Meet Elissa-Rae Cooper - Naturopath

Hi! I’m Elissa-Rae Cooper, I’m a Naturopath, Nutritionist, Remedial Massage Therapist, Gut Health Warrior, Educator and Speaker.

I am also a wife and mum to a Sassy 4yo, Twin bubba’s, one dog & five chickens.

I’ve been working in the natural health industry for 15 years helping my clients achieve greatness in all area’s of their lives.  I became a Naturopath due to my own health struggles with chronic gut issues and anxiety. My entire life I was always a “sick” kid, but in 2014 my chronic gut problems became the better of me. I was literally an anxious ball of mess with chronic diarrhoea and no idea on where to go or where to start. So I started the way every 26 year old would start…going to the GP and begging them for a colonoscopy and gastroscopy to try and find out what was wrong!

This led to 12 months of tests, poo samples, blood tests, a colonoscopy and gastroscopy. At the end of it all I was told “take these anti-depressants and upto 10 diarrhoea stops a day!”, WTF?!?! Surely that is not living! By this stage I had already been in contact with my Natural Therapist in Townsville, the amazing Sam Spina and had enrolled in Naturopathy to begin my studies. Together Sam and I worked on my gut and my anxiety through diet, supplements and hyponosis. I quit my job as a Massage Therapist and worked in an office as massaging clients made me anxious and would set off an episode. It took hard work, a lot of discipline and a beautiful support network from my closest family and friends to get me to where I am now with my gut and life.

Over-coming IBS and Anxiety is not a walk in the park and having support around you, to guide you, especially in your darkest hours is essential. I remember going to the bathroom and just crying as I couldn’t stop pooing and I would come out of the toilet and my now husband would be there waiting for me, arms open for a hug to try and take away my pain.

Through my journey of defeating IBS and anxiety, it has become my number one passion in life to help as many of you as I can who suffer from gut issues, diarrhoea, constipation, food intolerances/allergies and anxiety associated with these gut disturbances. I am an open book and I want to share with you as much as I can to help you on your journey to Complete Vitality.

I don’t work as a typical Naturopath/Nutritionist would work, my follow up consultations are often nearly as long as our initial consultations, my time is valuable but your health so much more valuable so I always make sure I allow extra time between patients so I can chat with my you if we need to take a bit extra time, at the end of the day you being the best, healthiest version of yourself is my #1 priority.

Living with gut issues does NOT have to be your new normal, there is a way to overcome it and live a normal life again. If you would like to know more, please reach out to me or book a Free 15min Chat.

Much Love

Liss xx