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Susie Garden

Clinical Nutritionist and Naturopath

I know what it’s like to hit your 40s (and now 50s!) and start to see changes in your skin, your body and your hormones. It felt relentless at times.

I was inspired to help women to look and feel their best in perimenopause after experiencing my own symptoms of peri and realising the women I was seeing in my clinic were putting up with fatigue, brain fog, hot flushes and weight gain and had no idea that these can be addressed with personalised nutrition and lifestyle strategies.

Here’s how it started…

Some years ago, I had a busy practice full of women over 40yo wanting help losing weight, managing stress and increasing energy.

After my degree I had invested in some additional training in a European nutrition program and added in mindset skills, stress management, movement and gut health support and was seeing my clients achieve incredible weight loss results.

BUT they were also raving about –

  • How well they were sleeping

  • How their skin was glowing

  • How their thoughts were clearer and they were making better decisions at work

  • How their body pain had disappeared How their energy was going through the roof!

I looked into this some more and realised that these women were receiving these added benefits because of the combination effect of my total program AND that there was plenty of science to explain this.

So I shifted my focus and I now almost exclusively work with women in perimenopause and menopause to improve their symptoms and lose unwanted weight and I love it!

I use a combination of personalised nutrition (using blood testing) plus coaching to develop a protocol that is unique to each client.

I’m a degree qualified Clinical Nutritionist, Naturopath and Yoga & Meditation Teacher with over 30 years experience in healthcare, previously as a Registered Nurse and also in the pharmaceutical industry. I host The Ageless and Awesome Podcast and am based in Burleigh Heads. I work with women all around the world via TeleHealth (video link).

Susie sees clients online via Telehealth.

Alison Dougall

Clinical and Counselling Psychologist

Hello! I'm Alison.

I'm also a perimenopause-r…plus, a Clinical and Counselling Psychologist, Mindfulness Teacher, Coach, and I was a Registered Nurse in what feels like a former life (with a long-held interest and qualifications in sexual and reproductive health).

As a Psychologist, I’ve worked largely in private practice for the last 20 years. I work collaboratively with clients, using science-based therapies to help them better understand themselves, develop new perspectives, learn new skills and strategies, and respond in new ways to life’s challenges. Ultimately, clients navigate immediate challenges while also building longer-term resilience.

Like a lot of women, I tried for some time to avoid the whole topic of Menopause and related issues. But my own peri-menopause had different ideas for me, and eventually I needed to sit up and pay attention …

This is a challenging time of life for many of us. And there's nothing I love more in my professional life, than working with women who are experiencing ..... To be honest, they can feel degrees of desperation when they first come to see me. They are often NOT feeling like themselves at all. And of course, it's not just the joys of perimenopause that they're dealing with. Life isn't that simple. Nope, as midlife women, it's more than likely they have other stuff going on. All up, it can just feel like too much. But offering the time and space to make sense of it all, reconsider how they want to show up in the world, how much and what kind of caring they want to continue to provide others, and becoming clear on what's most important for them ... well, these conversations are pretty impactful. In fact, they seem like the “essence” to helping my clients move from feeling overwhelmed and often desperate, to excited, clear, courageous and 'ready'. THIS. This is the work that I love. It's such a privilege.

Alison sees clients online via Telehealth.

Kirstin Bouse

Clinical and Forensic Psychologist

My 40’s have been filled with a few highs and lows. Perhaps the greatest ‘surprise’ was my own experience of perimenopause. Add to that a late diagnosis of ADHD and yep, it’s been a bit of a ride AND a steep learning curve. With the gift of hyperfocus that comes with being an ADHDer, I took it upon myself to deep dive and learn all that I could about both; independent of one another as well as the intersection of the two. As a result, this ‘space’ is where you’ll find me.

If you’re a perimenopausal woman who also thinks she’s an ADHDer, I can help. I can take you through an assessment process for ADHD and I can also help you wrap your head around what this means for you. The world is often a tough place for ADHDers and if you are late to the party in terms of your diagnosis, I’m reasonably confident you’ve picked up some pretty negative beliefs about yourself along the way. Courtesy of feeling like a square peg in a round hole.

So really this is where my focus (heart) is these days. Supporting women as they navigate the menopausal years with ADHD.

Kirstin sees clients in-person and via Telehealth.

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