Women’s Health
Your hormones aren't
the problem.
They're the signal.
Painful periods. Moods that don't feel like yours. Cycles that make no sense. Fatigue that sleep doesn't fix. These aren't things you have to live with. They're your body telling you something is out of balance.
Katie has been finding and fixing what's driving those signals for over 20 years — without defaulting to the pill, without dismissing your symptoms as normal, and without the two-minute GP appointment that leaves you with more questions than answers.
YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING
Painful periods — that disrupt your work, your sleep, and your life every single month
Irregular or absent cycles — never knowing when your period will arrive, or whether it will at all
PMS or PMDD — mood changes, anxiety, or rage in the weeks before your period that feel completely out of character
PCOS — and the cascade of symptoms it brings: weight, acne, hair, hormones
Endometriosis — pain that's been dismissed for years and a condition that's still not properly understood by most practitioners
Perimenopause or menopause — hot flushes, sleep disruption, mood changes, and a body you no longer recognise
Heavy bleeding — fibroids, cysts, or unexplained heavy periods that drain your energy and your iron
None of these are inevitable. They're treatable. The question isn't whether something can be done — it's whether you've found the practitioner who knows how to do it.
WHAT CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE MISSES
You've probably been told
one of these things.
Does this sound familiar?
"Your levels are normal."
"Painful periods are just part of being a woman."
"Here's the pill — it'll regulate your cycle."
"You'll feel better once you lose some weight."
"Some women just have heavier periods."
Here's what's actually happening when you hear those phrases: your symptoms are being managed, not investigated. The pill masks your hormonal patterns — it doesn't fix them. "Normal" on a blood test means within range, not optimal. And "that's just how it is" is not a diagnosis.
There is almost always a root cause. Estrogen dominance. Progesterone deficiency. Insulin resistance driving PCOS. Inflammation driving endometriosis. Nutritional depletion driving fatigue and mood. Finding the actual driver changes everything.
CONDITIONS TREATED
Women's health conditions
Katie treats every day.
01
Hormonal imbalance — the underlying picture
Most women's health conditions are expressions of a deeper hormonal imbalance. Estrogen dominance, low progesterone, elevated androgens, cortisol dysregulation — these patterns drive symptoms across almost every condition on this page. Katie assesses and treats the hormonal picture as a whole, not condition by condition.
03
Endometriosis
Painful, under-diagnosed, and poorly served by conventional medicine. TCM views endometriosis as blood stagnation — and acupuncture is remarkably effective at addressing it. Naturopathic anti-inflammatory support works alongside to reduce the systemic drivers.
06
Perimenopause & menopause
The hormonal transition doesn't have to mean years of hot flushes, sleeplessness, and mood instability. Acupuncture is one of the best-evidenced natural treatments for vasomotor symptoms. Herbal and nutritional support eases the broader transition significantly.
Each condition has a specific root cause — and a specific treatment approach. The combination of naturopathy, TCM acupuncture, and functional testing gives Katie a toolkit most practitioners simply don't have access to.
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The fertility connection
Many women find Katie through women's health — and later return for fertility support. The same hormonal, nutritional, and physiological work that resolves painful periods, PCOS, or endometriosis also lays the foundation for conception. You don't have to wait until you're ready to conceive to start.
04
Painful periods
Dysmenorrhoea is the most undertreated condition in women's medicine — routinely dismissed as normal. It isn't. Acupuncture reduces prostaglandin-driven cramping. Nutritional support addresses the inflammatory drivers. Most clients see significant improvement within 2–3 cycles.
07
Fibroids and cysts
Uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts are often estrogen-driven. Naturopathic hormone support can slow their growth and reduce their impact — heavy periods, pelvic pressure, and pain — without surgery in many cases.
02
PCOS
One of the most common and most complex hormonal conditions. Acupuncture regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. Naturopathic medicine addresses insulin resistance, inflammation, and androgen excess. Together, they restore ovulatory cycles — often without medication.
Highly responsive to treatment
05
PMS and PMDD
The week before your period shouldn't hijack your life. PMS and PMDD are driven by hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances — specifically the interaction between estrogen, progesterone, and serotonin. Both naturopathy and acupuncture address this directly.
