Sharlene Ellis
Co-owner of Restore Wellbeing
Naturopath, Medical Herbalist & Reiki Healer
Sharlene is the resident Naturopath and Medical Herbalist and is also a talented Reiki healer. Sharlene has been instrumental in bringing the Restore Wellbeings vision to life.
She provides a wide range of clinical testing including Live Blood Analysis (LBA), Vitality (VLA) testing, hair analysis for food and environmental intolerances, and functional testing. Sharlene’s friendly manner will immediately put you at ease, and her thorough method of testing and problem solving will set you on the right track to revolutionise your health.
Sharlene loves to build relationships with people, touching base regularly to make sure you continue to feel revitalised, and energetic. She enjoys the ongoing interactions Naturopathy offers – using her specialist training to help women find comfort in easing menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, headaches and mood swings and assisting couples to find new levels of health increasing their chances of a smooth pregnancy from pre-conception care to easier delivery and a healthy baby.
Sharlene is also particularly skilled at working with people suffering from chronic fatigue or clients who are going through cancer treatment. Her empathetic and highly skilled approach will help you determine the best possible treatment plan for your condition. If you are feeling run down and lacking energy, a consultation with Sharlene is a great place to start. Her Naturopathic offerings work well with a number of other practitioners working at Restore, and together they will empower you to feel in control of your health and happiness.
Viv Butler
Co-owner of Restore Wellbeing
Massage Therapist & Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner
Viv is the co-owner of Restore Wellbeing, a space she created with Sharlene to provide a range of natural and holistic health options under one roof.
Viv leads the team of Massage Therapists at Restore, She relishes a challenge and brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. As well as her Massage qualifications Viv also is a certified practitioner in The Feldenkrais Method® and combines her decade of knowledge and experience in the Massage Therapy field with using neuroplasticity to teach movement and awareness, creating possibilities for new neural pathways and changes in lifelong habitual movement patterns, allowing her clients to move with ease and less pain.
She loves working with clients to help them better understand how awareness of their day to day movement is affecting them and how having different movement options could serve them better and help them to manage and alleviate pain, stress and anxiety. Viv offers one on one Functional Integration Lessons and teaches group Awareness through Movement lessons and workshops in the community.
She has worked extensively with a wide range of people including pregnant women, athletes, office workers as well as people in desperate need of a little rest and relaxation. A Massage or Feldenkrais lesson with Viv will leave you feeling empowered and with a new sense of mobility, delivering you freedom of movement and the tools needed to take the best possible care of your precious body.
Robyn Carley
Massage Therapist and Bowen Practitioner
Robyn is one of the fantastic massage therapists working at Revival Massage Therapy. Robyn loves helping those in pain find comfort and relief through massage, she is a wonderfully skilled therapist and with over 16 years Remedial massage experience, she really has a knack for isolating points of stress in the body and working these areas effectively to treat pain and tension.
Robyn thrives on working with people dealing with chronic or acute stress and is extremely talented at working intuitively with her clients to calm their nervous system to help reduce their stress levels as well as effectively treat the symptoms that go along with it such as neck and shoulder tension, back pain or reduced movement. Robyn will make you feel great on the table, through relaxation massage or through targeted work on tight or stressed muscles due to postural reasons.
Using her 7 years of experience in Bowen Therapy, as well as her recent and ongoing training in both Craniosacral therapy and Contact Care, Robyn will ensure that she will give you a truly holistic treatment. She has worked extensively with a wide range of people including office workers, sports people, as well as people suffering from trauma and mental illness.
If you wish to get some control over how you manage stress, stiffness and pain in your body, then Robyn is the therapist for you. She will ensure you get off the massage table equipped with information that will help you ease future discomfort at home or work or manage your ongoing stress levels. She is driven by the idea of whole-body health and wellness and is always ready to offer some tips on how to improve your physical or mental health so that you get the most out of your massage session.
Clare Srihanan
Massage Therapist
Clare is a talented and empathetic massage therapist who loves working with trigger points as a way to alleviate muscular pain. Her friendly disposition ensures you feel relaxed and rested on the massage table, and her skilled approach to massage therapy will help you identify true points of pain in your body.
If you want the worries of the world to melt away, a relaxation massage with Clare could be just the ticket. She loves incorporating a relaxing component to all of her massages and her healing hands will rub away the tensions associated with repetitive office work, or simply the stresses of modern life.
Clare seeks out points of dysfunction within your body and then strives to remedy the grief these tight knots may be giving you. If you want to rediscover true freedom of movement, book in to see Clare today.
