Tender support for ongoing body adaptation to our changing environments, experiences, health.
Naturopathy is rooted in connection with nature, working with techniques that can gently, yet powerfully, offer support in the body’s healing process.
We work with as traditional and cross-cultural indigineous practices as possible, including for example; our European roots, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) – in particular their elemental system which is a helpful network for organs, the body’s interelation in general, and the path of dis-ease and its potential healing.
You are warmly invited to a brief introductory call, including a fun quiz, to help you & I assess if working together is for you.
Please contact me to arrange this here.
Plant medicine is a way of talking about nutrition from plants inc. herbs and encapsulates the broad spectrum of medicine available to us in the world around us. Foraging skills are on the rise again, and people are learning how to resources themselves from what is freely available. Permaculture, home-growing, organic gardening are all hugely significant practices, that collectively support us now, and increasingly so into the future. Not all of us have access to doing this, or buying such produce. So, we make it work with what is available, honouring the plant world with best we can.
Balanced, hydrating diet.
I do not advocate for a purely vegan diet, though I may practice this sometimes, or recommend for an amount of time.~
While my training was in a vegan Naturopathic Nutrition school, I began to reintroduce meat into my diet upon moving to South Devon 3 years ago, after being vegan for 4 years. My experience of this is here to serve you and support you, should you be in a similar scenario, or be looking to balance your diet in this way.
Hydration is so important here, underpinning the culture I learn among, as one of the simplest ways we can help ourselves restore and enjoy balance and flow. I look at little ways we can do this every day, in liquids, foods, lifestyles, and relationship with our environments.
Environmental health.
We are interrelated with our environmental context. We are also apart of a collective.
With the rise of pollution in the Earth, and toxicity in her waters, this is the same for us as human beings.
Looking to ways we can minimise harm to ourselves, one another and to our environment is essential.
Naturopathically, this might involve using Wifi just during certain hours, spending time reconnecting with nature, removing (harmful or toxic) products from the home/environment, navigating where to live… etc.
Supplementation where necessary and possible.
This is a key area of Naturopathic focus, and can also be challenging to access. Owing to the growth of the health and wellness industry, it can become both confusing which products to choose, and how to access these at good prices!
For this reason, I try to work with simple, accessible forms of supplementation, and actively seek out how to also source the required nourishment from foods, body practices, one another, the environment around us and collective care.
In some circumstances, bodies have been undernourished for some time, and supplementing with 1-3 core supplements, alongside a hydrating diet, can be deeply soothing and restorative.
Simple and easy at-home naturopathic techniques.
Naturopathic techniques refer to practices we can do ourselves at home, often very easily, which allow healing to occur at a deeper level in the body, stimulate lymphatic flow, and support blood flow.
Such techniques are always tailored to the individual, where they find themselves in their healing journey, what they have access to and are able and interested to explore.
An example would be the enema; this is a core naturopathic element, but not necessary for everyone to partake in.
My approach in combination with Astrology, including some elements of medical astrology, and the elemental relationships within our ecosystem of being. Read more about my Astrology practice here.
I also employ yogic movement, offering ways to move our body that can help bring relief and vitality into organs, limbs, energy spaces within the body, and help connect us to ourselves and the world around us. Read more about my Yoga practice here.
My personal journey involves mentrual support, cycle awareness of both the self and the cosmology around us, gut healing and connection, mind well-being and working with neurodiversity, including our nervous system, our fluid self (the lymphatics) and I also work with some specific plants that have supported me in my journey and practice.
I am devoted spiritually, in an unravelling-style practice, centred around Nature’s principles, uncovering indigenous practices to these lands we live on & with, having been part of ancient feminine reconnection, the Goddess, gnostic & mystic experiencing and similar esoteric, yet basic, ways of life.
Another key interest and devotion for me is decolonisation: in my personal life, my work and relationship with life around me. This is a vast topic, but essentially very simple. It’s a long-term journey of coming back to ourselves, going through the messy, painful process of untangling the knots that bind us, from exploitation, empire and corruption. It’s reclaiming our bodies for ourselves, our lives, vacations, relationships and the land (and many beings) who hold us!
It’s also, very importantly, about recentering where our healing practices come from, and gradually unearthing our local indigenous ones as well, where and if possible. For example, this might include paying respect and aknowledgement to the medicine wheel, as originating in many native contexts, some/many of whom have been illiminated or continue to suffer under oppression/occupation.
