Mentoring with Geraldine

What do you say and do when the client first walks in the door to your practice (or you see them online? Brad and Geraldine talk about how they talk to their clients during the consultation and how they both leave space for the client to speak and share their issues. Geraldine has a course on exactly this subject so that practitioners can really understand how to coach their clients to success in...

Join Geraldine as she answers some of the many questions she receives in her Facebook group Strictly Education & Support as well as in her mentoring sessions with practitioners. Geraldine mentors both new graduates and those who have been in business for years! Each mentee is unique and Geraldine works to ensure each mentee achieves their goals in practice, no matter what they are. “I am strug...

Join Geraldine and she talks with Carla Wrenn discussing her system of case management and case taking using her unique system of Vitae Mosaic. VM utilises the ‘tree of health’ and helps the practitioner drill down on the drivers of ill health:  https://www.carlawrenn.com/vitae-mosaic   Carla is a passionate integrative medicine practitioner whose professional aim is to provide top quality healthc...

Join Geraldine as she talks about her tips and tricks for getting referrals, some of these ideas may work for you, others not so much. Whichever systems or ideas you utilise you need to utilise some! You’ve worked hard at college and now in your business and it’s time to see some of those rewards come into your practice.  Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https:...

Join Geraldine and Dr. Brad McEwen as they discuss the rules and regulations are labelling and how products are put through stringent testing here in Australia.  Dr. Brad McEwen has been in practice since 1999 and has multiple industry awards as well as being an author, he is a public health and nutrition scientist, naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist, educator, researcher, and mentor with over 22...

Join Geraldine as she chats with David Casteleijn PhD candidate, herbalist, naturopath and president of the Naturopaths & Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA) about Raspberry leaf in pregnancy, how useful it is and how it got a bad reputation at the start of the decade. Learn how to administer raspberry leaf and when to start using it as a partus preparator, or generally as a uterine ton...

Steven Judge and Geraldine get together again to talk about burnout and strategies to support the practitioner to avoid burnout. Emotional signs and symptoms of burnout appear differently for everyone, we only touched on a few of the symptoms in the interview, here are some of the others - Sense of failure and self-doubt, lacking empathy and emotion when you should feel emotion. Feeling helpless,...

Join Geraldine Headley and Andrew Whitfield-Cook talking about the changes in the industry and profession over the years. Andrew reminisces and shares his learnings from his many years in both natural and allopathic medicine. Supporting pathology and diagnosis along with what you don’t learn in college! Learning outside of college using books as well seminars, comparing the differences in learning...

Join Geraldine and Dr. Brad McEwen as they discuss compounding and nutritional supplements, as well as talking about backing yourself as a clinician “You’re not ‘JUST’ anything!” This is the catchphrase of the episode, as Brad discusses an old case where nutritional intervention was what made all the difference to the patient!  Dr. Brad McEwen has been in practice since 1999 and has multiple indus...

Join Geraldine as she chats with  Carla Wrenn  from the Peninsula Herbal Dispensary. Carla has been a naturopath for over 2 decades and runs this very special practice both online and in-person. The Dispensary is well known locally for it’s acute counter service run by the naturopaths and the breadth of naturopathic knowledge from the diverse range of practitioners there. Carla is a passionate int...

Join Geraldine as she chats with Steven Judge, a practicing naturopath in Surrey Hills in Sydney. Steven works mostly in the areas of gut and mental health in the integrative practice where he works. Steven and Geraldine both realise how difficult it is to transition from study to practice and so Steven has kindly shared his experiences and some of his paperwork with the audience. You can find it...

Join Geraldine as she chats with Moira Bradfield about her PhD studies into the vaginal microbiome and about the courses she has on offer. Moira provides regular professionally recognised Intimate Ecology training on the vaginal and genitourinary microbiomes https://intimateecology.com.au/ Moira also mentors individual practitioners on complex cases and facilitates an educational social media grou...