Peter Milne
Counsellor
West Auckland Counselling
cnslrman@slingshot.co.nz
www.counsellorman.co.nz
Ph: 09 834 7322
Peter uses a range of counselling models in his work with clients. He loves getting to be a part of someone’s journey to better mental health, helping them feel better about themselves and their place in the world.
His training as a psychiatric nurse provides an ideal platform for his counselling practice to flourish on, and he is able to help people through a range of different issues, including depression, trauma, stress and anxiety. Men are often hesitant about reaching out to seek help, but Peter understands any feelings of apprehension and enables people to better handle the stress of everyday life.
He can set you on a journey of recovery following a traumatic or abusive event, healing any unhealthy lifestyle habits you may have adopted in order to cope. Peter is a skilled and empathetic man, who would love to help you get busy living and loving your life.
Lucy Jenkins
Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncturist
As an ACC registered acupuncturist, Lucy can take care of a variety of injuries, as well as alleviating pain and muscle inflammation. Lucy loves adopting a traditional approach to pain management, and acupuncture allows her to free people from the continual use of painkillers by removing imbalances within the body and encouraging energy to flow.
Acupuncture is a great therapy for a variety of chronic conditions or ailments, including inflammation, menstrual pain, sports injuries, and back and neck pain.
Lucy also practices cosmetic acupuncture, which is a safe and effective treatment that revitalises blood flow helping to lift and tighten maturing skin. This type of acupuncture is a great option for anyone who wishes to avoid surgery as part of a transformative journey.
One of the many things Lucy loves about her job is the opportunity it gives her to use a variety of techniques and methods when treating a client. Her sessions often incorporate balance acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion and tapping. Lucy is a welcome addition to the Restore fold, and her easy going and receptive manner will make you feel comfortable for the word go. If you’ve ever thought about seeking the advice and skills of an acupuncturist, make time to see Lucy today!
Mihili Alexander
Psychotherapist
Currently on leave
Holding Space Psychotherapy
mihili.alexander@gmail.com
Ph: 0210744626
As the practicing psychotherapist at Restore Wellbeing, Mihili brings a wealth of understanding and experience dealing with emotional and mental health issues.
Mihili works with people who have experienced mental health difficulties triggered by significant life events or traumatic experiences in the past. She is a warm and empathetic practitioner who works together with her clients to help them make changes, so that they can move past negative experiences and improve their emotional and mental wellbeing.
Mihili loves making an authentic and strong connection with her clients. Working with people when they are feeling at their worst, and showing them ways to feel better, is deeply rewarding, and Mihili relishes the opportunity to make these connections with all walks of life.
As a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Mihili uses supportive, non-threatening methods and communication techniques to create a warm and safe environment that puts you at ease. If you feel you are ready to free yourself from the burdens of the past, or if you simply want to talk to a receptive person in order to find closure or move forward, make time to see Mihili today.
Suzy Walsh
Naturopath, Medical Herbalist & Reiki Master
Suzy is one of Restore’s talented Naturopaths and Reiki healers. She loves working with a wide range of clients, joining them on their health journey and helping them make sustainable changes that improve their well-being.
Suzy has a particular interest in working with women and couples who would like to improve their reproductive health, ready for a healthy pregnancy and baby. She works with people having issues getting pregnant, those who have experienced miscarriages, those going through Artificial Reproductive Technologies (e.g. IVF) and those looking to get in shape for a healthy pregnancy. She will provide you with dietary guidelines, lifestyle changes and prescribe herbs or supplements and refer for tests, where required. Then arrange regular follow ups to help women better understand when they are fertile and to work with you to follow a preconception treatment plan tailored to you.
Suzy is a huge believer in the restorative powers of Reiki and promises all clients that they will enjoy receiving the treatment as much as she will enjoy delivering it. She found Restore through the serendipitous recommendation of a friend, and is excited that she can now offer therapies in a centre so strongly aligned with her views on personal health.
Suzy is a compassionate and caring therapist who would love to connect with you to help you improve your general health in a holistic way. Get in touch with her for more information on how she can help you.
Tamara O’Dwyer
Integrative Nutritionist
Tamara is an integrative nutritionist whose strong focus on functional medicine ensures she finds root cause of any chronic disease and treats it accordingly.
A results-driven practitioner, Tamara loves helping people who have unsuccessfully navigated a more traditional medical route of general practitioners and specialists. She’s a detective of health, researching underlying causes and seeking to understand what hidden drivers may be affecting her clients’ nutritional wellbeing.
