I’m Claire Murray, Naturopath, Herbalist & Health Educator.

At 16 years of age I decided I was becoming a naturopath, and holistic healing has continued to call me ever since.

In 2008 I plunged into naturopathic study, soon after finishing school, and relished learning the inner workings of my body, and the herbs and nutrients that could help address imbalances in our health. 

However, I’m an incredibly firm believer in our emotional wounds, cultural conditioning, general constitution and lived experience carrying the capacity to influence our health, and always felt this element was missing from my quite biochemical training.  

In 2018 I completed a qualification in embodiment and somatic emotional release, which really expanded my practice into being much more intuitive yet grounded, and able to transverse all aspects of the patient in front of me.

The plants continued to call me however, and I started to feel the acute gap in my knowledge between the text-book based learning of herbal medicines I experienced at college, and the actual true wisdom of the grassroots herbalist who grew, touched, smelt, meditated and worked with herbs, thereby getting to know their true nature and personality. 

From here, I have furthered my training in grassroots herbalism, plant spirit communication, medicine making, medical astrology, plant energetics and wholism-centered treatment formulation. 


My own health journey…

Over the years has certainly had its ups and downs, with both my digestion and immune system being at the centre of it all. As a child, and into my adult years, I always struggled with eczema, asthma and food intolerances.

A lot of this culminated with the birth of my dear son, Hugo, in 2020. 5 months in, after a stressful postpartum, I started to feel acutely unwell.

10 months later, in early 2022, I was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Postpartum and becoming a mother was certainly made moreso intense with being so unwell, and now, in 2023, I’m on the road to being in remission. What a life-changing and wisening rollercoaster it’s been.

Really, my health journey over my lifetime so far has all come to a place of making peace with, honouring & championing my immense sensitivity. On one hand it’s a superpower in terms of my intuition, and capacity to attune to the energies of others, on another it means my physical body can become vocal when not in the right environments needed to thrive.

And thriving, plus our journey to get there, is a big part of why we’re here on Earth I believe.

Some days it’s so easy to see this sensitivity, my Crohn’s, my body, as a gift - my biggest teacher in this lifetime. Other days, finding the grace is trickier. But I’m certainly someone who is at home in the depth, able to journey down and through something to understand what it’s here to show me.

I couldn’t really think of anything that lights me up more than helping others go on a similar journey. Yes, health is our physical body, but it’s also SO much more (which I know if you’re here, you get!).

If you’d love to work together on your own health journey, my signature approach fuses biomedical naturopathic care, traditional herbalism, intuition and emotional release techniques to make a totally unique path on which you can move forward.

Use the button below to connect & enquire about working together - I’d be honoured to work with you.


Health Educating & Writing

 
 

Over the past 5 years I’ve taught naturopaths and nutritionists around Australia in both live seminar and webinar formats with some of Australia’s leading supplement companies. 

I’ve been an interviewed guest on numerous industry podcasts and currently co-host Bio-Practica’s Professional Podcast Series, aimed at natural health care practitioners. 

For patients, I create my own education resources, such as my popular Menstruation Masterclass, and have created e-courses and webinars, countless blogs, articles and patient resources within clinics and businesses I’ve worked with previously.

Having received professional public speaking training and mentoring, creating and delivering educational materials is a deep passion of mine.

If you’d like to discuss working together on the creation or delivery of education material, please get in touch here!


Some Fast Facts On Me:

  • I currently live in Brisbane, Queensland, in a tiny 100-year-old worker’s cottage. We made the garden from scratch, and it’s been one of the biggest gifts of my life to have plants outside my door to tend to and learn from.

  • I'm married to Nathan. I love him. And we have Hugo, a 2.5yr-old chatty, busy, glorious boy.

  • I am at home in the trees & mountains. Give me a wintery hinterland escape with a stream and some moss (so I can pretend I’m actually Claire from Outlander) and I’m set.

  • Chocolate. One of the true loves of my life.

  • I’m a 4/6 Reflector in Human Design - which for me equals ever-changing desires, the need to deeply trust my own energy and rhythms, having serious introvert downtime, and coming alive around the right environments and people.