Specialising in Paediatric Nutrition

Hi, I’m Carine!

Registered Dietitian
& Paediatric Nutrition Specialist

My therapeutic dietetic work involves a depthful understanding of food, feeding and nutrition as it relates to the gastrointestinal tract, the immune and nervous system. I bring additional focus to the relationship with food through sensory experience and learning, the development of the gut microbiota and the relevance of the gut-brain axis. My context is always through a nutritional lens, and I work holistically with a child-centred understanding of how the body works.

A varied working life in Paediatric Nutrition for over 30 years, I continue to connect with a range of health professionals working with children across East Anglia. In Food Allergy and Gastroenterology, Neurodiversity and with Psychotherapy, Yoga, Art and Mindful tools.

I contribute to supervision and multidisciplinary team working in key areas, with NHS and independent colleagues; as well as regular Dietetic appraisal with an approved Supervisor.

Carine Henry RD

Founder of Paediatric Nutrition

Working With Carine

Holistic & Child Centred

Passionate about supporting parents, families and children with dietary treatment or diet-related behaviour change. Carine provides a supportive space to listen and help make sense of what’s happening. Working holistically with practical strategies and goals, keeping a child-centred approach, she helps foster good relationships with food, nurturing behaviours and create boundaries to work within.
Highly Qualified

A Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics, and has worked in multiple roles as a Paediatric Dietitian over 30 years. An NHS background, Carine worked in feeding and nutrition teams, in gastroenterology and food allergic disease. She continues to work with GP’s, Paediatricians, childrens’ therapies and other agencies and supports food, feeding and nutrition difficulties.
Professional & Ethical

Regulated by high professional standards of performance and ethics by the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC). As a Registered Dietitian RD, Carine is trained and qualified to assess, diagnose and treat diet and nutrition-related problems at an individual and also wider public health level. In her weekly clinics she sees children from early infancy until 18 years of age.

Nutritional Assessment

Dietary Treatment

What’s in Carine’s Tool Box?

Extensive Library of Nutrition Resources

Nutrients, Groups, Plans, Recipes

Guided Self-help Modules

Food Experience Models

Carine’s Take On Why

Food, Feeding & Nutrition Matters

Early Life Nutrition

Origins of life-long health are influenced very early in life, and this journey begins in pregnancy. It is related to birthing and choices around infant feeding. An enormous body of evidence supports natural birth where possible, feeding at the breast and diet diversity as the most important indicators for life-long health.
Building Good Food Relationships

Direct sensory experience, associated learning about food, eating and feeding, the social and emotional context, as well as the inherited and familial aspects of food behaviour, is a recipe requiring attentive preparation and gentle cooking. A beginning which supports children to grow and develop their life-long relationship with food.
Life Long Health

Early food, feeding and nutrition represent important first steps in regulation. This experience creates a vast and unconscious blueprint of memory and learning. A diverse diet provides the building blocks for the whole body as well as the intelligent systems of the brain, gut and immune system. Meeting nutritional needs throughout childhood and nourishing a diverse gut microbiota creates the foundation for life-long physical health.

Get in Touch with
Paediatric Nutrition

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