About Rosemary.

Why would a doctor become a Health Coach?

The answer is ‘Freedom’

When more than one of my previous patients said ’You should be a therapist, not a doctor.’ I knew they were on to something. We were reaching therapeutic places far beyond the scope of being a GP. We were accessing their stories and how they were impacting their health and behaviours in the present and we were accessing their dreams for themselves and their loved ones, the dreams that they knew deserved a chance to become real.

It was these relationships that helped to me to discover that what I TRULY loved was much more than writing monthly prescriptions in 10-minute appointments.

So I chose the Freedom of becoming a Health Coach.

Choosing to refine the label of the work I do has given me the Freedom to use ALL my skills with artistry to become the health and wellbeing professional I have always wanted to be.

One with an abundance of time and space to listen deeply, the scope of scientific and holistic expertise to formulate healing strategies that address the root of your challenges and the expanse of imagination to know that everything is connected and working in our highest good.

Being a Health Coach also gives me the Freedom to work with clients from all over the world, the ones who are called to the resonance of walking their healing journey with my support and facilitation.

Here is a little about my journey and qualifications thus-far:

After obtaining my degree in Western Medicine as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, I furthered my education by acquiring a Master's in Public Health at the University of Manchester. I wanted to know how to help people beyond my clinical practice as an MD and help prevent them from becoming unwell in the first place instead of simply "treating" them. 

Parallel to my conventional medical path, my own health journey was underway and I received the gifts of several realisations about Health that were not on the menu at Medical School.

These insights include:

- The wisdom and guidance of practitioners from ancient and embodied traditions have indisputable value.

-Historical and childhood experiences have a profound and multi-layered effect on the way we interact with the world, our nervous systems and the day-to-day choices we make that can be considered vitality-enhancing or vitality-depleting.

- What can seem like health challenges on the surface can become portals for deeper intergenerational healing that has an impact that reaches beyond the individual and beyond the realm of physical health. In short, health challenges can become deeply transformational.

As a result of these insights, I have spent years immersed in self-study and deeply exploring various contemplative practices.

I have trained in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine, and have recently completed the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy program at Naropa University. Both trainings are dear to my heart as they are harbingers of the start of Western Medicine formally acknowledging the profound value of ancient practices, nutrition and herbalism to a whole-person approach to medicine.

I am also trained in Internal Family Systems Therapy - a beautiful modality of listening to and relating with the inner system with respect and reverence for each part and trust in the abiding presence and wisdom of the Self to guide the system to harmony.

I hope this holistic, culturally respectful and person-centred approach to health becomes the norm. Meanwhile, I will continue to bridge the world of Western Medicine with Ancient wisdom and to educate people in discovering their own definition of health by finding their way back to their body and Inner-Healer.