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Before your appointment
You complete a detailed health questionnaire so the consultation starts with the full picture.
Functional medicine consultations in Parnell, Auckland
A root-cause approach to persistent, complex health concerns with Galina Bell, who trained for five years with the Institute for Functional Medicine and qualified in 2025. Initial consultation $300.
Institute for Functional Medicine trained, qualified 2025
What functional medicine is
Functional medicine looks for the reasons behind long-standing symptoms rather than treating each one separately. A consultation takes a detailed history: your health story, sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, environment and family history. Where it would change the plan, Galina may suggest functional or genetic testing. The aim is a clear picture of what is driving your symptoms and a practical, personalised plan.
Functional medicine works alongside your GP and specialists, not instead of them. Galina does not replace your doctor, and she will refer you back to them when that is the right step.
Galina's functional medicine training
Galina studied for five years with the Institute for Functional Medicine, qualifying in 2025, after seeing more and more patients whose pain and fatigue did not respond to hands-on treatment alone. She brings that training together with more than 25 years of clinical experience as an osteopath, so she can look at your structure, your movement and your wider health in one place.
Who comes to a consultation
Persistent tiredness that rest does not fix
Digestive symptoms that come and go
Hormonal changes through fertility, perimenopause and menopause
Recurring pain that has not responded to hands-on treatment alone
People who want to understand their health more deeply
Testing
Testing is optional and only suggested when the result would change what you do next. Galina explains what a test looks for, what it costs and what it cannot tell you before anything is ordered.
Genetic testing
Genetic testing can show how your body handles nutrients, inflammation, detoxification and stress. It is not a diagnosis and is never used on its own. Where it would change the plan, Galina interprets the results with you in plain English and turns them into practical nutrition and lifestyle steps.
Functional and hormonal testing
Functional tests look at areas standard blood tests may not, such as gut function, hormone patterns and nutrient status. Galina explains the purpose, process and cost before anything is ordered, and reviews the results with you in the context of your whole health picture.
Women's health
Galina works with women through fertility, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, combining functional medicine with osteopathy and clinical Pilates where they help.
Consultations and fees
Initial consultation
$300
Follow-up consultation
$150
Extended follow-up
$300
Functional medicine consultations are private and are not ACC-funded.
Book an appointmentWhat a consultation involves
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The consultation
An unhurried conversation about your history, symptoms, sleep, stress, nutrition, movement and environment, and a review of any results you already have.
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Your plan
A written, personalised plan with nutrition and lifestyle steps and, only where useful, testing. Follow-ups track what is changing.
Functional medicine in Parnell, Auckland
Consultations take place at Bell Osteopathy, 252 Parnell Road, with free parking in front of the clinic. Patients come from Parnell, Newmarket, Remuera, Grafton, the Auckland CBD, Ōrākei and Mission Bay, and many combine functional medicine with osteopathy or clinical Pilates with the same practitioner.
Questions about functional medicine
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252 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland. Free parking in front of the clinic.