Josie de Vries - Nutritional Therapist specialising in women's hormone health, gut health, and nervous system regulation
I've been exactly where you are, and I know the way out.
Who am IJosie de Vries is a UK-based Nutritional Therapist with advanced qualifications in clinical nutrition, gut restoration, stress management, and menopause health. She specialises in working with women experiencing hormonal imbalance, PMS, PMDD, endometriosis, and PCOS, helping them identify root causes rather than manage symptoms. She works with clients across the UK and internationally through her brand Pretty Healthy.
For most of my life, I thought I was just weak.
I couldn't keep up with sport the way other people seemed to. My health would flare up and derail me, again and again. My skin was a source of constant insecurity. I was tired in a way that didn't make sense, struggling with PMS and PMDD that made certain weeks feel almost unliveable, and dealing with endometriosis that nobody seemed to take seriously enough to actually explain.
I wasn't dramatic. I wasn't imagining it. But I had absorbed, the way so many women do, the quiet message that this was just how things were. That some people were robust and some people weren't, and I was one of the ones who wasn't.
I didn't really believe it could be any different.
What changed wasn't a single moment. It was knowledge. The more I started learning about nutrition, the more I realised I had simply been stuck in a food culture that didn't serve me — one that had never been designed with a woman's physiology in mind. When I made even small changes based on what I was learning, I started feeling better almost immediately. Not dramatically, not overnight. But noticeably. Consistently.
That was the shift. Not a new supplement or a detox or a programme. Just understanding what my body actually needed and realising that I wasn't weak. I had just never been given the right information.
I went back to study properly in 2021. Since then I've worked with over 250 women across the UK and internationally, completed advanced qualifications across five specialist areas, and I'm currently finishing my Level 7 Clinical Nutritionist qualification. What started as trying to understand my own body became a mission to make sure other women didn't have to figure it out alone."
The qualifications behind the work
I hold advanced qualifications across nutritional therapy, clinical weight loss, stress management, gut restoration, anatomy and pathophysiology, behaviour coaching, and menopause health; all through The Health Sciences Academy. I'm currently completing my Level 7 Clinical Nutritionist qualification.
I also hold a BSc in Pedagogical Sciences from Radboud University in the Netherlands, and most recently completed a professional diploma in Nutrition for Cancer Prevention and Longevity.
I don't list these to impress you. I list them because when you're trusting someone with your health, you deserve to know they've done the work.
What working with me actually looks like
I don't do generic protocols. I don't hand you a meal plan and wish you luck. And I don't believe that the answer to your symptoms is more restriction, more willpower, or more pushing through.
What I do is listen, properly, in the way that your GP probably hasn't had time to. I look at your whole picture: your cycle, your gut, your stress patterns, your history, your life. And then we build something that actually fits it.
My approach works across three interconnected pillars, hormones and cycle awareness, gut health, and nervous system regulation. Not because it's a neat framework, but because your body genuinely doesn't separate them. Neither do I.
I work with a small number of clients at any one time. That's a deliberate choice. This kind of work requires attention, and attention requires space.
Why I do this
Women are still being let down by a healthcare system that wasn't built for them. The research, the guidelines, the advice; so much of it was developed on male physiology and handed to us as universal truth. It isn't.
Women don't receive nearly enough education about how their own bodies work. Not at school, not from their GP, not from the wellness industry which is often more interested in selling than in actually helping.
I started Pretty Healthy because I wanted to be the resource I didn't have. The practitioner who explains things properly, who takes your symptoms seriously, who gives you the tools to understand your own body rather than just managing it indefinitely.
You are not weak. You are not dramatic. You just haven't had the right support yet.
A little more about me
Originally from the Netherlands, I've been based in the UK for years; you'll occasionally catch a Dutch word creeping into my vocabulary when I'm excited about something.
Outside of work I'm building JOLA Retreats with my business partner Laura, collaborating with EFT practitioner Sharon Remmington on local wellbeing events, and continuing to study because honestly, I find this stuff genuinely fascinating and I suspect that never stops.
I believe that women who take care of themselves can achieve anything. I also believe that taking care of yourself is significantly harder when nobody has properly explained how your body works, and that is exactly what I'm here to change.
Ready to find out why we’re a good fit?
Not sure if we're the right fit? Let's just talk.
This is a relaxed 30-minute conversation about where you are, what you're struggling with, and what might help. No pressure, no agenda, just a real conversation.
Not sure where your symptoms are coming from or where to begin? The Root Cause Review is a focused 60–75 minute deep-dive session plus a personalised written report covering all three pillars. You'll walk away with clarity on what's actually going on, and a clear picture of what to do next.
Your £149 is fully credited toward FemmeRevolution if you decide to continue.