NATURE THERAPIES CLINIC
Nature Therapies is where you will find an extensive collection of proven and effective natural therapies, exceptional skills, and well over 35 years of knowledge and experience that can help you regain your health and live life to the full.
Nature Therapies offers specialties in Musculoskeletal and Sports Injuries, True Holistic Health management for body, mind, spirit, and Athletic Performance Enhancement.
My mission is to help you improve your wellbeing using the best natural care available, with a high degree of integrity and respect for both your healing process and you the individual.
I believe that wholistic health care, is not truly wholistic, unless healing is made available to the body, mind, and spirit, and have on offer vast clinical experience in modalities ranging from acupuncture, nutrition and structural balancing, to life coaching, energy healing and ‘Find Yourself’ programs conducted out in Nature.
Practised Modalities
The healing techniques of Acupuncture and Chinese medicine, like most traditional therapeutic approaches, are founded on the principle that internal harmony is essential for good health. In order to experience this harmony, balance has to be obtained in five key areas: body, mind, spirit, social and our environment. The holistic medicine practised at Nature Therapies can help you find balance in all these areas.
OUR SPECIALTIES
Musculoskeletal Disorders and Sporting Injuries
Nature Therapies offers exceptionally effective treatment using multi-modalities for musculoskeletal and sporting injuries. Developed over a lifetime of personal sports involvement and 35 years of full-time practice, many difficult, chronic and long-term problems have found successful outcomes from the combination of treatments available.
The effectiveness of this service comes from the ability to take a truly wholistic view of your injury or pain. This means that apart from having an in-depth look at the physical and bio-mechanical components of your discomfort, I then look for contributing factors that can come from poor nutrition, postural habits, training programme, work demands, mental outlook, inflammatory profile, pH and state of detoxification.
The information gleaned from this investigation helps to uncover hidden blocks to healing that may be stalling the healing of a persistent injury or causing it to recur. I have come to honour the principle that "The body will heal itself, if we can remove any obstacles and let it do its job." I find that it is often these contributing factors that block healing and keep the body from returning to its pain free normal state.
If you have chronic long-term problems or a recurring injuries that are not getting any better, then you have come to the right place. I have a passion for helping resolve issues are have produced long term suffering. It may take a little more time to understand all of these factors, but once the underlying causes can be identified and corrected, then the overlying symptoms and pain can be significantly reduced, and in many cases completely alleviated.
This is an individually customised process, and a full hour is made available for initial consultations and up to an hour for subsequent treatments is required. The aim is to provide effective, fast and permanent relief and not just treat the symptoms.
Nature Therapies also offers:
- Bio-mechanical and Structural Assessment
- Running Style Assessment
- Athlete Performance Enhancement programs
True Holistic Health Management
True holistic health care may is difficult to achieve if only narrow aspects of health or disease are examined. Modern medicine’s scientific approach often compartmentalises disease states, and sometimes patients, at the expense of a broader view which can often contain vital clues to the puzzle of regaining full health.
Traditional Natural medicine offers time-honoured natural therapies that are effective at providing not only many health solutions, but also a template for living and maintaining a healthy life.
True Holistic Health however, becomes possible when each of the five major components of health are considered in relation to your presenting symptoms. Human health reaches full potential when there is harmony in the body, mind, spirit, social, and environmental areas. Nature Therapies practitioner Terry Hitzke has over 25 years of accumulated knowledge and experience in a diverse array of modalities that can address each of these aspects if required. See About Terry Hitzke
True holistic health care may is difficult to achieve if only narrow aspects of health or disease are examined. Modern medicine’s scientific approach often compartmentalises disease states, and sometimes patients, at the expense of a broader view which can often contain vital clues to the puzzle of regaining full health.
Traditional Natural medicine offers time-honoured natural therapies that are effective at providing not only many health solutions, but also a template for living and maintaining a healthy life.
