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PRECONCEPTION WELLNESS CARE IS MORE THAN IMPROVING FERTILITY.
The aim of fertility wellness is better fertility and changing the trajectory of your family's health and wellbeing for life.
Your greatest opportunity to make a difference in your baby’s health is to better the environment in which they will develop and grow.
Often by the time many women discover they are pregnant, the baby already has a heartbeat and is developing vital organs. These early weeks represent very important months of life developmentally and when the foetus is most susceptible to risks.
It is in these crucial periods in conception and early pregnancy while in your uterus that they are very sensitive to environmental exposure and nutritional deficiencies.
Health in adult life, in reality, starts with nutrition in the womb. The food you eat before and during pregnancy, and how you feed your child in the first three years after birth, can protect the child against diseases such as a heart attack, a stroke, or diabetes in later life.
You have the greatest potential to reduce risks before conception, with the right fertility wellness care.
Your goal is to decrease toxins and reach optimal nutrition well before your baby arrives in the womb, ideally before sperm are made and your eggs begin to mature. This means getting your body baby-ready several months before you want to conceive.
You can do this by incorporating a tailored fertility program, with a healthy diet and balanced lifestyle now. Working to improve your wellbeing in key areas that science has shown to have a positive effect on your fertility.
Natural Fertility Support

FERTILITY RENEW
6 Week Restorative Fertility Support
Looking for a fertility boost or extra support?
The Fertility Renew Program helps you restore balance with a focus on one or two key areas. Whether you’d like a gentle reset, reassurance that you’re on the right path, or caring support after a loss, these focused sessions provide renewal, clarity, and a compassionate space to prepare for what’s next.

EMPOWERED CONCEPTION PATHWAY
12 Weeks of Personalised Fertility Support
Enhance your fertility with evidence-based practices and compassionate guidance.
Enhance your fertility with evidence-based practices and compassionate, personalised support. Over 12 weeks, you’ll nourish your body, balance your hormones, ease stress, and prepare to welcome new life. Your personalised fertility plan is built on the Empowered Conception Pathway, a proven framework adapted to your unique needs. With one-to-one sessions and practical wellness tools that fit your life, you’ll feel supported every step of the way.

Empowered Conception Continuum
6 months of comprehensive fertility support
Create lasting change for your fertility, wellbeing, and future family
The Empowered Conception Continuum offers six months of deep, tailored support to transform your fertility from the inside out. With extended time together, we move beyond quick resets into sustainable change, strengthening hormone balance, nurturing egg and sperm quality, and cultivating resilience for every stage of your journey.
This program allows us to refine, adjust, and build layer by layer, embedding practices that become part of your life. The science and compassion of the Empowered Conception Pathway have the space to truly integrate: regular coaching, continuous refinement, and support through every season of change.
Whether preparing for conception naturally, navigating IVF, or recovering from loss, this extended program helps you move forward with clarity, confidence, and steady support, giving you the healthiest foundation for both your fertility and your future family.
KIND WORDS
Her knowledge and expertise as a reproductive scientist and her in-depth understanding of holistic wellness have resulted in compelling, evidence-based fertility and preconception care programs that are changing lives.
Nicolas Maurice
Principal Chiropractor, Lisburn Chiropractic Clinic
We chose to do the 12-week Cultivate Your Fertility Program and had the best sperm numbers and quality, good quality eggs retrieved, and the greatest number of healthy embryos we've had in our five years of trying IVF.
Happy to be Trying Again
Canberra, Australia
Ileana listens and holds space in a way that powerfully allows me to process the physical and emotional challenges that I face.
She has been insightful and motivating in breaking down mental obstacles into meaningful steps that allowed me to set goals, feel inspired and focused, find clarity in my daily path and take direct action.
Lisa
Melbourne, Australia
Ileana is a wonderful woman who I trust implicitly. I couldn’t recommend a more empathetic and compassionate person who approaches families undergoing such personal difficulties with professionalism, good nature and humour, than Ileana. The way Ileana relates to people is second to none. Having worked together at Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, I know she understands fertility, having been involved in reproductive endocrinology for over 15 years. But she truly comes into her own with her people skills. I couldn’t recommend her enough.
Mark McCabe PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine UNSW
Ileana is committed and very passionate about her work in fertility and preconception care and does an exceptional job of sharing her wealth of knowledge in reproductive wellbeing with others.
Simon Borg-Olivier
Master Yogi, Physiotherapist, Lecturer, and Co-creator of the Yoga Synergy Method.
Co-Director, YogaSynergy
The support Ileana provided helped change my diet, exercise, and most importantly my mindset and a tool-bag of strategies continue to increase the resilience in other areas of my life. I feel calm and strong. I felt incredibly supported and became pregnant with my healthy baby girl.
Claudia
Melbourne, Australia
Hello, I'm Ileana!
FOUNDER OF EMPOWERED CONCEPTION
I'm one of the world's only reproductive biologists focused on growing your fertility naturally by improving your health with healthier habits.
I have a unique mixture of research experience in a world-class institute, professional wellness training, and experience coaching women through lifestyle changes - specific changes that help grow your fertility.
I'm also a mother who went through challenges and loss to have my two children.
You work with me from wherever you are in the world, I'll walk you through the process step by step, hand in hand.
I'm here to serve and support you.
Ileana xx

PRECONCEPTION wellness CARE - Let's Start with Science
Reproductive technologies have helped many couples have a baby, but
That’s not all that modern science has to offer, the amount of evidence on the importance of a healthy lifestyle on fertility and health outcomes continues to grow.
While we might be limited in how much we can change when it comes to hereditary factors, what you do have some control over is sperm health, supporting egg maturation, and creating a more welcoming womb environment for sperm and the fertilised egg to implant.
Unhealthy lifestyle habits reduce your fertility by damaging sperm DNA and creating less favourable conditions in your uterus for implantation. However, a healthy lifestyle is associated with enhanced fertility and health outcomes, regardless of whether conception occurs naturally or in vitro, like in IVF.
Positive lifestyle habits improve your chances of:
Getting pregnant
Having a healthier pregnancy
Carrying your baby to term
Having a healthy baby
Recovery after birth
Changing your lifestyle habits is the perfect place to start, especially for older couples, unexplained infertility, and those wanting the best health outcomes for their babies. For some couples, these modifications will have made enough impact to not need further treatments.

SCIENCE
Empowered Conception’s Preconception Care Programs have been developed from evidence-based findings across a range of disciplines. I've created the Pillars of Fertility wellbeing to help you integrate them into your life.

STRATEGY
I translate science and wellness principles into actionable steps in your life to improve your fertility. I will provide couples with tools and strategies to both nurture you and your fertility.

SUPPORT
I will hold space for you, so you feel heard and validated. I will encourage and motivate you when you need it with emotional support and coaching. The support you need when you need it.
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