Tania Clifton-Smith

Tania Clifton-Smith, along with Dinah Bradley New Zealand-trained physiotherapists joined forces in 1999 to establish Breathing Works, their unique specialist physiotherapy clinic. Their clinics cater to people with all too common breathing pattern disorders and chronic hyperventilation problems.

Tania has lectured to medical professionals worldwide: UK, USA, Hong Kong, Australia and France. She has also worked with a number of Olympic athletes, many of whom have asthma. Due to the reputation of the BradCliff technique and the astounding results achieved, Dinah and Tania have clients from all over the world wanting to learn their unique method.

Dinah and Tania are the authors of Dynamic Breathing for Asthma, and Breathe, Stretch, Move: How to Beat Workplace Stress. Dinah is also the author of the bestselling Hyperventilation Syndrome: Breathing Pattern Disorders and Tania co-authored Breathing Matters with Dr Jim Bartley and the acclaimed  Breathe To Succeed .
Tania

• Currently sits on the Medical Advisory Board for Allergy New Zealand.
• Is a recognised practitioner For the NZ Academy of Sport
• Is a preferred provider for The Pinnacle group, a sports organisation which helps aspiring world champions.

Breathing therapies for asthma and allergy:

In recent years, asthma patients have been well informed about their drug
management but little emphasis has been placed on physical coping skills and the importance of the correct use of the breathing muscles. Dependency on asthma medication is regarded as the norm, and there is little encouragement for people with asthma to try alternative methods to control their breathing.

Approximately 70% of people with asthma breathe with difficulty and without using their full breathing potential, so this service is invaluable to those individuals. Their BradCliff Method of breathing retraining adds value to basic asthma education, by looking at the mechanics of breathing patterns and the muscles involved not just the airways and medication use.
The BradCliff Breathing Method is also an excellent technique for helping with anxiety and the difficulty in breathing brought on by an allergic reaction.

Pauline Brown, Paediatric Allergy Nurse Specialist

Registered General and Obstetrical Nurse (Canada)
Bachelor of Health Science & Nursing (New Zealand)
Post Graduate Certificate in Allergy Nursing (Australia)

Pauline is a registered nurse who did her original training in Newfoundland, Canada where she was born. She has worked and specialised in paediatric nursing for more than 30 years. In her role as Paediatric Immunology and Allergy Nurse Specialist at Starship Hospital from 1999 and 2006, she was recognised as the leading paediatric allergy nurse in New Zealand. She was also the first New Zealand nurse to complete the Post Graduate Certificate in Allergy Nursing, from the University of Adelaide.  Pauline has been on the Allergy New Zealand Medical Advisory Panel for several years and over the past two years has assisted the organization in developing and delivering training for public health nurses on the allergy & anaphylaxis guidelines for schools.

Pauline left the Starship Children’s Hospital at the end of 2006 to move to the beautiful Tutukaka coast north of Whangarei with her family, and has since established the Nurse-led Paediatric Eczema Clinic at the Child Health Centre in Whangarei.

Treating eczema in children: wet-wrapping and other treatments.

Associate Professor Rohan Ameratunga MBChB, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA, ABMLI.

Assoc. Prof. Ameratunga is a pediatric and adult immunology/allergy specialist.  He trained at the Auckland School of Medicine and specialized in Internal medicine and Immunopathology before training in pediatric immunology.  He is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and is US Board certified in Medical and Laboratory Immunology. He has also completed a PhD in molecular immunology.

Rohan has undertaken a pediatric allergy/immunology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and was the Starship Immunologist from 1991-1994.  He is currently working at Auckland Hospital as an adult Clinical Immunologist and Immunopathologist.  He is also in part time private practice.

In addition he has teaching responsibilities for medical students, specialist trainees in adult and paediatric medicine at the Auckland University’s School of Medicine.  His research interests include laboratory aspects of allergy as well as primary immune deficiency disorders. He currently oversees the ADHB-based research programme into the burden of food allergy in New Zealand.

What is an allergy and why do we have them? A clinician's overview of allergy and the immune system.

Dr. Vincent St. A. Crump, MBBS (UWI), Dip Derm. (Univ Lond), FRCP (U.K.),  FRACP.

Dr Crump is an Allergist and Physician now in private practice at the Auckland Allergy Clinic. He trained as a doctor in his country of birth, the West Indies, graduation in 1980, before undertaking postgraduate studies in the UK. He attained a Diploma in Dermatology from full-time training at the University of London and Cardiff University Hospital, Wales, and then undertook Specialist Training in Internal Medicine at Brighton General Hospital & Worthing General Hospital.

