Everyday Healing & Practice

Vitality Academy

Your body is individual. Your way forward should be, too.

Your symptoms are real. Your starting point is individual. Decide your path forward.

Dr Kirstey has 26 years of learning and teaching that she is bringing together in one place. Flexible, holistic, comprehensive, outcomes based.

It's not a course, it's a practice.

she's your virtual guide, wherever you are.

Understand what your body really needs, know where to begin, and feel confident making changes that actually work for your life. We’ll explore how you eat, sleep, move, think, connect, test and prescribe (my Seven Pillars of Vitality) and use my Hierarchy of Healing to understand what deserves attention first.

Because the order matters.

You don’t need to change everything at once. You need a way forward that builds on strong foundations, supports your hormones and helps you reclaim your metabolic health, with your emotional wellbeing considered throughout.

The Holland Clinic · Vitality Academy

Discover where you are. Choose where to begin.

Turn / swipe the cube.
Tap to select.
Decide your priorities.
Choose how to begin working with us.

Where should we begin?

Before exploring how we might be able to help, let's understand what's happening for you.

Mark what's happening inside your Body, Mind and Life.

Discover where and how to begin.

Choose your priorities.

Simply start

Let's put this into perspective.

That’s a good place to start, but not a great place to stay.

Let’s look at what living with these symptoms actually means for you.

But how are you actually feeling?

From the number and severity of your symptoms, we've calculated your symptom load. It's a useful starting point, but numbers can't tell us what it's really like to be you.

Move the slider to how you actually feel.

1 · Absolutely floored

10 · Feeling a million bucks

So, that means…

And how would you really like to be?

If you had a magic wand (which you don't, but just imagine for a moment), what would you want life to feel like?

Because while there's no magic wand, there is a process. A protocol. A healing plan that really works.

Pull the slider to your heart's desire.

1 · Absolutely floored

10 · Feeling a million bucks

This is not a diagnosis or a treatment plan. It is an initial assessment, given for orientation.

When you have a health issue, you may not have the books, the next appointment, the medicine on hand. Even if you have the books on the shelf, you may not be able or want to read everything to find the thing that helps with what you are struggling with. So here you can plug into a method and protocol directly, that's tailored to your own body.
I will work with you on the different challenges you have and provide you with different understandings, behaviors, and interactions so you can try something else. That is what helps you be someone else.

Dr Kirstey Holland

The complete Academy is included at every access option. You simply choose how much personal support you would like along the way.

Where are you based?

Bronze

A clear pathway, with support when you need it.

Understand your body, discover what works for you and begin making meaningful changes with the Academy’s education, practical tools and the opportunity to ask basic questions as you go.

Select your location

Choose Bronze

See what’s included

What’s included with Bronze

Complete Academy learning and Seven Pillars
Hierarchy of Healing and N-of-1 tools
Food protocols, guides, apps and resources
Basic educational questions
Six-week self-review tools
Private podcast and book club

Individual clinical consultation: Separate

Silver

Everything in Bronze, with the joy of learning together.

Bring your questions to our live Vitality Conversations, learn alongside other women and feel supported as you put what you’re discovering into practice. Join in as much or as little as you like.

Select your location

Choose Silver

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What’s included with Silver

Everything in Bronze, plus

4 live conversations per fortnight and replays
Optional hot seats and open mic

Individual clinical consultation: Separate

Gold

Everything in Silver, with Dr Kirstey in your pocket.

Enjoy everything in the Academy and our live conversations, with private access to me for individual education and mentoring whenever questions come up.

Select your location

Choose Gold

See what’s included

What’s included with Gold

Everything in Silver, plus

Private Dr in Your Pocket mentoring

Individual clinical consultation: Separate

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What you receive	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Complete Academy learning and Seven Pillars
Hierarchy of Healing and N-of-1 tools
Food protocols, guides, apps and resources
Basic educational questions
Six-week self-review tools
Private podcast and book club
4 live conversations per fortnight and replays	Not included
Optional hot seats and open mic	Not included
Private Dr in Your Pocket mentoring	Not included	Not included
Individual clinical consultation	Separate	Separate	Separate
Monthly price
Your welcome rate			Not included

Explore what’s inside

Inside the Vitality Academy

Start by finding out where you are now, what matters to you and what your body may need first. You’ll have help noticing patterns, understanding your priorities and choosing a manageable next step, rather than being handed an enormous list of things to do.

