NATUROPATHIC SERVICES
About Jenny's approach...
Jenny’s original training as a practitioner was in naturopathy, which at the time spoke to her passion for all things health and well-being. Growing up with a mother who was ahead of her time, being adamant that homemade, whole foods, exercise and fresh air were essential to being healthy, laid a foundation that made working in the health industry seem a natural step.
After graduation, Jenny worked closely for many years with integrative doctors in and around Brisbane, developing a healthy respect for the marriage between the two. But as the years in practice progressed, she observed that there were still key things missing in her understanding of the healing process. She began looking further afield, exploring a couple of well-known modalities including acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, and while many things, including these, have not remained in her toolkit, to this day she remains open to what does offer true support and incorporates what she finds effective in supporting long-term sustainable change.
As you will see, today Jenny incorporates a broad range of training into her work with an approach that she now considers truly holistic. She will consider all possible contributing factors, looking to understand the broader context of your complaint or situation, including, where relevant, the intricacies that make your life the way you experience it. She will offer insight into the inevitable way in which choices you make may contribute to or be instrumental in the creation of what illness, disease or ailment your body eventually suffers.
With awareness of the common naturopathic approach, she is generally a minimalist when it comes to supplementation and rarely draws on this as a first option in treatment, finding that once the underlying factors are known and worked with, that resolution of a presenting complaint is faster and more permanent than if these factors are overlooked in favour of a predominantly symptomatic approach.
With respect to the fact the body can end up severely compromised, she offers services specific to assessing some key markers of healthy function and vitality (see below) that she has found helpful. In addition, she is experienced in sifting through the plethora of dietary advice available online and commonly known approaches, offering dietary guidance particular to your body and further supporting the body to be truly well.
Her benchmark for what it means to be truly healthy and well is very high and is based on her own experience of what is possible when all aspects of our well-being are taken care of.
Of this she says:
“Being truly healthy is not simply the absence of a significant debilitating illness nor from adopting a supposedly healthy diet. It is reflected in our ability to:
- Sleep deeply and restfully.
- Wake feeling refreshed and ready for a day’s work.
- Truly enjoy ourselves at work and in our interactions with others.
- Feel good about ourselves in all aspects of life.
- Feel valued and valuable in our lives.
- Have harmonious, healthy relationships with all those around us.
- Feel empowered to change things that aren’t working.
- Effectively resolve conflict and let go things that have impacted us in the past.”
She goes on to say…
