My Holistic Therapist is a podcast for women ready to heal from chronic stress, trauma, and burnout - at the root.
Hosted by Alex, a clinically trained psychotherapist and naturopath, this show blends nervous system science, trauma-informed therapy, and functional medicine to help you understand your body, reconnect to yourself, and build real regulation.
No hacks. No fluff. Just grounded insight, lived experience, and tools that actually work, because real healing takes more than mindset.
Episodes include solo deep dives, client stories, and raw reflections on everything trauma related.
#65 Why I Was Nervous to Walk Into a Room Full of Women
I’ve just come back from a business retreat south of Perth, and I want to share why walking into that room activated my nervous system, and why it wasn’t for the reason you might expect.
In this episode, I talk about how every group dynamic carries the potential for our family of origin patterns to play out, and how my own role as the people pleaser and keeper of everyone’s problems has shown up in groups throughout my life.
I also reflect on what it meant to be among women who had done their own work: women who could own their stuff, speak to their vulnerabilities and hold their boundaries without trying to keep the peace or be nice. We explore why strength includes being honest even when it may upset someone, and how your body gives you important information about which relationships feel safe and reciprocal.
If you’ve noticed that you manage, please or hold back in certain relationships, this episode will help you start listening to what your body is telling you.
Want to go deeper?
The HEAL Method (https://www.healforlifeprograms.com) is my 12-week evidence-based program combining clinical psychotherapy and naturopathic medicine. It’s for women in midlife who are exhausted, overwhelmed and ready to understand why they show up the way they do.
18 Oct 2026
#64 Menopause Isn’t Just About Hormones: It’s a Nervous System Transition
Mainstream conversation about menopause still centres on hormones, but what I see in my work is that this is also a full nervous system transition. In this episode, I explain why perimenopausal anxiety is so common, and why many doctors and women don’t recognise it as a perimenopausal symptom. I cover how falling oestrogen and progesterone affect serotonin, GABA and the HPA axis, and why so many women find themselves saying, “I used to be able to handle this, and now I can’t.” I also share my own experience: the nervous system work I’d done before perimenopause, and what I noticed in my body on my first solo trip in many years, from the long-haul flight to the moments of activation in between train stations.
Drawing on a conversation from the Oxford conference about the myth of being “healed,” I explore how nervous system regulation has too often become repression: reaching for a tool to switch off anger, overwhelm or shame instead of building the capacity to stay with them. Capacity is biological, and in midlife many of us are already pouring from a cup with holes in it. Menopause isn’t a failure of the body or a weakness of the mind. It’s an invitation to slow down, listen, and stop pushing through.
Learn more about the HEAL Method (https://www.healforlifeprograms.com)
12 Oct 2026
#63 When Perimenopause Meets Your Marriage: Relational Patterns and What Can Shift
At the Oxford conference, one session gave me something genuinely new: couples therapy intensives, presented by Dr Priscilla Short. In this episode, I share why it struck me so strongly from a perspective that I think you will relate to. As women do their own healing work and begin to see their shadow, a veil often lifts on their relationship, and midlife amplifies the patterns that are no longer working. Yet when I refer couples on, the weekly 50-minute sessions often stall, particularly when the other partner is more resistant to the process.
I explore how intensives offer couples commitment, momentum and the space to do deeper trauma work together, and why what's surfacing in your relationship in midlife isn't necessarily a sign that it's failing. If couples therapy hasn't worked for you before, this may be a different way forward.
Learn more about the HEAL Method (https://www.healforlifeprograms.com)
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