Naomi's path to invisible illness care began with lived experience. Working as an ICU outreach Nurse Practitioner she contracted COVID-19 early in 2020 —among the first healthcare worker in Australia. This was before anyone understood why some patients weren't recovering. She developed what would later be named Long COVID. Unable to return to work, she did what clinicians do—she researched. She enrolled in clinical trials, completed advanced testing protocols, and persistently advocated for herself. After nearly two and a half years, she returned to practice..
Working with Naomi feels like being seen by someone who has been exactly where you are. She does not need to be convinced that invisible symptoms are real, or that a patient who hasn't recovered is not a patient who hasn't tried. Her clinical approach is collaborative and evidence-based. She brings 30 years of nursing experience and the particular steadiness of someone who has learned, personally, that recovery is not linear, but also not hopeless.
Naomi understands POTS and orthostatic intolerance as conditions of whole-system dysregulation, not isolated heart-rate abnormalities. Naomi provides structured diagnostic assessment and careful medical management, aiming to stabilise autonomic function and progressively restore tolerance for upright activity and daily life.
Naomi brings both deep clinical expertise and direct lived experience to post-viral illness management. Her own prolonged recovery from COVID-19 led her into clinical trials and mitochondrial research—providing an unusually detailed understanding of how energy failure, circulatory dysfunction, and immune dysregulation interact in post-viral presentations. She is a strong advocate for mitochondrial dysfunction as a core driver of Long COVID and chronic fatigue.
Autonomic dysfunction, mast cell activation, hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and anxiety rarely arrive alone, and Naomi's practice is built around recognising their intersections. She regularly works with patients whose symptoms—tachycardia, gut disturbance, histamine responses, joint instability, and cycling anxiety—have been assessed in isolation by multiple specialists without anyone drawing the full picture. Her background in ICU outreach and complex medical care provides both the tools and the confidence to hold clinical complexity, identify shared mechanisms, and develop management strategies that address the broader pattern rather than each symptom in isolation. She views this connective work as fundamental to invisible illness care.