Introducing Thrive Health
We are a team of committed professionals committed to the highest standards of individualised solution finding for you and your family. We support families in person, remotely around Australasia & worldwide.
We recruit leading practitioners to deliver bespoke evidence based care, and connect the dots to get results. In addition to their key modalities, our staff are trained human development, attachment theory, holistic tongue tie rehab, gut health, mother-baby care, feeding therapy, sleep science and functional medicine through the lifespan.
Our unique approach blends expertise from several different fields to offer you and your family the best possible solutions for your health and wellbeing needs.
Thrive Health was founded to serve the needs of parents who had tried simple approaches that did not resolve their challenges. We specialise in niche and complex needs of patients and families seeking to understand the root cause of interconnected issues or to proactively seek thriving over surviving, thereby preventing return problems in the future.
How Thrive Sessions Work
Contact us via our website enquiry form for an initial consultation.
Reach out to see if we are a good fit.
We offer face-to-face visits in the Mid North Coast region, in clinic, or sometimes at home/school (travel fees may apply).
We were pioneers of telehealth consults with our international video clients long before the pandemic.
We know how to make telehealth work exceptionally well in order to support your health and wellbeing goals, wherever you are in the world, at any age.
We co-create a plan for you or you and your child. This includes an overview of the relevant information you’ll need to get started and may include fact sheets, referrals, liaison with your other practitioners or home exercises.
Make sure you have emailed us all of the videos, photos, previous scans, test results, reports, relevant documents and completed our system’s intake forms.
We suggest you write notes in your own words on the day to help you remember or bring a support person to help you to better concentrate.
Bring a list of questions.
We may email you documents afterwards.
We follow the roadmap plan to best meet the agreed target outcome, as effectively as possible, given your priorities, needs and capacity.
This might look like:
in person follow up sessions, to reassess as you update us on progress;
home practice;
one on one therapy disguised as child led play based learning;
a therapy assistant visiting home or school to deliver the targeted plan;
referring you to be assessed by another health professional for further expert input or treatment required before you come back to this goal;
a change of pathway as we go
parent education, feedback, counselling, planning via telehealth;
We review, revise, adapt until we nail it!..
Whatever your needs, we can build a custom care plan for you
that really works.
Discover our innovative,
integrated collaborative approach to thrive for life.
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Thrive was founded by mums struggling to find the services to help their children. After experiencing complex challenges in our own & extended families’ health and lactation journeys due to lack of resources, we decided to channel our unwavering dedication to help other parents facing this same need. In our own transitions to motherhood, we were struck by the lack of education in the support available, both in public health and in very expensive private clinics.
We are driven by our strong sense of justice, integrity and commitment to ethical inclusion for all. We put people over profits and add value everywhere we can, as everyone deserves. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in quality results for YOU.
When our psychological health, our sense of safety and sleep is maximised, anything is possible! Together we change the world. When we heal the child, mother, the family, we heal the community.
So many of us live with suboptimal health that we get told is ‘normal’. We are people who have had privileged access to a ‘first world health care system’ yet couldn't find help to get ‘well’. We can sometimes feel gaslighted by a well intentioned the system that is supposed to help us but is overstretched and can struggle to individualise details of care.
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We keep our finger on the pulse at Thrive. Most of us are mothers of young children, still involved with the current lived experiences of real families. Some of us are volunteering and still having babies. This adds to our desire to seek out and utilise the latest possible information to help our clients, to shape the world, to defend vulnerable people and uphold the human rights of babies, children, women, and families.
We are passionate allies; LGBTIQ+ and neurodiversity safe (ADHD & autistic, AuDHD, PDA, etc) and trauma-informed.
We are also proud research nerds! You will not easily find a team who has read more primary source data research than us each week. Separately, we have invested many tens of thousands of dollars in our own education, university, professional and personal learning, and do so regularly.
Thrive staff share a passion for lifelong learning. We aim to share that, to best serve you, as you deserve.
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Contact us to tailor a package for practitioner education. We consult with schools, NDIS providers, medical & allied health organisations to provide innovative, expert training to get results unique to your specific context & cohort.
We offer in-depth Lactation Consultant training based in Lactation Medicine.Our endorsed midwife, doula. IBCLC & diverse personal and professional experience both locally and overseas gives us a broad worldview in establishing optimal foundations for lifelong health and wellbeing. I have comibined several decades of experience working with young families and presenting workshops for parenting in a variety of settings.
NDIS Priovider training:
Neuriodiversity in the Classroom
Neurodivergent Family Dynamics Integration
Retained Reflexes in Autistic Children
Autistic children and feding challenges - how to find the causes.
Integrated Modality Therapy Early Childhood Developmental Delays
Accessing NDIS: Expanding the Allied Health Assistants Model
Early Feeding & Breathing: Why it is Urgent to Address for Childhood Development.
The Thrive Health Values
Frequently Asked Questions
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I will require a brief medical history of yourself and your family. In later consultations, I may request additional details from you to be able to assess relevant factors from epigenetic, lifestyle and environmental influences and provide solutions to your health issues more quickly.
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Most bookings can be made directly through our automated system for your convenience. However, if you prefer a more personal approach, you can reach out to me through my Facebook page, email, or through my contact page. We can then set up an initial consultation in the mode that suits you best.
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Every client consultation is different depending on your aims and individual circumstances. You can expect the individual attention you don't get anywhere else, time and space to feel heard and for us to problem solve with all the latest research I bring in from many fields.
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To avoid any cancellation fees, please provide at least 48 hours notice, as indicated in the documents sent to you via email during the time of your booking. Thank you for your understanding.
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100% confidentiality is ensured. I will not discuss you being my patient, nor will any of your details be disclosed in any way, unless you specifically ask me to. For instance, if you ask me to share my assessment information with another practitioner or GP you are seeing.