Her Story
She didn't come from the wellness world. She came from clinical practice.
Dr Lizelle is a practising OB-GYN who has spent 18 years in active clinical medicine — not in a wellness studio, not online, but in rooms with real women every week. That clinical grounding is what makes her different.
Over the years, she watched the same pattern repeat itself: women in their 30s and 40s arriving with debilitating symptoms, having seen two, three, sometimes five other doctors. Every test came back "normal." No-one had a real answer. The system wasn't built for what these women were experiencing.
That's when she deepened her work in functional female medicine — a discipline that asks not just what is happening in your body, but why. Hormones don't work in isolation. Neither do symptoms. And treatment shouldn't either.
She is based in the Garden Route and consults with women across South Africa and internationally via Zoom. Her practice is intimate by design — because real medicine requires real time.