The Happy Healthy Unicorn

Yesenia’s passion for helping autistic children and their families comes from a combination that is incredibly special: professional nursing experience, specialist functional health training, and the lived experience of being a mum who has walked this journey herself. As an experienced nurse, Yesenia has spent years caring for patients and building a strong understanding of health and complex medical needs. But it was her own son’s autism diagnosis that completely changed the direction of her life and ultimately the work she felt called to do. Like so many parents, Yesenia suddenly found herself navigating a world of questions, uncertainty and conflicting information. She knows what it feels like to desperately want to help your child while trying to work out what on earth to do next. Rather than accepting that there was nothing more she could explore, Yesenia began immersing herself in the biological factors that can influence a child’s health, behaviour and development. Through perseverance, nutritional changes and functional health approaches, she supported her own family through some incredibly challenging stages of their journey. Her lived experience matters enormously. Yesenia doesn’t simply understand the science, she understands the parent sitting on the other side of the table. She understands the worry, the research at ridiculous hours of the night, the setbacks, the tiny changes that feel enormous, and those beautiful moments when you suddenly see a little piece of your child begin to shine through. Inspired by everything she had learned through her own family, Yesenia went on to complete advanced practitioner training through The Happy Healthy Unicorn, developing specialist knowledge in functional nutrition, personalised dietary approaches and our clinical frameworks. Her nursing background gives her a wonderful foundation of clinical knowledge, while her functional health training allows her to look more deeply at the individual child and the different factors that may be contributing to their health picture. This fits beautifully with the way I believe families should be supported: thoughtfully, individually and without jumping frenetically from one intervention to another. We absolutely love working alongside Yesenia. She is warm, thoughtful, incredibly caring and genuinely invested in the families she supports. She has that rare ability to combine clinical thinking with the compassion that can only really come from having lived this journey herself. We work collaboratively, sharing the same philosophy and looking at each child as the beautifully individual human being they are. I have enormous respect for what Yesenia brings to our work, and I am genuinely excited for families to have the opportunity to work with her. Families need practitioners who listen. Who understand that their child is more than a diagnosis or a collection of symptoms. Who can look at the science while never losing sight of the little person , or the family, at the centre of it all. Yesenia is exactly that kind of practitioner, and I feel incredibly lucky to have her working alongside me. Together, our goal is simple: to help families move away from overwhelm and towards understanding, confidence and hope, one achievable step at a time.