HOLISTIC WOMEN’S HEALTH COUNSELING

Supporting your body & hormones through nutrition & herbal medicine can be something that fits seamlessly into your day to day life. 

Women’s health is more than just health for men transferred onto women. It’s holistic health and wellness through the lens of a woman’s unique make up physically, emotionally, and through life. 

Get clear, sustainable guidance for your whole system from a holistic nutritionist trained in multiple schools of nutrition, Ayurveda, and botanical medicine.

bringing harmony and health to our whole system doesn’t need to be complicated and confusing.

Lets’ guide you in a simple, medically accurate, accessible holistic health & wellness program to bring more balance, regulation, and vitality to your hormonal, endocrine, digestive, and nervous system through Holistic Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Ayurveda, and emotional & spiritual well-being.

We are not taught as women to be in our bodies.

We are not taught to love our body or interact with it in a neutral, or positive, or pleasurable way. We are not taught how to truly care for them on all levels.

I see that most women are struggling with symptoms and conditions that stem from:

  • a lack of connection to and acceptance of their bodies and emotions.

  • a lack of understanding about what is physiologically happening in the menstrual cycle, reproductive system, and connecting systems & how to address it through daily habits and practices.

  • a lack of education and knowledge about how to care for themselves and their hormones with things in our environment like nutrition, exercise, herbs, and rest.

  • cultural conditioning telling us to ignore the body and what it’s signaling to us it needs

We may not love our body or cycle all the time, and there is a way to care for it and make space for it to be healthier and more connected to the rest of our system.

Based in Holistic Nutrition, Ayurveda, Herbal Medicine, and Energy Healing and Emotional Mindfulness.

Holistic Women’s Health Counseling is individualized holistic care for reproductive, menstrual, and women’s health at all phases of life.

Because the systems of the body are connected, we touch on many aspects of the body and life experience that contribute to women’s health and well-being such as:

  • endocrine and hormone health

  • blood sugar balance

  • digestive & liver health

  • daily routine, habits, and practices

  • emotional and mental well-being and selfcare

Things I Work With

  • conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, PMS, painful periods, absent periods

  • fertility & conscious conception (for both partners)

  • recovery from miscarriage & difficulty conceiving

  • burn out & fatigue

  • holistic nutrition for women

  • weight struggles due to hormone imbalance

  • menstrual education for adults, teens & parents

  • increasing SelfCare in daily life

  • birth control education, supporting your system while on it &/or transitioning off of it

  • helping you decondition from society’s message to hate your period and ignore your body

Woven Through Our Sessions

  • nutrition tips & creating a balanced way of eating for hormone & digestive health

  • lifestyle tips & shifts for being in tune with your cycle

  • herbal medicine recommendations

  • education about hormone health and the phases of reproductive life ie the menstrual cycle, peri & post menopause.

  • emotional and mental healing practices & perspectives

  • emotional support for whatever you’re going through

  • energetic healing practices to incorporate into daily life

  • guidance on how to track your cycle & fertility

  • daily SelfCare practices for the phases of the cycle

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If you feel disconnected from your body or your true self and want to have a different lived experience, there is a way to do that that is integrative, aligned, ethical, and so importantly, simple and achievable.

You don’t need a 97 step routine. You need real life, daily practices and knowledge to be in a healthy relationship with your whole self and have sovereignty and understanding over your own care.

Women’s Health Counseling is designed to address the reality that no two women are the same, and no two menstrual cycles are the same.

We all have unique needs and realities, that’s what makes us unique.

The initial session is where:

  • we’ll go over your intake form

  • talk in depth about your health history, your present health, how you’re feeling and what is presenting itself

  • talk about what you’re hoping to get out of working together + your readiness to make changes (hopefully very)

  • you’ll learn how to, or deepen your knowledge of tracking your cycle

  • talk about initial recommendations for nutrition and eating

  • talk about herbal medicine recommendations

  • fill in any gaps in your knowledge of your cycle and hormonal system

  • talk about what needs attention re: sleep, rest, exercise, food, selfcare, emotional nurturing etc

Follow up sessions:

  • are where we check in about how you are, what you’re noticing and going through

  • check in about how you’re doing with the initial recommendations

  • fine tune and deepen the program once you are comfortable and able to maintain new practices

  • apply further practices of nutrition, herbal medicine or supplementation, selfcare practices

  • I don’t load you up with changes all at once. We want you to succeed so we go incrementally in various areas wanting you to get comfortable and stable before we either remove or add certain things

After Each Session

  • you’ll receive a detailed pdf by email that will include:

  • herbal remedies & supplement recommendations, nutritional recommendations, meal ideas, shopping lists, recommendations for self-care, lifestyle, and emotional & spiritual healing practices.

In Between Contact

  • we will email, text, and send voice notes on Whatsapp in between sessions. This is based on what is best for you and your process and is an element we will create together.

  • this is for any questions, challenges and successes that come up in between sessions

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one Month reset program

Includes 3 sessions over 4 weeks.

One 90 minute initial intake session & two hour long follow up sessions with detailed program packages after each session.

