Dr Lisa is a fully registered GP specialising in Integrative medicine. She is a qualified doctor of Anthroposophical Medicine, an integrative training recognised internationally. Dr Lisa has completed the General Practice Procedural Training Post (GPPTP) in Palliative Care at Coffs Harbour Health Campus and the Clinical Diploma in Palliative Medicine. She is qualified as a Rural Generalist in Palliative Medicine. She extends her conventional training with integrative medicine in her GP and palliative care consultations. She refers to and collaborates with a multi-disciplinary integrative team including integrative nurses, counsellors specialising in grief and trauma, death doola, indigenous deep listening facilitator, art and massage therapists to ensure wholistic care of the body, soul and spirit.
After fifteen years as a Steiner/Waldorf high-school teacher, Dr Lisa heard her calling to become a doctor. She is passionate about how the soul and spiritual aspects of the human being influence health and illness. She loves providing education for patients, local community and medical staff on inner development, consciousness and holistic palliative care, including soul and spiritual aspects of care. She is a lecturer at UNE Rural Medical School, teaching future doctors inner development and self-care. She is a member of the Australian Anthroposophical Medical Association (AAMA), the New Zealand and Australian Association of Anthroposophical Doctors (NZAAAD), the International Federation of Anthroposophical Medical Associations (IVAA), the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA) and the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP).
Lisa’s integrative training in Anthroposophical Medicine (AM) offers a pathway for meeting the whole human being with tools that allow us to understand more about the roots of health and illness. AM teaches us to see illness at the levels of the; physical/structural, functional/recuperative, emotional/sensory and spiritual/creative. AM practitioners learn, in addition to the application of a broad array of effective natural medicines, an individualised whole-person approach. This practice incorporates, if needed, referral to art, music, movement, massage and nursing nurturing therapies as elements of collaborative, multidisciplinary health care.
Founded in central Europe a century ago, AM is now integrated into acute-care hospitals, specialty treatment centres, university teaching and research programs around the world. AM trainings for health professionals are held in thirty-two countries on five continents. TheWorld Health Organisation’s recently published Benchmarks for training in Anthroposophic medicine can be viewedhere.
