A woman with curly gray hair and glasses smiling, wearing a blue shirt over a white t-shirt, standing with arms crossed in a cozy, well-lit room decorated with a colorful abstract painting and a small plant in the background.
A woman with curly gray hair and glasses smiling, wearing a blue shirt over a white t-shirt, standing with arms crossed in a cozy, well-lit room decorated with a colorful abstract painting and a small plant in the background.

About Milly

After 25 years of practice — acupuncture, functional medicine, yoga teaching, doula work — perimenopause dismantled everything.

It took a broom to my life, sweeping away what no longer fitted. Not all at once, but the shift was nonetheless seismic. I've often said to patients: the only way out is through. Thich Nhat Hanh goes further: the only way out is in. Both turned out to be exactly right. I needed to look within to find my way through. I suspect it is the only way.

My husband Brad and I were in the fortunate position of being able to stop the world and get off for a year! So we loaded our vintage Millard caravan — our tin tent — and drove west. South Australia, southwest WA. Weeks completely off grid. Barefoot. Books. Ocean. Bush. The natural rhythm of light and dark, tide and stillness. No schedule, no patients, no next thing to build - we just dropped it all. It was the riskiest, hardest and most necessary thing I've done.

I return with something that only a dark night of the soul can deliver — and my practice has changed to reflect it. I've moved away from acupuncture and toward something I feel is more intimate, more spacious and more impactful. You can read more about that decision here.

What I offer now is grounded in everything I know — Chinese medicine, functional medicine, therapeutic massage, deep listening — and shaped entirely by lived experience of this terrain. I know what it is to feel unrecognisable to yourself. I know what it takes to find your way through. Not everyone can stop the world and get off for a while, and that's exactly why you need support for this path — space to, step by step, bit by bit, find your new self.

If you've found your way here, something has probably brought you. I'd love to hear what it is. Start with a free 15-minute call — or if you're ready, book a Midlife Health Consultation and let's begin.