The Seven Pillars take the science out of the abstract and into your everyday life. You don’t need to master every pillar at once. Explore what is relevant to your present stage, then return to other learning as your needs change.

Eat

Know what foods work for you

Explore personalised food education, notice possible triggers and learn how to build and live with an individualised precision-medicine food protocol. This is about nourishing your body, not following a restrictive plan forever.

Food protocols, food lists, meal structure, eating guidance, recipes for weeks 1–4 and weeks 5–12, vegan recipes, and protein portion guidance.

Heal, Seal & Repair food guidance, plus Treatment and Wellness protocol information where relevant.

Meal Ideas, Gluten-Free Baking and the protocol-aware Vitality Eating Out tool, so ordinary meals, baking and restaurants feel more manageable.

Herb & Spice Guides (full and quick versions), plus practical lessons on resistant starches, supported fasting and other food topics.

Sleep

Understand your rhythms and recovery

Discover the everyday influences on your sleep and explore small changes that may help you settle, rest and recover.

Good Sleep Dial, Sleep Tracker and sleep education, including circadian rhythms and waking during the night.

Move

Find movement that works with your body

Explore movement as one of the Seven Pillars: something that can support your capacity and wellbeing, not another demand to meet. Move in a way you enjoy, taking account of your energy, symptoms and stage of life.

Think

Understand stress and your nervous system

Understand how your nervous system, thoughts and emotional experiences interact with physical wellbeing. Explore practical ways to find moments of calm and make space for yourself.

In Good Hands guided breathing and acupressure; nervous-system and stress-response education.

Heart’s Desire, Vitality Dream and relevant reflections on emotional wellbeing and Release.

Connect

Make room for the people and life that matter

Notice the way relationships, support, communication and belonging affect your wellbeing. Learn to express what you are experiencing and protect what is important to you.

Conversation Starter; Vitality Yearly Planner; book club; private podcast; Academy question community.

Test

Learn to recognise patterns and ask better questions

Learn what your symptoms and observations may be telling you, how to keep useful records and how to approach testing more thoughtfully with your healthcare team.

Vitality Tracking, Body Literacy, sleep observations, daily journals, meal and symptom logging, assessments and review tools.

Educational introductions to blood tests and functional testing, with testing and personalised interpretation arranged separately when appropriate.

Prescribe

Understand the choices involved in your care

Explore why different interventions may be considered, what questions to ask and how to be an informed participant in decisions about medicines, supplements and other options. Education is included; individual prescriptions and treatment changes require clinical care.

Prescribe teaching, medication-related learning and condition-specific guides including GLP-1 education.

The Hierarchy of Healing helps you decide what to consider first. The Seven Pillars help you put that understanding into practice. Your N-of-1 observations help you discover what works for you.

Repair

Begin by understanding gut health, immune function, inflammation and the foundational practices that may need attention before more complex work. This stage includes core food education and practical support for sleep, stress and everyday rhythms.

Rebalance

Explore hormonal change through perimenopause and beyond, while continuing to support the foundational systems that interact with hormones. Learn how sleep, stress, nutrition and individual circumstances connect with this stage.

Reclaim

Shift attention towards metabolic health, resilience and maintaining the foundations you have built. Explore patterns connected with energy, insulin and longer-term vitality.

Release

Throughout the journey, make space to understand your experiences, relationships, emotional responses and nervous system. The physical and the personal are not separate stories.

Imagine finally understanding what your body needs, knowing where to begin and having a clear pathway to follow.

Inside the Vitality Academy, I’ll share what I’ve learnt from more than 26 years in clinical practice and help you discover how to eat, sleep, move, think, connect, test and prescribe in ways that support your own unique biology. These are my Seven Pillars of Vitality, and they bring what you learn into everyday life.

You’ll learn to know what foods work for your body, identify your own food triggers and build an individualised precision-medicine food protocol that works for you. You’ll also explore what helps you sleep, what kind of movement supports you, how stress and relationships influence your wellbeing, and how to make better-informed decisions about investigations, supplements and medicines.

But there’s something equally important I want you to understand.

The order in which we do things matters.

I developed my Hierarchy of Healing because I kept seeing women come into my clinic after trying to balance their hormones or restore their metabolic health without first addressing the foundations their bodies needed. They’d worked so hard, only to find themselves making a U-turn and returning to the beginning.

I want to help you avoid that unnecessary backtracking. When your gut, immune system and foundational health need attention, that’s where we begin. We build on those foundations rather than trying to skip over them.

Repair

Your gut, immune system and foundational health.

