Patricia Hatherly

Patricia Hatherly BA DipEd IBCLC BHSc (Homoeopathy) AROH MAHA ALCA
Homoeopath, Lactation Consultant & Educator
Amamusus Natural Therapies Centre
24 Mirbelia Street
Kenmore Hills 4069
(W): 07 3878 9767
Fax: 07 3878 3694
Email: patricia@patriciahatherly.com
International:(W): +61 7 3878 9767
International: Fax: +61 7 3878 3694

After graduating from Newcastle University in 1971 with a BA DipEd, I taught in NSW before moving to western Queensland with my husband in 1972. I taught full time and part time (English and History) in Mount Isa until 1980.

With the birth of my first child in 1975 in a situation lacking extended family support, I found help in the Childbirth Education Association (CEA) and the Nursing Mothers’ Association (NMAA). [Now re-named the Australian Breastfeeding Association].I fulfilled a variety of committee positions and went on to train as a Breastfeeding Counsellor. I helped to establish groups in Mount Isa, Collinsville and Bowen, before moving to Brisbane in 1985 when I became involved in the Medical Schools’ Programme as a group facilitator for NMAA. I eventually retired as a Breastfeeding Counsellor upon first certifying as an IBCLC in 1989. Since that time I have continuously worked in private practice as a Lactation Consultant.

My accreditation as an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) means that I have passed a fully accredited examination set by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBCLE) which is a member of the prestigious US National Commission for Health Certifying Agencies. The International Board includes representatives from the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) and the Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NACOG).

I have particular expertise in the management of:

• colic and reflux
• supply problems (over supply and low supply)
• galactagogues
• failure to thrive
• mastitis
• thrush and white spot
• attachment and suckling problems
• nipple trauma
• working and breastfeeding

Following the birth of my third child in 1981, I underwent training to be a Childbirth Educator. I worked initially in private practice in western Queensland, and was then associated with CEA Brisbane as a Consultant Educator until 2000.

My interest in natural therapies began after a health crisis following the birth of my second child in 1977 when I suffered a detached retina.

After working part-time in a homœopathic clinic in the late `80s, I decided to go back to full-time study and was awarded a Bachelor Health Science (Homeopathy).

As well as being registered with the Australian Register of Homoeopaths (AROH), I am a professional member of the following:

• Australian Homoeopathic Association (AHA)
• Australian Naturopathic Practitioners Association (ANPA)
• Australian Lactation Consultants’ Association (ALCA)
• Effectiveness Training Institute of Australia (ETIA)
• Queensland Teacher’s Registration Board

As a Reiki Master, I conduct workshops in Reiki I and II, and I also teach PET (Parent Effectiveness Training) whenever I can. I lecture part-time at the ACNM (Australian College of Natural Medicine) and have been a guest lecturer at the Southern Cross University Lismore and at the Sydney College of Homœopathic Medicine in Homœopathic Philosophy and Materia Medica.

I have been a committee member of the AHA (Qld branch) for 13 years and am also the immediate past president of AHA's National Council having been the Qld branch representative to that committee for 6 years.