Meet Tara
Naturopath (BHSc), IIN Certified Health Coach & NLP (mindset) Practitioner
It started when I was 14...
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That's when an eating disorder first took hold of me. By 16, I was on the contraceptive pill... Like so many women, with little understanding of what it was doing to my hormones, my mood, or my sense of self.
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For years I believed the goal was to be thin. Then I ended up almost 30 kilos heavier than I am today, as I was punishing my body constantly... Binge eating, burning out, chasing a number on a scale that I thought would finally make me feel enough..
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What I know now is that I wasn't looking for thinness. I was looking for peace!
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I just didn't have the language for it yet.
The night everything changed...
In 2014, I enrolled with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), not to build a business, but simply because I needed answers for myself.
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The night I signed up, I woke bolt upright in the middle of the night with a name: Green Tara Wellness.
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I didn't question it. I just knew.
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It's not just my name backwards... Green Tara is a Buddhist figure... A liberator, always depicted with one leg forward, ready to rise and help. The moment I understood that, I understood exactly who I was here to serve.
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I began health coaching, studied advanced hormone and gut health, became an NLP practitioner and started building a framework that had nothing to do with deprivation or exhausting exercise, and everything to do with small, sustainable choices that fit your actual life.
Then 2020 arrived...
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I suffered profound loss that year, including a miscarriage.
My thyroid broke down. My body was in complete crisis, physically and emotionally, and I had no holistic support to carry me through it.
I was told by Drs that my levels were 'fine'. I was not fine.
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I spent months and hundreds of dollars trying to piece together what was happening, feeling exhausted, dismissed, and utterly alone in it.
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I know I am not the only woman who has sat in that place.
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That experience changed everything. It forced me to go deeper... To study harder, to live these healing practices myself, and ultimately, to begin my naturopathic degree.
Because I needed to be able to offer women the level of clinical support that I hadn't been able to access myself.
What I discovered on the other side...
Your body is not broken. It is communicating!
And 80% of lasting change begins in your mindset...
Not your meal plan...
Not your supplement stack...
Not your workout routine...
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Your mind!
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You can follow every protocol perfectly and still feel stuck, because there is often an invisible pattern running underneath that says I'm not worth it, or nothing ever works for me!
I lived that pattern for years. And it's precisely why I trained in NLP alongside naturopathy... Because treating the body without addressing what is driving it is only ever half the story.
Who I am today...
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Naturopath. NLP Practitioner. Women's Health Coach.
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I am a Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) graduate, an IIN-certified health coach, and a qualified NLP practitioner with over a decade of experience supporting women through hormone imbalance, thyroid dysfunction, fertility, preconception care, stress, and the overwhelming business of trying to feel well in a fast-paced world.
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In June 2026, Green Tara Wellness expanded to offer full naturopathic consultations, including access to practitioner-grade supplements, comprehensive functional testing, and personalised herbal and nutritional protocols.
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I see clients in person across Lake Macquarie and Newcastle, and via telehealth anywhere in Australia.
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My specialties include:
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Women's hormonal health
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Thyroid support (including subclinical and post-pill thyroid issues)
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Fertility and preconception care
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Stress and adrenal health
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Mindset and NLP coaching for lasting behaviour change
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Gut health and nutrition
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My Approach
Whole person. Root cause. Real life.
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Most health appointments end with a list of things to do.
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At Green Tara Wellness, we start with why...
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Why are your hormones off?
Why does stress keep winning?
Why has nothing stuck, even when you've tried everything?
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I look at the full picture: your health history, your hormones, your stress load, your mindset, your relationships, your environment.
Because everything is connected.
And because the answer is almost never found in one piece of the puzzle alone.
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My approach is not about restriction, exhausting protocols, or adding more to your already full plate. It is about finding the root cause, removing the blocks (physical and mental) and building a plan that is sustainable, personalised, and genuinely yours.
Ready to feel like YOU again?
Whether you're navigating hormones, thyroid, fertility, stress, or simply a persistent feeling that something is off, I'd love to help.
Your first step is completely free.​
Or send me an email at tara@greentarawellness.com.au
I'd love to hear from you.​
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Here to help,
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​T x