08
Irregular or absent periods
Missing periods — whether from stress, undereating, or hormonal disruption — signal something significant. Acupuncture restores the hormonal signalling that drives ovulation. Naturopathic support addresses the nutritional and lifestyle drivers.
HOW KATIE APPROACHES WOMEN’S HEALTH
Four tools.
One practitioner.
The whole picture.
Most practitioners offer one lens. Katie brings four — simultaneously. That's not a marketing claim. It's a structural advantage that consistently finds things a single-discipline approach misses.
"Your hormonal health is not a single number on a blood test. It's a system. I treat the system."
Having walked her own path through acne, IBS, and PCOS, Katie doesn't approach women's health from the outside. She's lived the confusion of symptoms that don't show up on standard tests, the frustration of advice that doesn't fit real life, and the relief of actually finding the answer.
That's not a vulnerability — it's a clinical advantage. She knows what to look for because she's looked for it in herself.
01 TCM acupuncture
TCM diagnosis identifies energetic and physiological patterns — liver qi stagnation, blood deficiency, kidney yang deficiency — that map directly to conditions like painful periods, irregular cycles, and PCOS. Each pattern has a specific acupuncture protocol. Each session is tailored to where you are in your cycle.
02 Naturopathic medicine
20 years of naturopathic practice means Katie can assess your hormonal, nutritional, and physiological picture in depth. She uses functional testing where needed — hormone panels, nutritional markers, inflammatory markers — to find what standard GP testing misses.
03 Nutrition and lifestyle
Your diet, your sleep, your stress, your movement — these aren't soft factors. They're the substrate your hormones run on. Katie gives practical, specific guidance that fits your actual life. Not a perfect regime you'll last a week on. The key pillars that actually move the needle for you.
04 Herbal medicine and supplements
Practitioner-grade herbal medicine and supplementation — in the right forms, right doses, right combinations — can shift hormonal patterns significantly. Katie prescribes specifically, not generically. What works for one hormonal picture won't work for another.
PLANNING AHEAD
Not trying to conceive yet —
but planning to.
Here's something most women don't know: the work you do on your hormonal health now is the same work that will support fertility later. Resolving PCOS, regulating your cycle, improving egg quality foundations, balancing your hormones — it all matters.
The best time to start fertility acupuncture in Auckland is before you need it. When you're ready to try, your body will already be in the best shape it can be. Women who've been working with Katie on their general health consistently have smoother conception journeys than those who start from scratch.
Natural Conception Support, Preconception Care, Unexplained Infertility
Optimise IVF outcomes, embryo transfer support, improve egg quality
Morning Sickness, Back Pain, Breech, Labour Preparation, Post-natal Care
ABOUT KATIE
She's not just treated these conditions.
She's lived them.
Katie came to natural medicine through her own health struggles — serious acne, IBS, and PCOS at different stages of her life. She knows what it's like to have symptoms that don't show up on standard tests. She knows what it's like to be told to just manage it.
That experience shaped how she practices. She doesn't believe you have to be perfect to be well. She doesn't deal in unrealistic regimes. She finds the specific things that are actually driving your symptoms — and addresses those.
✓ Naturopath — trained at South Pacific College of Natural Medicine, where she has also taught
✓ TCM Acupuncturist — studied at AUT and spent several months training in hospitals in China
✓ 20 years in practice — since 2004, with a specific focus on women's health, fertility, and pregnancy
✓ Personal experience — navigated PCOS, IBS, and chronic skin conditions using exactly the tools she now brings to clients
✓ Ponsonby clinic — with online consultations available for naturopathy and health coaching
PCOS — regular cycles restored
"I'd had irregular cycles my whole adult life and assumed that was just how I was. Katie found the insulin resistance pattern driving my PCOS that my GP had never mentioned. Within four months my cycles were regular for the first time ever. I felt like I finally understood my own body."
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Real women. Real results.
Endometriosis pain resolved
"I'd been managing period pain with painkillers for 10 years. After three months with Katie — acupuncture plus the dietary changes she recommended — my last two periods have been manageable for the first time in a decade."
Perimenopause support
"I was waking up drenched three times a night and my moods were all over the place. Six weeks of acupuncture and the herbal protocol Katie prescribed and I'm sleeping through the night again. I didn't know it could work this quickly."