Professional Bio
Holly Dunn
Holly Dunn is a Registered Associate Nutritionist (MSc, ANutr) and Registered Nutritional Therapist (PGDip, mBANT, CNHC) specialising in functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea (FHA or “HA”). With over six years of clinical experience working privately with hundreds of women across the UK and internationally, she helps clients achieve lasting, sustainable period recovery and rebuild trust in their bodies, through personalised, evidence-based, education-led nutrition and lifestyle support.
Women with HA are often told to "just go on the pill," or left to work recovery out alone. Holly works differently. She helps each client understand why her period has stopped, not just what to do about it, and holds to the belief that recovery should never mean losing who you are.
As a Registered Nutritionist, Holly is well placed to provide the nuanced support that HA's related health concerns require, from protecting and improving bone density and preparing for pregnancy to safeguarding long-term cardiovascular health. Her work often means gently unravelling patterns that have quietly built up over time, alongside fear around food and a sense of disconnection from the body. She works clinically and in depth, combining detailed analysis, testing where appropriate, and a strong education-led approach. Helping a woman understand why her period has stopped, and precisely how key nutritional and lifestyle changes can reverse her amenorrhoea, is often what makes recovery something she can trust, and keep.
Holly holds a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition with distinction from the University of Aberdeen, achieving awards for academic excellence and best performance across all MSc postgraduate programmes run by the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Nutritional Therapy with distinction, achieving the award for Academic Excellence in Nutrition from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in London. She has trained with the National Centre for Eating Disorders in the UK and continues extensive further education and research in women's health and functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea.
Holly is registered with the Association for Nutrition (AfN), the leading professional body for qualified nutritionists in the UK, which defines and advances standards of evidence-based practice across the field. She is also a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine and is regulated by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. She holds an award-winning first-class Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and is a fully qualified yoga instructor.
Before working in nutrition, Holly worked for the Royal Household and in a variety of corporate roles, working closely with leaders and executives. Alongside her clinical practice, she mentors Nutritional Therapists on complex HA and PCOS cases, and speaks on women's hormone health, including for corporate audiences on request.
Meet Holly
I know what it is to feel disconnected from your own body. To feel, quietly, that it has let you down, or that you have somehow let it down. When my own period went missing, what I remember most isn't the clinical side. It's the isolation, the numbness, and the fear of what it might mean for my future health. I sat across from the specialist who took one look at me and saw someone who looked well. I left no clearer about why my period was missing, and how to get it back.
That experience is part of why I do this work.
I've also lived with an invisible condition of a different kind, a hip I was born with that needed replacing far younger than most. I know what it is to carry something people can't see, to be told you look fine, and to sit with the quiet assumption that somehow it must be your fault. It taught me a great deal about how it feels to be unseen, and how much it matters to be met by someone who truly listens.
Because the women I work with have rarely been truly seen or heard. They are, almost without exception, conscientious and dedicated, women who have spent years doing everything they understood to be right for their health. They have not done anything wrong. If anything, they've been let down, sold a version of how to eat, move and look that was never designed around female physiology, and left confused when their body responded the way bodies do.
So they arrive frightened, isolated, and often certain their body has failed them. Sitting with a woman in that place, and helping her find her way back, is one of the great privileges of my work.
What I love is watching that shift happen. When a woman starts to feel in touch with her body again, when trust begins to rebuild, when she recognises herself for the first time in a long time. Period recovery matters, of course. But the thing that stays with me is the woman who tells me she feels whole again, that she has back a part of herself she thought she'd lost.
Understanding how this feels is where I begin, but it isn't all I bring. Over six years, I've helped hundreds of women find their way through it, combining that understanding with careful, evidence-based clinical care. So whatever stage you're at, and however long it's been, you're not alone in this. There is a way back to yourself, and I'd be glad to walk it with you.