Session 1 - 90 minute deep dive to assess where you’re at in your health, what’s presenting itself + receive recommendations for that + teach you, or deepen your practice of tracking your cycle.

Session 2 happens two weeks later. We’ll meet for an hour to see how applying the recommendations went, see what’s showing up in your cycle, fine tune your tracking journey and give you even more detailed rec’s for the next 2 weeks.

Session 3 happens 2 weeks after that. We’ll meet for an hour long final session to create a plan going forward for your to track your cycle, take care of your hormones and take care of yourself on a new level.

investment: $525

Detailed pdf program after our session that includes recommendations for diet & nutrition, herbal medicine, easy supplementation, lifestyle practices for increased cycle care, recipe, meal ideas & shopping lists.

This is for someone wanting to get a solid foundation to develop a new health and wellness routine and lifestyle that prioritizes your health as a woman and menstruating person. Get in-depth recommendations for practices and lifestyle changes, diet & nutrition to support hormone health, and menstrual cycle education and counseling.

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3 month transformation program

Includes 7 sessions over 3 months.

We’ll meet two times per month with a stand alone closing session as well

Session 1 - 90 minute deep dive to assess where you’re at in your health, what’s presenting itself + receive initial recommendations for tracking your cycle and addressing what’s going on.

Sessions 2-6 occurs every two weeks. We’ll meet for an hour to check in about how applying the recommendations are going, assess what’s showing up in your cycle, fine tune & deepen your tracking journey and program.

Session 7 occurs 2 weeks later. We’ll meet for an hour long final session to create a plan going forward for your to track your cycle, take care of your hormones and take care of yourself on a new level.

investment: $1125

Detailed pdf programs after each session that includes recommendations for diet & nutrition, herbal medicine, targeted supplementation, lifestyle practices for increased cycle care, meal ideas & shopping lists.

This package is for individuals who are really ready to dive into their healing process and are looking to transform their hormone health, fertility, menstrual cycle and most importantly, their relationship to themselves as a woman and the ways that presents itself.

If you have more complex things going on such as PCOS, irregular periods, endometriosis, PMS, absent periods, PMDD, are wanting to or actively trying to conceive, are brand new to learning about your cycle or SelfCare, or want significant support to transform, this is the package for you.

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WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING

  • “Zara is an absolute fountain of knowledge when it comes to women's reproductive health. I truly believe every woman should have the opportunity to work with Zara so they can more closely understand and attune to their own bodies and cycles.”

    KELSEY MECH, CERTIFIED COUNSELOR

  • "All in all, Zara helped me be a more mindful person, in every aspect of my life. I'm so grateful to Zara for her teachings, her care and thoughtfulness, and her friendship.”

    ARIANA SANTANA

  • “Zara understands that small steps make for big wins and lasting changes. Her nutritional guidance, emotional support and suggestions for physical activities have helped me so much. I went from thinking I was a night owl, incapable of keeping any routine and zero desire to move my body, to someone who gets to bed earlier, takes vitamins daily, and checks in with herself.

    ARIANA SANTANA

  • “Zara applies a talented blend of knowledge, intuition, and insight in her counsel and support in working with women to deepen their awareness of their cycles and healthcare practices.  Her approach is holistic and integrative. 

    HEATHER LUTZ

  • "Learning how to assess, understand, and work with my cycle has been both empowering and grounding me into a deeper connection with my body.  Through this work with Zara, I've been able to cultivate an appreciation of how my body is connected to the cycles of nature and Her exquisite intelligent design to which I naturally belong."

    HEATHER LUTZ

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • Anyone who has a uterus and menstruates, as well as cis-gendered women who want to heal and balance their menstrual cycles, hormone health, overall health, and relationship to themselves. This is also for women who struggle with cycle issues such as PCOS, endometriosis, PMDD, PMS, irregular periods as well as women wanting to conceive in the next 2 -3years. This is also for women wanting to transition off of hormonal birth control and reestablish their cycle.

  • We will work on whatever presents itself as the underlying causes or contributors to what you are experiencing. This can be nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar issues, changing eating habits, adrenal health & sleep practices, emotional components, family reproductive history, your relationship to yourself as well as the messages we have internalized from society and culture.

  • Our first session is an hour and a half is where we get to know each other more. We will go over things in your intake form that stand out, I will ask lots of questions to understand your history ( what you choose to share), and where you are now in this moment. We will talk about your goals and create a plan for how to get there. Please read the above section for more details.

  • I offer payment plans or two payments for both of my programs, however I don’t do sliding scales.

    Please email me if you want to discuss a payment plan.

  • Yes. Everything we talk about is confidential between us. I am not a mandatory reporter but personally, if it is shared with me that you are in physical danger or an abusive situation I feel it is my responsibility to offer support to find a way out of that. I would never do something to endanger a client and I hope we could together find a way to notify authorities in a safe way.

  • Yes and yes. I have been working in and facilitating healing workshops with plant medicine for the last decade, working with many participants across the spectrum of trauma and healing who have experienced different types of trauma and are coming for healing. I study transformational energy healing, and somatic trauma therapy, and anything you have been through or experienced in something we can talk about and hold a space for.

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