Rebalance

Your hormones, with stronger foundations beneath the work.

Reclaim

Your metabolic health, with the aim of sustaining vitality for the long term.

And woven through every stage is RELEASE: exploring how stress, emotional patterns, your relationships and lived experiences may influence your health, and learning what you no longer need to carry.

Every woman is an N-of-1. You’re not expected to follow someone else’s perfect routine. You’ll learn to observe your own patterns, reflect on what helps, notice what doesn’t and find the small, meaningful changes your body is ready for.

You’ll have food guidance, recipes, practical learning, interactive tools, a private podcast, book-club resources and opportunities to ask basic educational questions within the Vitality Academy. You can return to the resources whenever you need them, and use gentle weekly planning and six-week self-reviews to see where you are and what deserves your attention next.

We focus on the right work, in the right order, at the right time, at a pace that works with your biology. The phases are a guide, not a rigid rule: clinical needs can overlap, and separate consultations are available when individual clinical decisions are required.

You don’t need to understand everything today. You just need to know where to begin.

You’ll find more specific learning when a particular question becomes relevant. These are resources to draw upon, not a long list of compulsory tasks.

Bronze

Ask basic educational questions within the Vitality Academy. This is coaching and mentoring around the learning, not private Dr in Your Pocket access or an individual clinical consultation.

Silver

Everything in Bronze, plus four live Vitality Conversations per fortnight and their replays. You may participate or simply listen. Hot seats and open-mic opportunities are entirely optional.

Sometimes you simply want to hear another woman ask the question you’ve been wondering about. Or you want to know why I suggest beginning with the foundations, what a certain change might mean, or how to make the practical side of the Academy work in real life.

Silver gives you everything in Bronze (the complete Hierarchy of Healing, the Seven Pillars, the food education, resources, apps, tools, question opportunities and regular self-reviews), plus four live Vitality Conversations every fortnight.

These are relaxed, welcoming conversations. Come in your bathrobe with a cup of tea.

Camera on or camera off. Microphone on or microphone off. You’re welcome to listen quietly, ask a question, volunteer for a hot seat, or opt into an open-mic discussion.

There is no pressure to perform, share a personal story or participate before you feel ready. Some women learn most by talking; others learn just as much by listening.

Morning and evening options alternate across Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 11 am and 5 pm Queensland time (AEST). Replays help you keep learning if you can’t attend live, whether you’re in Australia, Europe, America or somewhere else entirely.

When the conversations happen

Week 1: Tuesday 10:00 am and Thursday 5:00 pm
Week 2: Tuesday 5:00 pm and Thursday 10:00 am

Queensland time (AEST). The timetable then repeats fortnightly.

In your time zone (Australia/Brisbane)

Week 1: Tuesday 10:00 am AEST is Tuesday 10:00 AM

Week 1: Thursday 5:00 pm AEST is Thursday 5:00 PM

Week 2: Tuesday 5:00 pm AEST is Tuesday 5:00 PM

Week 2: Thursday 10:00 am AEST is Thursday 10:00 AM

The work is still individual. The difference is that you have regular chances to explore it together, hear my teaching in conversation and feel connected along the way.

Gold

Everything in Silver, plus private Dr in Your Pocket messaging with me for personalised education and mentoring. Individual clinical decisions remain within consultations.

Perhaps you love learning with other women, but you also have moments when you’d rather ask your question privately. A thought comes to you after listening to a lesson, you notice something about your own patterns, or you want help making sense of the educational material in the context of your life.

Gold includes every part of Bronze and Silver (the complete Academy, its resources and tools, four live conversations per fortnight and their replays), plus Dr in Your Pocket: your private messaging connection with me for individual education and mentoring.

You can write to me as questions arise, without waiting for the next live conversation. I’ll respond personally during my working hours, helping you understand the reasoning behind what you’re learning, explore your observations and consider the questions worth bringing to a clinician when individual assessment is needed.

A private place to ask, reflect and learn.

This is the most personal level of mentoring within the three Academy access options. It is designed for women who value having a private place to ask, reflect and learn while making changes in their everyday lives.

It’s education and mentoring, not a substitute for clinical consultations. If your question calls for a diagnosis, a personal treatment decision, test interpretation or a prescription change, we’ll keep that work in an appropriate consultation.

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Over to you

Choose the access that feels right today. You can begin with the Academy and its practical tools, bring your questions to live conversations, or add private mentoring with me. You don’t have to work everything out before you begin.

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