Kate Merrick
Lead tutor, Nutrition Coaching
10 years in practice
- MSc Human Nutrition
- PCC (ICF)
Kate completed an MSc in human nutrition and has coached clients on eating patterns for ten years, always beside — never instead of — dietetic care when disease is in the room. She teaches the Guild's nutrition-coaching programme because Centre of Excellence-style diplomas still imply you can 'become a nutritionist' in weeks. She marks case work for referral, not for a meal plan that treats diabetes.
What does Kate Merrick teach at The Study Guild?
Kate leads Nutrition Coaching Foundations. She teaches live, marks two case studies, and fails work that treats diagnosed disease, advises on medication, or uses the title dietitian. The programme is healthy-eating support for coaches. It is not an AfN or HCPC route, and she will say that until it sticks.
What is Kate Merrick's nutrition background?
Kate holds an MSc in human nutrition and an ICF PCC credential. She is not a Registered Nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition and not an HCPC dietitian. She chose those omissions on purpose: the programme must not borrow a register she does not sit on, and neither should its graduates.
Does Kate Merrick's programme lead to AfN or HCPC registration?
No. Registered Nutritionist requires an AfN-accredited degree pathway. Dietitian requires an HCPC-approved degree. A ten-week coaching programme cannot be either, and marketing it as a stepping stone is how this market harms people. If that register is the goal, start from AfN or HCPC, not from us.
Programmes Merrick teaches
Nutrition Coaching Foundations
Coach healthy-eating change inside a non-clinical scope, with marked case work and a hard stop at disease, medication and the title dietitian.
Not for: Anyone who needed an HCPC dietetic degree — see Dietetics Career Preparation, which is still not that degree
- Live hours
- 20h live
- Duration and weekly load
- 10 weeks · ~6h/week
- Cohort size
- max 20
£399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free