Inna Duckworth — a senior naturopathic specialist for fertility cases other practitioners refer on.

For more than a decade I have built one practice, around one focus: investigating what conventional fertility care does not screen for in cases where standard tests come back unremarkable.

My training is unusual for a fertility practitioner: a Master of Science in Medical Herbalism with Distinction, a Postgraduate Diploma in Functional Nutrition and an MBA, alongside full registration with the General Naturopathic Council. That combination lets me read advanced functional lab data, prepare herbal protocols that are not available off a shelf and stay on top of complex cases over many months.

During one ten-month period of particular focus on the reproductive microbiome of both partners, I held more than five hundred fertility consultations. That depth of work continues to shape how I read every case that reaches me now.

I trained under Dr Leah Hechtman in Advanced Fertility and Advanced Gynaecology, completed the Advanced Fertility Mentorship Program with Rhiannon Hardingham ND — one of Australia's leading fertility naturopaths — and was mentored by Naava Carman, alongside several other prominent teachers in the field. I am certified in Nutrigenomics (Lifecode Gx), Reproductive (Male) Stealth Pathogens and Biotoxin Illness. I undertake roughly three hundred hours of continuing professional development every year, equivalent to a full university year of study. I contributed the chapter on medicinal plants for mental wellbeing to Dorling Kindersley's Neal's Yard Mental Wellness Companion (2021).

I do not take cases I cannot work with properly. That is part of why this practice has grown the way it has: slowly, through referrals from fertility practitioners and previous clients who told someone else. One couple at a time.

If yours is one I can work with, you will know it within the first thirty minutes of our Introductory Review.

— Inna