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The body keeps adapting until it can't.
The Emotional Side of a Physical Picture
Old Patterns, Limiting Beliefs, and What Sits Underneath Them
At The Natural Health Option, emotional work isn't a single thing. It combines Theta Healing and the Demartini Method, used together rather than in isolation.
Together, these give you a structured way to look at emotional pain, examine how you're perceiving a situation, and reconnect with what matters to you.
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Where These Methods Come From
Theta Healing was developed by Vianna Stibal in the United States in the mid 1990s. She built it after her own experience of recovering from serious illness, working from the idea that beliefs held at a deep level shape how a person responds to everything else. She later founded the ThetaHealing Institute of Knowledge in Idaho, and the technique is now taught internationally.
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Dr John Demartini, an American human behaviour specialist, developed the Demartini Method through chiropractic. He had significant learning difficulties as a child and was told he wouldn't amount to much academically. He's spent more than four decades researching human behaviour and perception, and the method is the practical result. It's a set sequence of questions applied to a specific event or person, working through the experience from both sides until the charge in it settles.
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What they have in common is that both go beneath the presenting problem to the belief or perception holding it in place. That's why I use them alongside testing, not instead of it.
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How It Works
This integrated process draws on two methods:
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Theta Healing is a meditative technique practised in what its founders describe as the theta brainwave state. It surfaces subconscious patterns and examines the beliefs behind them.
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The Demartini Method is a structured inquiry process. It works through an experience from both sides, using a set sequence of questions to take the charge out of it.
Together, sessions work on both the energetic and cognitive sides: the felt experience and the thinking behind it.
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What People Come to This Work For
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Old patterns, resentment, and emotional weight they've been carrying
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Beliefs that stopped being useful a long time ago
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Reactivity, being triggered faster and harder than they'd like
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Relationships and communication
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Wanting more clarity and a steadier way of handling things
What Working Together Looks Like:
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Initial Consultation
We go through your emotional patterns, what's been hard, and what you want from this, so we know where to start. -
Personalised Sessions
Each session is put together for you, using Theta Healing, the Demartini Method, or both, depending on what's actually present on the day. -
Integration and Support
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Ongoing Support
Some people come once. Others return as new things surface. There's no set number of sessions and no expectation that you'll book more.
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Work with Van
Van has worked in energy healing for over 32 years, in natural health for 10 years, and as a private investigator for close to 30, specialising in workplace psychological injury. She brings testing, intuition and compassion to every session.
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These sessions provide a structured space to explore resentment, recurring beliefs, perceptions, relationship patterns and responses to past experiences.
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Van may draw on the Demartini Method and ThetaHealing practices, depending on the client’s goals and preferences. The focus is personal reflection, perspective and practical integration.
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These sessions are personal-development services. They are not psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, trauma treatment or mental-health care. No particular emotional or health outcome is promised.
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Each session is designed to meet you where you are, not where a protocol says you should be.
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Van is Certified In:
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Theta Healing
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The Demartini Method
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Homeopathy
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GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome)
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Homeobotanical Therapy
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HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis)
Heal, Nourish & Thrive
Healing is more than recovery. It's about feeling steady in yourself again.
This work looks at mind, body and spirit together rather than as separate problems, because in practice they rarely behave like separate problems.
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You didn’t fall, you rose. Let go of who couldn’t hold you, and come home to yourself.
GAPS (GUT AND PSYCHOLOGY SYNDROME)
The Gut–Brain Connection
The GAPS Protocol was developed by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride. It's a staged, food-based programme built around the relationship between gut health and brain function.
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Dr Campbell-McBride designed it to work on the digestive lining and the microbiome through diet, in stages.
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At The Natural Health Option, GAPS is used as one part of a wider picture, alongside testing and alongside the emotional work because in practice, emotional stress, exposures and nutrient gaps tend to turn up together.
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What GAPS Involves:
A staged eating plan built on whole, nutrient-dense foods
Bone broth, fermented foods and healthy fats
Removing foods that are harder to digest while the gut lining is being supported
Working at a pace your nervous system can handle
Who Tends to Come to GAPS
People who come to this part of the work usually describe some combination of:
Digestive symptoms they've had for years
Being tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix
Having been told their tests are normal
Feeling wired and flat at the same time
Having already tried elimination diets on their own, without much to show for it
Why Emotional Work Sits Alongside GAPS
Gut function and emotional state are closely linked, the gut–brain connection is well documented, and most people notice it in themselves under stress.
Doing the food work while leaving the emotional side untouched tends to be harder going. That's why Theta Healing and the Demartini Method run alongside GAPS nutrition rather than after it.
