For the woman who knows something is off, and has been told she’s fine.
A practitioner-led wellness brand for women 35 to 55. Founded by a naturopath qualified in 2012, now in perimenopause herself.
What we believe.
The woman this is written for is the most informed customer the wellness industry has ever had. She has read the books. She tracks her cycle. She knows what cortisol does. She has tried the supplements and quietly thrown most of them out. What she has not been given, by anyone, is the basic respect of being taken seriously.
We believe the perimenopausal transition is the most under-served stage in women's health. It begins on average ten years before the final period, and most doctors are not trained to recognise it. We are working to close that gap.
We believe in clinically meaningful doses, named. If a study used 600mg of KSM-66 ashwagandha, 600mg is the number you will see, never a fraction of it put on a label so the ingredient can be claimed. The industry word for that practice is fairy-dusting. We don't do it.
We believe in patience over promises. Hormonal health takes weeks to shift, not days. We will not promise you results in seven days because the body does not work that way, and we would rather lose your impulse purchase than make a claim we cannot keep.
We believe the practitioner should be visible. The naturopath who wrote the protocol should be the one teaching you about it, answering your question, signing your emails. Brands run by marketing teams behind anonymous founders are not what this stage of life needs.
We believe in saying less and meaning more. There is enough noise in this category. We would rather write three considered things than thirty loud ones.
I’m a naturopath. Qualified in 2012. Forty-two now, and in perimenopause myself.
I had read the books. I had given the framework to other women. And I still didn’t recognise the pattern in my own body at first.
The first sign was the sleep. I’d fall asleep fine and wake at 3am, every night, wide awake. I told myself it was the kids. Then the new business. Then the wine. I cut the wine and the wake-ups continued, so I had to find another reason. I didn’t.
The brain fog came next. I forgot the word calendar in a meeting and had to call it “the thing where you write down dates”. Everyone laughed. I laughed. I went home and cried in the car.
Then the irritability. My family noticed before I did.
I was forty-one, I had every textbook on the subject, and I still walked through it convinced something else was wrong with me. That is how perimenopause works, even on the people trained to recognise it.
When I finally named it, I didn’t need an explanation. I had the explanation. I had been a naturopath since 2012. I had given the framework to other women.
What I needed was someone I trusted enough to follow myself. One who named the dose. One who wasn’t asking me to take fourteen capsules a day. One who didn’t oversell. I went looking. Nothing met my own standard. So I wrote it down.
That is what Valentia is. Small. Practitioner-written. Doses you can read. The protocol I would give a client, in the form I would actually follow. I write every word and every email. The model is intentional: a small business that grows slowly because the work is slow.
What I make
- The self-audit. Twelve questions, about five minutes, your stage on the page. Free, and the place everyone starts.
- The five-day sleep reset. One short email a day on the 3am wake, free, sent when you ask for it.
- The Perimenopause Reset. Four weeks, fifteen women, one live call a week. Written and ready; the first cohort is not yet scheduled, and there is a waiting list.
A thirty-day protocol follows, delivered as paced emails, because a sixty-page document is one more thing to read.
Davina Hearne, Naturopath (Diploma, NZ)
Qualifications.
Davina Hearne qualified in 2012 at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies in New Zealand, with three NZQA Level 6 diplomas taken together over three years: Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine and Nutrition.
Three NZQA Level 6 diplomas, taken together as one three-year programme, all awarded April 2012.
Davina Hearne is a New Zealand qualified naturopath, herbalist and nutritionist. She is not a medical doctor. This is health education from a qualified non-physician practitioner. It is not medical advice and does not establish a practitioner relationship.
Valentia began as skincare. Here is where that stands.
The range is not being made at the moment. Rather than restock everything and hope, I am asking the women who actually have this skin what they need first. That question sits inside the self-audit, and the answers will decide which formula comes back.
There is no date on this, and I am not taking pre-orders or emails for a launch that does not have a manufacturer behind it yet.
The self-audit is the best place to start.
About five minutes, immediate result, no email required to see your answer. You will know what changed, what is likely driving it, and what to do this week.
Free. No email needed to see your result.