Your consultation can take place with our naturopaths in Camden, (approximately an hour from Sydney) or via telehealth where you can speak to our naturopaths from anywhere in the world.
Initial naturopathic consultations
Our signature initial naturopathic consultation goes for an hour and during this time, your naturopath will ask you lots of different questions to try and understand 3 main things:
- What your body is doing
- What your body is not doing
- What is the connection between these two things.
Our consultation process
How we work
Analyse Health History
Once we have analysed your health history, we will explain our findings and your individualised health strategy to help you get back on track. This usually contains a combination of nutritional, lifestyle and mind-body suggestions, but everyone is different. For those of you who are ready to tackle things head on, we can work with you to give your health a total overhaul, but for those of you who would rather take it slow, we can work with that too and break it down into smaller chunks.
Prescribe Supplements
We sometimes prescribe supplements, either nutritional, herbal or a combination of both, but not always. While supplements and herbal medicine can make a big difference to how you are feeling, we believe they should only be used to bring your body back into balance and that we then look after this balance with diet and lifestyle.
Collect Information
On the rarer occasion, we don’t actually implement anything during your initial naturopathic consultation as we need to collect some more information before we can make a sound call as to the next step forward. This may include additional pathology testing, functional medicine testing or referral, but your naturopath will discuss this with you if this is likely the right approach for you.
Report Findings
Once we’ve been able to understand a bit more about what is going on for you, we can schedule in your Report of Findings Session. Typically, this consult is scheduled 2 – 3 weeks after your initial naturopathic consult and will go for 45 minutes. This gives us time to evaluate how the current strategy has been progressing as well as go over any test results and then tweak and modify as required.
Follow Up
After your Report of Findings session, we will be able to say how frequently you need to see us for a standard follow up (which last 30 minutes). This largely depends on what we are working on, but as a rough guide, it’s usually 3 –4 weeks after your Report of Findings Consult. Appointments after this are then made in conjunction with your practitioner based on your health goals and treatment strategy.
Consults
Your consults can also be a combination of face-to-face naturopathy consults at our clinic in Camden and telehealth. For example, you might like to see us for your initial naturopathic consult in a face-to-face consult, but then do your follow ups via telehealth. Or you might like to come in to have some in-clinic naturopathic testing at a later date after your initial telehealth appointment. How you structure this one is entirely up to you!
Our consultation process
How we work
Analyse Health History
Once we have analysed your health history, we will explain our findings and your individualised health strategy to help you get back on track. This usually contains a combination of nutritional, lifestyle and mind-body suggestions, but everyone is different. For those of you who are ready to tackle things head on, we can work with you to give your health a total overhaul, but for those of you who would rather take it slow, we can work with that too and break it down into smaller chunks.
Prescribe Supplements
We sometimes prescribe supplements, either nutritional, herbal or a combination of both, but not always. While supplements and herbal medicine can make a big difference to how you are feeling, we believe they should only be used to bring your body back into balance and that we then look after this balance with diet and lifestyle.
Collect Information
On the rarer occasion, we don’t actually implement anything during your initial naturopathic consultation as we need to collect some more information before we can make a sound call as to the next step forward. This may include additional pathology testing, functional medicine testing or referral, but your naturopath will discuss this with you if this is likely the right approach for you.
Report Findings
Once we’ve been able to understand a bit more about what is going on for you, we can schedule in your Report of Findings Session. Typically, this consult is scheduled 2 – 3 weeks after your initial naturopathic consult and will go for 45 minutes. This gives us time to evaluate how the current strategy has been progressing as well as go over any test results and then tweak and modify as required.
Follow Up
After your Report of Findings session, we will be able to say how frequently you need to see us for a standard follow up (which last 30 minutes). This largely depends on what we are working on, but as a rough guide, it’s usually 3 –4 weeks after your Report of Findings Consult. Appointments after this are then made in conjunction with your practitioner based on your health goals and treatment strategy.
Consults
Your consults can also be a combination of face-to-face naturopathy consults at our clinic in Camden and telehealth. For example, you might like to see us for your initial naturopathic consult in a face-to-face consult, but then do your follow ups via telehealth. Or you might like to come in to have some in-clinic naturopathic testing at a later date after your initial telehealth appointment. How you structure this one is entirely up to you!
** If you have chosen an initial naturopathic consultation with comprehensive testing, your naturopath will also take you through some in clinic tests which go one step deeper to discover what is going on for you. Due to the additional time required for these tests, this type of initial appointment goes for 75 minutes.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have some questions about how sessions work, costs or how to get started?
It’s as simple as booking your appointment! This can be done through our secure online booking system.
Your consultation will typically go for an hour (or 75 minutes if you have chosen the comprehensive testing option) and will involve your naturopath asking you lots of different questions about your health and current concerns. They will piece together what is going on and then take you through your treatment/management strategy. They will then arrange a follow up appointment, which is usually 2 – 4 weeks from your initial. If there is any additional testing/investigations that need to be done in between, your naturopath will take you through all these.
Find out more about how we work.
- Standard initial consultation (60 minutes) – $220 (can be face to face or online)
- Initial consultation with comprehensive testing (75 minutes) – $280 (can only be done face to face)
- Report of Findings Consults (your first follow up – 45 minutes) – $160 (can be face to face or online)
- Standard follow up (30 minutes) – $95
- Comprehensive Follow up (45 minutes) – $160 (can be face to face or online)
It takes as long as it takes. While we would love to be able to give you a definitive ‘xx number of consults and you’ll be cured’ the reality is everyone is different and their bodies progress at different rates. As a very rough guide, we should be seeing some changes within 4 – 6 weeks but your naturopath will work closely with you to make sure things are moving in the right direction. If not, they will talk you through a variety of different options which may include more in-depth testing.
Our (physical) naturopathic clinic has recently had a tree change and moved from Surry Hills (Sydney) to Camden, roughly an hour from Sydney. Consults can be done face to face or you can take advantage of our telehealth options and speak to one of our naturopaths from anywhere in the world!
See our contact page for more information.
