Your body already knows. So does your lineage.
Healing at the intersection of physiology, ancestry, and the more-than-human world
The symptoms have outlasted the protocols. The labs say “normal,” while your life quietly reorganises itself around what you can no longer do.
What’s been missing is someone willing to look at every level of your being - the systems and environments that shaped you, and the full terrain of your body, history, and lineage.
As a naturopathic doctor and clinical herbalist, I work at the intersection of evidence-based medicine and older healing traditions - approaches that understand the body as an ecosystem, the gut as deeply communicative, and health as something shaped not only by biology, but by inheritance, environment, memory, and meaning.
How I Work
The body speaks in many languages
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Inquiry is the practice of listening to the body as your primary source of guidance. Symptoms, sensations, gut feelings, tension, ease, contraction, and expansion are all forms of communication.
Your nervous system is always speaking. Through somatic inquiry, you learn to recognise the narratives held in the body and how they shape perception, behaviour, and physiology - and to respond with presence, curiosity, and trust.
This is also where naturopathic assessment lives: the functional lab interpretation, the detailed intake, and the slower questions beneath the form. What was happening in your life when this began? What is your body protecting you from? What did your family system carry?
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The gut and brain exist in constant conversation. Through the vagus nerve and immune, hormonal, and microbial signalling, digestion directly shapes nervous system regulation and mental health. Food is rarely neutral - it can either amplify stress and trauma or restore internal safety. Biology shifts within minutes of eating, influencing how the body organises after experience.
Working with food as therapy, plant medicine, and targeted nutraceutical support - chosen for your specific physiology, history, and constitution - nourishment becomes a way of creating the biological conditions for emotional resilience, clarity, and nervous system balance.
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Movement is more than the release of what's stored in the tissues - it is how we build nervous system capacity and restore fluency in the body.
This is embodied, expressive practice that creates corrective experiences, releases past charge, reconnects mind and body to the present moment (and to each other), and reclaims vitality and joy. Movement becomes a pathway back to wholeness - and the place where the medicine of the other two strands has somewhere to land.
Work With Me
Integrative Healing Consultation
For those who are tired of managing symptoms and ready to understand why the body is speaking through pain, fatigue, or imbalance.
This consultation explores the physiological, energetic, relational, and lifestyle patterns shaping your current experience, and offers a clear path toward restoration.
Family Constellations Therapy
The patterns you carry aren't always yours.
Sometimes healing requires looking beyond your individual body into the family system that birthed you into being.
Conscious Culinary Consulting
Bespoke menu and recipe development for health-focused businesses, alongside intimate culinary workshops designed to reconnect people with deeply nourishing food traditions.
Many of the workshops I lead centre around food as a relationship - to the body, to the soil, and to eating itself as a practice of embodiment, restoration, and remembrance.
ATTUNED
A relational embodiment practice featuring immersive experiences, short and long format workshops, and group gatherings.
A place to remember through the body, in shared space.
Hi, I’m Salma!
My body has always been my compass. Long before I had language for it, intuition was my first literacy - a way of reading rooms, people, and my own physiology that arrived before thought, and that hardship only sharpened.
I've watched so many people lose that fluency - trained by culture to push through, perform, and override the very signals that were trying to keep them whole. My work became the bridge between these worlds: weaving innate, embodied knowing with clinical practice, meeting people where conventional care wasn't designed to follow.
Over a decade of practice, this work has crystallised into ATTUNED - a relational embodiment practice, where this body of work meets the room.