I have been in clinical practice since 2001 and I am fortunate, to love what I do. Before qualifying in Nutritional Therapy and later in Homeopathy, I spent my early career beavering away in a laboratory as a research scientist. Looking back, I can honestly say I have loved every job that I have ever had, well, all except one.

My educational background is firmly rooted in the traditional sciences, with a BSc in Pharmacology, an MSc in Molecular Toxicology and Pathology, and a PhD in Oncology from King’s College London. I’ve always had a deep curiosity and an enduring drive to keep learning.

When I thought that was it, I dived into the world of ‘food as medicine’, what some may call ‘alternative medicine’ and completed a Masters in Clinical Nutrition in the USA. WOW! It was ‘eye opening’ and at times, I was questioning everything. How was I not taught all this during my under-grad studies? I had lectures with medic students during my BSc ‘days’ and yet there was no mention of food for health and wellbeing. How was that possible when we were being taught about drugs (medication may I add)? Yet, there was and is plenty of science to show nutrition is a powerful form of ‘medicine’? Why don’t we have nutrition as a core subject in these ‘health science’ degrees?  As they say ‘good nutrition is medicine, bad nutrition needs medicine’. 

I later studied homeopathy in London and now I also teach what I love.  I have been teaching variety of subjects since 2002, from biochemistry, naturopathy, nutrition, homeopathy and at one point I taught science to home educated children whilst my boys were also home educated.

​I love learning and I integrate the newest research in the science of nutrition into my lectures. I also love teaching the next generation of practitioners and I spend a lot of time preparing my lectures, maybe a ‘tad too much’, but it’s all so exciting. Some say, ‘I have the gift of making complex topics not only more easy to understand but inspiring’.  My passion is not only seeing people empowered and returning back to health,  but also to raise the next generation of practitioners in nutritional medicine who focus not only on nutrition but on the individual who is being ‘nurtured’ and this is where I have brought in the coaching team to integrate the psychological coaching modules. And of course I have to mention the addition of Rapid Relief Homeopathy too! 

I have 3 wonderful men in my life, my husband and our 2 boys (age 22yr and 19yr)  and a furry 4-legged boy, Ravi, our labradoodle (age 9yr). In my free time, you will often find me walking in nature, sneaking in an extra reformer pilates session, watching a show in London, curled up with a good book, or immersing myself in the practice of Kundalini yoga.

I have always been drawn to helping people unlock their potential, first as a management consultant and executive coach, and now as an educator and mentor. My work focuses on helping individuals create the life they truly desire by transforming their relationship with money and success.

Many people were never taught how to build a healthy relationship with money. Some fear it, others chase it endlessly, and many believe they never have enough, even when their bank balance says otherwise. Our relationship with money is deeply personal and profoundly shapes our wellbeing, confidence, and sense of security.

My own story has shown me how closely emotional and financial wellbeing are connected. I was born in Mumbai, India, and adopted from an orphanage by an American family in Boston. Having arrived malnourished, I developed an early awareness of scarcity, first with food and later with money. Over time, I learned to turn that fear into focus, to work smarter, to invest wisely, and to make my money work for me rather than the other way around.

After earning my MBA from London Business School, I spent over 15 years as a management consultant first with Deloitte and later through my own firm, supporting top-tier financial institutions through major transformation. Along the way, I became a Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive Coach, helping leaders and professionals navigate change with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Today, I combine this background in executive development and financial strategy with a deep interest in wellbeing. My coaching and teaching approach takes a whole-person view, recognising that financial goals are never just about money. They are also about time, relationships, health, and self-worth.

At The New School of Nutritional Medicine, I teach and learn alongside a remarkable community of students and faculty who are passionate about personal growth and transformation. I always leave our teaching weekends inspired and enriched, reminded that life itself is the greatest classroom.

When I am not teaching or coaching, you will find me walking my dog Monty in the Royal Parks, running with my local club, playing tennis, or relaxing with a good book and a hot chocolate.

Welcome, they call me the weekend boss and I will share with you how I achieved this important prestigious role. 😉

It is pretty simple, I run a home, I have 4 children ranging from 14yr to 3yr.

To run a home with two teenage boys and two younger girls and make food from fresh ingredients, and ensure they do not ‘kill’ each other and get to School and all their clubs, and bake cakes for all the birthdays, I feel like my title as a boss is fully justified. I multitask, no matter what neuroscience says about multi-tasking.

I am the weekend boss who gets ‘stuff’ done whilst working with good people who know how to laugh and not take themselves so seriously. Have you heard Khush teaching on a Sunday afternoon?

I have had a fascination with holistic health since the birth of my firstborn when I found homeopathy, or did it find me? I find myself escaping from the kids into a bookshop that has a good cafe with some books on health and wellbeing, lately, it is books on life coaching, as since starting at the New School, coaching has taken on a different meaning from what I believed it to be and I see it helping me to be a better Anna Harris.

