helping you with...
ANXIETY
Break free from anxiety. Find your inner calm.
Your functional roadmap to overcome anxiety
I am passionate about treating anxiety having suffered with it most of my life. By treating ADHD, methylation, pyrroles, gut, hormones, stress and healing “my issues”, I live anxiety-free. I am now on a mission to help others get freedom from anxiety!
It’s normal to feel anxious at times, especially when faced with new or stressful situations. These feelings usually pass when the stress passes, but for those struggling with anxiety these feelings continue, and they experience excessive worry and nervousness that’s out of proportion to everyday events.
Left untreated anxiety can be crippling, impairing quality of life and leading to other mental health issues. Depression and anxiety often coexist.
Anxiety affects 1 in 4 Australians, affecting twice as many women than men and nearly 1 in 3 teenagers (Beyond Blue). These numbers are rising, especially following the Covid-pandemic. If you’re struggling with anxiety and a mind that just doesn’t stop, please reach out to find out how we can help.
Anxiety disorder types include panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, health anxiety, phobias and generalized anxiety disorder.
Why choose functional wellness for anxiety?
I relieve your symptoms while working on your deeper issues.
Anxiety symptoms:
Unique Therapeutic Wellness Coaching and Mind-body, Neurofeedback Therapies
Finding underlying, root causes
Address Biochemical Imbalances
What are Neurotransmitters?
How I help
I Investigate these drivers of anxiety
Genetics, Methylation, MTHFR and Histamine Intolerance
Methylation is an essential biochemical process involved in the production of serotonin, dopamine and managing histamine. Most people have genetic issues (e.g. MTHFR, COMT) affecting methylation. Using targeted testing, nutrient and amino acid therapy we can optimise your methylation and improve anxiety. As a skilled methylation practitioner, I prescribe the right forms, combination, dose and timing of nutrients to safely support your recovery.
Genetic testing can help assess risk factors for mental health and anxiety. I provide specialist genetic analysis and detailed reports and treatment suggestions to address your risks.
Pyrrole Disorder
Clinical Nutrition and Diet
Diet directly impacts your brain and gut (second brain). Nutritional deficiencies (low intake, poor digestion) can reduce neurotransmitter production, increase inflammation and impair brain function. Foods high in sugar, gluten, dairy, histamine, glutamate, oxalates, sulfites, preservatives, fodmaps and inflammatory foods can trigger anxiety in some people.
Therapeutic nutritional and diet interventions are personalised to address food reactions, nutrient deficiencies, specific underlying causes and provide cofactor nutrients and amino acids for mood regulation and optimal brain function.
Trauma, Stress and Emotions
Trauma and chronic stress lead to constant nervous system activation (fight, flight or freeze) or hypervigilance, reduce neurotransmitter production and release excess adrenaline and cortisol, triggering anxiety, agitation, panic and fatigue. Shallow, disordered breathing also contributes to higher anxiety.
Unique to functional wellness are therapeutic coaching and therapies that rebalance your nervous system, retrain your brain, provide emotional and trauma healing, mindset and behaviour changes, to promote get you anxiety-free.
Toxins
Gut Health
Hormones
Balancing hormones is essential for good mental health.
Low thyroid function can lower mood, while an overactive thyroid can cause anxiety and panic. Dysregulated blood sugar, reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can trigger anxiety. I always ensure blood sugar and insulin are balanced through diet, lifestyle and specific nutrients.
Estrogen imbalances affect serotonin. Low progesterone can increase anxiety, insomnia and intensify PMS mood issues. During hormonal transition; puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, females can experience major hormone fluctuations causing mood changes resulting in anxiety, depression and insomnia.
High prolactin reduces dopamine and lowers progesterone. Prolactin (produces breast milk) may therefore negatively impact breastfeeding mums due to lower dopamine and progesterone.
Oxytocin lowers anxiety and is depleted by high stress, social isolation (pandemic, screen use, social anxiety), low mood, lack of sunlight and exercise, and found to be lower in autism.