Claire Grullemans

When you come in for your first appointment, I take a detailed case history so I can learn about your overall physical and mental wellbeing. This will include questions about your health history (including your family), so I can see any patterns or predisposing factors that we need to focus on to help you improve over time. We will also talk a lot about food and nutrition. I like to know about your ancestral diet and what your family used to eat. This can be helpful when we are looking at food sensitivities or intolerances. If you have had recent blood tests with your GP, I would like to look at those to see if any of your nutrients are out of range, and how we can address these through diet, gut integrity, and supplementation. You will leave the appointment with a checklist of advice, supplement ideas and suggestions, food ideas and recipes to try. As well as a clear plan on how I will support you over the coming months.

Using natural medicines like herbal tinctures and nutritional supplements in powder or capsule form is one of the reasons we get such great results as naturopaths. It is certainly possible to work together purely with dietary and food suggestions, but in my years as a naturopath, I always find the assistance of natural medicine to speed up the healing process.

This is entirely dependant on your reason for coming in. I would say generally somewhere around 6-8 appointments is a realistic amount of time to spend together to see the changes take place, provide a level of guidance and accountability. This will obviously change depending on what you want to see change with your health and wellness.