I trained in two worlds at once: a five-year double degree in Human Biology and Chinese Medicine.

From the beginning I was learning to hold a Western scientific understanding of the body alongside a system of medicine that reads it differently, and I've never seen a reason to choose between them.

My early career took me into fertility, working alongside a fertility clinic at a time when Chinese medicine was first earning its place beside Western reproductive medicine. Watching those two systems support each other, patient by patient, shaped everything that came after. I went on to complete a Masters of Reproductive Medicine, and ongoing functional medicine training added a third lens, one that asks not only whether something is wrong, but whether everything is actually working well.

Fourteen years in clinic later, that's still how I work: three lenses, one woman, the whole picture.

Normal and optimal are not the same thing. Foundations come first: sleep, digestion, stress and hormonal patterns need to be steady before anything is added on top. And your own data, clearly read, gives you power over your own health story.

A few years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. A year of treatment followed, and with it, medically induced menopause, which took many of the conventional hormonal options I'd spent my career studying off the table for me. Navigating that alongside an exceptional medical team added something to my practice that no qualification could: firsthand knowledge of managing hormones when the standard options aren't available.

Your experience is your own, and I'd never assume mine mirrors it, but I know what it is to sit in the patient's chair and need someone to look at the whole picture. That knowledge is in the room in every consultation.

My path here wasn't a straight line. I spent my early twenties following ski seasons between the Australian snowfields and the USA before starting my degree at 25, then spent the final semester of my training in a hospital in Nanjing, seeing Chinese medicine practised inside the system that built it.

For a few years after, Rwanda kept drawing me back, part of informal conversations with government about how traditional medicine could sit inside a modern healthcare system.

What all of it left me with is this: people arrive from every walk of life, carrying every kind of story, and my job is simply to meet you exactly where you are.