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Naturopathy

Hayley Stockbridge ~ Naturopath

About Hayley

She is a qualified naturopath whose focus is to help you to achieve your health goals and provide you with the tools to achieve and maintain good health. With a holistic approach to treatment, Hayley’s focus is on promoting a healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. A combination of herbal medicines, nutritional supplements, and dietary and lifestyle advice is used to help you achieve your health goals. Hayley can work alongside your existing health care professionals, such as your GP or specialist to support your health and improve your wellbeing. Her special interests include weight loss and womens health and fertility.

QUALIFICATION DETAILS

B App. Sc. (Nat Stud).
Post Grad. Dip Nat.

What is Naturopathy?

Naturopathy is a holistic form of health care that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people primarily through the use of natural medicines and lifestyle guidelines. It recognizes the bodies own ability to heal itself under the right conditions and with the help of herbal medicine, nutritional supplements, and dietary and lifestyle changes.

What to expect from your consultation

Initial consultation- 45mins

Naturopathy encompasses a holistic approach so your entire health history is discussed during your first consultation. Because of this, your first appointment will be for 45 minutes. During your initial consultation, we will begin by discussing your presenting complaints. We will then assess the health and function of each individual body system (such as digestive, musculoskeletal, or reproductive systems) to determine any other imbalances that may lie within the body. Emphasis is often placed on your digestive system and diet.

2nd consultation- Further testing

The second consultation allows for any in-house testing to be completed. This may include hemaview live blood screening, VLA Bioimpedance, zinc taste test and/or urinary indicans testing for dysbiosis. This will allow your practitioner to build on the information gathered during your initial appointment. Your naturopath will then be able to combine the test results with the information found in your health history to formulate a treatment plan individually designed to suit your needs.

Findings and your treatment plan will then be discussed, involving diet changes and herbal or nutritional medicines.

3rd consultation

This is the time for your naturopath to discuss their findings with you. A variety of treatments will be prescribed based on these findings. This may include herbal medicine, nutritional supplementation, homeopathy, flower essences as well as dietary and lifestyle changes.

Follow up consultations:

Follow up consultations will be 15-30 minutes long. This is where we continue to refine the changes you have made and tackle any new concerns that may come to light. By this stage you are well into the particular program prescribed and it is now our job to keep it all on track.

What testing services are available?

Hayley uses a variety of tests to assess your current health status.

VLA Bioimpedance

The Vitality, Longevity and Anti-aging (VLA) machine uses a gentle electrical current to test a number of health parameters that indicate how well your body is ageing. This technology measures important markers of ageing- your cellular toxicity, cellular vitality, fat mass, muscle mass, hydration and fluid balance to analyse the key biological markers of ageing. Through testing we are able to determine your ideal weight, and compare this to your current body weight.

VLA testing is one of the many tools available to gain a better insight into your general health status and the inner workings of your body. Toxicity, inflammation, stress and poor nutrition will all become apparent using this testing. Most importantly, it acts as a measure that we can use to demonstrate your progress during treatment.

Hemaview Live Blood Screening

Hemaview is a blood test that involves viewing a drop of your blood live through a microscope on a computer screen in front of you. Hayley will be able to assess the state of your immune cells and the health of your red blood cells. Viewing and examining your blood will enable your Hayley screen for poor nutrition, alcohol, smoking, stress, inflammation and toxicity. Improvements in your health can be measured by changes seen in your blood after treatment has commenced.

Zinc Taste Test

Zinc levels can be assessed using a ‘Zinc taste test’. This quick and simple test gives a great indication of your zinc status.

Urinary Indicans test

This is a simple urine test which will indicate the level of overgrowth of ‘bad’ bacteria in the bowel- dysbiosis. Dysbiosis can lead a variety of digestive symptoms and is useful for indicating the need for a detoxification program.

Allergy or intolerance testing

Common foods, additives, sweetners and colours are screened for possible intolerances or sensitivities that may be responsible for a range of symptoms including digestive complaints, sinus, asthma, and eczema.

Hair analysis

Provides an overview of the bodies mineral and heavy metal levels and ratios. A comprehensive report is supplied with results, graphs and recommendations based on the results.

What treatments are provided?

Herbal medicine:

Herbal medicine use is based on both traditional usage and evidence based research.

Nutrition:

This involves using food as medicine and diet changes as well as nutritional supplementation to establish optimum nutritional status.

Lifestyle advice:

Advice is given around how to make some simple lifestyle changes to improve your health and symptoms. These changes may involve food, work, exercise or leisure activities.