He has also undertaken USA & UK Allergy and Immunology Courses and Clinics, and attends international Allergy and Immunology conferences twice per year.

Dr Crump has been a consultant physician specialising in Allergic Diseases of Adults and Children since 1994. He has also written a number of review articles on Allergy, developed Patient Education Aids and frequently participates in public and professional presentations on Allergy. He currently holds professional memberships in
• The Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy (ASCIA)
• The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (AAAA&I)
• The British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI)
• The European Academy of Allergology & Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
• The Australian & NZ Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZOM)
• The Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand.

Food Sensitivities: What’s the difference between food allergy, coeliac disease and food intolerances?

Sue Egbers

Married and a mother of two, Sue Egbers had always been employed in business administration.  Upon diagnosis of their son with Coeliacs Disease after years of serious illness, the Egbers family embarked on a tumultuous journey, discovering the rights and wrongs in the food industry with labeling, cross contamination and even politics.  Passionate about these issues, Sue founded ‘Ntolerance’, a one-stop-shop to help people with food allergies and intolerances.
This is her family’s story.

A Parent’s Perspective on Coeliac Disease

Anna Richards, Dietitian

Anna is a New Zealand registered dietitian whose background is in community and paediatric dietetics. She has also spent some years working in the food industry, recipe writing and food styling.

Anna currently works in private practice in Auckland specializing in Paediatrics, Allergy and Food Intolerance, along with her general Family and Corporate Practice. She also has a number of consultancy roles to industry, daycares and the media. This includes involvement with GP Allergy Education, and writing regularly for publications such as Foodtown’s magazine and ‘Littlies’.

As a frequent speaker in areas such as food allergy and intolerance, and infant and child nutrition, she is consulted regularly by organisations, and currently serves on the Australasian Infant Advisory Board and on the Medical Panel of Allergy New Zealand.

Anna is passionate about food allergy and intolerance and the challenge of increasing awareness and accurate diagnosis and management of food allergy and food chemical hypersensitivity.

Food Allergies & Intolerances: staying healthy on an elimination diet.

Pauline Brown, Paediatric Allergy Nurse Specialist

Registered General and Obstetrical Nurse (Canada)
Bachelor of Health Science & Nursing (New Zealand)
Post Graduate Certificate in Allergy Nursing (Australia)

Pauline is a registered nurse who did her original training in Newfoundland, Canada where she was born. She has worked and specialised in paediatric nursing for more than 30 years. In her role as Paediatric Immunology and Allergy Nurse Specialist at Starship Hospital from 1999 and 2006, she was recognised as the leading paediatric allergy nurse in New Zealand. She was also the first New Zealand nurse to complete the Post Graduate Certificate in Allergy Nursing, from the University of Adelaide.  Pauline has been on the Allergy New Zealand Medical Advisory Panel for several years and over the past two years has assisted the organization in developing and delivering training for public health nurses on the allergy & anaphylaxis guidelines for schools.

Pauline left the Starship Children’s Hospital at the end of 2006 to move to the beautiful Tutukaka coast north of Whangarei with her family, and has since established the Nurse-led Paediatric Eczema Clinic at the Child Health Centre in Whangarei.

Dealing with asthma and anaphylaxis

Sara-Jane Murison, RN

Sara-Jane Murison is a registered nurse who became involved with Allergy New Zealand as a volunteer after one of her children was diagnosed with food allergy.  She joined the staff in 2006 and is currently Allergy New Zealand’s Allergy Educator. Her role includes the development and provision of educational seminars on food allergy and anaphylaxis mainly to public health nurses, and also to the food industry.  She has chaired a number of food industry forums and represented Allergy New Zealand in consumer forums relating to food-allergen labeling regulations. Sara-Jane is an Associate Member of ASCIA and also a member of the New Zealand Paediatric Society Special Interest Group on Allergy.

What you need to know about reading food labels and sourcing safe food when you have a food allergy

The introduction of mandatory labelling in 2002 for the main food allergens made life a little less complex for people with food allergies in some respects, but introduced some new challenges for them as well as the food industry.

Six years on, what is better, what have we learnt, and what are the current challenges?

Mary Rose Fitzgerald

Mary Rose is an Environmental Health Officer with the Auckland City Council.

