At KATY LAWRYK ONLINE NATUROPATH + DISPENSARY we specialise in natural methods of health care, supplementation, herbal medicine, Nutrition and Exercise Science, using multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience to ensure that you receive the health outcomes you need.

By combining therapies and modalities in biochemical and pathophysiological rehabilitation techniques, we will work with you to holistically reset, reboot and re-nourish you from the inside out.

The journey with natural medicine can be challenging. Often times we are helping your body unwind the compensation methods it has used over the years to help keep you as well as possible. This is where we see that everything works, until it doesn’t!!!

The body is incredibly intelligent when it comes to findings its homeostasis (balance).

The body can move towards health in most instances when given the building blocks through nutrition, supplementation, movement, grounding, sunshine, purpose, connection and contribution to help it facilitate overall health.

What some people may experience during this time can include an exacerbation of symptoms, flare ups of inflammations or irritations, or generally a period of time where the body is removing inflamed tissues through our elimination organs, tissues and glands, travelling throughout your blood stream, into your digestive system and out through your kidneys, lungs, skin and bowels.

This adjustment and clear out period can be challenging, one thing it definitely is, is a process. This takes time, everyone is different and time to resolution will be individual.

By persevering through challenging times when it seems like nothing is changing, and roadblocks or new symptoms start to appear as we dig deeper into your physiology, is where you can experience a real break through. This process will help you to better understand your body, your health and put you in the driver’s seat.

The treatment protocol requires your action and persistence and to do the work while you are outside of the consultation process. This is the challenging part, but this is exactly what I am here to help you with. The true healing is done by you. 

My aim is to have you as your own best doctor and health advisor!

MEET YOUR PRACTITIONER

• Supporting the high performance coaching team for the Australian Rugby Union QRU Division as an Exercise Scientist & Sports Naturopath working in areas including player development, rehabilitation, and sports performance, nutrition, supplementation, men’s health and hormones

• Working as a Rehabilitation Specialist for the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Services Australia in Alice Springs

• Managing Health Food Stores

• Practising Clinical Naturopath 

This all culminated in opening and operating her own natural health care practice in 2017.

With 10 years of health-based education, career and clinical experience, Katy develops individually tailored treatment plans which incorporate diet and lifestyle modifications, nutritional medicine, supplementation, herbal medicine, and functional testing.

SPECIALITIES

Katy sources the most appropriate functional tests form around the world to get to the bottom of your health issue

FEMALE HEALTH  

Hormone imbalances which can lead too

• Fertility Chalenges
• Irregular, Painful, Missing & Heavy Periods 
• PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)
• Endometriosis
• Thyroid Conditions
• Gut Health, Bloating, Constipation, IBS, SIBO, Gut Permeability & Yeast Infections
• Cortisol Imbalance, Inability to Cope with Stress
• Acne & Skin Conditions
• Breast Changes, Swelling, Tenderness
• Headaches, Migraines, Brain Fog
• Hair Loss & Excess Body Hair
• Weight Gain & Dietary Planning
• Fatigue, Depression, Anxiety, Panic & Mood Disorders

MALE HEALTH  

Hormone imbalances which can lead too:

• Metabolic Syndrome - Diabetes, High Blood Pressure & Cholesterol
• Insomnia & Sleep Issues
• Weight Gain
• Osteoporosis
• Gut Health - Bloating, Constipation, IBS, SIBO, Gut Permeability
• Decreased Sexual Performance
• Inability to Maintain Muscle Mass
• Depression, Anxiety, Aggression, Irritability
• Heart Disease
• Brain Fog
• Fatigue

CONSULTATIONS

INITIAL CONSULTATION $195/ 75 minutes

Under 15 years old $150 60 minutes

Ample time is spent to develop a working relationship with you, go over your complete health history and story, review current prescription medications and supplements, and review a multitude of systems in your body to help put your results into context when formulating your health care plan.

Treatment recommendations will be made if needed at this stage. Naturopathic practice appreciates that multiple personal choices and systemic factors contribute to a person’s health. While only some of these can be directly addressed clinically, the naturopathic approach brings all into consideration.

Our map in this complex environment is the Naturopathic Therapeutic Order. The focus is conservative, to use the “least force” necessary. We seek to address causal factors, and use the least harmful approaches first.

Our development of personalised strategies at Kin & Tonics Naturopathic Practice is shaped by this order.

Determinants of Health

 What type of questions will you be asked during your Initial Naturopathic Consultation? 

In order to understand what disturbs health, one must understand what determines health. Therefore, Naturopathic practitioners study the determinants of health. A determinant of health becomes a disturbance when it is absent or present but distorted.

