Henrietta was born in Helsinki, Finland. After finishing high school she attended the University of Geneva in Switzerland re-known for their industry leading courses in sciences such as medicine, molecular biology and biochemistry. She initially took a year off between high school and before starting her university degree - but rather than taking time out to go backpacking for a year, she did something unusual - she attended un-officially the first year of Medicine classes at Geneva University as she had a friend who was enrolled in Medicine and both her and her friend where passionate about science and medicine. This ignited further her love for the body and after a year of Medicine classes she made the decision to complete her undergraduate degree in Biology with a focus on biochemistry, molecular biology, Immunology and Botany - noting that she completed the entire degree in the French language.

 

She then moved to Australia in 1998 to complete a graduate degree of Masters of Applied Science in Townsville at James Cook University. Not long after, Henrietta's passion for supporting the physical body lead her to an enrolment in a TAFE course for massage - originally just planning on massaging family and friends as a hobby. But this quickly grew into a career choice as she excelled with her therapeutic touch and capacity to support people to release tensions as well as understanding their body and its mechanics.  Once this massage degree was completed she began working in complementary therapies but felt that the studies were not complete yet. She continued to work with therapeutic massage as well as with reflexology-style foot massage over the years but also wanted explore her passion more widely by learning more about the body. She went on to obtain another undergraduate Bachelors degree but this time in Naturopathy at Southern Cross University in Lismore. This finally felt like her past studies had all come together, combining the biochemistry and immunology and botany studies from previously to now supporting the body in health and wellbeing not just through massage but also with herbs, nutrition and nutritional biochemistry. This Bachelor's of Naturopathy degree, which was a 5 year degree compressed/accelerated into 4 years resulted in Henrietta being awarded top of the class for excellence in the area of Nutrition. She launched naturopathy as a modality extending her massage clinic into a Natural Medicine Clinic.

 

With this amazing expertise and experience, Henrietta also still held her passion for teaching and sharing her knowledge openly with others. Whilst completing her first university degree in Switzerland, she also tutored first and second year students supporting them with their studies and working as a laboratory assistant at Geneva University. This passion for teaching continued once in Australia and having worked in the massage industry for several years. Having already completed her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment soon after completing her massage qualification, she re-trained with the Australian College of Massage and then sought work as a Trainer and Assessor for the Diploma of Remedial Massage.

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Today, Henrietta has an extensive background of over 10 years working as a Trainer and Assessor teaching the Diploma course in Remedial Massage for a private college and supervising students in Clinical Practice, assessing their final performance prior to graduation, as well as working with remote student support and mentoring. She has overseen hundreds of students in her teaching career over the many years whilst working on multiple college campuses including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Townsville, Launceston and Adelaide. With over 10 years of teaching experience within a private college she now teaches the massage units at Southern Cross University and oversees and assesses the massage students completing their final clinical practice hours at the SCU Health Clinic for massage. 

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In addition to her own busy clinical practice seeing clients for Naturopathy, Massage and Counselling, Henrietta works at Southern Cross University as a Teaching Associate for The National Center for Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) where she lectures, tutors and completes assessment marking on both Lismore and Gold Coast campuses. Key areas of focus are Tutoring in Clinical Naturopathic Medicine units as well as acting as a lead Clinical Supervisor for the Naturopathy clinic for final year students. This involves supervising and assessing all Masters Naturopathy students in their final year of clinical practice within the SCU Health clinic prior to graduation. Over the past several years, Henrietta has also regularly been involved as a Teaching Associate for GNIBI College of Indigenous Australian People, where she supports in various units around health in Indigenous populations.

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She also has a history of having worked with Southern Cross University over 10 years ago as a Mentor, Tutor and Course writer and Assistant Lecturer in the Naturopathy and Osteopathy Clinical Practice Units as well as the Biomedical Science Units. Henrietta sporadically also acts as a mentor for students of Nutritional Medicine and Naturopathy from various colleges around the country. 

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But most importantly, in her practice today, Henrietta combines her considerable knowledge, expertise and experience with unwavering dedication and deep care to her clients, students within the colleges and universities and the wider community.  She brings authority and attentiveness that leaves “no stone unturned” when working with clients and often works closely with her network of doctors, medical specialists, psychologists, counsellors and physiotherapists and other naturopaths to ensure the highest level of care for her patients with collaborative work and referrals as indicated. 

With Henrietta's many years of experience as a complementary health practitioner (over 25 years) and with a passion for the workings of the body and a special interest in the care of medically complex patients and women's health and hormones, Henrietta sees clients today, using the combined modalities of:

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• Naturopathy (Nutrition and Nutritional supplements)

• Nutritional Biochemistry (Blood/Saliva and other Pathology results)

• Herbs (Tinctures, Teas, Powdered herbs)

 

Complementary to this, Henrietta also offers:

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• Remedial Massage

• Relaxation Massage including Reflexology-style Foot Massage

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And more recently since the beginning of 2021, Henrietta has qualified with a Diploma in Counselling and is offering:

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• Counselling sessions

 

She offers in-person, face-to-face sessions OR online Zoom sessions for Naturopathy and Counselling and works with clients both nationally and internationally, with a clientele base reaching out to UK and Europe, Canada and the USA as well as New Zealand, Hong Kong and South Africa.

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She is a member of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) and the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).

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