Lorraine Demetriou is the co-founder of Thrive Café  & Founder of Thrive with Lorraine – a Holistic Health specialist for those lost in the symptoms of their digestive discomfort & illness. Lorraine is passionate about teaching you how to navigate your symptoms while reducing overwhelm in the kitchen, helping you to fall in love with food again. Her toolkit is much more than cooking, she is passionate about  nourishing your entire body, inviting you to journey through your digestive health from within, encompassing the vital nervous system & its impact on your gut health,  mental health & wellbeing.  

She has combined over fifteen years as a Naturopathic Nutritionist with her Intuitive Cooking background & yoga teacher journey to create her innovative trainings Gut Instincts – (12 week Holistic Gut-health program), Mindful Gut Cooking Masterclass,  and upcoming Thrive Wellness Hub – fusing Nutrition Science, ancient Eastern Medicine practices, yoga, meditation, neuroscience, psychology, & Intuitive Cooking through the senses.

She teaches evidence-based tools & techniques inside the kitchen, on the yoga mat & in life to help clients take a step-by-step approach to their digestive health. Teaching her clients how to adapt their lifestyle without compromising flavour, how to tap into the essential self-regulating & healing side of their nervous system so they can heal on all levels. She is a passionate advocate for shifting out of the “diet” culture and helping her clients to develop a nourishing repertoire that calms, soothes & heals on a cellular level. She takes a holistic approach to mental health understanding the vital gut-brain connection and it’s essential role in digestive symptom flare-up.