The New School has shown me that ‘less is more’ in each of the healing modalities  I used to believe ‘more is better’. And the coaching adds depth and beauty to the human-ness of this unique diploma course.

I ensure the weekends run smoothly, the students are all ok and supported and they get their breaks. Some of us can get carried away with the exciting teaching sessions but bio breaks mean we honour our physiology and have a ‘chin wag’ too.

I check that the teaching team have all they need, so they can show up and be fully present for the students and inspire, educate and empower as they do so effortlessly.

One of the best parts of my weekend ‘boss-ing’  is that I get to sit in on the lectures and indulge in one of my guilty pleasures and all the teaching team have a great sense of humour and to me a GSOH is medicine in itself.

In my previous life, I worked with money and numbers, so attention to detail is one of my superpowers, and I believe in time, I will be David Welsh’s sidekick. 😉

I love a good sense of humour, pole dancing, cross stitching, cooking and baking and since joining the School I am adding psychological coaching as I find this modality fascinating.

I am grateful now that early in life I experienced health struggles. However, understandably, at the time in my early 20s, I did not appreciate the experience! After multiple trips to GPs and specialists, several rounds of antibiotics, the contraceptive pill, and medication that listed ‘suicidal ideation’ as a side-effect, I decided that I must take matters into my own hands. I realised I had come to the end of the line as far as mainstream medicine was concerned.  

I knew nothing at all about health or nutrition at this stage. But I reasoned that as all this ill health was coming out of me, perhaps it was something to do with what I was putting into me. Maybe what I was eating? Twenty years ago, this was considered an eccentric idea.

I rashly enrolled in a BSc in Nutritional Therapy in London, one of the first nutrition degree courses available in the UK. I had been entirely traditional in my education thus far, reading Historical Studies at Bristol University (BA) and then Global History at the London School of Economics (MSc). My father was enraged and confused as to why I was wasting my time studying to ‘become a witch’!

However, I desperately wanted to get back to being myself, so I persevered working in the da, and studying in the evenings and weekends, as many of the students of NSoNM do. 

Thus far I had existed largely on ready meals, Muller light yogurts, cereal, bread, and white pasta with Lloyd Grossman tomato sauce. All that was chucked aside, along with multiple other foods that I found I had become intolerant to. At this point I was sensitive to so many foods that I felt it might have been easier to have been fed through a tube. 

It took a short time for some symptoms to be alleviated and a really long time for others to go. Something that really surprised me was that my mental state improved, when my initial goal had been to just feel better physically. I felt generally happier and calmer which was a wonderful side effect, and a great lesson in mind-body connection!

I am forever grateful for Khush as one of my most inspirational teachers at the University of Greenwich! Little did I think then, that all these years later, we would be working together on such an exciting project as the NSoNM!

There are usually multiple factors that contribute to ill health. Likewise, there are many that contribute to regaining health. Puzzling all the pieces together has always fascinated me.  I deeply believe in the genius of Mother Nature and the innate wisdom of the body to heal given the right ‘ingredients’ and environment.

Working on myself, my husband, my three darling daughters, and with numerous clients has provided a channel of lifelong learning. It never fails to thrill me how extremely unwell clients can start to heal, even after a lifetime of neglecting their health.

So much has been discovered since I became interested in the field of nutrition. For instance, many more details regarding our essential symbiotic relationship with the billions of microbes in our gut. And there can be no doubt that there is still so much more to discover…

Those of us who have been in the natural health field for some time have witnessed a seismic societal shift in attitude towards nutrition and its role in health. It is a thrilling time to be getting involved in this exploding field, and I am so excited to be a part of the students’ journey at the New School of Nutritional Medicine. 

Having retrained in the very first cohort at the New School of Nutritional Medicine after a 25-year career in the fashion and media industry, I understand firsthand the depth, transformation and occasional challenges that come with this journey. This experience allows me to support students with empathy and perspective, knowing what it takes to balance study, life, and personal growth.

My personal health experiences, losing my sister to bowel cancer and navigating my own early menopause, were pivotal moments that inspired me to explore health in more depth. They strengthened my understanding of how nutrition, mindset and lifestyle work together to support healing and ignited a deep drive to see fewer people suffer unnecessarily.

My work now focuses on helping others restore balance, energy and confidence through evidence-based nutrition and integrative coaching. I believe, true wellbeing is built through small, sustainable changes that honour both the body and mind. I share education, recipes and real-life guidance to help people reconnect with their bodies and create lasting health without restriction or overwhelm.

I am excited to be part of the coaching team at the New School of Nutritional Medicine and can’t wait to walk alongside our New School students through this extraordinary, life-changing experience.