Knox Wellness

Have you forgotten what it's like to feel truly well? Naturopathy can help.

By drawing on the latest advances in medical health sciences, and integrating them with a range of safe, effective natural therapies and age-old traditional medicines, Naturopathy offers a holistic way of assessing, preventing and treating a variety of health conditions.

Whilst taking into account your current state of wellbeing - physical, mental and emotional - Naturopathic Medicine not only relieves symptoms of illness, but also seeks to address the underlying cause of your illness or poor health.

In utilizing a range of Naturopathic techniques, including:

• Professional health screening (including body composition),
• Dietary and lifestyle advice,
• Nutritional medicine (including practitioner only supplements not available elsewhere),
• Food as medicine,
• Western herbal medicines,
• Flower essences,
• and counseling techniques,

Amy will work with you to devise an individualised health and wellness plan (incorporating many of the above techniques) that fully takes into account your current needs and lifestyle.

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What can Naturopathy do for me?

Would you like to bounce out of bed in the morning?

Naturopathic medicine can be of benefit in a vast array of acute and chronic health conditions, however you do not necessary need to be ill to benefit from seeing a naturopath.

Amy uses natural medicine as a means of promoting and restoring general wellbeing.

Ease your stress levels, restore you vitality, and renew your enthusiasm for life today. What are you waiting for?

Some of the common reasons why you might wish to see a naturopath include:

• Learn how to effectively manage your stress.
• Help your body physically cope with the stress of an everyday hectic life.
• Improve your energy levels.
• Achieve fat loss.
• Reduce allergies, naturally treat colds & flu, glandular fever, poor immunity.
• Address Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
• Improve Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBD, digestive disturbances.
• Alleviate joint pain & arthritis.
• Increase cardiovascular performance, lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
• Normalize hormones, PMS, menopause.
• Natural support for infertility, pre-conception care and pregnancy.
• Address behavioral difficulties including ADHD, ADD and Aspergers.
• Reduce levels of anxiety & depression, insomnia, headaches and migraines.
• Regulate sleep patterns to ensure you get a great night's sleep.
• Optimize women's, men's & children's health.
• Improve nutritional status, sports performance and prevent injury,
• and much more.

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What should I expect at my first consultation?

When making an appointment with Amy you can expect a comprehensive consultation including:

A detailed history.

On the spot health testing (Blood Pressure, Glucose & Cholesterol, etc).

Bioimpedance analysis test (cellular analysis), to assess body composition, fat/muscle/water/bone mass, metabolic age.

A natural, safe and effective treatment or wellness plan, including:

• Dietary and lifestyle advice.


• Individually prescribed practitioner only nutritional supplements and herbal medicines.


• Referrals for pathology testing (when necessary), including:
  • Hormonal profiles (cortisol/melatonin, TSH/T3/T4, oestrogen/progesterone/testosterone, etc),
  • Nutritional status (iron, zinc, magnesium, vitamin D, co-enzyme Q10, etc),
  • Intestinal permeability, helicobacter, parasitology, liver function,v
  • Amino acid profiles, antioxidant status,
  • Pesticides, toxic metals, hair mineral analysis,
  • Food sensitivity, intolerance and allergies.


• Referrals to other Healthcare Professionals, including Medical Services where appropriate (Amy is happy to work in conjunction with your GP or specialist if required).


• Confidentiality and professionalism.


• Empowerment and motivation to improve your health.

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Our Naturopath, Nutritionist and Herbalist

Inspired by her passion for people and health, Amy is an enthusiastic and empathetic practitioner. After being treated for her own health issues through natural medicine, Amy understands many of the frustrations that go along with chronic poor health. She believes that medicine cannot have a ‘one size fits all’ approach and is interested in treating her clients individually to address their own specific needs.

Originally from Shepparton, Amy spent four and a half years at the Endeavour College of Natural Medicine completing a degree in Health Science (Naturopathy). After spending the past 5 years working in the natural medicine industry across Melbourne Amy has worked with a very diverse range of people and health issues. She has a particular interest in fatigue, hormonal imbalances and immunity. Amy also has a passion for nutrition in the elderly and complementary medicine to pharmaceutical drug use to reduce side effects.

Additionally, over the past few years Amy has been involved in nutrition consulting a wide variety of athletes and as a competitive Irish Dancer herself, understands the importance of nutrition and diet in people wanting to perform at their best.