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Welcome to The Bunbury Natural Health Centre. This website is dedicated to providing information for your health and wellbeing.

Practitioner - Victoria West

Victoria West has been a Naturopath for over 12 years.  Starting her life as a Nurse, Victoria went on to expand her studies by completing a Midwifery course in Scotland.  From here she has worked in hospitals and offices to accumulate a wealth of experience in the natural therapies industry.  This culminated in studying and achieving an Advanced Diploma of Natural Medicine at the Australian College of Natural Medicine in Melbourne and then moving to Bunbury where she set up and runs the Bunbury Natural Health Centre.  Victoria has set  the Clinic as a centre where people can access information and multiple modalities.  This wholistic approach means people can access other ways of improving their health and wellbeing, physically mentally and emotionally.   

Testing procedures are also an integral part of the consultation process, involving in house testing such as darkfield microscopy, blood group typing, Iridology, and Cellular Ageing technology - all designed to help you the client find your path to health and healing.

World class, practitioner only, herbal extracts and formulations along with dietary and lifestyle advice form the basis of the treatment process- all designed to help you the client find your path to health and healing.

Naturopathy is a safe and proven way to treat many common conditions.
In a treatment programme Victoria may include one or more of the following modalities to help in your treatment. Because as individuals we all have different requirements your treatment programme is tailored specifically to your individual health needs.

An initial assessment includes:

• Detailed health questionnaire and history
• Iridology
• May include other diagostic procedures such as looking at your tongue, nails and feet.  
• In house testing procedures if required - blood group, darkfield microscopy, Bio-impedence analysis to assess cellular function and ageing
• External testing procedures if required - eg, saliva testing for hormones and stress, hair analysis, blood testing - see 'Testing' section for more information 
• TREAMENTS MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
  
• Dietary and lifestyle advice
• Herbal Medicine - Practitioner only Herbal, Homeopathic and Nutritional products of the highest quality are used in our practice
• Homoeopathics and Bach Flower Essences
• Nutritionals – vitamins, minerals, celloids, nutriceuticals
• Blood, hormone and pathology testing as required (conducted at cost via an external laboratory's or access via your GP)
  
• Physical treatments - such as exercises, stretches, application of unique and new patches for pain (generally work excpetionally quickly to relieve pain)
• There are many options in treating a person Victoria says.  It really just depends on what the client presents with and their history.  From here we can work out an effective treatment plan.
  

Victoria West offer individual naturopathic assessments and treatments using the latest research, technology and information, non invasive tests and natural treatments to help achieve effective and lasting results

About Us

As mentioned above The Bunbury Natural Health Centre was established over 12 years ago by Victoria West. Victoria trained as a nurse and then midwife and started a career of natural medicine after experiencing health problems that only recovered with natural treatments.

After learning what health really is and how our current western lifestyle contributes to illness and lack of vitality, Victoria became a Naturopath so she could help inform and educated people in re-defining good health and support people to make informed choices for their health and health care.

For example, so much of our food these days has undergone significant farming and manufacturing processes. At each stage of these process’ nutrients are lost. This becomes important as Australia has the most ancient soil of almost any country and many of our foods lack sufficient nutrients (especially zinc, magnesium and selenium). It is said that our vitamin source is now 50% less than 50 years ago. This reduction in nutrients has come about mainly with the modernisation of current farming practices, of single cropping and overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. A reduction in nutrient content means our bodies miss out on the basic molecules that are so essential to run the most sophisticated of machines – the human body. Poor nutrients equal poor molecules which equals poor functioning and energy. This nutritional deficit has the potential to lead (at its worst) to an increase in disease process and at the very least a decline in energy, vitality and well-being.

To help inform you about some of these topics, information sheets will be developed on an ongoing basis for you to read.

At the Bunbury Natural Health Centre we are dedicated to the pursuit of informing and educating people about their health and the choices they have in improving well-being.

• Make informed choices about your health care and take better control of your health
• Improve energy and wellbeing
• Reduce anxiety and improve your ability to cope with stressors
• Lose un-necessary body fat to return to your optimum weight
• Improve immune system functioning 
• Help restore balance to your body if it is out of balance
• Return to normal hormonal function (men and women)
• Positively slow aging to enjoy your senior years (this can happen at any age)

Example of conditions for which people seek treatment:

      * Stress and anxiety management and depression

      * Digestive problems - irritable bowel, constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, wind, reflux, indigestion

      * Respiratory conditions such as - hayfever, sinus, asthma, bronchitis, coughs

      * Immune systems - coughs, colds, flu, recurrent infections, Ross River, Barmah Forrest, Glandular Fever etc

      * Children's health - Attention and behavioural problems, sleep, immune, poor appetite, learning difficulties etc

     * Fertility and Pre-conception care

     * Female reproductive problems - PMT, menopausal flushes, insomnia, moods, fibroids, PCOS, heavy menstrual bleeding, libido

     * Male reproductive problems - Andropause (male menopause), prostate problems, libido, erectile function

     * Fatigue and low energy

     * Insomnia and sleep problems

     * Weight loss and weight gain

     * Circulatory problems - headaches, migraines, blood pressure, haemorrhoids, varicose veins

     * Skin conditions - dermatitis, eczema, rashes, dry skin, psoriasis

     * Pain management

     * Many other conditions are also treated naturally.  If you have a symptom that does not appear here please feel free to phone.  

        We work with all health conditions naturally.  

How to contact or locate us:

The Bunbury Natural Health Centre

Other Practitioners: Steve Jobson - Please See Links page for further information