Food Allergens and Food Safety in the Food Service Sector

Gill Keuskamp

Gill Keuskamp was formerly Marketing Communications Manager for Tower New Zealand and worked exclusively in the health insurance market for Tower and previously AXA Health. She was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease in 2004 and soon became involved with the Coeliac Society. Gill was appointed to the management team in 2006 when she took on the roles of website management, marketing and funding, and in 2007 she was appointed President. She is passionate about developing the Society’s network to promote the welfare of children and adults with CD and support further research into the condition.

Coping with Coeliac Disease and staying healthy on a gluten free diet.

Dr. Rodney Ford (Dr. Gluten)

Dr Doctor Rodney Ford says “Professionally, I am a paediatrician (a doctor who looks after children).  I am also a gastroenterologist (gut) and food allergy specialist. I was Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.”

Dr. Rodney Ford has been helping people with nutrition and food problems for more than twenty-five years. Over this time there have been revolutionary changes in thinking about the widespread damage from gluten.  He has written a series of books to express his thinking and increase debate of the effects of gluten on health.  He hopes his website www.doctorgluten.com  will benefit you and hundreds of thousands of others, worldwide.

Topic 1 (25mins) - Eczema - Cure it!

Find all answers to your Eczema.
At last, you can experience normal skin again.

- Why have you got it?
- What is causing it?
- How can you switch it off?
- What’s driving it?
- Is it gluten, milk or eggs?
- How can you protect your children?
- Can you identify your allergies?
- What creams and potions?

Find your answers to curing your eczema.

Topic 2 (25mins)- The Gluten Syndrome: is wheat causing you harm?

Is it harming you?  Is it harming your kids?

“The Gluten Syndrome” describes the symptoms that people suffer from eating gluten. 

It can cause gut, skin and nerve problems. Hear how:
- Gluten causes its harm through damage to the neural networks in the gut and brain.   
- It causes learning difficulties, behaviour problems and crime.
- Coeliac disease is only a tiny part of the problem.
- Understand why much of the medical profession remains sceptical.
- Gluten causes harm to vast numbers (millions upon millions) of people
- The Gluten Syndrome is the major food problem that the Western World needs to address. 
- Find out if you have The Gluten Syndrome.

Dr Debbie Fewtrell - MB ChB, Dip Obs, FRNZCGP, FACNEM

Dr Fewtrell has an integrative medical practice specialising in the  nutritional and biomedical treatment of children with allergies, immune,  learning and behaviour problems. She also teaches and mentors Australasian biomedical practitioners. Her work  has been regularly featured in the NZ media most recently with the “What’s really in our food” documentary.

Debbie’s strong focus is to inspire and educate parents and professionals in Australasia to use  integrative biomedical approaches ( ie a combination of mainstream, nutritional and natural  medicine)  to improve the health and neurological function of children. She is a Pfeiffer and DAN! (Defeat Autism Now) trained physician and a fellow of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental medicine.

What’s really in our food?

Allergies and sensitivities to foods  are relatively well understood but  the possible  reactions to  some natural and artificial food chemicals  are not.  

One in three children is affected by   Allergy , ADHD , ADD, a behaviour disorder, a learning disorder,  dyslexia , Autism spectrum disorders or asthma? Why are these conditions so much more prevalent than a generation ago?  Does our current diet explain some of the increases we have seen?

Do you think your child may be reacting to some food colours but can’t seem to work out which one?  Do you wheeze after some wines? Is your child’s behaviour sometimes best described as “Jekyll and Hide”? Do you get headaches after some chinese food? Are you confused or concerned about MSG, Aspartame, food colourings, preservatives, flavours - listen to the research  and learn some  shocking statistics! 

Become informed about additives used in NZ , learn how to read labels and then how to identify  and  eliminate the worst offenders for optimal health.

Dr Fewtrell will explain how  changing  the diet can  help behaviour and the immune system and how biomedical approaches can help “sensitive” children by  addressing some of the core underpinning issues in the body rather than being  predominantly reliant on drugs to treat symptoms.

This lecture will appeal to anyone with an interest in a healthier diet, particularly parents.

Leila Masson

Leila Masson is a consultant paediatrician interested in disease prevention through healthy nutrition and life style.
She studied in Europe and the United States and now has a thriving practice in Auckland, where she sees mostly children with behavioural problems, ADHD and autism, as well as children with allergies and eczema. She is also a certified lactation consultant and helps many families to start their children out on the perfect diet by supporting breastfeeding.  
www.leilamasson.com

Optimal health for children

Leila will speak about how to attain optimal health through a wholesome diet, avoiding environmental toxins and getting enough exercise. Any current or future parent interested in improving their own or their children’s health should come and hear about the latest research in nutrition and environmental health.

