Introducing Gina 

Gina has a passion for helping people move towards better health and overcoming challenges when stuck.  She understands the huge chasm that can exist between 'knowing what to do' and actually doing it.

​In her own health journey she has made huge leaps and bounds by having a coach to overcome obstacles to implementing lifestyle medicine.  With the support of a coach, she was able to improve her nutrition, exercise regime, sleep hygiene, social connection and stress management to manage various existing and more recent health challenges common to women in peri-menopause.  Also doing exercise, yoga, mindfulness, and using techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been life-changing for her.  

At different periods over her lifetime, she has adopted vegetarian, vegan, wholefood, low carbohydrate, ketogenic and zero carb diets in a quest to imporove her health.  And thus, she has good understanding of nutrition in all these contexts.  

She is a strong advocate of living a more 'natural' way of life using wholefoods as a nutrition source where possible and also has a good knowledge of traditional uses of medicinal herbs and supplements.  She is a keen researcher and peruser of medical literature and likes to keep abreast of new frontiers in science.

In 2020, during COVID, while working for the NDIS at APM Communities, she completed Resilience Training and in 2002.  She studied Transactional Analysis briefly, a psychotherapy model developed by Eric Burne made famous by his bestseller 'I'm OK, You're OK'.  In 2016, she qualified as a yoga instructor.

Gina is an accredited PREKURE Health Coach, trained in evidence-based coaching techniques  to help clients align their values with their health goals. PREKURE's university-level programmes are recognized by leading bodies including the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA).

She is a Professional Member of HCANZA, undertakes Continuing Professional Development and holds current public liability insurance.

As a registered Member of The Australasian Metabolic Society (AMSH), she is currently completing their Essentials in Metabolic Health Course.  AMSH is a recognised as an approved provider by:   Diabetes Australia, Defeat Diabetes, Low Carb Down Under & HCANZA.

Special Interests

Supporting women's health in perimonopause and beyond: with a focus on behavour change and overcoming blocks.​ 

• getting from "I know I should" to "I can" and "I am"
• getting back your vitality and joy
• understanding key changes that happen - what is going on?
• nutrition and absorption (what are anti-nutrients?)
• improving sleep and energy
• gut and digestive health
• FODMAPS and SIBO
• insulin resistance and blood sugar management
• disease prevention 
• low carb, ketogenic and carnivore eating styles
• inflammation and pain
• arthritis
• muscle preservation
• reducing toxins in our environment
• heavy periods
• adenomyosis / endometriosis
• PCOS
• being empowered to talk to your GP