About Odette

The morning that changed everything

In 2010, I was taking thirteen different tablets for ten different diagnoses. Hormone imbalance. Insulin resistance. A handful of others I can no longer even name.

That year I travelled overseas — a trip that was meant to be three weeks and turned into three months. Half of my carry-on luggage was taken up by tablets and creams. I could have opened a small pharmacy from my hand luggage.

One morning, before boarding a train to New York, I laid it all out in front of me and, for the first time, really looked at it. And I began to think.

How is one body supposed to cope with this many different chemicals? Surely there is a better way to stay well.

I was active. I loved good food. I slept reasonably well. And yet here I was, carrying a suitcase of medication and still unable to shift the ache in my body or the padding around my middle. Something did not add up.

That morning was the beginning of a very different journey.

Finding another way

A couple of years earlier, I had been introduced to Therapeutic Reflexology — and specifically to Vacuflex & Meridian Therapy. At the time it was simply the best hour of quiet I had given myself in years. I did not yet understand what it was doing; I only knew that I left those sessions feeling more like myself.

When I returned home from that long trip, I began to investigate in earnest. I wanted to understand how the body stays well when it is given the right conditions — rest, real food, movement, and a nervous system allowed to settle out of a constant state of fight-or-flight and back into rest, digest, and restore.

I want to be honest about what changed for me, because it matters. I had not been diagnosed with any chronic disease, and I make no claim that any single therapy healed me. What healed me — what brought me back into balance — was a series of choices I made, slowly, over years. I changed how I ate, choosing nutrient-rich, whole foods. I changed my attitude toward my health, my life, and the world. I came to understand something that sounds obvious but took me a long time to truly feel: that I am in control of my own decisions. That I could choose to want to be well, and then make the changes that wanting required.

I learned how my body actually works — what each organ needs to function at its best. I stayed connected to the earth. And, perhaps most importantly, I learned to be kind to myself. Mentally, spiritually, and physically, those choices steered me toward a healthier, more balanced person. It was hard work. It was worth every bit of effort.

It took me a few more years to make the leap into practice, but eventually I did: I trained, and I completed my Diploma in Therapeutic Reflexology. And that is when everything changed again — not only for me, but for the people I would come to work with.

Living the work

I do not only practise this way of living. I have built my life around it.

I designed and planted my own vegetable garden, growing organic produce in soil that I let recover for six full months before I trusted it with anything edible. I moved into hydroponic growing. Alongside this, I've followed a personal curiosity into essential oils, tissue salts, and herbs for health — through online courses, books, and applying what I learn to my own life. I want to be clear that this is self-directed learning, not a formal qualification: I am not a qualified aromatherapist or herbalist, and I don't prescribe or use these with clients. It simply deepens my broader understanding of how the body stays well. My aim throughout has been to understand wellness not as a theory but as a daily, practical, hands-in-the-soil way of living.

I opened my practice in 2021. I completed my Reiki training in 2022. In 2025, I qualified as a Bowen Therapist. Each new modality has added another way of listening to the body and supporting its return to balance.

And the learning has not stopped. It never will. I love to learn, I love to share what I learn, and I love bringing all of it — the qualifications, the reading, the years of practice — into the quiet of a treatment room with someone who has decided it is time to feel well again.

Why I do this

I know what it is to carry a suitcase of tablets and wonder whether there is another way to feel well. I found mine — not in a single treatment, but in a way of living: better food, deeper rest, a connection to the earth, an ongoing curiosity about how the body works, and a decision to be kind to myself. The therapies I now practise are part of that way of living, not a replacement for medical care. I will never tell you to stop what your doctor has prescribed. What I offer sits alongside your medical care — a slower, gentler way of supporting the body so it can do what it has always known how to do: find its own way back to balance.

If you are at the beginning of your own health journey, or somewhere in the middle of it, or simply looking for an hour of genuine rest — you are warmly welcome here.

Health in Balance.
With warmth, Odi