Gina Wilson - BHSc Comp Med, ND, Dip Herb Med, BEd Tchg

Gina Wilson is a Naturopath and Medical Herbalist. She has a background in teaching young children with special needs, specifically autism. She now works in the area of Biomedical Intervention, working with children with a range of needs on the Autism Spectrum. She works closely with families, often in their home, helping them implement the Gluten(wheat) Free and Casein (milk) Free diet. She also works alongside a Paediatrician, with families at Autism House. Gina presented at the MINDD conference held in Auckland in 2007. After hours, Gina works closely with educational facilities, delivering nutritional information and workshops to parents and teachers.

Removing Casein (Milk) and/or Gluten (Wheat) from your diet: Your questions answered

- Caesein
- Soy
- Gluten
- Recipes
- Troubleshooting
- Products to shop for
- GF/CF Suppliers
- Books and Websites

Sharon Erdrich

Since qualifying as a registered nurse at Greenlane Hospital in 1980, Sharon has worked in a wide variety of health care settings in New Zealand and abroad. 

Following her life-long vision of creating a comprehensive clinic to promote health from a holistic perspective, she first gained a Diploma of Aromatherapy and Certificate of Massage and then attained Diplomas of Naturopathy and Herbal medicine. Since then she has trained as an Advanced Metabolic Typing Consultant and is currently studying towards a Masters in Health Science (Nutrition) at the University of Auckland.

Sharon is a tutor in both Aromatherapy and Naturopathy at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies in Grey Lynn, she has also written a number of magazine articles on nutrition. She is a member of the NZ Association of Medical Herbalists, Naturopaths of NZ, the NZ Register of Holistic Aromatherapist and is an associate of the Australasian Integrative Medical Association.

With a deep passion for working with nutritional medicine, Sharon enjoys empowering people to take positive steps towards ensuring good health and preventing disease.

Sharon is the director of House of Health, with clinics in Herne Bay and Auckland Central.

Even good food can make you sick!

Allergies and sensitivities  can have unusual and wide-reaching effects on the body and not all of them can be identified easily, they don’t show up on regular lab tests, or they may be hard to pinpoint because it wasn’t what you ate for breakfast this morning  - you had it yesterday and you were fine!

Many chronic health problems can arise from consuming foods that your body doesn’t want - you may experience lethargy, or fatigue, migraine, depression, skin problems, fluid retention, even joint pains.  The ingestion of allergenic foods can also affect the neurophysiology of a person, impacting emotions, memory and behaviour.  And what’s worse, you may crave the very foods that are causing the problems.

Janet de Witt - B.TchLn. P. Grad Dip. Ed., Dip.E.H.C, Dip. TE.S.S.O.L., Reg. Ed. Kinesiologist.

Janet has a passion for enhancing learning and empowering the learner.
Following 25 years teaching experience, mostly in special education as a RTLB (resource teacher of learning and behaviour), she  now runs a specialist clinic using Educational and Developmental Kinesiology  , Brain Gym/Vision gym and developmental  movements to support  more efficient learning in a child and  treat developmental blocks which hinder the child’s progress.
Janet both  runs workshops  showing  parents, and teachers  how to use  Brain Gym® movements as well as working in her clinic  with children who  are experiencing difficulty with coordination, focusing, acquiring reading and writing skills  or those children who want to enhance sport or artistic performance skills.  Individuals with ADD, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia and ASD can find this process enables them to move forward.  

Taking the lid off learning difficulties – Is it just a school problem?

Only when we ask WHY? , can we start to put in place effective support for children  who are struggling. Many schools provide strategies, programmes and extra support in relation to their resources and assessment of the learning difficulty but is that sufficient to address the core reasons why the child is having problems?.   Often we need to explore whether the child is  actually equipped with the physical, visual and auditory skills to succeed at school. What can the school provide  and what else is there out there to explore to support your child?

Cooking with Erik Arndt, managing director and inventor Of Aria Farm Strips and his daughter assistant Heidi Arndt

Quick and Easy Cooking for Allergies

Glenn White - BSc, MSc, MBIBH

Glenn White was a lifelong asthma sufferer until completing a Buteyko course in 2000, and has been asthma and drug free ever since.  He turned his back on a 25 year career in gold exploration to train as a practitioner and now teaches and promotes this revolutionary approach to health and wellness.

