Health is personal. Find the practitioner who fits your needs.
Tash Goldfinch
Naturopath
Mairead McCorry
Registered Acupuncturist & Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner
Carly Woods
Breath Coach (Buteyko) | Life Coach | Naturopath | Practice Director
Megan Russell
Naturopath
Annabelle Hinde
Naturopath
Effie Psarakis
Registered Acupuncturist & Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner
Our team
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Carly Woods
BREATH COACH | LIFE COACH | NATUROPATH | PRACTICE DIRECTOR
Breath | Nervous System Support | Sleep | Digestion | Stress & Emotional Resilience | Behavioural Change
Carly’s work centres on helping people understand and rewire the patterns that shape how they feel, think, and live.
Through two distinct pathways - Breath Coaching and Life Coaching - she offers practical, evidence-informed tools to support nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and intentional change.
Breath Coaching: It begins with the breath - a quiet, powerful entry point to nervous system regulation, emotional clarity, and physical ease. Carly draws from the Buteyko method to support clients in creating calmer, more functional breathing patterns. These sessions focus on restoring rhythm in the breath to influence sleep, stress, digestion, and energy, with simple practices that build capacity over time
In Life & Self-Image Coaching, Carly works with clients to explore the thoughts, habits, and emotional patterns driving their current experience. Using the Brooke Castillo coaching model, she helps clients uncover unhelpful narratives, strengthen self-trust, and establish new, aligned ways of thinking, feeling, and showing up in their lives.
Each service stands alone and both are grounded in the belief that change becomes possible when we bring awareness to the systems we live inside, and learn to relate to them differently.
Carly is a certified Buteyko practitioner (trained by Patrick McKeown), a life coach trained through The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo, and a qualified naturopath. She is co-founding director and owner of The Melbourne Apothecary and co-owner and director of renowned natural medicine practice, Fertile Ground Health Group.
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Tash Goldfinch
NATUROPATH
Menstrual Health | Sleep | Mood | Sexual Wellness
Meet Tash.
Tash is a Melbourne-based Naturopath with a Bachelor of Health Science in Naturopathy. She is passionate about providing inclusive, holistic health care. She has a special interest in helping you to restore a healthy menstrual cycle, supporting sexual health, achieving nourishing sleep, maintaining a healthy mood, and enhancing overall wellness and vitality.
Naturally drawn to Naturopathy, Tash believes in the power of herbal and nutritional medicines and lifestyle changes to empower you to achieve sustainable improved health. She understands that true wellness encompasses not just the physical body but also emotional, social, and spiritual aspects of well-being.
Tash has a particular passion for menstrual health, especially for teens and young adults, and enjoys helping you with your:
Menstrual Cycle: Issues such as heavy, irregular, or painful periods, PMS, and PMDD
Sexual Health: Issues such as recurring thrush and vaginal microbiome imbalances
Hormonal Health: Issues such as sleep and mood disturbances, and hormonal imbalances
General Wellness & Vitality
Education is at the core of Tash’s practice. She believes that everyone’s body has an innate power to heal itself when given the right guidance, nourishment, and care. Tash is dedicated to helping you understand your body, offering comprehensive explanations and education to help you feel more confident and capable of achieving and maintaining good health. She meets you where you’re at, listens to what you need, and offers gentle and realistic pathways to identifying and achieving your health goals, ensuring that changes are manageable and long-lasting.
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Megan Russell
NATUROPATH
Hormones | Gut & Skin | Vaginal Microbiome | Mood & Mind
Megan is a degree-qualified naturopath who’s here for the real stuff - your hormones doing wild things, your gut feeling off, your skin flaring without warning, or your energy just not being what it used to be.
With a Bachelor of Health Science from Torrens University and a clinical lens grounded in both science and traditional naturopathic principles, Megan takes a thoughtful, whole-person approach to your care. She focuses on foundations - food, movement, rest, nature, connection - and how they fit your actual lifestyle.
Her consultations are spacious, curious, and collaborative. No quick fixes or one-size-fits-all plans - just down-to-earth, evidence-informed support tailored to you. You’ll leave feeling heard, equipped, and gently guided.
Outside the clinic, Megan’s likely beachside, café-hopping with a matcha in hand, or on the reformer at Pilates. She also keeps connected through her work with the NHAA events team, contributing to a vibrant naturopathic community.
Want explore what balance could look like - for you?