Join Geraldine as she gives a few tips and tricks when working with kids in practice. Simple techniques to check the child in practice, not absolutely accurate as they would be at the Child Youth Health Clinic with the community nurse, but they’ll give you a great spot check on numbers. Pictures of Otitis Media - https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_otitis_media/ All things s...

Join Geraldine as she talks about finding the gap in your market and how that will support you in finding your ideal clients. When we look for the gap we find the clients, we find those who are unsure about who to go to for help. In this mini episode we have a crash course chat on all things gap related!  https://answerthepublic.com/   https://alsoasked.com/ Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebo...

Join Geraldine as she chats with Christine Dashper, naturopath, aromatherapist, reiki practitioner and mediation facilitator. Christine delivered a meditation during the Academy Virtual Retreat in October and received amazing feedback from the group. Christine also has a course based around self care that she talks about in this episode, you can find it here: https://www.pureelementnaturopathy.com...

How do you start the day? The week ahead? How do you help and support your clients? Today Geraldine talks about how we put ourselves out there and how we’re perceived? How do you put yourself in others' shoes in a physical sense? What do people see when they see you? Have you walked through and sat in your office as though you’re a client? What does the ‘forward facing you’ project?  Work wit...

Join Geraldine as she gives you ideas on how to create content for your clients. What do you repeat? What do you enjoy doing? What do you already have? Once you’ve sat down and worked it out, how can you develop that into a program or package? Although it’s not mentioned, you might just need the support of the Academy to get things underway!  https://www.geraldineheadley.com/academy-membership Wor...

Join Geraldine as she discusses getting back out into the community. What is open, who is opening and where to find your people! Libraries, community centres, markets (market organisers), local council and business groups. Put your thinking cap on - look at maps, go for walks, check out the local community to share yourself!  Black Friday Deal 50% off -  https://www.geraldineheadley.com/?coupon=BL...

With all the offers you see, what do you think you should offer? Should you offer a discount on your services? Join Geraldine as she talks about how she supports her clients without giving discounts and instead uses systems that support her in business. https://www.geraldineheadley.com/academy-membership Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https://mentoringwithger...

We had the best weekend! Today Geraldine talks about the yearly Virtual Retreat in the Academy and what a blast they had this year! Meditations, visualisations, smudging sessions along with goal setting and future structure. Check out the Academy here: https://www.geraldineheadley.com/academy-membership   Smudge Sticks from Louise Kerwin https://discoverthepoweroftouch.com/ Meditation classes from...

Join Geraldine as she talks about the future, what have you planned going forward? What simple things are shouting out to be organised? What are you projecting, feeling and thinking about 2022? You’ll find the easy to follow worksheet link at the bottom of the front page of the site! https://www.geraldineheadley.com/   Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https://m...

Meet Tracee Blythe who’s been in practice for 17 years, first working in health food stores, before moving into practitioner education with a supplement company, and now in private practice.  Tracee and Geraldine discuss co-prescribing complementary medicines with medications, how she researches what she delivers on her monthly webinars and how she wants to bring both the pharmacist and the naturo...

Join Geraldine as she answers the question “Do I need more education, do I need to learn more skills” - how many modalities do we need? How can we incorporate new skills into our business? Today we have a think about how our practice will look if we add new modalities or skills.  Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https://mentoringwithgeraldine.com/contact/ https...

On today's episode Geraldine answers the question she was sent “what mindset should I have when a client has not improved or when a client has unpleasant reactions after treatment”, let’s think - blocks to change, feelings of failure, unreasonable expectations and much more! Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https://mentoringwithgeraldine.com/contact/ https...

How do we get the idea from our heads into the world? Join Geraldine as she describes how she breaks down and works out that process! Masterminding with others is amazing, but often we’ll start the process alone. How do we get from the idea, to the process, to the outcome?  Work with Geraldine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1543978942348737 https://mentoringwithgeraldine.com/contact/ https://www...