In seven years Glenn has helped over 1,200 people overcome breathing related disorders including asthma, allergies, hay fever, chronic bronchitis, stress related conditions, panic attacks, snoring, sleep apnoea and chronic fatigue.

Glenn has spoken at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally and was part of a group of four practitioners that travelled to Havana, Cuba in 2004 to train 14 practitioners and teach Buteyko to 200 asthmatic children. Glenn’s work has attracted media interest including a feature on New Zealand television in 2006.

Glenn is committed to helping reduce the burden of breathing disorders like asthma in New Zealand and worldwide. www.buteykocourses.com

Allergies and asthma ….is it your breathing?

While management of asthma and allergies has been primarily focused on drug therapy there is an increasing body of research demonstrating the effectiveness of breathing therapies. The best studied and most effective of these is the Buteyko Method. Medication reduction and safety of the Buteyko Method have now been demonstrated in seven clinical trials for asthma including two in New Zealand.

Buteyko Institute breathing therapist, Glenn White, will explain how dysfunctional breathing can lead to conditions including asthma, allergies, hay fever and eczema. He will show how these and many other breathing related disorders respond positively, often dramatically with the normalisation of the breathing pattern. The session will include a demonstration of Buteyko exercises, breathing assessments and guidelines to start getting immediate benefits from healthy breathing.  Find out if you are a healthy breather.

You will reconsider everything you thought you knew about breathing and health.

Dr. Rodney Ford (Dr. Gluten)

Dr Doctor Rodney Ford says “Professionally, I am a paediatrician (a doctor who looks after children).  I am also a gastroenterologist (gut) and food allergy specialist. I was Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.”

Dr. Rodney Ford has been helping people with nutrition and food problems for more than twenty-five years. Over this time there have been revolutionary changes in thinking about the widespread damage from gluten.  He has written a series of books to express his thinking and increase debate of the effects of gluten on health.  He hopes his website www.doctorgluten.com  will benefit you and hundreds of thousands of others, worldwide.

Topic 1 (25mins) - Eczema - Cure it!

Find all answers to your Eczema.
At last, you can experience normal skin again.

- Why have you got it?
- What is causing it?
- How can you switch it off?
- What’s driving it?
- Is it gluten, milk or eggs?
- How can you protect your children?
- Can you identify your allergies?
- What creams and potions?

Find your answers to curing your eczema.

Topic 2 (25mins)- The Gluten Syndrome: is wheat causing you harm?

Is it harming you?  Is it harming your kids?

“The Gluten Syndrome” describes the symptoms that people suffer from eating gluten. 

It can cause gut, skin and nerve problems. Hear how:
- Gluten causes its harm through damage to the neural networks in the gut and brain.   
- It causes learning difficulties, behaviour problems and crime.
- Coeliac disease is only a tiny part of the problem.
- Understand why much of the medical profession remains sceptical.
- Gluten causes harm to vast numbers (millions upon millions) of people
- The Gluten Syndrome is the major food problem that the Western World needs to address. 
- Find out if you have The Gluten Syndrome.

Dr Debbie Fewtrell - MB ChB, Dip Obs, FRNZCGP, FACNEM

Dr Fewtrell has an integrative medical practice specialising in the  nutritional and biomedical treatment of children with allergies, immune,  learning and behaviour problems. She also teaches and mentors Australasian biomedical practitioners. Her work  has been regularly featured in the NZ media most recently with the “What’s really in our food” documentary.

Debbie’s strong focus is to inspire and educate parents and professionals in Australasia to use  integrative biomedical approaches ( ie a combination of mainstream, nutritional and natural  medicine)  to improve the health and neurological function of children. She is a Pfeiffer and DAN! (Defeat Autism Now) trained physician and a fellow of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental medicine.

What’s really in our food?

Allergies and sensitivities to foods  are relatively well understood but  the possible  reactions to  some natural and artificial food chemicals  are not.  

One in three children is affected by   Allergy , ADHD , ADD, a behaviour disorder, a learning disorder,  dyslexia , Autism spectrum disorders or asthma? Why are these conditions so much more prevalent than a generation ago?  Does our current diet explain some of the increases we have seen?

Do you think your child may be reacting to some food colours but can’t seem to work out which one?  Do you wheeze after some wines? Is your child’s behaviour sometimes best described as “Jekyll and Hide”? Do you get headaches after some chinese food? Are you confused or concerned about MSG, Aspartame, food colourings, preservatives, flavours - listen to the research  and learn some  shocking statistics! 

