Kate Fitness
BSc RC Hom - Registered Homeopath
Kate has been practicing for 12 years, working in a clinic alongside Naturopaths and Nutritionists for four years and also running her own clinic. Her focus is mental health but also every aspect of homeopathy, mental and physical.
Before becoming a Homeopath Kate taught secondary Science in High School for 23 years, so is very comfortable with the highs and lows of the teenage years. Having a science background is also very useful in practice as it comes into every aspect of life.
Kate has networked extensively around the Hibiscus Coast with business groups and other practitioners.
Kate and Jess Coleman run two national study groups for Homeopaths that meet regularly online. In that way they are constantly challenged to keep up to date with new developments in Homeopathy and take the lead in supporting other homeopaths with their cases.
Kate runs a busy clinic and pharmacy from her home in Whangaparaoa. She is a keen sailor and owns a 1948 classic Yacht that she enjoys with her family in the summer and maintains in the winter months. Kate is also involved with women in sailing and races with an all-female crew. Moving to New Zealand with her family in 2003, Kate has two adult children who were brought up with homeopathy.
Kate is very much a people person and looks forward to taking every case, be it acute or chronic, as hearing people’s stories and learning from their experiences never gets old.
If you’d like to contact Kate, or find out more about an appointment, please get in touch.
I’m a people person and I am keen to have a deep understanding of their background where they have come from.
It is important when you have issues with your health or your family’s health that you are allowed to tell your story from the start and to be completely listened to. This is the essence of a homeopathic consultation: the need to be heard. Sometimes it is your birth story that is really significant, often it is trauma you have had to survive in your lifetime. I hear from people who have not been really heard for decades and that is very distressing.
You may have come in to tell me about a recent health issue that is classed as an acute, but then you mention that you received a bump to the head a few years ago and things have never been the same since.
Teenagers are a group of people who have had it hard in recent years and the levels of bullying and manipulation in schools seem to be at an all time high. As a high school teacher of 23 years, I am very comfortable chatting to teenagers about any of their current health challenges and together we find remedies that will ease their pain.
I am happy working with any aspect of health but there are always people with a different experience or perspective and sometimes a surprising remedy to reduce and ease symptoms. I live my life through homeopathy and when someone is talking, I sometimes have to stop myself thinking of a remedy that just might be perfect for them. It is actually quite a healthy obsession.
My Story
I learnt about homeopathy quite early in life from my sister-in-law, who is an amazing Homeopath who now works with Health Kinesiology. Learning from her I was able to treat my children for acutes. When my daughter was about 15, she said she wanted to see a doctor. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she had never been to a doctor and she wanted to see what it was like.
I lived abroad in Turkey and Greece for 8 years working in tourism and it was always useful to have my homeopathic kit with me to stop things going from bad to worse while sailing around the Mediterranean.
Teaching Science for 23 years I learnt a lot about people in general, but particularly teenagers. I quickly learnt if someone was telling the truth or not and the dynamic of the classroom, picking up where people were struggling. This has helped me understand situations over the years and in clinic.
I spent four years working in a clinic with other practitioners and that really put me through my paces as a Homeopath, with a large volume of cases each day. I learnt a lot from other practitioners as well. It helped me grow as a professional. Now, working from home, I have a vast resource in my colleagues and ongoing development as a homeopath with my study group. I have networked extensively with my community and feel very much that this is my happy place.