Amanda Mullemeister
Naturopath/Founder
Amanda is the founder of Emerald Natural Health and has been a Naturopath for 25 years.
Amanda’s passion for natural medicine came from her own struggles with eczema since infancy. Amanda’s eczema was severe enough to warrant hospitalisation and that was only the beginning. Despite several years of steroids, her skin didn’t get better. In fact, when she stopped using the steroid creams, she developed topical steroid withdrawal and things got worse.
Amanda spent most of her school years with skin that was red, itchy, flaky and irritated. It was because of her many skin reactions to mainstream skincare products that Amanda’s passion for natural skincare was ignited. Amanda trained to become a Naturopath straight after highschool and soon learnt that true skincare needs to be addressed from the inside out and identifying the root cause of an individuals skin rash was really the key to improving one’s skin health.
Amanda holds regular educational workshops and is a passionate and dynamic presenter. She hosts her foundational The Gut Workshop regularly, to help individuals get started on their wellness journey.
It’s Amanda’ mission to help others get to the root cause of their health concerns and feel better again. Amanda realised there was a lack of natural health services in the rural QLD and has created her wellness clinic and shop Emerald Natural Health, to provide better natural health services to the individuals of the Central Highlands.
Annie Barrett
Naturopath/Medical Scientist
Annie is a degree qualified naturopath and medical scientist based in Emerald, Queensland. She has worked in the health industry since 1998. Firstly as a medical scientist in hospital based pathology laboratories, in Australia and Europe, and as a Naturopath since February 2020.
Annie’s passion is turning sleep issues, fatigue, stress and worry into quality sleep, happiness, and vitality. Having been a shift worker for 20+ years, Annie especially enjoys helping shift workers learn to re-energise and thrive, not just survive.
Annie decided to study naturopathy after her own naturopath helped her with her fatigue, sleep and gut issues that developed from years of shift work. The support she received from her naturopath inspired Annie to want to help others in the same situation.
Annie holds regular health information talks and educational workshops. She holds regular seminars for shift workers in Emerald.
In her spare time Annie enjoys cooking, tap dancing, reading, riding her bicycle and going for walks.
Annie is available by appointment on Wednesday’s, Friday’s and Saturdays.
Lisa Howard
Naturopath/Personal Trainer
Lisa Howard is a qualified Naturopath and personal trainer. Lisa has been working in the health and fitness industry for the past 11 years and has been working as a Naturopath since 2019. Lisa holds a Certificate III and IV in fitness.
Lisa resides in Springsure, is a mother and wife who loves all things health and fitness.
Lisa’s passion for seeing children in clinic started early on in her naturopathic studies, when her own infant son didn’t sleep, was in pain with silent reflux and had blood and mucous in his stools.
This lit the fire for Lisa’s special interest to help other families going through the same thing as she went through. With her own son ,she identified many intolerances, tried several eliminations and diets and really worked hard on improving his gut health. It was then that Lisa met Amanda Mullemeister and they worked together to help her son regain good health. Lisa has learned so much from this experience with her own son’s health challenges and learned the importance of gut health and how it affects each one of us. Lisa especially loves helping babies and their parents, as well as kids improve their gut health and overall wellness.
Along with being a Naturopath, Lisa works diligently in her personal training business Spring Into Wellness with Lisa Maree. Lisa has a talent for helping individuals with weight loss. Lisa gets immense satisfaction from helping people realise that it’s not only just about the weight lost but the changes in her clients that she sees along the way. From having more energy, better moods, self-confidence, increased strength and improved cardiovascular fitness. Lisa loves to show people how to fall in love with exercise, enjoy it and shows her clients how to reap the physical and mental rewards that exercise brings to an individuals quality of life.
Lisa educates clients to help them realise that there is more to weight loss than just exercise and help them shift the weight by also improving their gut health, hormonal imbalance, metabolic issues or thyroid concerns. Lisa makes a difference to her clients lives by helping identify exactly what is going on and improving their nutrition and fitness.
Lisa has a special interest in gut health, sports performance, adrenal fatigue and mental health.
Lisa is available at Emerald Natural Health on Monday’s.
Kathryn Lynam
Nutritionist/Personal Trainer
Kathryn Lynam is a qualified Nutritionist with a Bachelor in Food in Nutrition and Human Nutrition(honours). Kathryn has worked in the health and fitness industry for the past 12 years and holds a Certificate 3 and 4 in Fitness.
Kathryn’s area of special interest is irritable bowel syndrome and the gastrointestinal system. She has written a thesis on the effects of naturally occurring food chemicals on the gastrointestinal and extraintestinal functions in individuals with irritable bowel syndrome. Kathryn’s niche specialty fits in perfectly with Emerald natural Health’s distinct passion for gut health and gut workshops.
Kathryn offers nutritional help to those that need support with what to eat for overall health and offers nutritional support for families.
A mother to two daughters, Kathryn is passionate about helping families with food for school lunch boxes, treats and snacks. She understands that parents don’t want to cook four separate meals at night for the family and can help formulate nutritional (meals done 4 ways) for family meals.
Kathryn offers nutritional consultations and also nutritional consultations with weekly meal plans, which include a shopping list and a macro nutrient breakdown.
Kathryn is available Saturdays by appointment.