Become informed about additives used in NZ , learn how to read labels and then how to identify  and  eliminate the worst offenders for optimal health.

Dr Fewtrell will explain how  changing  the diet can  help behaviour and the immune system and how biomedical approaches can help “sensitive” children by  addressing some of the core underpinning issues in the body rather than being  predominantly reliant on drugs to treat symptoms.

This lecture will appeal to anyone with an interest in a healthier diet, particularly parents.

Leila Masson

Leila Masson is a consultant paediatrician interested in disease prevention through healthy nutrition and life style.
She studied in Europe and the United States and now has a thriving practice in Auckland, where she sees mostly children with behavioural problems, ADHD and autism, as well as children with allergies and eczema. She is also a certified lactation consultant and helps many families to start their children out on the perfect diet by supporting breastfeeding.  
www.leilamasson.com

Optimal health for children

Leila will speak about how to attain optimal health through a wholesome diet, avoiding environmental toxins and getting enough exercise. Any current or future parent interested in improving their own or their children’s health should come and hear about the latest research in nutrition and environmental health.

Dr. Joan Campbell

Dr Joan Campbell is an integrative health professional and registered medical practitioner specialising in acupuncture.  She has worked in medicine and allied fields since 1966 - as a registered nurse, medical doctor, GP obstetrician, psychologist and medical/traditional acupuncturist - with an interest in homeopathy, nutrition and hormonal medicine. 

Dr Campbell is a trained teacher and co-ordinator for the post-graduate and masters TCM programmes at Auckland University of Technology.  She is in private practice in Remuera, Auckland, working as a holistic practitioner.

Allergies - a different perspective

Traditional Chinese medicine has recognised allergies for the last 5000 years. 

In the traditional Chinese model, allergy is seen as an internal imbalance which is expressed as disease and can result in inflammation, such as atopic eczema.  Allergies may arise from what you inherit (constitutional) or what you acquire through lifestyle and diet.  Therefore it is the person who is treated, not the disease. 

Every week in clinical practice I use acupuncture, herbs and dietary therapy to treat allergic conditions.  

This paper discusses the following:
- A Chinese world-view of health and medicine
- A traditional Chinese medicine view of allergy
- Treatment of allergies using Chinese medicine – food, acupuncture and herbal medicine

Kirsten Taylor
Clinical Naturopath
Medical Herbalist
Registered Naturopath
Natural Fertility Consultant
Homeobotanical Therapist

DIRECTOR
House of Health Herne Bay

Kirsten graduated with honours from Wellpark college of Natural
therapies with double diploma’s in Naturopathy & Herbalism. Prior to completing her studies Kirsten was asked to become part of the team at one of NZ’s largest practitioner only companies as a practitioner support consultant. This enabled her to learn a great level of information on the latest scientific evidence in natural medicines and how to apply this to get the best clinical results for her clients.

Kirsten continued her studies and completed post graduate qualifications in Natural Fertility & reproductive care & Homeobotanical therapy.

Since leaving Pacific Health Kirsten has successfully run her own
private practice, consulted to natural health companies, taught
graduating students at Wellpark & relished every moment. Being a mother Kirsten is able to understand the demands of family time and the practical aspects of supporting a family wellbeing. As a mother of a child with allergies she has witnessed the amazing impact of undertsanding what foods trigger the symptoms and being able to alleviate them when they arrive using natural medicines.

Kirsten has developed a passion for allergy work after regularly seeing a correlation between food, food allergies & their impact on health. In clinic it is very important as allergies are so prevalent & experience has taught her how to use natural medicines effectively  to support people to be more comfortable. The key is finding out what the food culprits are and developing strategies that take each individuals needs
into consideration. Kirsten is constantly astounded at the massive
variety of symptoms that people get relief from once they are able to identify the foods, eliminate them from their diet and work at reprogramming the body to moderate it's response to allergenic foods.

As a clinical Naturopath Kirsten helps people using the following
services:
Naturopathy, Medical Herbalism Homeobotanical Therapy, Flower essences Homeopathy, Nutrition & appropriate testing methodologies. Kirsten is a big fan of ELISA Delayed IgG allergy testing through US BioTek labs in the US.

For more information on Kirsten and the practitioners she works with at House of Health please visit her website www.houseofhealth.co.nz

A Naturopathic understanding of Allergies and their clinical Management