This informs all of my work, as I humbly seek & question how to decolonise healing & wellbeing in my own life, and how I share this with others. Accessibility is key here, and seeking to think out of the box, in none-linear methods, never assuming any one-size or monopoly of how the body works. This was part of how traditional medicine practices were exploited, and sought to build a ‘proven’ and limited method that is often dependent on laboratories and mind over matter approaches. This is not to disqualify modern medicine, but to speak candidly of the medical industrial complex which has increasingly, and in general, become a slave to profits/corporations. For example further reading, see here. Naturopathy can also be a helpful complimentary support for those going through medical procedures, experiencing chronic dis-ease or illness. It does not need to be a ‘one or the other’ approach: we can collectively glean the best of many worlds/systems and forge a colourful, unique and multi-faceted path together.
My qualifications relevant for Naturopathic practice
Fully qualified Naturopathic nutritionist with the School of Naturopathic Nutrition, certified by the Society of Naturopaths. Newly qualified, with personal, case study, and growing professional client practice.
Astrology and herbalism introductory course with the School of Evolutionary Herbalism (in process).
Raw chef-ing and nutrition training, with Raw Living’s founder Kate Magic.
You can find my Astrology and Yoga qualifications in their relevant pages.
How can we journey together?
I am interested in working 1:1 with those seeking to explore how Naturopathy can support your healing and well-being, perhaps in combination with supportive movement and/or spiritual and Astrological perspectives.
My approach is cocreative, responsive, adaptive. I come on this path with you. I am not curious in just giving advice, but helping you to access your inner resources, what works for you, helps and relieves or inspires you. This is where it gets really good! A process of listening, learning and understanding.
Practically, I begin by hearing about your history, your present, and your hopes. Including symptoms and diagnoses.
A plan is drawn up over a brief interlude, which might seek to incorporate your/current astrological elements, as well as other traditional elemental approaches, and potential routes of relief and support. I want you to feel enjoyment and ease, to play along the way! A lightness and a personal resonance.
Here are some of the reasons/experiences that might draw you to journey with me and with Naturopathy:
- feeling heavy, low, unmotivated, disconnected from body, unbalanced frame of mind
- symptoms of allergies surfacing, eg eczma, feeling blocked up
- food related allergies or discomfort, such as painful digestion, difficulty pooping regularly, constipation
- feeling physically exhausted, overwhelmed, burnt-out, low energy
- thyroid overactive/underactive
- menstrual irregularity and/or pain, including abscence of cycles at a young age
- neurodiverse challenges on the nervous system, gut, brain
- nervous system fragmentation, overstimulation in general, and anxiety
- sensitivity to environment, to changes and transition
All of the above are symptoms and experiences I have had and supported their healing, or am still in process with long-term. These are realities at the core of my speciality and practice. The list of what any of us might experience goes beyond the above, but these points give you an idea of what led me personally into Naturopathy and natural medicine, and what my key interests and hence skills are in. Many of these overlap and support other aspects of dis-ease and (chronic) illness.
I may also refer you to another practitioner or speciality, should this be complimentary to our process together, or should someone I know be better suited (in experience/training/approach) to you and/or your current experience.
You are warmly invited to a brief introductory call, including a fun quiz, to help you & I assess if working together is for you.
Please contact me to arrange this here.
Fees and accessibility
My current rates are £45 an hour, with our first session being up to 90 minutes, at £60.
The first session involves listening to your circumstances, completing a comprehensive professional assessment, dialoguing further. Afterwhich, I go away and play with this, explore and research your immediate and longer-term potential plan.
In our second and follow-up sessions (we can discuss how many are required, or leave this open), we tailor this further to you, understanding what is appropriate, easeful, and interesting to you – basically what you would enjoy doing and are able to! The whole point is for this to be an enjoyable and fun experience!
These are my introductory prices
Block sessions:
6 sessions £250, including your first consultation.
Even after you have your first session, and decide you want to go for 6, you can still access this, at the same price, following our first meeting.
We will book in the 6 sessions, which can be between 6 weeks – to 6 months.
I may be able to offer a sliding scale
If you consider yourself elligible for this, please let me know, so we can discuss this.
I offer this within the limits of my personal capacity.
