Natural Healing for Exceptional Children
Our Team
Vicky Finlayson and Lara Barnes work collaboratively to support families through a holistic, child-centred approach, gently uncovering each child’s unique biological and emotional needs.
This approach is not about ‘fixing’ autism or neurodiversity, but about supporting each child to thrive by removing hidden stressors, nourishing the body, and creating the conditions for true healing on every level: physically, emotionally, and neurologically.
Vicky Finalyson
Qualified Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist
Vicky Finlayson has a bachelor of science in human biology and also a registered, qualified naturopathic nutritional therapist. She is also trained at The Walsh Institute to further her passion for non-pharmacological solutions to mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges.
Vicky is a qualified FNTP member and highly passionate about individualised nutrition and bringing the body and brain back into balance via a natural approach.
Her primary focus is understanding the intricate interplay of nutrition, metabolic factors, the gut microbiome, the immune system and brain function.
Vicky specialises in neurodevelopmental nutrition for autism, ADHD and other complex physical and mental health challenges. Her desire to help others is driven by her own neurodiverse beginnings, chronic health conditions in her own family and the health of her two children. One of whom was diagnosed with non-verbal autism at age 4 and is now living their best life, and achieving what was thought as the impossible. Vicky has a great admiration and empathy for those with complex health concerns and neurodivergence.
Associated Certifications & Memberships
Lara Barnes
Melillo Specialist
Lara Barnes has been specialising in Functional Neurology since 2018, initially to help her son develop his left brain after noticing he’d missed milestones which interfered with his overall development and academic capability.
He is now a transformed child.
Lara completed Dr Robert Melillo’s Childhood Neuro-Developmental Disorders Certification course in Barcelona in 2018, focusing on her son but also helping many other parents over the past years, getting great results and showing immense change.
She qualified with a distinction in the Certification in Melillio Method TM, a unique and powerful methodology with IANFR, the Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation .
Lara is also part of the British Medical Laser Association so that she can use photobiomodulation and red light therapy.
She is now helping to bring these methodologies to the UK to help parents and families who are struggling, so that their children can be their best version.
Associated Certifications & Memberships