Her particular areas of interest include weight loss and self-esteem issues. If you have an ongoing health issue you have yet to find an answer for, book yourself in for some functional testing with Tamara today!
Tamsin Norman
Wellbeing and Parenting Coach
Tamsin studied a psychology degree at Oxford University because she was fascinated by how the mind works and how understanding this might enable people to live better lives.
Tamsin is a coach who looks at mindful parenting, wellbeing, relationships and change. She works with adults and teenagers, using a combination of mindfulness, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) CBT (Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy as well as other models. Tamsin loves being able to empower her clients to go on and live low-stress, fulfilling lives.
Clients leave her care equipped with the tools needed to thrive and solve problems in the future. Her areas of interest include overall health issues, parenting, relationships and mindfulness.
Tamsin is a dynamic practitioner, who will help you tackle any issues head on, leaving you ready to live a full and rewarding life. If you are looking for a coach to help you, get in touch with Tamsin today!
Ange Pooley
Holistic Nutritionist and Pilates Instructor
Ange is Restore’s Holistic nutritionist and also a fantastic Pilates Instructor, she takes the whole person into consideration with a non-diet wholefoods approach, making lifestyle and exercise changes that are straightforward, evidence based and fit into your life. After over 10 years of working as a Personal trainer and Pilates trainer she has found that fad diets often do not work and lead to disappointment, weight loss may occur but its often gained back plus more, Ange takes an approach of making long term changes that are simple and long lasting.
Ange loves working with people who need help with weight loss and stress/ burnout, anxiety and low moods, she has personal experience in all these areas and knows what works and what may not. She uses food as medicine to help with getting results and balance back into client’s life. Ange works in a holistic way to address health goals and concerns by looking at all areas of a person’s life with nutrition, lifestyle and exercise habits, looking to discover the root cause of health concerns. . In your consultation you will discuss your lifestyle habits (eating, sleep disturbances, stress levels, energy levels and exercise habits) which could contribute to health concerns and work together to help you understand what is best for your body. Ange will work with you to help gain balance in your life through simple positive changes that are sustainable long term, she will help you on health and wellbeing journey to stay on track, inspired and motivated . Lets get you to a healthier happier version of you.
Pilates
Ange offers one on one personalised sessions that are tailored to one’s goals and fitness level. Pilates can help with postural issues, injury prevention, rehab, weight loss and pre post-natal to help build the core and pelvic muscles after or before birth. She has been a Pilates trainer for 8 years and has worked with various people. Ange has a special interest in helping people with injuries, weight loss and pre- and post-natal Pilates.
Personalized nutrition and fitness plan
Ange can help you figure out what you need to eat and what type of exercise is right for you to help get to your health and fitness goals. She can take a individualized approach as everybody’s bodies are different and need a different focus. Nutrition and exercise go hand in hand if you get help with both and have support throughout this, you are more likely to achieve your goals.
Chantelle Meikle
Naturopath, Medical Herbalist, Fertility Educator
Chantelle is one of Restore’s Fabulous Naturopaths.
She is a Naturopath, Medical Herbalist, as well as a Fertility Educator and she helps women to turn around their health and feel amazing – especially whilst navigating through lifes challenges such as stress, anxiety, grief, dieting & weight loss, puberty, infertility, menopause, and hormones gone wild.
Under Chantelle’s care you will benefit from a combination of therapies such as: targeted supplements, herbal medicine, nutrition, massage, coaching, fertility charting and functional testing. When you work with her you will get an honest and loving review of your health. If you need to address a health concern, she will take it seriously, and together you will create a treatment plan that works for you.
Chantelle lives in West Auckland, with her husband and 2 fur babies. Outside of Clinic, and research, she loves to spend time exploring NZ and the world, meeting new people and seeing new sights.
Nine years ago Chantelle experienced burnout while in an extremely stressful work situation. Her body and mind (and spirit!) could not take any more, and after her first miscarriage she decided it was time to quit her job and walk away. What followed was a year of unsuccessful job hunting, and a general decline in wellbeing, after some serious introspection she realised what she wanted to be, and shortly after began her studies to become a Naturopath.
Over the years Chantelle has worked hard to heal her nervous system, to nourish her soul, balance her hormones, and to understand the infertility that herself and her husband have experienced. Her personal experience in these areas help to strengthen her practice, providing a unique perspective when working with clients. Chantelle truly understands what it is like to struggle through trying times in life, but knows that there is hope on the other side, sometimes we just need a little help to get through.