True Holistic Health however, becomes possible when each of the five major components of health are considered in relation to your presenting symptoms. Human health reaches full potential when there is harmony in the body, mind, spirit, social, and environmental areas. Nature Therapies practitioner Terry Hitzke has over 35 years of accumulated knowledge and experience in a diverse array of modalities that can address each of these aspects if required.
Mind & Spirit
- 5 Element Acupuncture
- Life Coaching
- Energy Healing
- Counselling
Body
- Acupuncture
- Massage
- Structural Balancing
- Nutrition
- Herbal medicine
- Detoxification
- Sports Injuries Management
Comprehensive Testing
- Cellular Health Analysis (VLA)
- Acid/Alkaline Balance
- Inflamation & Toxicity Profile
- Health Appraisal Graph
- 4 Vector Stress Assessment
Social & Environment
- Find Yourself in Nature Programs
- Life Coaching
- Business/Life Mentoring
Be assured, if you want to be treated like a whole person and not just a collection of symptoms, or you would like the convenience of one practitioner looking after the complimenting facets of your health, then Nature Therapies may be the right place for you.
Again, a full hour is made available for your initial consultation at a very reasonable cost, to ensure that your needs are fully understood.
Athlete Performance Enhancement
This specialty is complemented by 37 years experience in musculoskeletal and sports injuries management, but goes much further to provide athletes young and old the opportunity to perform at their best.Performance Enhancement is not just about things that help us go faster, longer and stronger, but starts with identifying factors that might limit peak performance. These factors include poor biomechanics, muscle and joint imbalances, inflexibility, inefficient style, pH, poor nutrition and lifestyle habits. Many athletes have made significant improvements in their performances simply by understanding and addressing the problem.
About Terry Hitzke
Terry began practicing natural therapies in 1983 and has been in full-time practice since 1985 when he founded the Ashgrove Sports Injuries Clinic. He has a gift for understanding how things work, and the insight to be able to explain things to you in simple terms, enabling you to take better control of your own health.
Terry has studied and lectured extensively and is qualified in Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture, Herbs, Dietetics, Massage and Manipulative therapy), Nutrition (Sports, Weight Loss and Optimal Health), Sports Injuries Management, Structural and Spinal Balancing (Joint and Soft tissue Realignment), Counseling, and Energy Healing.
Terry is also a Certified Life and Business Coach allowing him to guide clients in life transforming sessions for professional and personal development. He loves facilitating the release of blocks and restrictions to personal freedom, and allowing people’s natural gifts and talent to rise above the saboteurs they have in their life. He conducts these sessions both in the clinic and outdoors in Find Yourself in Nature programs.
Terry is a "Health Enthusiast" and takes every opportunity in his own life to apply the principles that he shares through the practice. “Walking the talk” is one thing you will find at Nature Therapies.
He is a passionate Organic Gardner and believes that fresh, natural, nutritious and chemical free foods are the cornerstone of health and vitality, just ask to see the backyard! He is still actively involved in running, mountain bike riding, gym, bush walking, kayaking, surfing and snow skiing, and brings his enthusiasm for fitness to those wishing to improve their exercise profile.
Terry has designed and conducted seminars and presentations to groups and conferences on the topics of stress management, healthy lifestyle, mind body and spirit integration, back care, childhood nutrition, spirituality and reconnecting to Nature. He created and taught the Sports Injuries Management course for postgraduate natural therapists at two local natural therapy colleges. His speaking engagements have included keynote presentations at the Woodford Folk Festival and both Catholic and Queensland Education Department Conferences.
Terry is a family man and is married to his teacher wife Dianne and has two grown up children Rebecca and Samuel. Terry’s first commitment is to health within family life and seeing that they enjoy the best of balance, life education and of course, freshly grown organic produce!
Terry’s specialty is being able to use his 35+ years of experience to offer a truly holistic overview of your health, from the consideration of the Body, Mind, and Spirit and help you facilitate profound changes in your physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
Terry believes wholeheartedly in our body’s incredible ability to heal.
Identifying and changing any non-beneficial influences, engages that incredible ability for you.
Terry Hitzke
Nature Therapies