About Essence of Health

Here we profile the staff employed at the clinic.

Dr Sue Levin
MB  ChB  FRNZCGP  Dip.Nat.  AACNEM

Sue graduated from the University of Dundee Medical School in 1986. She then went on to gain extensive experience in both hospital and community medicine. It was after working fulltime in General Practice for several years that Sue began to recognise the limitations of conventional western medicine and began the first of many studies in complementary and integrative medicine.

She qualified as a naturopath with the Naturopathic College of New Zealand in early 2001 and, as her training and interest progressed she developed her practice to specialise in treating chronic health issues and preventative medicine.

Until recently she held a post as a transfusion medical officer for the New Zealand Blood Service and now works as a medical officer with a hyperbaric medicine unit in Christchurch, having completed her primary hyperbaric medical residential course at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Dr Levin has a fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, membership of the Royal College of Practitioners (UK), Diploma in Naturopathy (NZ), and is an associate of the Australian Integrative Medical Association and the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.

Her training encompasses intravenous nutrition and intravenous vitamin C (ACNEM), bio-identical hormones (PCNZ), and MINDD practitioner training in autism. She regularly attends seminars and updates in the area of herbal and nutritional medicine.

Email:  sue.levin@o2health.co.nz