About Stella Chadwick
Stella Chadwick is the Founder and Clinical Director of Brainstorm Health®, a specialist practice working with children whose health picture is complex.
Many of the children she and her team see have a label of autism, PANS, PANDAS or ADHD. Others have behavioural difficulties, learning differences or symptoms that have not yet been given a name.
About Stella Chadwick
Stella Chadwick is the Founder and Clinical Director of Brainstorm Health, a specialist practice supporting children with complex neuroimmune and neurodevelopmental conditions.
This includes autism, PANS, PANDAS, and ADHD, as well as children with behavioural difficulties, learning differences, and other presentations where the underlying biology has not yet been fully explained – with or without a formal diagnosis.
She has been doing this work for more than thirteen years. In that time, Brainstorm Health has supported over 3,500 families.
The work
Stella’s clinical interest is in why a child’s health and behaviour change. She looks at immune activation, recurrent infection, gut function, autonomic regulation and nutrient status, and at how these may be affecting one another in each child.
Her approach is grounded in careful, longitudinal assessment.
She works within a structured clinical framework and tells families plainly what is realistic and what takes time.
She remains closely involved in the most complex cases and provides clinical oversight across the whole practice, leading a team of practitioners who work within her clinical framework. Where a child needs it, she works alongside doctors, including paediatricians and specialist consultants.
Training and credentials
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Stella holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Nutritional Therapy
with advanced training in functional medicine, nutritional genomics, and the relationship between genetics, nutrition, and health.
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She is registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
and is a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT).
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She is a Senior Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine
and contributes regularly to practitioner education and clinical discussion in paediatric neuroimmune health.
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She speaks at professional conferences and summits
and writes for both clinicians and parents – including as the resident functional medicine expert for Autism Eye magazine.
Who comes to Brainstorm Health
Most families find their way here because something about their child’s presentation doesn’t fully add up.
Some are watching their child lose ground, slowly or suddenly, for reasons nobody has yet explained. Others are still looking for an explanation for difficulties that were there from the very beginning.
Many have already seen several clinicians. Some have a label that doesn’t account for everything they are seeing at home.
What these children share is a complicated picture across the brain, the immune system and the gut. That is the work Stella and her team do.