Burnout Recovery for Women Who Do It All
We help high-achieving women recover from burnout — from the inside out.
At The Gut-Brain Clinic, we blend clinical nutrition, nervous-system regulation, and sustainable lifestyle strategies to help female entrepreneurs and leaders feel calm, clear, and energized again — without fads, fear, or food restriction.
Our mission & philosophy
Burnout has become the hidden epidemic of ambitious women. You’re leading teams, raising families, chasing purpose — but your body is waving a white flag.
At The Gut-Brain Clinic, our mission is to help women in business heal burnout naturally by rebuilding the body’s resilience through science-based, trauma-informed nutrition and nervous-system repair.
We believe lasting recovery happens when biology and mindset are addressed together — because you can’t think your way out of fight-or-flight.
Healing isn’t about slowing down your ambition. It’s about giving your body permission to keep up with it — safely.
Our Approach: The Gut-Brain Connection
Most “solutions” treat burnout like a mindset problem. We know better — it’s a full-body issue.
Years of stress, caffeine, skipped meals, and constant output keep your nervous system locked in overdrive. That shows up as mood swings, bloating, energy crashes, and emotional reactivity.
Our method blends simple, evidence-based steps that repair the systems stress has hijacked — your gut, hormones, and brain chemistry.
How we help you heal burnout naturally:
Functional Nutrition
Balanced, personalized meals that steady energy and stabilize mood — no restrictive rules.
Targeted Testing
When needed, we use labs that reveal nutrient and hormone imbalances so we can create precision protocols.
Herbal & Nutrient Support
Strategic supplementation and plant-based formulas to support adrenal and gut repair.
Nervous System & Mind-Body Regulation
Practical tools that teach your body how to relax again — without hours of meditation.
Behavioural Repatterning
Small, doable habits that rebuild trust with your body and make rest feel productive.
The result?
A body that feels grounded, a mind that feels clear, and a nervous system that finally feels safe.
Meet our founder:
Lydia Maksymuk, NNCP, CFNP, RHN
Clinical & Functional Nutritionist, Burnout Recovery Coach, and Founder of The Gut-Brain Clinic
Lydia Maksymuk is the founder and CEO of The Gut-Brain Clinic, a practitioner-led wellness company specializing in burnout recovery for high-achieving women. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical nutrition, nervous system regulation, and real-world leadership experience.
Before entering the wellness field, Lydia served in the Canadian Armed Forces as one of the few female infantry paratroopers. Her military career instilled discipline, resilience, and the ability to perform under extreme pressure — traits that carried into both corporate leadership and entrepreneurship.
Following her military service, Lydia built a career in corporate marketing and digital strategy, leading high-stakes initiatives for large North American brands in fast-paced, performance-driven environments. She has also founded and scaled multiple businesses across wellness, marketing, and lead-generation sectors, giving her firsthand insight into the mental load, decision fatigue, and chronic stress that many female entrepreneurs and executives experience.
Despite professional success, years of sustained pressure took a toll on her health. Chronic stress manifested as digestive dysfunction, anxiety, emotional reactivity, fatigue, and a persistent wired-but-exhausted state — symptoms that were repeatedly dismissed as “normal” or unexplained. Conventional approaches failed to address the root of the issue.
That experience led Lydia into over a decade of study and practice in holistic, functional, and clinical nutrition, as well as herbal medicine and nervous-system–based healing. She trained extensively in root-cause approaches that address how stress, digestion, hormones, and the nervous system interact — particularly in women operating in high-responsibility roles.
Today, as a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN, NNCP, CFNP) and burnout recovery practitioner, Lydia integrates:
Clinical and functional nutrition
Functional testing and personalized protocols
Herbal and nutrient support
Nervous system and stress regulation
Lifestyle and behavioral repatterning
Through The Gut-Brain Clinic and her signature framework, The Burnout Recovery Method™, Lydia helps female entrepreneurs, executives, and impact-driven professionals restore emotional stability, steady energy, and cognitive clarity — without relying on restrictive diets, biohacking extremes, or hustle-based solutions.
Her approach is grounded in science, informed by lived experience, and shaped by years spent inside high-pressure systems. Lydia understands burnout not only as a clinician, but as a former service member, corporate leader, and entrepreneur who has navigated the cost of chronic overdrive firsthand.
She does not teach women to abandon ambition.
She helps them rebuild the biological capacity to sustain it.
Values
Because how we heal matters just as much as what we heal.
Root-Cause Healing
We look beyond symptoms to uncover the stress patterns driving them.
Science-Backed, Soul-Centered
Evidence and empathy work best together.
Empowerment > Perfection
Real progress happens when you stop trying to be perfect.
Trauma-Informed Care
We create safety first; healing follows.
Sustainable Change
No quick fixes. Just lasting vitality built on trust with your body.