DipION, BSc, mBANT, mIFM, mANP, mNTOI
Katerina Monti-Bolsakova
Katerina is a Registered Functional Medicine Practitioner USA and a Harvard Genetics & Immunology Certification Graduate, offering expert guidance in gut health, fertility nutrition, autoimmunity nutrition, longevity with a postgraduate diploma in Nutritional Therapy from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London
How a Nutritional Therapist can help?
A Nutritional therapist works to identify the biological imbalances behind your symptoms and restore health through targeted nutrition, lifestyle change, and evidence-based supplementation. Instead of temporary fixes or generic advice, the focus is on understanding how your body is functioning and what it specifically needs to recover.
Through professional assessment, functional testing, and personalised protocols, nutritional therapy can help you:
- • improve digestion, reduce bloating, and support gut repair
• balance blood sugar, energy metabolism, and mitochondrial function
• address nutrient deficiencies and optimise absorption
• support hormone balance, thyroid health, and fertility
• lower inflammation and modulate immune responses
• enhance detoxification and reduce toxic load
• manage skin, mood, cognitive function, and sleep quality
• build long-term health resilience, not short-term symptom relief
The goal is to help you feel and function better by correctingunderlying mechanisms that drive symptoms.
Every recommendation is specific, intentional, and designed around your biochemistry, lifestyle, and health priorities.
How Functional Medicine Can Help
Functional Medicine looks deeper than diagnosis. It focuses on discovering what is causing your symptoms by tracing them back to the root biological dysfunction. Instead of asking “What disease does this person have?” the question becomes: “Why is this physiology imbalanced, and what is required to restore it?”
This approach integrates nutrition, lifestyle patterns, environmental exposures, genetics, and laboratory insights to map out the origins of chronic conditions. When these drivers are identified, they can be corrected.
- Functional Medicine can help you:
• connect symptoms to root triggers rather than treating them separately
• understand how diet, lifestyle, stress, toxins, and microbiome affect your health
• discover metabolic blockages, immune triggers, inflammatory patterns, and detox burden
• identify the reasons behind fatigue, autoimmune flare-ups, weight resistance, gut distress, and hormonal shifts
• prevent future illness by correcting dysfunction early
It empowers you with clarity, personalised strategy, and clinical direction. By combining nutritional therapy with functional testing and root-cause investigation, this approach guides the body back into balance, supports long-term recovery, and builds foundations for lifelong health.
What i don't offer
Support for Cancer Patients
I do not offer support for cancer patients or nutritional guidance for individuals on tube feeding due to eating disorders because these conditions require specialized medical oversight. Cancer treatment involves complex medical interventions, including chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy, which necessitate the expertise of oncologists and specialized dietitians. Similarly, tube feeding for eating disorder patients is a critical aspect of medical nutrition therapy that must be managed by a multidisciplinary team, including doctors, registered dietitians, and mental health professionals, to ensure safe and effective care.
Full Responsibility for Your Health
- I act as a facilitator in your health journey, but the responsibility for following through with prescribed supplements, foods and lifestyle changes lies with you.
- Your commitment, active participation, and personal responsibility in your health journey are crucial for success.
In-depth Psychological Therapy
- While I understand that nutrition and mental health are connected, I am not qualified to provide psychological counseling or therapy for mental health conditions such as depression or trauma.
- I recommend working with a licensed pshycologist or counselor if needed.
Quick Fixes or Fad Diets
- I do not offer quick-fix solutions or promote fad diets.
- Nutritional therapy is about long-term health and sustainable lifestyle changes, not short-term results.
Short-Term Weight Loss Programs
- My approach is focused on overall wellness and sustainable weight management, rather than rapid weight loss.
- I do not offer quick weight loss programs that promise unrealistic or unhealthy results.
One-Size-Fits-All Plans
- Every person is unique, so I do not provide generic advice or one-size-fits-all diet plans.
- Your nutrition and health plan will always be tailored to your individual needs, preferences, and health goals.