HOMEOPATHY
A System Built on Observation, Not Assumption
Homeopathy began with a doctor who refused to keep doing harm.
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Dr Samuel Hahnemann qualified in medicine at Erlangen in 1779. Treatment in his day meant bleeding, blistering, purging and mercury. He watched it make patients worse. So he stopped, and supported his family by translating medical texts instead.
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In 1790 he was translating a work by the Scottish physician William Cullen. Cullen wrote that Peruvian bark worked because it was bitter. Hahnemann didn't accept that. He took the bark himself, in repeated doses, and it produced in him the symptoms of the illness it was known to relieve.
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He published the principle in 1796. Then he spent fifty years testing it and writing it down. The Organon came in 1810 and he revised it six times over his life. His materia medica was built from what he observed, not from what he assumed. He was still refining the work in Paris in his eighties.
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Two hundred years on, the principles he set down are still practised worldwide, largely unchanged.
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The Three Principles
"Like cures like." Similia similibus curentur. Let likes be cured by likes. A substance that produces a set of symptoms in a well person is the substance chosen for someone showing that same picture. Symptoms are the map. They aren't the enemy. They're how your body tells you what it's doing.
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The minimum dose. Hahnemann found he could cut the quantity right back, preparing remedies by repeated dilution and vigorous shaking, and still get a response. So he used the smallest amount that produced one. Less, not more. That was deliberate. Heavy dosing was the thing that drove him out of conventional practice in the first place.
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The direction of cure. In 1845 Constantine Hering set out what he called a law of order. It describes a pattern in how people improve. From the inside outwards. From above downwards. From the more important organs to the less important. And in reverse order to the way the symptoms arrived, so older complaints can surface again briefly as recent ones settle.
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That last one matters most for what you should expect. Improvement here isn't a straight line. An old symptom coming back for a short time isn't a step backwards. It's often the map running in reverse. Knowing that before you start changes how the whole thing feels.
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Your First Consultation
Two hours. Set aside properly, because the detail is the method.
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We'll go through your symptoms, then we'll go a long way past them. Your history. What you were like as a child. How you sleep, what wakes you, what you dream. What you crave and what you can't stand. Whether you feel worse in heat or cold, morning or evening, alone or with people. How you behave under pressure. What was happening in your life in the years before your health changed.
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Some of these won't feel like health questions. They are. In homeopathy your temperament and your emotional patterns sit alongside the physical picture, because they belong to the same person.
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Bring your pathology results and any testing you've had. Nothing gets set aside for not fitting the model.
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How the Remedy Is Chosen
Not from the label on your file.
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Ten people can arrive with the same diagnosis and leave with ten different remedies. The diagnosis describes the condition. The remedy is matched to the person carrying it. Someone who's worse at 3am, restless and uneasy in themselves, needs something different from someone who's worse in a warm room, weepy, and wanting company.
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That's what tailored means here. Not a protocol with your name typed on the top. A remedy chosen from the whole picture, physical, emotional and historical, and reviewed as that picture changes.
HOMEOBOTANICAL THERAPY
Where Herbal Medicine Meets Homeopathy
Homeobotanical therapy was developed in New Zealand in the early 1980s by naturopath Brian Murray, working with Amy Murray. Murray qualified as a naturopath in 1976 and later studied osteopathy and homeopathy.
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He built the system for a practical reason. Herbal tinctures were expensive, and plenty of his clients simply couldn't afford them.
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So he made something else. Botanical extracts prepared in the homeopathic manner, blended rather than dispensed one at a time, and priced so ordinary people could actually use them. More than forty years on, it's practised across New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
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How the Blends Work
Each blend brings several plants together in one bottle. The herbs are chosen on botanical indications. The preparation follows the homeopathic method. It sits between the two traditions rather than belonging neatly to either.
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Blends are mixed and matched. You don't get a standard bottle off a shelf. I put the combination together for the picture in front of me.
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Where It Fits in My Practice
I use homeobotanicals alongside the rest of the work, not instead of it. They're often the gentlest place to start, particularly for people who've reacted badly to things before, or who are wary after a run of practitioners and protocols that went nowhere.
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How Your Blend Is Chosen
From the same picture, everything else here is chosen from. Your history, your testing, your symptoms, and how you actually are in yourself. The blend is reviewed as things change, just as a remedy is.
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The information on this website is general information. It's accurate at the time of publication and it isn't a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Homeopathy is a traditional system of medicine. Many people use it alongside conventional care. Whether that's right for you is a conversation to have with your doctor. Please speak to them before changing any prescribed medication or treatment plan, and always seek immediate medical attention in an emergency.
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If you have questions about anything provided to you, please ask.