OUR TEAM
Integrative Epigenetics and Wellbeing Specialists
At Global Health Clinics, we pride ourselves in having a team that cares for you. We have a phenomenal range of expertise on holistic approaches to health and wellbeing. We understand profoundly that all aspects of your person contribute to your wellness. And we use some of the latest sophisticated modalities and technologies to promote positive change, whether for physical conditions, emotional issues, or achieving your full potential.
JOHN COOMBS – SENIOR EPIGENETICS AND WELLBEING SPECIALIST, CHRONIC FATIGUE SPECIALIST, ANXIETY CONSULTANT AND SPECIALIST, ADHD COACH, CLINIC DIRECTOR
Meet John Coombs: A Pioneer in Difficult-to-Treat Illnesses
When it comes to overcoming the most challenging health conditions, John Coombs stands as a leading light with over thirty years of dedicated experience. Here’s what sets him apart:
- Profound Personal Insight: John’s journey is deeply personal. Surviving a near-fatal illness, he understands the complexities involved in finding practical solutions for health challenges. This firsthand experience drives his passion for helping others.
- Diverse Understanding from Life Experience: As part of a large family, John appreciates the varied needs of different individuals. His practical approach ensures that he can easily relate to clients and provide solutions that resonate with their unique lifestyles.
- A Respected Expert in Challenging Cases: Specializing in stress, chronic fatigue, and immune deficiency diseases, John excels where others may struggle. His science-based, personalized methodologies ensure that even the most difficult cases see improvements.
- Comprehensive and Tailored Wellness Solutions: By collaborating with Global Health specialists, John employs advanced technologies and biohacking techniques. His holistic wellness programs are designed with your unique needs in mind.
- Utilizing Cutting-Edge Practices: At the forefront of lifestyle and mindful medicine, John combines his expertise with the latest technologies, including Hocatt and Hyperbaric Oxygen, to offer you the utmost care.
- Innovative Use of Epigenes Spectrometric Analysis: John’s use of the cutting-edge Epigenes spectrometric analysis prioritizes your specific needs. After analysis, he provides an easy-to-read report, complete with personalized lifestyle and nutritional guidelines for the next three months.
- Holistic and Mindful Healing Approach: Integrating epigenetics, nutrition, mindfulness, and positive psychology, John guides clients towards a balanced and healthier lifestyle. His programs ensure both mental and physical well-being are addressed.
- In-depth Understanding of Epigenetics and MindBody Health: John’s expertise extends to adrenal and hormone health, making his programs comprehensive in scope, addressing a broad range of health needs.
Choose John Coombs at Global Health Clinics and discover a personalized, empathetic, and scientifically-backed path to overcoming even the most complex health challenges.
For more information watch our 10 episode TV series “The Global Health Show” now available in the resources section of this Website.
LISA EDMONDSON - Women’s Health Specialist Lead, Nurse, Hormone Health, Holistic Master Health Coach, Rongoā Māori Provider (In Training)
BHS Nursing | PGDip Public Health | PGDip Education | Master’s in Holistic Health Coaching
Lisa Edmondson is a passionate Women’s Health Specialist, experienced Nurse, and certified Holistic Master Health Coach with a diverse background across mainstream and complementary health care. With practical experience at all levels of health and wellbeing, Lisa helps women achieve effective, affordable recovery plans tailored to their unique needs.
Her professional journey is deeply personal. Having navigated her own health challenges with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and hypothyroidism, Lisa understands firsthand the complexities of hormone health, fatigue, and metabolic imbalance. This lived experience fuels her commitment to empowering other women with practical, holistic solutions that address both the root causes and the real-life impact of these conditions.
After many years working in mainstream women’s health clinics, Lisa expanded her expertise with a wide range of additional qualifications in holistic women’s health care and whole-person wellbeing. At Global Health Clinics, she helps deliver key wellbeing programs and advanced analysis tools, including:
Epigenes Functional Metabolism 90-Day Program
Live and Dry Blood Analysis
Thyroflex Thyroid Assessment
Dutch Hormone Testing
Nutritional and Lifestyle Assessments
Lisa also supports clients with ACC-funded recovery plans through Rongoā Māori healing, working under mentorship at Te Whare Rongoā VBC 931. Learn more here
As a member of the Health Coaches of Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA), Lisa empowers clients to build resilience, adopt sustainable lifestyle changes, and develop personalized wellbeing strategies. With flexible session options — from 1 hour consultations to 15-minute check-ins — she helps individuals of all ages stay on track toward their health and wellness goals.
HESTER SCOTT – OPTIMAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING COACH, ANXIETY CONSULTANT AND SPECIALIST, ADHD COACH, SENIOR EPIGENETICS AND WELLBEING SPECIALIST
Hester works with every aspect of your life to promote optimal mind and body integration, prosperity, spirituality, relationships, grief and loss, personal power, self-esteem, anxiety, nutrition, detox and hormone analysis.
