FAQ

A Naturopath is your own personal health detective, practicing holistic medicine to find and make sense of the underlying patterns in your health that are causing mental or physical illness. A Naturopath is trained to look at you as a whole person, considering your psychological and social wellbeing, your diet, sleep, exercise, nutritional deficiencies, stress levels, digestion, hormonal health, immune health and gut health and tie it all together to create a plan to bring your body and it’s systems into harmony.

The body works best when it has access to:

• Clean air
• Clean water
• Nutrient dense organic food
• Sunlight and nature
• Quality sleep
• Daily movement
• Social connection
• Living in alignment with your values
• Meaningful work
• Ways to process emotional stress and trauma
• A healthy environment – low in radiation eg wifi, high voltage powerlines, mould, dust and air pollution.

A Naturopath will use Dietary advice, Lifestyle advice, Health Coaching, Herbal Medicine & Nutritional Supplements to prescribe an individual health plan to help you achieve your health goals.

Some Naturopaths get a bad wrap for over prescribing expensive supplements. As your Naturopath, I ask that you let me know your monthly budget for any herbs or supplements and I will respect that and keep things affordable for you.

For most issues I will prescribe 1 to 3 things to take every day that will help you improve your symptoms.

For fertlity clients, you are likely to be on a lot of herbs and supplments, as this is a complex, multifaceted area and it can take “the big guns” to get results.

Yes, I authorize repeats on any herbs or supplements so that you can access more if you run out between consults, or if you’ve had to reschedule a consult. You can access this via your patient portal and have them delivered to your door via express medical courier.

Sometimes yes and sometimes no! We often move on to taking less things every day and to lower doses to maintain results. Sometimes for example for someone with PCOS who now has regular ovulatory menstrual cycles, the body has gotten in to a rhytym and may not need herbs any more.

In the case of iron or vitamin D deficiency, I see time and time again people testing low again in 6-12 months after stopping their supplements, so we move on to a maintenence dose to keep you at optimal levels long term.

When you see a Naturopath, at your first consultation, we will identify your health goals and discuss any barriers to achieveing these goals that might currently exist in your life. For example, you might be time poor, have an injury that is preventing exercise, you may be confused about what foods nourish your body or don’t know what to cook or be too tired to make any lifestyle changes.

We create a plan that meets you where you’re at that respects your busy lifestyle, adding in diet or lifestyle changes at a pace that suits you.

Usually we catch up once a month for a few months. Most people see a good level of improvement in their health issues in 1-3 sessions. For chronic health issues, long term mental health or fertilty issues, a 6-12 month plan may be needed, with catch ups every 2-3 months after the first few sessions.

We ensure that your plan is creating meaningful change in your life at every session and refine it accordingly once you feel better.

• Get copies of any pathology or medical imaging reports from the past 1-2 years and upload it to your patient portal
• Reflect on what your health concerns are and fill out your intake form online before your consultation
• Write a list of questions you want to ask me so that you get the most from your session
• Reflect on any barriers you may have to getting better so we can address them
• Notify me of all prescription medication that you take so I can safely prescribe alongside it
• Notify me of the brand and name of any herbs or supplements you are currently taking, or any you’ve taken in the past that worked well or that didn’t work well