About Amrta

I know what it feels like to be failed by the answers you were given.

I spent years working inside the medical system — and years as a patient within it. Both experiences taught me the same thing: that the body is rarely the problem. It is almost always the messenger.

"What if your symptoms weren't setbacks — but signals your body had been sending long before anyone thought to listen?"

The Beginning

I trained as a nurse because I wanted to help people heal.

I worked hard within the medical system. I understood how it functioned, what it was good at, and what it was built for. And over time, I came to understand its limits — not as a criticism, but as an honest observation.

The system is designed to diagnose and treat. It is exceptionally skilled at crisis intervention, at acute care, at the mechanics of the body under immediate threat. What it rarely has time for — what it was never truly built for — is the patient who sits in front of you with blood work that says she's fine, but a body that says otherwise.

I saw those patients again and again. Exhausted. Dismissed. Sent home with reassurance that didn't reassure. I felt the gap between what was being offered and what was actually needed. And I filed that away.

My Own Body

Then my own body started sending signals I couldn't ignore.

In my mid-twenties, I was dealing with hormonal imbalance that disrupted far more than my cycle. My mood, my energy, my sense of stability — all of it was affected in ways that felt invisible to the people around me and confusing to the practitioners I saw.

What I didn't yet fully understand was that underneath the hormonal disruption was something older and deeper — stress and trauma held in the body. Not necessarily dramatic, event-based trauma, but the kind that accumulates quietly. The kind the nervous system absorbs and holds long after the mind has moved on.

Unresolved stress and trauma don't stay in the past. They live in the body. They alter how the nervous system responds, how hormones regulate, how inflammation behaves. The body is not being dramatic when it expresses this. It is being entirely precise.

The Injury

A workplace injury gave me three years of chronic pain.

I went through everything you are supposed to go through. Physiotherapy, imaging, osteopathy, acupuncture, mindfulness-based approaches — including learning to befriend the pain through meditation. Some of it helped temporarily. None of it held.

The pain kept returning. And every time it did, I felt the same confusion my patients must have felt — doing all the right things, following all the right advice, and still not getting better. The physical explanation for my pain made sense on paper. What no one was asking was why my body wasn't healing despite every intervention directed at it.

Three years is a long time to live in pain. It changes how you move through the world, what you believe about your body, and what you think you're capable of. And eventually, it led me — out of desperation as much as curiosity — to ask a question that would change everything: what if this isn't only physical?

The Turning Point

Three hours of PSYCH-K® work. Two weeks later, the pain was gone.

I went into that first session with cautious curiosity and very little expectation. Three years of everything else had taught me not to hope too hard. But something shifted in those three hours that I didn't have language for yet. Two weeks later, the pain that had lived in my body for three years was simply gone.

I was shocked. And then I was in awe. Not because it felt like magic — but because nothing about my physical body had changed, and yet everything had. What had changed was something deeper. Something underneath all the physio and the acupuncture and the meditation that none of those things had been able to reach.

I knew immediately that I had to understand this. I had to learn it myself.

So I trained in PSYCH-K®. And as I began to understand the science — how the subconscious mind holds stress and unresolved emotional patterns, how those patterns maintain the nervous system in a state of physiological tension regardless of what physical interventions are applied on top — what had happened to me made complete sense. This is precisely how the body works.

I began working with people. Blending what I knew about health, inflammation, hormones, and lifestyle medicine with this deeper subconscious work. And I watched the same thing happen again and again. People who had tried everything. Bodies that weren't responding. And when we addressed what was held beneath the surface — patterns broke, bodies responded, and people began to heal in ways they had stopped believing were possible.

That is how Amrta Wellness came to exist. Not as a concept I arrived at. But as something I lived my way into.

Why This Work

Amrta Wellness exists because this gap needs to be filled.

The women who come to me are not broken. They are not imagining it. They are carrying real physiological imbalances — driven by inflammation, environmental exposures, hormonal disruption, and nervous systems that have never been given permission to fully rest. And underneath many of those imbalances are subconscious stress patterns that no supplement, no dietary change, and no physical therapy alone can reach.

My work brings all of it together. Not to fix you — but to help you understand what your body has been trying to say, and to remove what has been standing in the way of it healing itself.

That is what the body does, when we create the right conditions. It returns to itself.

"The body is not broken. It is not failing you. It is doing exactly what a body does when it has been carrying too much, for too long, without the right support."
— Amrta Hickey, Founder of Amrta Wellness

Healing happens when all three layers align.

Most approaches address one layer — the physical, or the emotional, or the lifestyle. My work is built on the understanding that lasting change requires all three to move together, in the right order, with the right support.

This is not about doing more. It is about removing interference and restoring alignment — and trusting the body's own intelligence to do what it was always designed to do.

01
Biology
Diet, hormones, gut health, and inflammation — the physical foundations of how your body functions and where imbalance first takes hold.
02
Environment
Toxins, microplastics, and lifestyle exposures that create a cumulative burden most people are never told to consider.
03
Subconscious Mind
Stress and trauma held in the body, and the subconscious belief patterns that directly drive inflammation, hormonal disruption, and the nervous system's capacity to heal.

The foundation behind this work.

My approach is grounded in formal training and lived experience. I bring clinical rigour to a space that often lacks it — and personal understanding to a space that too often stays purely clinical.

This combination is not accidental. It is the whole point.

Bachelor of NursingTrained and worked as a Registered Nurse within the Australian medical system
Holistic Health CoachRoot-cause lifestyle, nutrition, and environmental health
PSYCH-K® FacilitatorCertified in neuroscience-informed subconscious reprogramming
Creator of The AMRTA Method™A five-stage framework developed through clinical background, personal transformation, and client work

This work is lived from the inside out.

I am based in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Queensland — a place where slowing down is not a luxury but a practice. The landscape here has a way of reminding you what the nervous system is supposed to feel like when it isn't bracing.

I work with women online across Australia and in person from Maleny, Queensland. Wherever you are, the work is the same: patient, deep, and rooted in the belief that your body already knows the way through. My role is simply to help you hear it again.

Ready to start listening?

A free 30-minute discovery call is where most client journeys begin. No pressure — just an honest conversation about where you are and whether this work is the right fit.

Sessions available online or in-person — Maleny, Queensland.