Homeopathy for Complex Children
When I speak about complex children, I am not trying to label or limit your child. Instead, I am acknowledging that some children simply need more: more time, more understanding, more nuance, and more support in their treatment. These children often don’t fit into simple categories, and their healthcare shouldn’t either. My aim is always to meet them where they are, being mindful of their sensitivity, their strengths, and the complexity of their inner world.
Could this be your child?
Does your child have an ASD, PANS/PANDAS or ADHD/Inattentive ADHD diagnosis - or perhaps presents with the traits of one or more of these conditions without an official diagnosis? Do they experience food or environmental sensitivities (maybe even CIRS or MCAS), tics or twitches, OCD-type patterns, PDA, frequent meltdowns, behavioural overwhelm, sleep issues, or sensory challenges? Many parents sense that there are multiple causes contributing to their child’s struggles, but feel unsure where to start or how to support their child without triggering more symptoms.
Whether you’ve tried other treatments or are just beginning your search, homeopathy can offer gentle yet profound support - as long as we approach your child’s case with the depth, care, and flexibility it truly requires.
Conventional approaches
Conventional medicine often approaches complex paediatric cases through structured, symptom-focused pathways. Children may receive behavioural therapies, speech and occupational therapy, psychiatric medications for attention, anxiety or irritability, antibiotics or antivirals for infection-triggered symptoms, steroids or other anti-inflammatories for immune-related issues, antihistamines or mast-cell stabilisers for MCAS-like presentations, and - in some cases - binders or nasal sprays for inflammatory conditions.
These interventions usually come from different specialists, each addressing one specific system (neurological, psychiatric, immunological, allergic, infectious). While these tools can be useful, families often experience the process as fragmented, medicalised, or oriented toward short-term symptom management rather than the child’s whole journey and long-term wellbeing.
Functional / Naturopathic approaches
Functional and naturopathic practitioners tend to focus on identifying a child’s underlying physical imbalances - gut health, nutrient deficiencies, chronic infections, mould exposure, mitochondrial function, detoxification capacity, and inflammation. Testing may include stool microbiome analysis, Organic Acids Tests, micronutrient panels, food sensitivity testing, mycotoxin urine panels, Lyme/co-infection testing, SNP analysis, and immune markers.
Treatments often involve specialised diets, probiotics, herbal antimicrobials, binders, detoxification support, supplements, and environmental adjustments. These approaches can be very useful, but many families find themselves overwhelmed by extensive testing, numerous supplements, and protocols that do not always suit sensitive children or already-stressed households. What is often missing is the understanding that further biochemical treatment (whether it's ''natural'' or not) can further overwhelm sensitive systems, and that the emotional and psychospiritual terrain also needs to be treated (birth and pre-birth experiences, family dynamics, nervous system stress).
Popular Homeopathic Approaches
Homeopathy uses potentised remedies: medicines prepared in such a way that they act energetically rather than biochemically. They can help with both physical and mental/emotional symptoms, in a way that is gentle enough for sensitive systems. This makes homeopathy unique and especially suited for complex children who struggle with heavy biochemical or detox-focused programs, and often feel emotionally unsupported.
Homeopathy is gaining more and more popularity in the treatment of complex paediatric cases. The problem is that in online spaces many parents encounter one-size-fits-all versions of homeopathy: what is advertised classical-only prescribing (which is very often isn't even true), protocols, detox sequences, or home/AI-based remedy selection. While each of these has a place, using the wrong method at the wrong moment - or relying on one method for too long - can become an obstacle to healing.
Online groups often share “remedy lists” for ASD, ADHD, PANS/PANDAS, MCAS, Lyme, and CIRS -Belladonna, Stramonium, Tarentula, Baryta carb, Histaminum, Arsenicum, Nat sulph, Ledum, and various nosodes such as Carcinosinum or Tuberculinum. These are usually suggested based on behaviours or single traits, rather than the child's full story - history, sensitivities, trauma imprint, birth journey, environment, family dynamics, or constitution. Many parents end up trying multiple remedies with little guidance. The result is often confusion and exhaustion rather than clarity.
My approach
I don’t use protocols, fixed methods, or predetermined prescribing styles. Instead, I listen deeply to what is emerging, and prescribe according to your child’s unique needs in each moment of their healing process.
Sometimes this means one remedy for a while, sometimes several remedies alongside one another. Sometimes we use supplements or binders, other times we pause them. Sometimes I suggest a four-week follow-up, other times six, and occasionally I’ll ask you to simply check in via email after two weeks. Flexibility is not optional - it is essential.
Many homeopaths are highly skilled, but not all feel comfortable working with the level of depth, pacing, and emotional involvement that complex paediatric care requires. My commitment is to offer honesty, presence, and realistic expectations. While my schedule is full, I ensure that families of complex children receive the continuity and responsiveness they need.
I work with the child and the entire family system, recognising that healing is relational. I consider symptoms, sensitivities, stress patterns, trauma history, developmental and birth stories, environment, relationships, and the nervous system. Instead of relying on one style of homeopathy or leaning heavily on supplements or detoxes, I pace treatment carefully, using whatever tools are genuinely needed. This is a relationship-based, child-led, family-held type of approach. It is mindful of complexity while keeping the process gentle, supportive, and grounded.
A word on testing, diagnosing and pharmaceuticals
Testing and diagnosing can be immensely helpful, but it's not essential. I'm very happy when parents send me test results, as they can give me more information about what might be going on in their child's body on the physical level. But the physical level is only one piece of the puzzle - and if you can not afford or simply feel too overwhelmed to do further testing, I will not make you do them! Having said this, I believe it's important to have at least one medical doctor in your corner. I have been supporting clients through serious conditions for many years - both adults and children - and there are times when clients greatly benefit from conventional medical testing and sometimes even pharmaceutical (or surgical) intervention.
Homeopaths aren't the best people to turn to when their is an emergency, mainly because we don't have the kind of infrastucture that conventional hospitals do. I always tell my clients: take advantage of your free medical care opportunities (NHS in the UK), or your private health insurance (US), and try to make informed, grounded, rational decisions about what treatment is acceptable to you, and what treatment seems unnecessary. Taking pharmaceuticals does not cancel out your homeopathic treatment (and vice versa), but it can muddy the picture. This is not the end of the world, but it is something to be aware of.
Services and Pricing
Initial Consultation
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£135 for 75 minutes (or as long as it takes)
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Follow Up Consultations
(Joint follow ups available with 10% discount)
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Start with a Discovery Call
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