When I came to see Kara for the first time my health was very up and down, much more down than up really. I would be OK for a while but then life would get really busy and I would crash and be utterly exhausted for up to a month at a time. I was miserable with the pattern. Kara helped me to understand the role my food choices were having on my health and also the impact my stress was having too. I saw her three times and each time we would talk about small ways I could improve my overall health. She also gave me some herbs and nutritional supplements. What a difference. Life is still crazy but I don’t fall in a heap now on a regular basis. I feel much more in control. I still take a couple of extra nutrients each day and I feel stronger for it.
I brought my daughter to see Kara when she was three. She had started preschool the year before and had honestly been sick ever since. She had five lots of antibiotics in 7 months. I was pregnant with my second child and exhausted from working and also looking after a sick toddler, not to mention I had completely run out of sick days.
I was a bit worried about how my three year old would take herbs, but Kara talked about different options of liquids or powders and how to put things in foods and what would be best for her, and it was fine. She gave me heaps of information and was great about leaving repeat prescriptions out at reception for pickup if I didn’t need a consultation, making it easy and cost effective. That was two years ago and my daughter has only needed to see the doctor once since then. We were really very pleased with the outcome.
I had thought for a while that I had food intolerances as my stomach was often upset but I wasn’t sure which foods were upsetting me. I saw Kara who had me tested for specific foods and when the results came in she helped me to understand what I could and couldn’t eat. My stomach feels so much better and my headaches have gone too. She was great at recommending alternate foods to eat when I wasn’t sure what to go for. I have tried a few things I never thought I would, including green smoothies and quinoa and she was right they are easy and great!
I had suffered with chronic sinus since my teens. It was incredibly annoying as I snored and slept badly and was always tired and when it flared up would need pain killers and days off work. I saw Kara and she gave me some herbs and zinc and C. That definitely helped. Then she talked to me about having a food intolerance test and so I did. Boy did that make a difference. Once I cut out the foods that were causing the sinus in the first place, my chronic sinus I thought I would have to live with forever pretty much disappeared. I even sent my girlfriend in to see Kara for her chronic excema and she also had the test done and now only has a tiny patch behind her knee. Well worth it.
I work in Sydney in a stressful job that I love, but I found that the stress combined with the long days and the commuting were all adding up and I started to feel very run down and experience pretty bad anxiety. Little things started to feel like big things and then I started to worry I wasn’t coping. My next door neighbour told me to see Kara, so I did. She was very kind and understood me really well. I really liked the iridology she did. She recognised that I was low on a few key vitamins and mineral and told me what foods were better to eat. She gave me some supplements also and I felt really good quite fast. I have changed my diet now so I always eat more healthy food (and less coffee!) and feel much better about the way I deal with the stress from my job.
I have had IBS since I was 24 years old. Sometimes it wouldn’t be too bad, but then at other times it felt like it would rule my life. I would feel like I couldn’t eat out and even when I went out I was always thinking about where the nearest bathroom was. I saw Kara when a friend recommended her. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I hadn’t seen a naturopath before. She was very nice and easy to talk to. She ordered a test to check what was going on in my belly and when it came back she explained it all to me and gave me some supplements and talked to me about which foods were not good for me. It took three months of slow improvement before I really started to trust I was a lot better. I had a lot more energy and felt I could exercise for the first time in ages. I even started dating again, it was always so embarrassing before to try and explain why my stomach was so sensitive. Overall it’s been great. I would happily recommend her.
I took my 16 year old son to see Kara as he was studying in year 11 and always tired and really stressed a lot of the time. Kara recommended specific herbs and nutritional supplements for him to help him to feel calmer and focus better at school. She also made some good suggestions about his diet which were practical and worked well. He hasn’t finished the HSC yet but he feels more able to cope which is good.
I went and saw Kara at a very low point in my life. I am a single mum and my eldest son had just been diagnosed with serious mental illness. I was completely exhausted and very stressed. I needed help sleeping. Kara listened to everything and made some simple suggestions and prescribed a couple of supplements. I told her I couldn’t even think of changing my diet or doing any kind of exercise as I was so overloaded but I would take the stuff she gave me and sit in the sun for a couple of minutes a day (she thought my vitamin D was too low). Within two weeks I felt much calmer and even more importantly more able to cope. Another two weeks later my youngest son told me he was glad his “nice mum” had come back and he was glad we could spend time together again as I wasn’t so tired anymore. Two years later I still see Kara from time to time. Life hasn’t gotten any less stressful but I am coping with it a lot better and my overall health is much better. I even got around to those dietary changes she talked about the first time eventually. I am so glad I went and saw her when I did. Thank you.
I am a primary school teacher and I saw Kara as I was getting sick all the time. It felt like every time one of the kids in my class got sick I would go downhill too. I only have so many sick days so quite often I would find myself at school teaching whilst feeling awful and then coming home and collapsing into bed. Kara gave me awful tasting herbs that worked a treat (otherwise I would not have taken them!), and also some nutrition tablets. I started to feel better quite quickly and once I was good she kept me on a small dose all winter so I wouldn’t continue to get sick. That was three years ago now and I will be getting more herbs to take from her this winter again, so I stay well. I went from the sickest teacher in the school to the one with the least amount of days off and have sent in several of my colleagues to see Kara also.
I recently turned 41 but felt like my hormones were out of control. I was tired all the time and my skin was just awful. My premenstrual tension was out of control. I came in to see Kara as I had seen her before when I was pregnant with both of my kids and she knows what she’s doing. She got me to do a hormone salivary test and when it came back sat me down and talked to me about the results and what they meant. It was really good. She then gave me some supplements and some lifestyle and dietary advice and off I went. It took about three months but I now feel much better. Much more in control with better energy and not like I want to kill everyone. I’ve stopped yelling at the kids. My skin has cleared up and I feel like the old me is back. I was feeling just plain old before so it’s all good now.