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Mairead McCorry
REGISTERED ACUPUNCTURIST | AYURVEDIC MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Nervous System Support | Women’s Health | Digestion | Skin | Stress & Sleep | Seasonal Wellness
With over two decades of experience across health and education, Mai brings a deeply integrative approach to her practice. She holds a Master of Acupuncture from RMIT and has a rich professional background spanning Western emergency nursing, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture, and Ayurvedic principles.
Gentle, intuitive, and clinically grounded, Mai’s treatments honour the interconnectedness of body, mind and spirit. Her work is rooted in tradition — yet responsive to the needs of modern life — blending acupuncture, nervous system education, seasonal guidance, and practices from yoga and meditation to support whole-person wellbeing.
Mai is passionate about helping people feel more balanced and vital in their daily lives. Her focus areas include nervous system regulation and stress, women’s hormonal health, digestion, sleep, skin, and emotional resilience. She meets each patient with warmth, curiosity, and clinical insight - offering care that is both thoughtful and transformative.
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Effie Psarakis
REGISTERED ACUPUNCTURIST | CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Reproductive health | Fertility & IVF | Pregnancy & Postpartum | Chronic Health | Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
Effie Psarakis is a highly qualified acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist specialising in reproductive health, fertility, IVF, pregnancy, and postpartum care. She is also passionate about supporting those managing chronic illness, pain, mental health, and emotional trauma.
Her journey into Chinese Medicine began in her mid-20s when she sought acupuncture for Bell’s Palsy. However, it was the transformative experience of acupuncture before giving birth that solidified her dedication to this healing practice.
Effie’s approach is warm, holistic, and deeply personalised. She creates a safe, supportive space where patients feel heard and empowered to address the root causes of their health concerns. Integrating acupuncture, herbal medicine, supplements, and lifestyle guidance, she tailors each treatment to support long-term well-being and balance.
Whether guiding individuals through fertility challenges, women’s health concerns, or chronic conditions, Effie is committed to providing compassionate, effective care.
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Suzi Craig
REGISTERED ACUPUNCTURIST | CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
Reproductive health | Fertility & IVF | Pregnancy & Postpartum | Skin | Chronic Health | Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
Suzi Craig brings over 12 years of clinical expertise in Chinese Medicine and Women’s Health, offering an integrative, deeply considered approach to hormonal balance, reproductive health, and whole-body wellbeing. With extensive experience in supporting natural fertility and assisted reproductive journeys (including all stages of IVF and ART), Suzi also treats menstrual irregularities, painful periods, hormonal skin conditions, sleep disruption, mood changes, and premature ageing with equal care and attention.
At the heart of Suzi’s practice is her ability to meet each person where they are - merging the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern insights in nutrition, supplementation, and evidence-based reproductive care. Treatment plans are always tailored, often incorporating acupuncture, herbal medicine, stress resilience strategies, and diet and lifestyle support. She regularly works in collaboration with fertility specialists, GPs, and other healthcare providers to ensure cohesive and outcome-driven care.
Suzi’s qualifications include a Master of Reproductive Medicine from UNSW, which has expanded her depth of understanding in areas such as PCOS, endometriosis, perimenopause, menopause, and current contraception options.
Beyond the clinical setting, Suzi brings lived experience to her work. Her own health journey - including breast cancer and the early onset of menopause - gives her rare insight into the emotional and physical complexity of navigating major health events. This perspective has strengthened her capacity to hold space for others with compassion, clarity, and clinical precision.
Now based in Melbourne and consulting from The Melbourne Apothecary, Suzi offers treatments that honour the unique rhythms of each body while drawing from thousands of years of Chinese Medicine wisdom - carefully integrated with the modern pace of life.
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Annabelle Hinde
NATUROPATH
Hormones | Gut & Skin | Mental Health | Sleep
Annabelle is a degree-qualified clinical naturopath whose passion lies in empowering individuals to explore and transform their sense of health and vitality through a holistic, evidence-informed approach to wellness.
She offers personalised naturopathic and nutritional care, alongside practical, science-based lifestyle and dietary guidance, with a focus on uncovering root causes and creating clarity around next steps. Annabelle’s approach is to elevate the health journey – crafting and curating recommendations to individual needs – and to support people in cultivating balance, confidence and connection along the way.
Education, authenticity and personalised care are embedded in every consultation, where the intention is to lay strong foundations for sustainable wellbeing. Annabelle’s key areas of interest include gastrointestinal, hormonal, skin and mental health, with passions for supporting long-term gut disturbances, weight management, anxiety, poor sleep, blood glucose regulation, menopause, PCOS, acne and eczema.