Claire is an experienced naturopath who also has a degree in psychology and a decade of experience in the health and fitness industry. Her services as a personal trainer, yoga teacher, health educator and certified nutrition coach in Australia, internationally and online have provided her with an incredible depth of knowledge. Claire is currently completing her Masters of Reproductive Medicine at UNSW and spends countless hours reading the latest research and extending her knowledge.
Over the last decade, Claire has gained experience in many different areas of healthcare. Aware of addressing one’s physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, Claire founded a holistic gym space that prioritised performance as well as recovery. Claire has travelled internationally to teach yoga and complete additional training in yoga therapy and Ayurvedic counselling. Throughout these years of experience, Claire has worked with all walks of life and appreciates the complexity of human nature and health.
Claire has a keen interest in women’s reproductive issues, thyroid dysfunction and its disorders such as Hashimoto’s and Grave’s disease, natural mental health management, weight loss and physical performance, as well as stages of transition (pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause). In addressing health disturbance, Claire is passionate about taking a person-centred approach, using traditional naturopathic principles coupled with evidence-informed practice to obtain the best results for her patients. Claire enjoys putting her detective hat on to find the root cause of a patient’s issues and assessing pathology results for precise treatments. Empowering her patients through education and working with them as a team to not just remedy issues, but help patients find their most vibrant health, is of utmost importance to her.
Claire strikes a beautiful balance between nurturing and professional, and is always ready to meet patients where they are to move them to a more healthful way of being.
THE JOURNEY HERE..
Claire’s curiosity for health and human potential kicked off when a neighbour dropped over a couple years supply of Good Medicine magazines when she was in primary school. She read each and every issue, taking notes and writing shopping lists for her parents to stock up on all the most healthful items—strawbs for antioxidants, green leafy veg for folate, and she started understanding the importance for protein. Claire started doing yoga and meditation as a pre-teen, again tearing pages out of a magazine to create her ‘practice’. Meditation was always included and this has been a core practice in her life ever since because of its deeply restorative effects and ability to calm her monkey mind. There was always this internal compass orienting her toward healing modalities that early on she really did not understand, yet trusted and explored.
A mega health breakthrough in Claire’s early 20s after turning to naturopathic medicine motivated her to give up her 9 to 5 Government gig in Human Resources. She had a deep desire to start effecting change in the world in her own way, sharing alternate modes to healing and educating on health. Cue starting her degree in Naturopathy! Ever since, she has followed her intuition at every turn.
From expanding a driveway gym to a professional CrossFit business; scrounging all her saved pennies together to head overseas to immerse in a yoga teacher training and—unbeknown to her—deep healing that would set the scene for the years to come; taking the leap into a role as a FIFO yoga teacher and wellbeing coordinator; to-and-fro Indonesia living to soak in deeper yoga and Ayurvedic philosophical teachings, moving to Adelaide for a short stint to begin online work as a nutrition and mindset coach; taking this work around the world and experiencing so many different cultures, people and landscapes; adventuring to a little island in the Maldives teaching yoga to all walks of life (and languages); to finally coming home and making a move south to a new location to settle down (for now). All the while completing her tertiary studies in psychology and naturopathy. It wasn’t a linear path, though it was a prolific one.