Inborn

• Genetic makeup (genotype)
• Intrauterine/congenital
• Maternal exposures
• Drugs
• Toxins
• Viruses
• Psychoemotional
• Maternal nutrition
• Maternal lifestyle
• Constitution: determines susceptibility

Hygienic Factors/Lifestyle Factors: How We Live

Environment, Lifestyle, Psychoemotional, and Spiritual Health

• Spiritual life
• Self-assessment
• Relationship to larger universe

 Exposure to Nature

• Fresh air
• Clean water
• Light

 Diet, Nutrition, and Digestion

• Unadulterated food
• Toxaemia

 Rest and Exercise

• Rest
• Exercise

 Socio-economic Factors

• Culture
• Loving and being loved
• Meaningful work
• Community

 Stress (Physical, Emotional)

• Trauma (physical/emotional)
• Illnesses: pathobiography
• Medical interventions (or lack of)
• Surgeries
• Suppressions
• Physical and emotional exposures, stresses, and trauma
• Toxic and harmful substances
• Addictions

1st FOLLOW UP CONSULTATION/REPORT OF FINDINGS: 

$150: 60-minutes

(Your second visit) 

Under 15 years old $95 45 minutes

PLEASE NOTE: Prior to this consultation: Kin & Tonics must be in receipt of 4-day diary and online questionnaire results, and receipt of current laboratory results and medical records.

You will be presented with the outlay of your treatment plan with recommendations for achieving your health outcomes.

During this consultation Katy will discuss the findings from your Initial Consultation and deliver your personalised Naturopathic Prescription.

This will be an opportunity to discuss your recommended guidelines and protocols that will assist you in reaching your health goals and resolutions.

Your plan is developed using the structure of: The Therapeutic Order

Establish the conditions for health

• Identify and remove disturbing factors
• Institute a more healthful regimen

2. Stimulate the healing power of nature (vis Medicatrix Naturae): the self-healing processes

3. Address weakened or damaged systems or organs

• Strengthen the immune system
• Decrease toxicity
• Normalise inflammatory function
• Optimise metabolic function
• Balance regulatory systems
• Enhance regeneration
• Harmonise with your life force 

4. Correct structural integrity

5. Address pathology: Use specific natural substances, modalities, or interventions 

6. Address pathology: Use specific pharmacologic or synthetic substances (Referral to Specialist) 

7. Suppress or surgically remove pathology (Referral to Specialist)

FOLLOW UP CONSULTATION $90/ 45 minutes

Usually spaced 2-4 weeks apart depending on your individual health requirements.

Follow up consultations assess your progress, refine your personalised naturopathic prescription, offer advice and support, and address any other health challenges that may arise.

This consultation is also suitable for any short term illness where a symptomatic remedy may be required.

ACUTE CARE CONSULTATIONS/ $65: 25 minutes

While Kin & Tonics focus is on resolving chronic conditions, established patients can schedule an acute health issues for conditions outside of those being treated under your health care plan.

This consultation can include bookings for illnesses such as cold and flu prescription and support. 

Should your concern be in relation to the conditions for which you are being treated, please schedule an ONGOING FOLLOW UP CONSULTATION.

OTHER CONSULTATION TYPES

PRESCRIPTION & DISPENSARY CONSULTATIONS: $0/ 15-minutes

PHONE ONLY APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE

If you require a refill on a current prescription as prescribed by Katy

Prescribed products will be shipped to your door. 

COMPLIMENTARY 15 MIN NATUROPATHIC ASSESSMENT/ AVAILABLE FOR NEW CLIENTS ONLY

$0/ 15-minutes

PHONE ONLY APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE

This consultation is to identify areas that may benefit from natural health interventions. To discover if Katy is the right health care practitioner for your needs book a Free Naturopathic Assessment. These appointments are available at our clinic, or can be done over phone or video.

During these consultations, I will review and make recommendations to assist with you getting the most out of your health care plan. This is your opportunity to go over any questions from your plan to help you achieve your health goals in as quick a time as possible. 

The Importance of an Evolving Treatment Plan

Why are follow up consultations important to your treatment protocol? A plan that was optimal 1 year ago, may no longer be relevant or indicated now.

This is why it is important to regularly follow up with your naturopathic practitioner to make sure that the developed plan is still the best treatment for you. Who you are when you start any health care therapy is not who you are 4-weeks in, 12-weeks in and beyond.

This is why an evolving health care plan is necessary to help guide you every step of the way.

The course set will be individualised based on such factors as intensity of the changes being made, the choice of useful services that may be offered.

PLEASE NOTE: With recent legislation changes not extending coverage by private health insurance for some natural therapies, Katy is not covered by private health insurance. While Katy is not covered by private health insurance, please rest assured that she is insured and registered to practice as a Naturopath.

WHAT I WANT TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE

• A health pregnancy, healthy hormones, healthy 4th trimester, and happy healthy children

• Increase energy, enhanced digestion, improved sleep, enhance movement, reduce pain, increase recovery, achieve an optimal weight, enriched mindset, motivation and more

• Help you understand why you may be experiencing the health challenges you are (education on your body) with tools and programs to help keep you on track alongside the support to help you through the tough times (and it can get tough)

• Provide you with the tools, insights and know how to have you back in the driver’s seat of your health

TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE THESE OUTCOMES

Helping you build your best health care team and utilise the experience of the practitioners who are meaningful in your health journey.

