Hi, I’m Sally
I was trained to find what others miss.
But it wasn’t one thing that taught me that. It was forty years of layers.
It started with the tests that didn’t tell the whole story.
Early in my career I worked in diagnostic nuclear medicine. What that gave me wasn’t just technical training, it was the understanding that a normal result and a well patient are not the same thing. I watched it happen repeatedly. The scan would come back unremarkable. But the patient sitting in front of me was not unremarkable. She was exhausted, struggling, dismissed.
I learned to listen to her. Not just to her results.
That clinical instinct, the one that says the test is one piece of information, not the whole answer has never left me.
Then I learned to feel what was wrong.
Remedial therapy taught me something that no laboratory result can capture: the body holds its story in its tissues. Tension. Compensation. The places that have been carrying more than their share for too long. Working with the physical body taught me to read what wasn’t being said and to understand that what shows up in one place is rarely the whole picture.
Then came the layers that made me whole-person.
Naturopathy. Nutrition. Western herbal medicine. Hypnotherapy. Aromatherapy. Reiki. Each discipline added a lens. And together they built something I couldn’t have arrived at any other way the ability to hold a woman’s full picture. Her body, her history, her nervous system, her patterns, her life.
Not her results. Her.
I didn’t set out to specialise in midlife women’s health. I set out to help people.
For years my clinic door opened to women and their children the full arc of family life. But over time, something shifted. My clients were getting older. And what I was witnessing, day after day, was women in their 40s and 50s being dismissed, misdiagnosed, handed antidepressants when what they needed was answers. Being put on HRT and told they should feel better and still not feeling better. Being failed by a system that wasn’t designed to see them clearly.
That’s what made me choose this work. And then my own health crisis made that choice irreversible.
Then I became the patient.
In 2019 a serious health crisis stopped me completely. And I had to apply everything I knew > every layer, every lens > to myself. Navigating a system that kept telling me my results were fine while my body told a very different story.
I know what it feels like to be dismissed. To fight to be taken seriously in your own health. To be more than a test result and have nobody see it.
That experience didn’t change what I knew. It changed how deeply I understood what my patients feel when they walk through the door.
And then there’s everything else life has taught me.
Motherhood. Grandmotherhood. Going through menopause myself. Rebuilding from the ground up. Forty years of sitting across from women whose bodies were speaking clearly and who needed someone who could finally hear it.
We are more than the sum of our parts. That’s not a philosophy I read somewhere. It’s what four decades of clinical practice have shown me, over and over again.
And it’s why the women who find me often say the same thing: “You’re the first person who has actually listened.”
Who I work with
Women in midlife, typically in their 40s and 50s, who are exhausted, frustrated, and have been told everything is normal when nothing feels normal. Women who are doing everything right and still not feeling well. Women who have been dismissed, misread, or handed a prescription when what they needed was someone to look at the whole picture.
If that’s you, you’re in the right place.
Come and find me
The best place to start is my free Facebook community — Navigating Menopause Naturally — where over 7,700 women are asking the same questions you are, and getting real answers.
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Qualifications Adv. Dip. Naturopathy · Adv. Dip. Western Herbal Medicine · Adv. Dip. Nutritional Medicine · Adv. Dip. Remedial Massage · B.App.Sci (Nuclear Medicine) · Cert. Hypnotherapy · Dip. Aromatherapy · Reiki Level I & II · Kinesiology