Virginia Clarke
Osteopath
Virginia is Restore Wellbeing’s Osteopath. She lives locally with her husband and two young children.
Virginia graduated with her Masters of Osteopathy in 2007. She initially ran a busy practice in Albany, Auckland, before she began splitting her time between clinical work and teaching at Unitec’s Osteopathy School. These days Virginia is busy with family life so she has chosen to restart her osteopathic practice closer to home.
In her clinical practice, Virginia relishes the challenge of working with people that are facing complex issues with their health. This often includes chronic pain, headaches, or recurrent injury. Virginia is ACC registered and can help with new or unresolved injuries. She enjoys collaborating with other health professionals to ensure that her patients are accessing the best healthcare possible.
Virginia has a keen interest in helping pregnant women, tired mums with sore bodies, unsettled babies, and kids with movement challenges.
Su McFadzean
Yoga and Thai massage Practitioner
Su is a yoga teacher and massage therapist that works with a more dynamic style of massage, Thai Yoga Massage, to improve mobility in movement and work with the fascial body to ease tension and restore balance. She also offers Yoga Therapy sessions to work 1:1 with any injuries you may have, or finding ways of improving overall functioning of the body.
The work that Su does is all around helping you explore better ways of moving and being – her goal is to help you create a sustainable movement practice that supports you in your life’s activities and plans.
Combining the skills learned in 10 years Yoga teaching experience (including Therapeutic Yoga Approaches, Bodywork & Functional Touch, Yoga Nidra and Thai Yoga Massage) and the approach of Compassionate Inquiry – your sessions together will be educational and empower you to identify & observe, as well as navigate ways of interrupting your own patterns in order to find ways of moving and being in a more functional and healthy way.
Renato Mendonca
Hypnotherapist and Life Coach
Renato is an eclectic Clinical Hypnotherapist and an inspiring Life Coach who loves facilitating peoples’ inner journeys. With an innate talent for catalysing self-awareness, healing and personal growth, he is on a mission to “maximise the quality of life and harmony by facilitating self-discovery and unobstructed self-expression”.
He offers a collaborative, experiential and mindfulness-based approach focused on people’s values, strengths, skills toward solutions, emotional release and breakthrough insights from bridging the conscious and unconscious mind, rather than extensive analysis of the past.
Combining hypnotherapy and coaching with a range of disciplines, he incorporates timeline-based therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy, NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), ESI (Executive State Identification), Systems Thinking and others, adapting as needed to suit each client’s unique path to wellbeing.
Renato sees everyone holistically and thrives on helping people to bring the various fragmented, scattered and often conflicting parts of themselves and their lives together into “one” integrated, functional, vibrant, authentic and harmonious life.
He is particularly skilled in helping people suffering from stress, anxiety and related conditions triggered or aggravated by stress; people going through or anticipating challenging life transitions; disconnected from their values or lacking a sense of direction; overwhelmed by anger, fear, guilt, hurt or other emotional blocks and unhelpful thoughts; struggling with career, parenting or challenging relationships as well as clients willing to get into healthier habits and lifestyle.
His experience with organisational teams, high-pressure project environments and life transitions offer him insightful, practical and results-driven perspectives to help clients sustain balance and apply the learnings in their lives outside the therapy room.
Whether you need healing, getting unstuck or stepping up your game, he can help you to transcend the limits of your conscious mind to create a fuller life aligned with your values.
Renato is a certified Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist by the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy, Classical Hypnotist, certified HypnoFit Therapist, Breakthrough and Abundance Life Coach, member of the Australia and New Zealand Coaching Alliance (ANZCAL) and ESI (Executive State Identification) practitioner, having also studied Education Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Applied Philosophy – “The classic way”, Computing and Earth Sciences. He started his therapeutic journey more than two decades ago in Brazil, having worked with hundreds of people as a bioenergy practitioner, instructor of growth mindset, lucid dreaming and guided meditation groups. His therapeutic career developed alongside a successful career in the technology industry focused on emergent, humanistic and flow-based management practices. Over the past seven years, he has been developing a framework for a unified life flow, as well as the application of therapeutic principles into practices for happier, healthier and more productive teams and workplaces.
Renato is a loving husband and a father of two who loves the outdoors. He is also an enthusiast of home education, active motherhood, natural birthing, mindful parenting, student of Chuan Fa and Baguazhang traditional martial arts and amateur piano and acoustic guitar player.