About Us
We are a team of qualified dietitians with a passion for supporting people to heal their relationship with food.
The food struggles we support can be anywhere on the spectrum from food anxiety, chronic dieting, disordered eating or a diagnosed eating disorder. All eating difficulties are valid and deserving of support.
We also have additional training and expertise in a broad range of nutrition-related areas, such as body image, psychological tools and behaviour change, gut health and IBS, women’s health, fertility, sport’s nutrition, heart health, allergies and more.
Our aim is to help you achieve a peaceful, free and flexible relationship with food.
Our dietitians work in an evidence-based, compassionate, person-centred and non-diet way.
You are the expert of your own life, so we are there to support and empower you, rather than just telling you what to do. Think of us as your tour guide, there alongside you on your journey to a more peaceful relationship with food.
If you are interested in seeing one of our Dietitians in clinic check out our clinic page or email info@dieteticallyspeaking.clinic
For all other enquiries, email: maeve@dieteticallyspeaking.com
This page was last updated in October 2026
Meet our founder
Maeve Hanan
Lead Dietitian & Founder · HCPC & CORU registered
Maeve has over 12 years of experience as a Dietitian in a range of public and private healthcare settings, including more than 4 years in the NHS.
Since she began Dietetically Speaking and started sharing nutrition messages online in 2015 she noticed how unhelpful so many of the messages about nutrition, weight and health are. This leaves many people feeling confused with a very black and white ‘good vs. bad’ mindset. In turn, this can lead to a number of eating difficulties like restriction, food guilt, comforting eating and binging. So this experience, along with her long-standing interest in the psychological side of nutrition, led Maeve to specialise in supporting those who have developed a difficult relationship with food.
Meet the Team
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Maeve Hanan
Lead Dietitian & Founder
- Specialist areas
- Disordered eating, Eating disorders, IBS, Heart health, Women’s health, Plant-based diets
- Availability
- Accepting new clients
Ros Gray
Registered Dietitian
- Specialist areas
- Eating disorders, Body image, Restriction and bingeing, Neurodivergence, GLP-1 medications, Menstrual cycle recovery, Pregnancy, Food and exercise
- Availability
- Accepting new clients
Aoife McMahon
Registered Dietitian
- Specialist areas
- Eating disorders, Disordered eating, Bariatric surgery, GLP-1 medications, Autism and ADHD
- Availability
- Client list full
Sarah Idakwo
Registered Dietitian
- Specialist areas
- Intuitive eating, Body image, Children and young people, ADHD and autism, ARFID, GLP-1 research
- Supports
- Women, children and young people
- Availability
- Client list full
Kirsty Wood
Registered Dietitian
- Specialist areas
- Food freedom, Intuitive eating, Gut health, Fertility
- Availability
- Accepting new clients
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What colleagues say
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Maeve has been consulting on The Food Medic Educational Hub for 12 months now and has been a huge asset to the team. Her ability to translate some very nuanced topics in nutrition into easy-to-follow, informative articles and infographics is really admirable.
Dr Hazel Wallace
Founder of The Food Medic
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Maeve is incredibly talented at sharing scientific information in an easy to understand way. The content she shares with us is always really interesting, clear, and of very high quality. She’s one of our favourite writers to work with!
Aisling Moran
Senior UX Writer at Thriva Health
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Maeve has written extensively for NHD magazine over the last few years, producing a wealth of dietetic and nutritional articles. Always evidence based and factual, Maeve creates material that is relevant and very readable. She provides high quality work with a professional and friendly approach. Maeve is a beacon of high quality knowledge and work within the nutrition writing community; and someone NHD magazine is proud to work with.
Emma Coates
Editor of Network Health Digest