Welcome to Holistic Therapy

A therapeutic reflexologist is a complimentary healthcare practitioner who takes a holistic approach to the maintenance of health and the management of disease, with the focus on improving overall wellbeing.

Reflexology is an ancient form of Traditional Chinese Medicine based on the theory that balancing the energy flow encourages the body’s own healing potential and thereby restoring the state of health/homeostasis.

This life energy is also called Chi (pronounced Kee or chee) and using treatments such as acupressure, herbal medicine, and essential oils I treat patients suffering from muscolo-skeletal, respiratory, circulatory, gastrointestinal, gynaecological, neurological, stress related disorders and pain.

Your Wellness state

We are more than just our bodies and my aim is to help my patients achieve balance in all 4 aspects of their being. The following are examples of how an imbalance in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions manifest.

PHYSICAL

The body ages more rapidly, breaks down more easily, and loses elasticity. Organ function is disrupted, there are issues with absorption and elimination, and there’s a feeling of tightness, heaviness, and stress on our skeletal frame.

MENTAL

Confusion, brain fog, ideas lost quickly, lethargy, lack of purpose, neuroses, doubt, a lack of work ethic, feelings of low esteem and low worth. Physically, it manifests as a lack of a menstrual period and little self-care.

EMOTIONAL

A general lack of emotional intelligence, trust, and very little intuition or ability to read and understand people. There’s also a lot of fear and neuroses, as well as concern for the self and less empathy for the experience of others. This can manifest physically as holding water in the limbs, joints, and face (especially from hormone imbalance), dehydration or bloating, inflexibility, and joint stiffness. Lack of sleep from emotional stress presents similar symptoms. Mentally, it manifests as self-doubt, projection, and thinking others have a better life, which again, causes us to lose sleep and increases the physical symptoms of imbalance. Ultimately, it means that we are not using the mental or physical body, either by talking ourselves down to a point of being rational or using the lungs and breath to calm the heartbeat.

SPIRITUAL

Disconnected from the understanding that we are all one and feeling or thinking that we can do things on our own or alone. That we are not co-creating our existence, that we are victims of fate (or the health care system, the government, or the media) and most often (or entirely) dismissive of listening to the gut. This person generally separates from being an active or conscious member of community or society and feels deserving and expectant of others’ energy or time. They also feel left out, or like they have not been seen or heard. There’s also a tendency to put a high emphasis on how things look or how they appear instead of focusing on transparency and honest heart communication. There’s also a heavy focus and over-reliance on doing, controlling, and the grasping of an exterior reference or relationship.

When we are in balance then we will feel open, flexible, inclusive, honest, proactively solving problems, communicate concisely, be calm, fearless and highly creative. The spiritual body represents the synthesis and balance of the other three.