Hello, I’m Jen Stroh. I’ve spent 40 years as a Naturopath, massage therapist and integrative health practitioner. So I have developed the ability to help people live in greater harmony with their bodies and their minds.
Here’s my profile on LinkedIn for further details on my professional career.
Biography
Studies and writings
Besides being a well-respected Naturopath and Remedial Massage Therapist, Jen Stroh has also appeared on radio and television around Australia promoting her adaptation of the book, Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (1986).
After graduating from the Southern School of Natural Therapies, Melbourne in 1985 with a Diploma of Naturopathy, she upgraded to a Graduate Diploma in Western Herbal Medicine in 1998 at Victoria University then a Bachelor of Health Science in 2002 and has spent the last 40 years improving her knowledge base through various courses and life’s journey itself.
Jen attained a Certificate of Tactile Therapies in 1981 and has continued to upgrade her bodywork skills with a Certificate IV in Massage then Diploma of Remedial Massage in 2004.
Clinic and Teaching
She founded her own small business in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne as well as a weekly clinic in the centre of Melbourne City. Her dedication and passion for natural medicine is appreciated by the hundreds of patients who have visited her over the past 40 years.
Over the years universities, colleges and adult education centres have engaged her in teaching and lectures around the Melbourne. This has included Herbal Medicine lectures at Victoria University, Kallista Community House and Peppermint Ridge Farm and Massage teaching at Monash University, Southern School of Natural Therapies, Melbourne School of Tactile Therapies, Centre of Adult Education, Collingwood TAFE. Jen has run numerous private classes as well in various aspects of Natural Therapies and continues to do so as the requests arise.
Part of Jen’s mandate to encourage self development and understanding has lead her to organise numerous workshops throughout the years for other skilled presenters and facilitators. These have included various approaches to bodywork, illuminating the Sacred Feminine, wholistic healing with emotional release and breath work.
Product Development
Highly versed in herbal and natural remedies, Jen has developed her own range of health giving products such as Moisturisers and Healing creams and Herbal teas derived from her own back yard. Due to her thorough knowledge, she was consulted by ‘Gardening Australia’ ABCTV for a story about back yard medicinal herbs in 2000.
Supporting you
Her compassionate nature, empathy and intelligence is evident, and her opinion is often sought by other health professionals. Her professional confidential approach and wholistic view of health and medicine includes consultation with other medical practitioners including local GPs and other health professionals.
Jen constantly updates her knowledge in many aspects of naturopathic and medical approaches so she can best help you. Jen is aware of her limitations and thus has a good professional referral network in place to assist you.
Jeni’s life experience stands her in good stead to appreciate the challenges of work and family, the demands and joys of relationships and the balance we all strive towards. She feels blessed to be a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend, a partner and loves to play regularly in the garden and forest, the table tennis table and with music.