Joanna Thomson was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She is the granddaughter of the creator of the Nature Cure movement, and her father founded Edinburgh's Kingston Clinic. Building on a lifetime of healthy living, and almost a century of family knowledge, Joanna attended a four year Naturopathy course at the Edinburgh College of Natural Therapies. She now treats patients from her own clinic in Peebles, and is Registrar of the Incorporated Society of Registered Naturopaths, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Tait Vision Fund.