-an innovative, dynamic and integrative practice -
Integrating modern science, with traditional wisdom and humanistic and behavioural styles of counselling & coaching.
Helping clients to optimise health through an integrative & functional medicine lens whilst exploring the human experience through a relational lens.
Explore what we can work on together below.
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Nutrition & Gut Health
Comprehensive nutrition assessments. Personalised plans with respect for bio-individuality. Detailed contemporary education including links with mitochondrial & hormonal health. Recipe inspiration, shopping & cooking lessons. Microbiome testing & support with medical investigations. Exploration of targeted high quality nutritional supplementation. Tap into your intuition & heal your relationship with eating. Understand food as medicine.
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Mental & Emotional Health
A safe space for reflection, contemplation & learning. Compassionately curious, non-judgemental, trauma informed, person centered, values based therapies and coaching. Cultivating a happy, more meaningful life. Navigating transitions. Unraveling and honouring each unique experience within humanistic, existential and systemic frameworks. Making links between our psychology and physiology.
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Brain Health
Understanding the intersect of neurology and psychiatry. Prioritising nutrition, sleep & lifestyle factors impacting brain health. Support for exploring and managing neuro-divergence. Strategies for managing attentional and memory issues. Considering relationship with or dependence on substances. Optimising brain function & performance. Learning about neuroplasticity - Recognising that we can train & change our brain.
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Metabolic Health
Exploring lifestyle factors impacting metabolic health. Learning about monitoring blood work, vital signs and other relevant markers. Tracking glucose levels. Weight management. Understanding risk factors and tuning into the cues your body is routinely giving you.
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Sleep & Environmental Health
Detailed assessments & plans. Understanding the biological requirements for & processes of sleep. Learning about Circadian Rhythm. Getting to the root cause of sleep issues. Exploring social, emotional & environmental influences. Support with medical investigations and education on sleep aids. Connection to gut & hormonal health. Consideration of home & workplace toxins. Connecting to nature and the natural rhythms. Learn how to hack your sleep and detox your life.
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Hormonal Health
Understand the role of your various hormones and how they work synergistically. Help with accessing the right blood tests. Consideration of nutritional, supplementation and herbal supports. Achieve improved balance through lifestyle modifications.
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Relationships & Parenting
Strengthen connections & build better relationships. Improve communication. Establish healthy boundaries. Navigate difficult conversations. Rethink your approach to resolving conflict. Develop a greater sense of trust and intimacy. Understand power dynamics. Learn about attachment styles and parenting frameworks. Support in navigating solo parenting & changing family arrangements.
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Stress Management -Mindfulness, Meditation & Movement Medicine
Understanding where perceived stress exists and how it manifests in the body. The link between emotional distress & physical illness. Individualised plans for managing and reducing chronic exposure. Introductions to movement, mindfulness & meditation as medicine. Developing meaningful rituals. Start journaling. Learn about the healing power of your own breath. Re-connect with nature, creativity and joy.
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Grief & Loss
Compassionately offering comfort and support during periods of transition by providing a safe space to reflect and feel and share. Sitting with discomfort, adversity and loss whilst nurturing sources of strength and resilience.
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Traditional Wisdom
Weaving the profound yet simple ‘science of life’ teachings of Ayurveda into assessment and planning. Incorporating the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine where attention is given to a whole systems approach to the human body with respect for connection to the mind, spirit and natural world and our innate ability to heal.
Learn about why merging the masculine and feminine energies of western and eastern approaches to wellness, is the future of the holistic healthcare revolution, the world so desperately needs.
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Hope, Spirituality & Advocacy in Healthcare - Navigating Systems
Fostering hope and augmenting individual resilience in the face of health issues. Supporting connection to personal values and beliefs. Facilitating personal advocacy and personal sovereignty. Promoting informed consent. Education on the democratisation of healthcare. Help with care co-ordination & understanding our healthcare systems. Honouring your innate wisdom and empowering you as the expert on you.
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Professional Mentorship
Looking through the holistic lens. Balancing innovation with evidence base. Cultivating creativity whilst maintaining professional standards and ethics. Daring to dream & to lead whilst staying in scope. Professional development planning. Designing the vision based on the mission. Developing models & administrative systems. Recognising and recovering from burnout. Prioritising self care learning to know thyself.
Peer reflection and accountability coaching. Transitioning from clinician to business person.
Domains of Health
There are eight aspects of the human experience that I believe have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing and thus require our careful attention when considering our whole health. Whatever your primary concern or goals, you will find me referring back to these crucial pillars often.
Rapidly growing evidence supports the success of focusing on lifestyle medicine. Let me inspire and support you to empower yourself and make lasting changes.
Nutrition. Movement. Sleep. Mindfulness & Meditation. Environment. Community & Purpose. Spirituality.
What’s involved in a Holistic Health Assessment?
This is a real point of difference…
Your body is one dynamic integrated system. It includes your mind. It’s all connected.
An holistic approach to health recognises this fact along with the importance of an individual’s culture, spirituality, values, lifestyle and experience.
I’m interested in the whole person. Their whole story. I endeavour to support people in reclaiming their personal sovereignty when it comes to health and wellness. My practice is inclusive so I am happy to explore working with anyone interested in my services, and we can do this both in person and virtually.
It is my pleasure and privilege to be able to take the time to get to know what is happening for individuals physically, emotionally and mentally, within the context of their relationships, their environment and their human experience. In order for me to help you on your journey, I need to get to know you. To do this, I provide a comprehensive Holistic Health Assessment where we’ll invest in an initial assessment phase involving a preliminary health, wellness and relationship questionnaire and a 90 min consultation. Together we shall gently reflect on previous experience, consider past traumas and examine patterns of behavior. We will discuss your engagements with other health providers, therapists or healers and we’ll examine motivations for and barriers to change. Our work together will explore your world, and we’ll identify desired outcomes based on your values. You will have the time to really share your journey up to booking this appointment with me. Following on from this you’ll receive a detailed email summary from me including reflections, further thoughts and recommendations for ongoing work. We’ll then schedule a 15 min follow up phone call to expand on my written formulation, explore further questions and plan next steps.
You may come to me with the intention of working on a particular aspect of your life. Ie. Your gut health or your relationship with your partner, and whilst the bulk of our work may indeed focus there, I find it is ALWAYS useful to begin with a comprehensive Holistic Assessment. Remember, everything is connected.
Once we have a shared understanding about areas to work on, further engagement will allow us to progress to identifying your goals and formulating a personalised plan together.
I do offer single sessions, however health coaching is most beneficial when we commit to working together over a period of time.
This journey can also be taken as a couple or family unit.