Her Matters

Georgia Houston had one fixed idea when she designed her clinic in Griffith: that no woman who walked through the door should feel like she was about to be rushed.

The waiting room at 30 Bougainville Street has fresh flowers on the front desk, a diffuser running, relaxing music playing, and coffee on offer for anyone who walks in. 

“I’ve always wanted a space where women don’t feel cold, clinical, embarrassed to be here,” Georgia explained. “I want people having coffee when they come in to feel like they’re not seeing the GP or a psychologist.”

Her Matters brings together women’s health GPs, psychologists, physiotherapists, and dietitians under one roof, with dedicated care streams covering everything from fertility and motherhood through to perimenopause and beyond. The practitioners work as a connected team rather than in silos – and no referral is needed to see any of them. Telehealth is available across most services.

What sets it apart from a standard health clinic is the way those disciplines are designed to work together. “I always had this idea that instead of always referring outwards to GPs and psychologists and not knowing where the care went, I wanted to have a space where we could refer in-house,” Georgia noted. 

Practitioners regularly catch-up, over coffee of course, to discuss mutual clients and next steps.

Built in Canberra, from the ground up

Georgia is Canberra born and bred, and the clinic carries that same spirit. She started her career as a sole-trader dietitian, seeing clients from a two-bedroom cottage in Kingston while simultaneously running GH Nutrition, a food product business she started from scratch in her parents’ kitchen. Those cereals and energy balls ended up in more than 65 local stockists, including the Arboretum, East Hotel, and Little National. She sold the food business in mid-2025.

The dietetics practice grew steadily through GP and psychologist referrals built over years of relationship work around Canberra. By the time demand had outgrown the cottage, she had two dietitian contractors and a waitlist running months ahead. 

The rebrand to Her Matters came in early 2022, along with a purpose-fitted four-room space and a deliberate broadening of scope beyond nutrition into the full spectrum of women’s health. 

“I wanted to move away from my name and to solely being known for eating disorder dietitian work,” Georgia recalled. 

The new name brought its own internal architecture: Her Matters as the umbrella, with each program sitting underneath as its own distinct discipline. Health Matters covers GP services including contraception, perimenopause, pelvic pain, and cervical screening. Mind Matters brings psychology to bear on eating disorders, anxiety, trauma, and perinatal mental health. Body Matters addresses pelvic health and pregnancy through physiotherapy. Food Matters covers dietetics from gut health to PCOS and menopause. Motherhood Matters draws on physio, dietetics, and psychology together for fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum support. They Matters offers general, hormonal, and reproductive care for non-binary and transgender individuals through an informed consent model.

Where the whole woman is seen

Her Matters now has ten practitioners, with telehealth clinicians based in Melbourne, Perth, and New Zealand extending the clinic’s reach well beyond Canberra. In late April 2026, the clinic added two women’s health GPs, the milestone Georgia describes as her biggest project since opening. 

“[Bringing on our GP’s] really encapsulates holistic women’s health,” she explained. “Patients come to the GP and then the GP can refer to the psychologist, the dietitian, the physio and so on.”

GP appointments at Her Matters run to 45 minutes, giving practitioners and clients the time to properly work through what is on the table. Georgia is deliberate about this. “We really focus on the client having time to be heard,” she added. 

Georgia herself stepped out of client-facing work after returning from parental leave and realising she wanted to focus entirely on the practitioners and the business. Her role is now operational: setting and maintaining the Her Matters experience recruiting, managing the team, and navigating the considerable shift involved in bringing Medicare-eligible GP services into what was previously an allied health practice. This new challenge of building something from the bottom-up again has been exhilarating,” she reflected.

One detail she shares with a grin: she is a dietitian who genuinely dislikes cooking. Her husband handles the kitchen. “I’m not a foodie,” she laughed. “I think that’s maybe why I was a good dietitian. Very simple, practical [approaches].” 

For the women who come through the Her Matters door, many of them are nervous and some are carrying concerns that have gone unaddressed for years, that plainspoken practicality matched with a genuinely warm space appears to be exactly what they were looking for. 

If you are looking for a warm, unhurried approach to women’s health, Her Matters is a great place to start.