Naturopathy and nutritionist services

A personalised approach to holistic health in Christchurch.

Balsam works with both groups and individuals, creating bespoke workshops and undertaking personal consultations with clients all over Christchurch and Canterbury as well as online.

This service is always matched to the unique needs of the client.

What’s most helpful is an expert perspective and clear guidance in natural healthcare. What’s most important is that it works for you.

How Balsam can help you

Services

  • Naturopathic consultations

  • Nutrition guidance

  • Digestive health advice

  • Food sensitivity treatment

  • Hormonal balancing

  • General health advice

  • Functional Testing:

    • Microbiome mapping

    • Food intolerance

    • SIBO testing

    • OATS (Organic Acids Test)

    • DUTCH (Hormone testing)

    • Hair mineral analysis

    • blood tests

Expertise

Balsam focuses on helping people with health challenges in three essential areas.

Menopausal transition

  • Painful and/or heavy periods

  • Mood fluctuation

  • Low energy

  • Headaches

  • Hot flushes/night sweats

  • Weight gain

  • Altered sleep

  • Hormone balancing

Gut health

  • Leaky gut

  • IBS

  • Diverticulosis

  • Crohn’s disease

  • Food intolerances/allergies

  • Unexplained pain

General health conditions

  • Stress

  • Anxiety

  • Low mood

  • Fatigue

  • Insomnia

  • Poor immunity

  • Autoimmune disease

  • Skin disorders

Individual Consultations

Balsam Natural Health offers two types of consultation: naturopathy and nutrition.

For both, we start with an initial consultation. This is a time of information gathering. It will involve comprehensive discussion about your past and present health conditions in order to find the root causes.

A follow up consultation occurs approximately one week after your initial consultation and at this time you will be presented with your wellness plan.

Further follow-up consultations are scheduled as appropriate to you. This way we keep a track of your progress and make the appropriate changes to your treatment protocol. 

The number of follow up appointments necessary will depend entirely upon your case history and presenting symptoms.

Group Workshops

There’s power in numbers, both for accountability and efficiency. Balsam can deliver bespoke workshops or coaching tailored to your group’s specific needs, either online or in person.

Ideal for a workplace wellbeing event or a group of family members or friends with a shared interest, a bespoke fact-based programme can be tailored to your group’s health goals and interests.

Popular workshop topics include:

  • Optimising nutrition for the gym

  • The easy menopause transition

  • Inflammation and chronic disease

  • How stress affects your body

  • Essential nutrition basics.