About

Hello and thank you for joining me on this journey! 

My name is Gemma,

a medical herbalist and holistic well-being practitioner, grounded in health science and the living practices of herbal medicine, permaculture, kundalini yoga, and the gong and medicine drum.

I hold a deep love for plant medicine, food as medicine, and the ancient wisdom of seaweeds. I am fascinated by what plants reveal about people, our stories, our healing, and our understanding of ourselves across cultures and time.

It was through my own healing experience with plant medicine, that I grew to have such strong admiration for our plant cousins. Plant medicine is about treating the whole person, the body that needs tending, and the deeper story beneath illness. I have supported people with but not limited to:

• Mental health - Anxiety, depression, acute & chronic stress, AuDHD

• Gut health - Irritable bowel, helicobacterpylori, inflammatory bowel

• Thyroid - Hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto, graves

• Metabolic - T2DM, obesity, Diabetic neuropathy, nephropathy

• Pain management - Nerve pain, headaches, osteoarthritis, chronic pain

• Immune & Autoimmune - Cold & flu, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies

• Reproductive health - PMS, PMDD, endometriosis, PMOS (previosuly PCOS), fertility, pregnancy before and after care

• Children’s health - Allergies, ADHD, gut issues, immune

• Cardiovascular health - Hypertension, heart disease

• Other chronic conditions - sleep disorders, skin conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome, lyme disease, vascular conditions etc

A little story about me…

I have loved and been curious about life on Earth since I was a child, fascinated by the ocean creatures in the rock pools of Bronte, or nestling among the plants, and watching the sky as I listened to the pulse of the garden. It was in those quiet moments of simply being and feeling that I began to understand the world through connection and relationship.

Reflecting back on little me, I was learning the complexity yet simplicity of an ecosystem, the interconnection of all things and the great dance of balance and change. Nurturing a belief in me that we are not separate from Nature; we are Nature. This perspective has greatly influenced both my personal and professional life.

It is also this belief that drew me deeper into the Earth itself, to grow and learn directly from the land and seas. Inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka, whose teachings remind me that cultivation begins with observation, with respect for nature's own intelligence. From this, and my own lived experiences, I practice what I call Symbiotic Permaculture, which works in partnership with plants and in kinship with the living land.

My hope is to help people come home to themselves, through reconnection with nature, and with our Ancestral ways of knowing, to help sprout lasting positive change and ecological well-being, wherever the seed may grow.