Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always, Dr. Hazel Wallace.

I'm an NHS doctor and founder of the Food Medic, an educational platform which aims to pick apart the fact from FAD when it comes to nutrition and other aspects of health.

Now today I'm joined on the podcast by Kimberly Wilson, who is a chartered

psychologist specialising in whole body mental health. She intends to transform the way we treat

mental health illness by integrating psychology therapy with evidence-based nutrition and

lifestyle advice. She is also former finalist on the

Great British Bake Off, which is a very cool addition to her very impressive CV. But before I introduce

you to Kimberly, it's time to share this week's listener question. Now, if you're new around here,

each week I take one listener question and answer it at the end of the podcast.

You can tweet Facebook or Instagram message me your questions with the hashtag the Food Medic

podcast. So this week's listener question is, is there any advice for nutrition in the treatment of

PCOS? So if you're interested in finding out what

the answer to this question is, make sure to keep listening to the very end of this episode.

So Kimberly, you are a chartered psychologist with a special interest in nutrition and lifestyle.

So can you give us a little bit of information about your experience so far, your clinical experience

and also your academic background?

Yeah, sure.

So to qualify for a chartmanship in the UK, you have to do undergrad and postgrad training.

So I did a three-year honours undergrad degree in psychology and then did a four years post-grad

in counselling psychology, which included the Masters. years postgrad in counselling psychology which included the

masters and I was a counselling psychologist at that point with chartership and then I did an additional

master's in psychodynamic psychotherapy as well and then in terms of my clinical experience so I started

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