Origia opens its doors in Collingwood
A women's health clinic built on one idea: that fertility, obstetric and gynaecological care shouldn't be delivered in isolation from everything else you need.
Origia has opened at Suite 8, Level 7, 36 Wellington Street, Collingwood, near Smith Street: a women's health clinic bringing obstetrics, gynaecology and fertility medicine together with the allied practitioners who care for everything around them.
Why another clinic
Because the model, not the medicine, is what usually fails people.
Fertility and obstetric care don't happen in isolation. Someone going through IVF is also, often, not sleeping, not coping, carrying pain they've been told to live with, and managing all of it across four suburbs and six waiting rooms. The clinical care might be excellent at every stop. The experience of it is exhausting.
Origia was built to put those pieces in one place, so that your obstetrician, your physiotherapist and your psychologist are down the same corridor and, with your consent, actually talk to each other. Not a referral list. A village.
Who's here
Origia's resident specialists are:
- Dr Joseph Sgroi: obstetrician, gynaecologist and fertility specialist
- Dr Marcus Davenport: obstetrician and gynaecologist, with expertise in high-risk pregnancy and advanced laparoscopic surgery
- Dr Miranda Myles: integrative naturopath and acupuncturist
- Catherine Corcoran: consulting psychologist across general, fertility and perinatal care
- Vanessa Salerno: birth and postpartum doula and birth educator
- Laura Scott: women's health physiotherapist
- Robyn Plummer: registered nurse, IV hydration and nutrient therapies
- Claire Horan: aesthetic nurse and founder of SKN.JECT
Between them they cover services spanning preconception through to postpartum recovery and general gynaecology.
The name
Origia comes from original. Every life has an origin: a first heartbeat, a first decision to try, a first appointment made with hope and a little fear. We wanted a name for the beginning of things.
Our dandelion mark carries the same idea: the stem is the woman, the head is the sperm meeting the ovum, and the seeds scattering into the wind are the seeds of life itself.
What's next
In time, Origia will grow beyond fertility and women's health into Origia Wellness Spa and Origia Longevity, because caring for the origin of life is inseparable from caring for the whole arc of it. Today we start with women; in the future we'll open our doors to men too.
Booking
Appointments can be made online or by calling (03) 9416 1586. If you're not sure who to see, call us. Helping you work that out is part of the point.
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If this sounds like you, come and talk to us.
Book with one of our health practitioners, or call the clinic and we'll help you work out where to start.