Adman La Clinique, a dietitian-led clinic in London
Most people who book here have tried several things already and been told opposite things by different people. The first hour goes on working out which of it applies to you, and which of it never did.
It is a small clinic. One dietitian, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, seeing patients in Marylebone, in Belgravia and online, for women’s health, digestive conditions, allergies and intolerances, long-term conditions and sport.
You leave with written guidance built around what your days actually look like, not the ones you would have to clear for it. If nutrition is not the answer to your problem, you will be told that early. If it is, it usually takes longer than people hope, and you will be told that too.
OUR MISSION
The aim is that you stop needing us. That you can read a label, plan a week, eat out, travel, and know what to do when your symptoms are known to vary, without having to ask.
Advice fails more often because it does not survive a normal week than because it is wrong. So we teach the reasoning as well as the food: why something is there, what to put in its place, and what to do on the days when none of it is possible.
When that lands, eating this way stops being an effort and becomes ordinary. That is what we work towards from the first appointment.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Dounya Adman qualified as a dietitian in France in October 2019 and has been in private practice since. She registered with the Health and Care Professions Council in May 2023, which is what allows the title dietitian to be used in the UK.
Most of her work is women’s health and digestive conditions, alongside allergies and intolerances, weight and metabolic health, mental health, and people living with more than one long-term condition at once. She sees children from the age of five, adults and older adults, and she has worked with athletes at national and international level.
Making complicated nutrition science simple is the part of the work she likes most, and it is what she was asked to do at the London Museum Docklands, speaking on food and mental health. The other part is taste, which is usually what decides whether a plan survives the first week: salt, acidity, bitterness and texture are why a dish gets cooked twice, and they are also the first things to shift when someone is pregnant, on medication, having treatment or simply getting older. She learned that on the wards, where meals were nutritionally right and came back untouched because patients found them bland.
It is why she reads about foods that are rarely cooked, teff, fonio and amaranth among them, and about the cooking traditions they come from. Knowing how they are cooked, and where they are sold, means a plan can be built around the food someone already eats, whichever kitchen that comes from. And a recipe that assumes an hour at the stove and a technique someone does not have will not be cooked, so the plan is matched to the time and the confidence they actually have. It is not always the patient who cooks: where a carer, a parent or a partner is at the stove, the plan is written for them too.
Alongside the clinic, this is work she takes on when she can: free public webinars, and volunteering on the welcome team at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has also run sessions for Meta’s #SheMeansBusiness programme, online and at the Palais des Congrès in Paris-Saclay, for an audience of more than a hundred women interested in building their own businesses.
Clinical training
Seven hundred hours of placements over twenty weeks while qualifying:
- AP-HP, Hôpital Joffre-Dupuytren, Henri-Mondor group (the Paris public hospital system, the largest in Europe). Geriatric and oncogeriatric medicine, rehabilitation and palliative care: cancer, diabetes and undernutrition.
- Fondation Santé des Étudiants de France, Centre Médical et Pédagogique pour Adolescents. Adolescent medicine: obesity, diabetes and anorexia.
- Nouvelle Clinique Bordeaux-Tondu. Bariatric and digestive surgery, before and after the operation, and general medicine.
- Hôpital F. H. Manhès. Obesity, nutrition, addiction medicine and nephrology.
Across these placements she was taught motivational interviewing and therapeutic education, and she ran workshops for children, adolescents and adults living with obesity, including group sessions for bariatric surgery patients. She also trained ward staff to screen for undernutrition, and presented a study on the impact of obesity in geriatric patients to the clinical team. During the French national taste week she made a taste book for the adolescent unit, introducing dishes from other food cultures. In the same period she ran a one-day public health event for families, on preventing obesity in children.
Registrations
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, DT033015, since May 2023
Registered in France, RPPS 10007285934
Member of the British Dietetic Association, 23426
What we treatREFERRING A PATIENT
Referrals are welcome from GPs, gynaecologists and consultants. Email dounyaadman@admanlaclinique.com with what you would like looked at, and we will work to it.
We start from the results and the letters the patient already holds, and we write back to you when something needs your attention. Anything that is yours to manage, a diagnosis, a medication, a test, stays with you.
CORPORATE NUTRITION
We work with UK employers as well as with patients: live sessions for staff on women’s health at work and on digestive health at work, and one-to-one consultation days, in person in London or online.
The same registered dietitian delivers them. You receive attendance and the themes your people raised, never clinical detail about anyone.
Corporate nutrition for employers
START WITH A DISCOVERY CALL
Fifteen minutes, free of charge, and nothing follows from it unless you decide it does. It is there to work out whether this is the right place for what you are dealing with, and to say so plainly when it is not.
If it is, the first appointment is sixty minutes. You leave with written guidance built on the week you actually have. Most people arrive with no results at all, and that is not a problem. Where results exist we work from them, and where something needs testing, it goes in a letter for your GP or your consultant.
Book a discovery callCONTACT US
Write to dounyaadman@admanlaclinique.com, or use the form below. We answer within two working days.
If you would rather talk it through first, book a discovery call above.