Cate is a Medical Herbalist and Naturopath and has a passion for helping people find balance and optimal health through the use of nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, sports naturopathy, supplemental therapies and lifestyle changes.

After training and working as an architect for 10 years, Cate changed careers and while raising her two sons, retrained and graduated from the South Pacific College of Natural Therapies with a Bachelor of Health Science in Complementary Medicine and Diplomas awarded with Honours in Herbal Medicine and Naturopathy. The career change was inspired by her natural passion for health, fitness and nutrition and further encouraged by the dramatic resolution of long standing health challenges following a visit to a naturopath in her mid twenties.

Cate works first and foremost with dietary and lifestyle changes, combined with the use of medicinal herbs and supplements where required. Cates approach is one which balances traditional and natural therapies with a scientific and evidence based approach. She aims to successfully integrate the best of traditional and modern medical practices. She is also well versed in drug-herb-nutrient interactions and is a member of the NZ Association of Medical Herbalists and the NZ Society of Naturopaths.

Her approach is balanced and individualised. She acknowledges how difficult it can be to make dramatic lifestyle and dietary changes and tailors treatment programmes to the client’s individual needs and preferences, whilst acknowledging the reality of how busy life can get.

Cate is a keen recreational sportsperson enjoying netball, boxing training and running. She completed the New York Marathon in 1997 and again in 2007, and so became well versed in the importance of sports nutrition, and the use of medicinal herbs and supplements to boost performance and endurance and enhance recovery. Since then she has helped numerous clients achieve their sporting, health and fitness goals.