- Essents of Essents
- Less stress, more zest
- Finding your own path to well-being
- Purpose and Commitment
- The Founders
Our Purpose:
For all those who come to Essents, our purpose is to provide opportunities, support and encouragement to enjoy life abundantly and to enjoy fulfilling your desires.
Our Commitment:
We are committed to respecting and recognising you as an individual and to understanding your individual needs and desires. Our passion is serving the complete person, the Whole of You.
The Essence of Essents®
Essents® Whole of Body Health® is the ultimate source of solutions for your health and well-being.
We offer the perfect blend of modern and traditional treatments in the relaxing and cheerful environment of our 'well-being base'. You can learn to manage stress, rejuvenate your body, nourish your mind and spirit, and bring zest and vitality flooding back into your life.
We recognise that everyone is unique, that different approaches to health and well-being work for different people at various stages in their lives.
That is why we offer a wide range of treatments and services from the mainstream through to the alternative. Essents® delivers a truly whole-istic experience - which gets results.
Essents® is fully flexible. You can opt for one familiar service that you know works for you. Or, if you are not sure, we have an experienced guide to help you find your path to health and well-being.
Less stress, more zest
We recognise stress as a major and often un-addressed problem in daily life - it drains your energy, limits what you can achieve and makes you vulnerable to illness, pain and depression.
We take a very broad view of stress, from the physical right through to the spiritual. Each of us has some level of stress, from the benign to the crippling. Essents® can provide relief for you whether you suffer from physical stress (like back pain or excess weight), or stress caused by work, a relationship or your environment.
The Essents® approach is simple and effective. We use compassion and draw on a wide-range of knowledge and experience to manage your stress and increase your well-being.
Our Whole of Body Feedback Loop is the successful stress management model that can empower you with the tools to manage your stress effectively, now and in the future, so you can live your life to the full once more.
Our approach leads to good health, zest and vitality.
Finding your own path to well-being
Well-being is a catalyst for improved health and vitality but it is sometimes difficult to discover which of the many paths that lead to that experience, is the right one for you.
Our "Whole-of-Body" consultation will help you find the service or services most suited to your needs. We want you to move forward down your particular path as soon as possible, with a spring in your step, and the excitement of a brighter, fitter and happier future.
The practitioners that make up our 'health-hub', are experts in their fields, and come from a wide variety of backgrounds: from mainstream therapies learned and practised here in Australia, to alternative disciplines from China, Tibet and India.
Your path might involve fitness training once or twice a week, or massage to overcome pain or simply to rejuvenate and relax your body.
Or, it might lead you towards new treatments or a combined program of disciplines such as exercise physiology, performance coaching, nutrition and dietetics; through to meditation coaching, acupuncture, kinesiology, and reflexology.
Essents® Whole of Body Health® is for the Whole of You.
About our founders
The Essents Whole Body Health is the vision of two experienced well-being practitioners, Judy Baker and Moonie Patel. The two women first worked together in 2001 when they were appointed as joint CEOs of the Capricornia Division of General Practice in Rockhampton.
Their similar working styles and ethics, and their strong commitment to providing the very best health and well-being services to Queenslanders, led them to establish Essents® in November 2004
Judy Baker
BSc, Grad Dip Nut & Diet., MBA, NLP Cert.Judy is a highly experienced nutritionist and dietitian with a Bachelor of Science degree, a postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics, and an MBA specialising in the modern wellness industry.
She worked in the public hospital system before establishing and managing her own private dietetics practice. She set up and managed her husband's successful neurosurgical practice for 15 years, and worked as Consultant Dietitian to the private hospital and nursing homes for the Sisters of Mercy Health Services in Rockhampton from 1990 to 1993.
From 1993 to 1997 Judy was Project Consultant for the development of a multi-million dollar central catering system for the Sisters of Mercy Health Services in Central Queensland. Her successful MBA thesis in 2002 focused on business model strategies and strategic innovations in the wellness industry.
Since establishing Essents®, Judy has continued to pursue her special interest in stress and anxiety, researching the impact of stress on health and wellbeing. As a part of this work, she has studied Neuro Linguistic Programming and developed the Whole of Body Feedback Loop stress management model and the "Whole-of-Body" consultations for clients attending the Centre.
Moonie Patel
BSc (Pharmacy). MBAMoonie comes from a clinical pharmacy and management background in Australia and the UK. She was a Clinical Pharmacist in the UK's public health system from 1984 to 1991, then Pharmaceutical Advisor to three District Health Authorities until 1998.
She has lengthy and valuable experience working closely with medical specialists and GPs to develop drug formularies and prescription policies to aid cost-effective pharmaceutical use, and she has been a member of multidisciplinary health promotion projects.
She immigrated to Australia in 1999, completed an MBA and was employed as Project Manager (and then acted as relieving Executive Officer) at Capricornia Division of General Practice in Rockhampton, responsible for research, development and management of major health projects.
Moonie has drawn on both her organisational and creative talents to develop an environment at the Centre which is totally natural and rejuvenating and flows easily, leaving people feeling supported, encouraged and revitalised.
