About the Team · Women-Led · Est. 2016
The acne nutritionist 3,000+ women trust to clear their skin.
Seven women. One way of doing acne.
3,000+ clients across 15+ countries finally got out of the acne loop. We’re the women who got them there.
Meet the Team
Katie · Cris · Paige · Liana · Emily · Joanna · Ashley
10
Years in Practice
3,000+
Clients Worldwide
15+
Countries Served
4,000+
Functional Labs Reviewed
The Founder
Katie Stewart
Founder & CEO · The Acne Nutritionist 3,000+ Clients Turned to When Nothing Else Worked
If you’ve tried everything for your acne and nothing has worked, there’s a reason. And Katie has built her career around finding it. A Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, she’s helped over 3,000 clients across 15+ countries get out of the acne loop since 2016. She’s also the co-host of Keep It Clear, the #1 ranked nutrition podcast on Apple (2025).
Most acne advice skims the surface. Katie starts where breakouts actually begin. Her 5 Acne Clearing Pillars (gut health, detoxification, hormonal balance, nervous system regulation, and nourishing skincare) are the framework she’s built her practice on, and the reason her clients finally see results after years of going in circles.
Here’s her hot take, and the thing she’s known for saying out loud while the rest of the industry whispers it: clearing your acne takes time. You cannot Amazon Prime your skin. Her clients get the truth, even when it’s not the answer they wanted, because her honesty (a quality her husband calls her best and worst trait) is exactly what gets them results.
Position
Founder & CEO
Member Of
CSNN Alumni · CAHN-PRO
Education
Canadian School of Natural Nutrition
- Diploma in Natural Nutrition
- Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) Designation
University of Guelph-Humber
- Honours Bachelor Degree in Media Studies
- Honours Diploma in Journalism
Certifications & Training
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition
- Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P)
Kendra Perry
- HTMA Expert
Deepen & Decode with Dr Carrie Jones & Jenn Pike
- DUTCH Hormone Course
Functional Nutrition Lab
- Full Body Systems
Awards & Recognition
Canadian Holistic Nutrition Awards
- 2024 Winner of The Julie Daniluk Award
Off the Clock
When I close the laptop, I’m home in Niagara.
Katie Stewart, Founder
With my husband, two wild little boys, and our two even wilder dogs. A few things you should know about me.
On Soundtrack
House music and 2000s hip hop, both played too loud at all times. Saturday morning, Tuesday dinner, school pickup line. You’ll hear me coming before you see me.
On Fuel
My matcha cult is real, and I run it.
On Movement
Reformer Pilates, non-negotiable.
On Upkeep
Nails, non-negotiable.
On Skincare
My collection has long since stopped being a collection. It’s a situation.
On Housekeeping
My anxiety is directly tied to how much clutter is on the kitchen counters.
On Downtime
A good true crime doc, a good sports doc, and always a spicy book on my nightstand. (If it doesn’t come with a trigger warning, I’m not reading it.)
The reason I tell you any of this: I’m a real person living a real life. Same as you. Just one with answers about your skin.
First, a little about us
You’re about to read a lot of bios. We figured we’d warm you up first.
The team is proudly Canadian, mostly lake-adjacent, and held together by a Slack channel that’s about ninety percent dog photos. (We allow cats. We’re not monsters.)
There’s an ongoing civil war over matcha versus coffee.
Katie runs the matcha cult. Cris maintains, loudly, that matcha tastes like battery acid. Liana and Paige are on Team Katie. Emily and Joanna are on Cris’s team. Katie’s got most of the podcast audience on her side, so she’s calling it.
Katie and Emily are emoji enthusiasts and exclamation point loyalists. Cris communicates in flat, declarative sentences that read on Slack like she’s personally furious with you. She’s not. She just doesn’t use emojis. Operation Teach Cris To Use Emojis is ongoing. Progress is slow.
Paige’s spelling and grammar drive Katie so far up the wall that Katie pays for an app, an actual paid subscription, that checks every word Paige writes before it goes near a client. Paige knows. Paige finds it funny. The app is staying.
Katie has approximately forty-seven ideas at any given moment, and Cris and Paige have made it their job to keep her focused on the three or four that matter most. The system works so well it has a code word.
When one of them says “earmuffs,” Katie knows the squirrels in her brain need to settle so something important can land.
Each of them brings something entirely their own. Joanna shows up with the idea you didn’t know you needed. Ashley is the team’s unofficial skincare oracle and the source of constant travel envy. Emily is the person everyone Slacks the moment something hormonal walks in the door. Liana is the new mum who somehow makes the heaviest topics feel lighter.
Here’s why any of this matters to you
The way this team treats each other is the way they treat clients. With warmth. With honesty. Without the influencer veneer or the clinical chill. You won’t be a number. You’ll be a person we’re quietly, fiercely rooting for.
Now, the humans.
The Leadership Team
The team behind the team.
Cris keeps your protocols rooted in real science. Paige keeps your client experience seamless from day one to day done. So you get expert care and a business that actually has its act together.
Your Coaching Team
Three credentialed practitioners.
One framework that actually works.
Every coach on this team is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist trained in The 5 Acne Clearing Pillars: gut health, detoxification, hormonal balance, nervous system regulation, and nourishing skincare. So no matter who you’re paired with, you’re in expert hands.
The 360° Approach · Part of The Clear Skin Solution
The 360° piece most acne plans miss.
Skincare and nutrition working together, not against each other. Ashley is the rare practitioner who sees the full picture: what’s happening on your skin, and what’s happening underneath it.
We’re Not For Everyone
We’re not for everyone. Here’s the honest filter.
Our work goes deep. It’s root-cause, lab-informed, and hands-on. That’s the right call for some people and the wrong call for others. So before you spend a dollar, here’s the truth.
You’re a fit if
- ✓You’ve been chasing your skin for a year or more, and you’re ready to actually figure out why.
- ✓You’ve tried elimination diets, supplements, and topicals and the relief never sticks.
- ✓You came off birth control and your skin has never been the same.
- ✓You want a real practitioner reviewing your labs, not a quiz on a website.
- ✓You trust the process and understand that clearing chronic acne takes time, patience, and consistency. Some clients see it click in four months, some in nine. You’re in it for the long haul, not the quick win.
- ✓You’re coachable. You ask the clarifying questions, you do the homework, and you stay in the conversation when things get hard.
Probably not a fit if
- ×You’re looking for a quick fix or a single supplement that’ll do the work for you.
- ×You want someone to tell you Accutane and birth control are your only options. We won’t.
- ×You’re not open to looking at gut, hormones, and nervous system together.
- ×You’re actively in crisis and need a medical or psychiatric provider first. We’ll happily refer you.
- ×You want results in two weeks. Skin doesn’t move that fast and we won’t pretend otherwise.
- ×You’ll quit at month three because you wanted it to be done by then. The clients who clear are the ones who don’t bail when the work gets unglamorous.
3,000+ women have walked this path with us. The ones who made it through? They’re the ones who said yes to every box on the left.
Choose Your Next Step
Three ways to start.
Whichever doorway you walk through, the team is the same.
Wherever you are in your skin journey, there’s a way in.
Self-Paced
Courses & Tools
Self-led courses on acne nutrition, hormones, detox, and gut health. Starting at $47.
Stop Guessing
Functional Testing Packages
HTMA, GI-MAP, and DUTCH testing reviewed and interpreted by our team. The data behind every protocol.
Ready For 1:1
The Clear Skin Solution
Functional lab testing, custom protocol, and direct support from our team for women done guessing.
Includes skincare guidance from Ashley.