One Naturopath cannot always cover all your needs. Similarly, good food alone doesn’t equal good health (we also need sunshine, movement, self-nurture, grounding/connection, purpose, contribution and more), we are synergistic and holistic in good health.

We are too complex for one magic bullet to ever be our total solution. It is the series of things we put in front of us that allow us to take the next step towards achieving better and better heath outcomes. 

Good health is a result of the effort and hard work you put in. You more you work towards achieving your goals, the quicker and longer you'll be experiencing them. 

To help you achieve the best out of your health care journey, we opt to work with or help you engage other specialists into your plan such as medical doctors, osteopaths, physiotherapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, gynaecologists etc to help build a comprehensive picture of you and your health. 

We are all products of the people we have learnt from and the books we’ve read, we each bring a fresh pair of eyes and knowledge to each scenario for the benefit of your health goals.

Having multiple perspectives and skill bases available to you will help to increase the scope of practice to best formulate the most appropriate and individualised treatment plan for your best health outcomes.

PATHOLOGY TESTING

Are you wondering how to uncover the root cause of your health concerns? The answer may be pathology testing!

As different as we look on the outside is as different as we function on the inside.

Testing can help your practitioners to establish your biochemical and pathophysiological set points to better assist in building YOUR optimal health outcomes.

You are unique and unlike anybody else, so why would we be happy in comparing you to a set of reference ranges when we could establish your set points to achieve meaningful health outcomes in your life. This means that your Naturopathic treatment is as individualised as your biochemical makeup.

Laboratory testing will be discussed on an individual basis and facilitated through a number of means. Either through your GP or specialist, or private laboratories including Research Nutrition and Interclinical Laboratories to name a few. Please note, these private laboratory tests are not covered by Medicare.

OUR PREFERRED TESTING PARTNERS

RN LABS

RN Labs is a privately owned company based in Brisbane, which distributes premium brands from around the world and formulates the highest quality nutritional solutions for Australian healthcare practitioners. RN Labs also globally

sources leading functional testing services, providing healthcare practitioners with cutting edge functional testing services used by the world's leading clinicians.

RN LABS offers 50+ tests, common ones that our practitioner works with are:

-DUTCH Testing (dried urine test for comprehensive hormones)

- OAT Testing (organic acids testing)

- Dietary Antigen Testing

- Glyphosate and Drinking Water Analysis

- Limes Testing

- Neurotransmitter Testing

- SIBO Testing (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth)

- Viral Screen

NUTRIPATH

NutriPATH is a privately owned medical laboratory that specialises in the area of functional health and wellbeing pathology testing. NutriPATH is one of the largest functional testing laboratories for integrative medicine practitioners throughout Australasia.

Functional pathology and routine pathology tests assist general practitioners, naturopaths, nutritionists, dieticians, chiropractors, osteopaths and other complementary healthcare practitioners in identifying the underlying cause of illness as well as providing tools for the prevention of disease and premature ageing.

NutriPATH offers 360+ tests, common ones that our practitioner works with are:

- Complete Microbiome GI Mapping

- Stress Testing

- ALCAT Food Intolerance Test

- IgE and IgG Food Allergy Panels

- Mould, Mycotoxin and Environmental Toxin Testing

- CDSA (Comprehensive Digestive and Stool Analysis)

- Essential Mineral and Heavy Metal Analysis

- BPA, Phthalates and Parabens Testing

WILL I BE TAKING SUPPLEMENTS?

Generally, yes. However, this is different for every person.

Some may need some simple herbal support through tinctures, creams or teas, amino acid therapy, superfoods and nutraceuticals, or vitamin and mineral supplementation.

Once you are at a point where your tests results are showing improvement and you are feeling well, we then work at reducing any supplements so you can rely on the nutrients supplied through your diet.

While supplements are great, for most people, they should not be used long term. They most often are best used in the interim to stimulate adaptation responses in your body to enhance its capacity to respond to changes in diet and lifestyle.

At which point supplements can be used as an intermediate to provide support to your body in the areas that most need it during health challenges and major stresses.

A WORD ON SUPPLEMENTS USED

The best practitioner-only supplements are used at Katy Lawryk Online Naturopath + Dispensary. Most are made in Australia under strict TGA regulations. The strengths are therapeutic and unavailable in conventional health food stores, supermarkets or pharmacies.

The herbal dispensary is stocked with the finest quality herbal tinctures, many of which are sourced in Australia. Often a tincture or compounded formula will be made to suit your own individual requirements. This will ensure the best possible health and wellness outcome for you.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A last-minute cancellation of a pre-booked appointment unfortunately causes difficulties for our practice. While we know life can sometimes get in the way of our plans, we request that you provide 24 hours’ notice so that someone else may use that time. If 24 hours’ notice is not provided, an available spot to re-book your consultation will not be made available for 7 days.