Hester specialises in optimal health and wellbeing programmes and provides one on one coaching sessions. She uses Global Health Clinic’s scientific approach to epigenetics to assess your current state of wellbeing and then works with you to create a holistic programme that is tailored to your individual needs. Hester has trained in all levels of PSYCH-K® Facilitation, mBIT coaching and Raindrop technique. She uses the Thryoflex Thyroid analysis to help develop optimal hormone wellbeing and EWA, Epigenetics Wellbeing Assessment. She refers to appropriate hormone and nutritional specialists when required.
She is deeply committed to her own personal and professional evolution. With a passion for learning and growth, she continually explores transformational coaching methods and emerging modalities to best support both her clients’ journeys and her own. Her work is grounded in real, lasting transformation. PSYCH-K® Facilitates change at the subconscious level. The subconscious mind is different to the conscious mind and controls our habits, beliefs and perceptions 95% of the time – meaning we are only consciously creating our lives 5% of the time – we are on auto pilot! Hester will help you to determine how you would like to experience your life moving forward then support you through change processes that will allow you to live your life with a deeper sense of purpose and fulfilment.
Hester works with people of all ages in any area of life that people are wanting substantial change and understands that gaining optimum wellbeing can be a complex and sometimes overwhelming process. Her background gives her the unique ability to analyse and assess your specific needs and design a programme that optimises your wellbeing. She is also available for telephone and zoom consultations.
FI RUTLAND – OXYGEN THERAPY, DETOX, REFLEXOLOGY, HEAD MASSAGE
Fi Rutland provides a compassionate quality of care for our clients. With her nursing background she has a vital wellbeing role at Global Health, especially when assisting our elderly and more vulnerable clients.
Fi has extensive experience in oxygen, ozone, light and detox therapies, a range of relaxation systems, head massage, reflexology, Access Bars and reiki.
She is studying live blood assessment to help provide photographic evidence of blood expression. Suboptimal blood, which is easy to recognise, can lead to a wide range of wellbeing challenges including fatigue and inflammation.
Fi has a passion for the wellbeing of feet, your source of connection with the earth, using the Bio-pulse Detox Foot Spa, Reflexology, Foot Mobilisation and Reiki. The correlations between the feet and health have been understood in many traditions.
Bio-pulse is an electronic ionic exchange detox system that helps to recharge and rebalance the electrical signals that improve our ability to function effectively. The bio-pulse helps to gently detox chemicals and metals, restore the acid alkaline balance, reduce fatigue and improve general wellbeing.
For more than 25 years Fi has worked with a range of other modalities including Manaki massage, Reiki, Psychosynthesis and Indian Head massage.
ANAH WARA - RONGOĀ MĀORI LEAD, RONGOĀ MĀORI PRACTITIONER
ACC-registered rongoā Māori practitioner serves as the experienced and highly regarded leader and mentor of our Rongoa team. She practices part-time at our Takapuna clinic and also from her Northland centre Te Whare Rongoā.
With extensive experience, Anah has worked as a counsellor for many years and has over 20 years of practice as a medical herbalist. She is a Registered Medical Herbalist (NZAMH) and recognised Rongoā Practitioner, offering an integrative approach to recovery that incorporates traditional plant remedies in support of improved health and well-being.
Anah provides support for individuals experiencing substance abuse disorders, frequently addressing co-occurring concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and associative disorders. She possesses familiarity with Te Reo—“Ko Ngapuhi te iwi, ko Ngāti Rangi te hapu”—and is adept at working inclusively with individuals of all genders and cultural backgrounds.
Her qualifications in herbal medicine rongoā rākau, Te Ao Māori and spirituality combined with extensive clinical experience make her the ideal person to lead and help integrate the four pillars of wellbeing we prescribe through Rongoa and in our general practice at Global health. A holistic integration of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing is at the core of all of our clinical and wellbeing programs.
At Global Health Clinics, we are proud to introduce Mark Hathaway, as a distinguished online consultant to the clinic, an expert in holistic health strategies. Mark is internationally renowned for his ability to quickly assist you in rebalancing your body and unlocking your human potential, thereby enhancing your healing capabilities. By focusing on key aspects such as good immunity and vitality, Mark helps cultivate an optimized internal metabolic environment, leading to a high-quality life.
Why Choose Mark Hathaway?
- Quickly rebalances your body to boost immunity and vitality.
- Unleashes your innate healing capabilities.
- Cultivates a healthy internal metabolic environment.
- Ensures a high quality of life through personalized care.
Mark employs cutting-edge assessment techniques, utilizing live and dry blood samples, urine, saliva, and other biomarkers. This comprehensive approach ensures rapid results, especially in cases that have proven challenging with other methods. Trust Mark Hathaway to guide you on your journey to optimal health at Global Health Clinics.
DR. JEEJO MURICKAN (BDS) – PRACTICE MANAGER
Our practice manager Jeejo Murickan is passionate about making sure you get the best value from your experience at Global Health Clinics. He ensures the overall smooth functioning of the clinic with your best interests most at heart, so please contact him if you need advice on how best to achieve this.
Jeejo is trained in oxygen therapies and helps manage our epigenetics analytics. He is a qualified dentist with years of clinical experience in managing a practice, with qualifications in Health Service Management. He is a great asset to the team and our clients.